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Government flatly refusing to suspend the drug-testing trial in Logan shows supreme arrogance: Greens

4 September, 2017 - News that the Mayor for Logan travelled to Canberra on Monday to request that the Federal Government suspend drug testing trials in the regi...

Alison’s Page

2 September, 2017 - Hon Alison Xamon MLC It has been quite the hiatus since my last contribution to Green Issue (2013!). I am very pleased to be back. A big tha...

Reflections of a councillor

2 September, 2017 - Cliff Collinson Can you start with a few snapshots of East Fremantle Council? Well, its small: 4000 electors represented by eight councillor...

Green Issue: Editorial August 2017

2 September, 2017 - The Green Issue Editors We were shocked and saddened to learn that Senator Scott Ludlum had to step down due to the dual citizenship fiasco....

Local Government and Climate Change

2 September, 2017 - Chris Johansen All of the relevant measurements – global temperatures, melting ice sheets and glaciers, rising sea levels, coral bleaching, ...

Rachel’s Page

2 September, 2017 - Senator Rachel Siewert The last issue of Green Issue seems so long ago, and much has happened since then. It is fair to say Scott's resignat...

Diane's Page

2 September, 2017 - Hon Diane Evers MLC My first three months as a Member of Parliament have been exciting but have flown by. It has been a very steep learning ...

Country Councils: a pathway to participating in change

2 September, 2017 - Hon Diane Evers MLC Do you know that the Donnybrook-Balingup Shire provides a fortnightly green-waste compost bin for its residents with fre...

Update on Manus and Nauru

2 September, 2017 - Shek Graham The situation for refugees and people seeking asylum, held illegally on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the tiny isla...

Robin's Page

2 September, 2017 - Hon Robin Chapple MLC The last month or so has been so busy, Ive hardly spent any time down in Perth!! I spent a week and a half up in the P...

A Mayor’s Perspective

2 September, 2017 - Brad Pettitt The importance of local government is wonderfully outlined in Benjamin Barbers book “If Mayors Ruled the World” – a book which ...

Tim's Page

2 September, 2017 - Hon Tim Clifford MLC What a journey. It seems like yesterday that I was walking the streets of the East Metropolitan region campaigning to g...

Reading and Riding – thanks local government

2 September, 2017 - Rob Delves As a teacher, it annoys me intensely when people say things like “stop wasting time on all this fringe feel-good extra stuff – ju...

Beyond terra nullius

2 September, 2017 - Chris Johansen Growing up in the 1950s my only exposure to aborigines was fleeting glances of humpies on the outskirts of country towns, as ...