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Roe 8 verdict: Dark day for respect for the views of Traditional Owners

24 August, 2016 - Responding to the Supreme Court decision today to reject the challenge to the Aboriginal heritage approval for Roe 8, Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren...

Federal Government needs to pitch in for Tasmania's water infrastructure needs

24 August, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Finance, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, today called on Tasmanian Liberal Senators to provide federal assistance for TasW...

Greens fix glaring flaws in Government’s biodiversity laws

24 August, 2016 - The Greens have successfully amended the Government's new biodiversity legislation to address two of its most glaring flaws: the so-called 'Go...

NBN/AFP raids set troubling precedence

24 August, 2016 - The Australian Greens are deeply troubled by the AFP raids inside Parliament House today and have called on NBN management to simply come clea...

CLP secretly signing Territory away

23 August, 2016 - The Giles government secretly signed away 15,000 square kilometres of Northern Territory land for coal mining and exploration south of Alice S...

Federal Environment Minister is undermining Aboriginal Heritage Protections

23 August, 2016 - Greens Senator for Tasmania, Peter Whish-Wilson, says that new Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg, by joining with the Hodgman Government in...

Government needs to act to stop more veterans’ suicides

23 August, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Veterans’ Affairs, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, today called on the government to act on the recommendations of the rec...

Government fence-sits on RSPCA following year-long inquiry

23 August, 2016 - After a year-long inquiry the Government’s response to a Parliamentary report on the operations of the RSPCA is a non-event,  Greens MLC Lynn ...

Greens call on Premier to urge Federal Government to abandon plebiscite on marriage equality

23 August, 2016 - Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren has called on the Premier to urge his Federal Liberal colleagues to abandon plans to hold a plebiscite on marriage eq...

Change the conversation to change rape culture

23 August, 2016 - Tammy Franks Recently in Parliament, I spoke about rape culture. Starting a conversation about a culture that incites violence against women i...

Greens call on Labor not to proceed with next stage of lockout laws

22 August, 2016 - The Queensland Greens are urging the state Labor government not to proceed with the next stage of Queensland's lockout laws, due to start in F...

Less Pokies and more live music

22 August, 2016 - The NT Greens have promised to lessen the number of pokies in the Territory and commit to funding live music in pubs and clubs across the Terr...