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Greens (WA) Annual General Meeting 2016

17 August, 2016 - Nominations are invited for the office bearer positions of Co-convenor (2), Secretary and Treasurer, and positions of National Delegate, State...

Greens offer Labor, Coalition fairer way to raise $6.5 billion

17 August, 2016 - In response to Malcolm Turnbull’s call on Labor to back a ‘Budget repair’ bill containing $6.5 billion of harsh cuts, Greens Treasury spokespe...

New Nationals MP Luke O'Sullivan blocked from Parliament in political farce

17 August, 2016 - Richard Willingham and Benjamin PreissThe Age Victoria's Parliament has descended into farce, with the Andrews government blocking the swearin...

Old parties plan to buddy up to cut $1 billion of clean energy funding as soon as Parliament returns

17 August, 2016 - The Greens condemn the Turnbull Government plan, announced today, to rip more than $1 billion from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency as s...

Greens pledge to protect 18C as many times as it takes

17 August, 2016 - The Australian Greens say they will keep standing with the community to protect Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, in the face of r...

Greens pledge support for ARENA and renewables in SA

17 August, 2016 - The Greens will support renewable energy projects in South Australia by voting against the Coalition's proposed billion dollar cuts to the Aus...

Greens pledge to protect 18C as many times as it takes

17 August, 2016 - The Australian Greens say they will keep standing with the community to protect Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, in the face of r...

Greens support community calls for passage of tree clearing control laws

17 August, 2016 - The Queensland Greens support community calls for State Parliament to quickly pass laws to restore controls on large scale tree clearing. Gree...

Greens move to improve WA biodiversity laws after years of devastating species loss

17 August, 2016 - After 30 years of successive ALP and Liberal state governments allowing outdated laws for protecting WA’s rare and threatened plants and anima...

Greens welcome ACTU commitment to mobilise against CDP

16 August, 2016 - The ACTU’s commitment today to mobilise against the Government’s discriminatory Community Development Program has been welcomed by the Austral...

Legislate to protect dairy farmers: Greens

16 August, 2016 - The Australian Greens are calling on the government to act to prevent retrospective price decreases in the dairy industry, while the ACCC inve...

takayna/Tarkine

16 August, 2016 - So much of the beautiful takayna / Tarkine region remains untouched by any development, but so much remains unprotected. We have previously ga...

Conservation sector petitions for greater consultation on Biodiversity Conservation Bill to be debated this week

16 August, 2016 - Greens South Metropolitan MLC Lynn MacLaren will today at 12:30 on the steps of Parliament receive a petition from The Wilderness Society, WA ...

Legislate to protect dairy farmers: Greens

16 August, 2016 - The Australian Greens are calling on the government to act to prevent retrospective price decreases in the dairy industry, while the ACCC inve...

ACTU moving towards a work for the dole challenge welcomed by the Greens

15 August, 2016 - The Australian Greens welcome the ACTU taking steps to challenge the discriminatory work for the dole scheme in remote Australia, Australian G...