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Greens celebrate record local Council results

4 April, 2016 - With the results of Queensland local council elections being declared, Senator Waters congratulated Queensland Greens members, volunteers and su...

Childcare package to leave hundreds of thousands worse off, needs work: Greens

4 April, 2016 - The government's childcare package will result in hundreds of thousands of families being worse off and will need to be amended, the Australian ...

Greens celebrate record local Council results

4 April, 2016 - 04/04/2016 With the results of Queensland local council elections being declared, Senator Waters congratulated Queensland Greens members, volunt...

Shorten must rule out Labor-Liberal preference deal

4 April, 2016 - Greens MP Adam Bandt has called on Bill Shorten to rule out preferencing the Liberals ahead of the Greens at the upcoming election. Mr Bandt sai...

Labor and Liberal Parties’ reef hypocrisy both dangerous and insincere

3 April, 2016 - The Australian Greens condemn Queensland Labor’s reported decision this morning to approve mining leases for the Adani mega coal mine. “Despite ...

Dutton's deception 'deplorable': Greens

3 April, 2016 - The Australian Greens have called on the Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to rule out sending any children currently in Australia back to Nau...

Greens support Uni’s decision over ‘invasion’

2 April, 2016 - Friday, 1 April Aboriginal Affairs Minister Peter Collier continues to fail Aboriginal people by denying the truth of Australia’s settlement, ac...

Public forum: Supporting Safe Schools and Inclusive Communities

1 April, 2016 - Thu, 2016-04-07 18:30 - 20:00 Thebarton Secondary College, 40 Ashley Street, Torrensville SA 5031 ...

Nuclear Waste Dump

1 April, 2016 - Friday, 1 April “We are very concerned about the conflict between commonwealth approval for Tellus Holdings’ Sandy Ridge project and state legis...

Ministers sacrifice animal welfare in unbelievable “free-range” decision

1 April, 2016 - The decision by state and federal ministers to define “free-range” as up to 10,000 birds per hectare* is a win for intensive egg producers over ...

Nukes deal on Chernobyl disaster anniversary a new low

1 April, 2016 - To choose the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster to announce a uranium deal with the Ukraine marks a new low in the history of Australia...

Homophobic ‘gay panic’ defence needs to be abolished in all states: Greens

31 March, 2016 - South Australia and Queensland need to abolish the homophobic ‘gay panic' defence, Australian Greens sexuality spokesperson Senator Robert Simm...

New free range egg guidelines disastrous for animal welfare and consumer rights

31 March, 2016 - A national agreement which allows eggs from farms with up to 10,000 hens per hectare to be labelled free range represents not only a breach of ...

Turnbull puts education in too-hard basket, with health

31 March, 2016 - The Australian Greens say Prime Minister Turnbull has now put public school funding in the too-hard-basket, along with health "Instead of havin...