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Greens senator calls on local government to show leadership on LGBTI rights

15 April, 2016 - Greens Senator Robert Simms has told the Victorian Local Government Association's Rainbow Working Group that local government should make the m...

Tobacco tax rise should not fund tax cuts: Bandt

15 April, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today said if the government is looking to put up the price of cigarettes, they should use that mone...

Nauru rape victim must be transferred to Australia

15 April, 2016 - The Australian Greens have called on Malcolm Turnbull to offer a woman, allegedly raped on Nauru while suffering an epileptic seizure, safe pas...

Most Australians agree with the Greens against taxpayer handouts for big fossil fuel companies

15 April, 2016 - Most Australians (58.9%) believe the government spends too much on fossil fuel subsidies, according to a national ReachTEL poll out today, and ...

Lesson to be learnt from Victoria

15 April, 2016 - Friday, 15 April WA Greens Mining spokesperson Robin Chapple MLC said the government should learn from Victoria, who today announced coal mines...

Western Distributor funded before community has had its say

14 April, 2016 - Greens shocked by the Andrews Government full budgeting commitment to the Western Distributor before the consultation has even taken place with...

Labor must end the tax cuts arms race this election: Greens

14 April, 2016 - In response to the open letter signed by 50 eminent Australians calling on the government to not cut taxes, Greens Treasury spokesperson Adam B...

BP shareholders must challenge company on environmentally risky plans for Bight

14 April, 2016 - Greens Senator for South Australia Robert Simms says shareholders should raise concerns with BP over its environmentally risky plan to drill fo...

Labor too weak on steel procurement: Greens

14 April, 2016 - Greens Industry spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today said Labor’s plan to supposedly save the Australian steel industry by ‘maximising’ local steel...

Greens will fight government’s moves on Road Safety

14 April, 2016 - Greens Industrial Relations spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today said the Greens will fight the government’s moves to override a Road Safety Remune...

Minister Hunt’s sneaky attempt to co-opt Sir David’s Reef documentary to downplay impacts is offensive

13 April, 2016 - 13/04/2016 Environment Minister Hunt’s attempt to use Sir David Attenborough’s documentary to downplay threats to the Great Barrier Reef, inclu...

Turnbull Government ensuring the clean energy projects announced today among the last of their kind

13 April, 2016 - The Australian Renewable Energy Agency projects announced by the Turnbull Government today would likely not be eligible for funding under the T...

Anglo’s Foxleigh mine sale another reason to act on rehab, despite mining lobby’s squeals

13 April, 2016 - 13/04/2016Reports that Anglo American is selling the Foxleigh coal mine at Middlemount to Sydney’s Taurus Fund Management is more evidence of t...

Peabody bankruptcy shows need for rehabilitation bonds and transition planning

13 April, 2016 - With Peabody filing for bankruptcy today in the US, the Queensland and New South Wales governments must urgently secure outstanding rehabilitat...