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Greens would make ABC iView audio description trials permanent

16 May, 2016 - The Australian Greens are calling for ABC iView audio description trials to be made permanent, launching a package that would ensure the continue...

Liveable Yarra

15 May, 2016 - Rob Salter The City of Yarra, covering inner Melbourne suburbs like Richmond, Collingwood, Fitzroy and North Carlton, needed to update its Planni...

The Barnett Government continues to interfere with remote communities

15 May, 2016 - Sarah George Although the topic of forced Aboriginal community closures has almost disappeared from mainstream media, it doesnt mean the issue ha...

A personal perspective about preferences and Senate Voting Reform

15 May, 2016 - Dinny Laurence The all night debate on Senate voting reforms set the benchmark for ugliness in Parliament at an all time low, and it was already ...

Busselton Dunsborough Greens

15 May, 2016 - Michael Baldock More than two years have passed since the Busselton Dunsborough Greens held its first meeting. 2013 was a low point. In March at ...

Green Democracy and Corrupted Democracy

15 May, 2016 - Rob Delves Its one of our four pillars – Participatory Democracy – and in my opinion the most important. Im a great fan of the Animal Farm quote ...

Democracy fails again in the national debate on free range eggs standards

15 May, 2016 - Dinny Laurence There has been outrage about the government decision to confer the 'free range label on eggs from farms with outdoor stocking dens...

Plebiscites – good and bad

15 May, 2016 - Arran Morton The strongest argument for the plebiscite is that it is not only a fundamentally democratic exercise, but also an exercise in direct...

Participatory Democracy in Geraldton

15 May, 2016 - Robert Weymouth and Janette Hartz-Karp Deliberative Collaborative Governance (DCG) is an arrangement where one or more public agencies directly e...

The Arts and The Greens

15 May, 2016 - Vivienne Glance Movie fundraisers are fun to go to, and even more so when the movie fits in with Greens values.  For our Curtin fundraiser we cho...

Democracy in the spotlight of our new-look Green Issue

15 May, 2016 - The GI Editors Welcome to the April 2016 edition of Green Issue which takes on the issue of Democracy. “About time” we hear you say. Point taken:...

Is ‘politics’ a dirty word? Or just ‘the Greens’?

15 May, 2016 - Chilla Bulbeck Following the launch of the Facebook page for our candidate for Curtin, Viv Glance, I – of course – asked all my friends to like t...

Boyup Brook church wins environmental award

15 May, 2016 - Jessica Morthorpe  St Saviours Anglican Church in Boyup Brook won credit for its first-class environmental efforts last October when it became th...

Greens announce opposition to backpacker tax

15 May, 2016 - The Australian Greens today confirmed that they oppose the backpacker tax, saying it would unfairly impact on farmers and growers. "The Governmen...

Richard in Federation Square

15 May, 2016 - Richard Di Natale speaks to supporters in Federation Square.