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Media Release: Ruskin Park under threat from new development

8 March, 2016 - Samantha Dunn, Greens MP for Eastern Metropolitan and spokesperson for Planning, has called on the Planning Minister to heed the calls from Maro...

CommInsure scandal reinforces need for an urgent Royal Commission

8 March, 2016 - The Australian Greens have today reiterated their call for a Royal Commission into the financial services sector and the culture generated withi...

Ruskin Park under threat from new development

8 March, 2016 - Samantha Dunn, Greens MP for Eastern Metropolitan and spokesperson for Planning, has called on the Planning Minister to heed the calls from Maro...

Cash must put money where mouth is for women’s work/life balance

8 March, 2016 - Following Minister for Women Michaelia Cash’s comments on flexibility for women re-entering the workforce during the ‘International Women’s Day ...

Media Release: Ruskin Park under threat from new development

8 March, 2016 - Samantha Dunn, Greens MP for Eastern Metropolitan and spokesperson for Planning, has called on the Planning Minister to heed the calls from Maro...

Voters right to be cynical on referendum: Greens.

7 March, 2016 - 07/03/2016 The Queensland Greens say voters are right to be cynical about the Labor and Liberal parties' referendum to introduce four year terms...

End the plebiscite guessing game with a free vote in the parliament: Greens

7 March, 2016 - The Australian Greens are calling on the Government to dump the marriage equality plebiscite and bring on a free vote in the parliament. "The co...

CLP Fracking cart before the horse.

6 March, 2016 - The NT Greens have accused the CLP Government's Mines Minister of pushing ahead with fracking in the absence of an adequate and appropriate regu...

Greens welcome Launceston Macquarie House Innovation Hub funding. Three years in the making

5 March, 2016 - Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson comments on the Greens delivering $3 million in federal funding to set up the Launceston Macquarie House Innov...

Premier behind the times on pill testing

4 March, 2016 - Victorian Greens health spokesperson Colleen Hartland says Dan Andrews' opposition to a trial of pill testing will keep lives at risk.  "We have...

Greens urge Australian Government to fast-track PrEP as Canada approves HIV prevention drug

4 March, 2016 - The Australian Greens have called on the Federal Government to fast-track the approval of HIV-prevention medication, Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (P...

BP should cease drilling preparations for Great Australian Bight

4 March, 2016 - Greens Senator for South Australia Robert Simms says BP should cease its preparations to drill for oil and gas in waters off SA. It was reported...

Australia's intake of Syrian Refugees - where are they?

3 March, 2016 - My questions to the Attorney-General were on the issue of the cessation of hostilities in the Syrian civil war that may open up space on the gro...

Don't mention the alleged war crimes

3 March, 2016 - Senator LUDLAM (Western Australia-Co-Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens) (16:39): I ask that general business notice of motion No. 1061, sta...

Minister’s reassurances on endangered cockatoos contradicts EPA warning

3 March, 2016 - Greens Urban Bushland Spokesperson Lynn MacLaren MLC says claims by the Environment Minister that Carnaby’s black cockatoos will be better off u...