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Forced deportations begin on Manus Island

9 February, 2017 - The Australian government must urgently intervene to halt the forced deportation of Australia's detainees on Manus Island. "Under the cover o...

Greens back Outer Harbour proposal for Kwinana Industrial Strip

9 February, 2017 - Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren says contrary to misinformation frequently spread by the Barnett Government, environmental effects of a new Outer Ha...

National Electricity Market fails SA again

9 February, 2017 - The Greens will move in SA Parliament next week to expand the current upper house inquiry into the September state-wide power blackout to inc...

One White House phone call and Australia is at war

9 February, 2017 - The Australian Greens have reintroduced the ‘war powers’ bill, which would require Parliamentary approval before Australian forces are sent t...

SA energy privatisation failure – AEMO to face Senate inquiry tomorrow

9 February, 2017 - Modernising the energy grid and investing in storage technology is the only way to future-proof South Australia’s supply of electricity follo...

One White House phone call and Australia is at war

9 February, 2017 - Anybody who has been in this place for a while will be aware that the Defence Legislation Amendment (Parliamentary Approval of Overseas Servi...

Celebrating Women and Girls in Science

9 February, 2017 - Emma Davidson and Rosanne Bersten On 11 February, we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Australian women have con...

Senate calls on Cardinal Pell to return to Australia

8 February, 2017 - A Greens motion calling on Cardinal George Pell to return to Australia to assist Victorian police in investigating his alleged criminal condu...

Deal with crossbench tries to sneak through four week wait and other nasties

8 February, 2017 - The secret deal between the Government and crossbenchers on the family tax benefit sneaks through nasty cuts to the social safety net that hu...

Parliament should have the power to block Trump

8 February, 2017 - The Greens will move to amend Australia's visa laws to give Parliament the power to block foreign leaders from visiting Australia on the grou...

Australia conspicuously silent on Israeli West Bank aggression: Greens

8 February, 2017 - The Israeli Government’s most recent expansion further into the West Bank denies basic rights to Palestinians, and the government of Australi...

Governments continue addiction to native forest logging

8 February, 2017 - There is a long-held saying that the world's forests are its lungs. That being the case, the coalition federal government and the Victorian L...

Deal with crossbench tries to sneak through four week wait and other nasties

8 February, 2017 - The secret deal between the Government and crossbenchers on the family tax benefit sneaks through nasty cuts to the social safety net that hu...

Value capture proposal not the silver bullet for high speed rail

8 February, 2017 - The Greens have warned that a Parliamentary Committee’s support for value capture for high speed rail along Australia’s east coast is fraught...

Senate demands the Government come clean on US "deal"

8 February, 2017 - The Government has been ordered by the Senate to produce the details of its agreement with the United States to consider resettling some peop...