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Greens push for national takeover of energy market after COAG fails on renewables

19 August, 2016 - Greens energy spokesperson Adam Bandt today said that the Greens will push to give the Commonwealth power for a national takeover of the energ...

Reef, climate & jobs at risk: Greens say fight to control land clearing must continue

19 August, 2016 - The Greens say the fight to control large scale land clearing in Queensland will continue. Greens spokesperson Andrew Bartlett says "our envir...

Spill in Darwin Harbour must be urgently addressed

19 August, 2016 - The NT Greens are shocked and saddened to hear of the oil spill in Darwin harbour.Greens candidate for Nightcliff, Matt Haubrick, said: "Altho...

Career opportunity

19 August, 2016 - Senator Larissa Waters is seeking a Media Adviser to manage media strategy and its implementation. The Media Adviser will build the Senator's ...

Perspectives on GMOs

18 August, 2016 - Chris Johansen Greens Leader Richard Di Natale recently expressed his opinion that not everything about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) ...

Water conservation in the southern region of WA

18 August, 2016 - Adrian Price Blending water with electricity In the days when steam trains served farmers and rural communities with a wide variety of goods,...

Scott's Page

18 August, 2016 - Senator Scott Ludlam We all thought Election Day was the deadline, after which we could all pause and take a breath. But with the result hangi...

Agriculture and Environment

18 August, 2016 - Chris Johansen Ever since humans have practiced sedentary agriculture there has been a loss of evolutions finely crafted biodiversity and the ...

Rachel's Page

18 August, 2016 - Senator Rachel Siewert After a month of dangling on tenter hooks both Scott and I are thrilled to be returned to the Senate. Over the next few...

Ecological vs Industrial Agriculture: How to Feed the World Without Overheating It

18 August, 2016 - Rob Delves Im calling two opposing systems of agriculture 'Ecological versus 'Industrial. Of course, there are many varieties of farming pract...

The Feral Goat Plague

18 August, 2016 - Hon Robin Chapple MLC Goats first arrived in Australia with the First Fleet in 1788 and soon became feral as domestic goats escaped, were aban...

Greens (WA) call for farmer protection and oppose lifting the gate to GM crops in WA

18 August, 2016 - Hon Lynn MacLaren MLC This year has not been a promising one for advocates for GM free crops in WA: organic farmers Steve and Sue Marsh lost t...

Book Review: Dark Emu. Black Seeds: agriculture or accident by Bruce Pascoe

18 August, 2016 - Chris Johansen Until I saw Bruce Pascoe on a TV program, I think it was “Big Ideas” on ABC, it did not enter my consciousness that Australian ...

A BlazeAid Experience

18 August, 2016 - Adrian Price During the second week of January 2016, a lightning strike resulted in a devastating bushfire killing two persons, destroying ap...

An Alternative View

18 August, 2016 - Ian James Agriculture has changed a lot from the old days when a farmer would drive a team of horses around a small field all day. Back then t...