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Payment offer to community should be investigated

8 September, 2016 - Thursday, 21 July WA Greens Aboriginal Affairs spokesperson Robin Chapple MLC said recent revelations that Cheeditha community was offered m...

Marine Reserve recommendations unacceptable

8 September, 2016 - The Greens unequivocally oppose the recommendations of a stacked Government review that was solely set up to provide cover for Tony Abbott’s...

Grylls leadership bid based on recycled policy

8 September, 2016 - Monday, 8 August WA Greens MLC Robin Chapple has called on new Nationals leader, Brendon Grylls, to justify his plans for a levy on iron ore...

Greens urge Labor to back LGBTIQ Australians, not a plebiscite

8 September, 2016 - Greens urge Labor to back LGBTIQ Australians, not a plebiscite The Greens have called on Labor to fully commit to blocking a marriage equali...

World Heritage for threatened Burrup Peninsula reveals deep divisions in Government

8 September, 2016 - Tuesday, 23 August WA Greens Aboriginal Affairs spokesperson Robin Chapple MLC has welcomed the WA Nationals support for World Heritage List...

ARENA funds 1,172 Queensland solar jobs while Labor and LNP plan its downfall

8 September, 2016 -   Greens Deputy Leader and Queensland Senator Larissa Waters today said the 1,172 Queensland jobs funded by the Australian Renewable Energy ...

When Direct Action met Electoral Politics

8 September, 2016 - Jonathan Sri Within a fortnight of being sworn in as a city councillor, I was on the front page of Queensland's Courier Mail alongside the h...

Greens back Gayby Baby toolkit

7 September, 2016 - Greens back Gayby Baby toolkit The Greens have attacked moves by the NSW government to remove the Gayby Baby School Action Toolkit from stat...

Greens welcome WA coroner reopening application for the release of Ms Dhu CCTV footage

7 September, 2016 - Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has welcomed the Western Australia coroner reopening an application to release CCTV footage of Ms D...

It's threatened species day and the Premier still has no plan for Victoria's forests

7 September, 2016 - The government established Forest Industry Taskforce announced over six weeks ago that it was finalising a Statement of Intent but there hav...

Dan must get it right on Frankston line, urges local Greens MP

7 September, 2016 - Local Greens MP Nina Springle has urged the Victorian Government to take seriously communities’ concerns about the Frankston line, ahead of ...

Greens call for report card on conservation efforts on National Threatened Species Day

7 September, 2016 - The State Government isn’t doing its homework when it comes to protecting WA’s biodiversity making it difficult to measure the effectiveness...

Greens support for R U OK? Day

7 September, 2016 - In the lead up to tomorrow's R U OK Day Australian Greens Mental Health spokesperson Senator Rachel Siewert is urging the community to ask t...

25 years of economic growth is not everything

7 September, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Treasury, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, provides the following comments on the release of ABS data showing that Austra...

Greens call on Liberals to support stop to 17 year olds in adult jails

7 September, 2016 - The Queensland Greens have welcomed today's announcement by the state Premier that the government is finally moving to end the practice of p...