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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...

PC report shows schools funding must be increased, better targeted

6 September, 2016 - A Productivity Commission draft report, detailing no overall improvement in Australian education standards over the previous decade, shows w...

Government must not use our most vulnerable to plug up the budget: Greens

5 September, 2016 - Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert said there is a moral obligation not to use the proposed investment approach to income support to p...

Denial of medical care allegations demand urgent action

5 September, 2016 - Allegations that the Government has denied medical care to a family of asylum seekers, including a 12-year-old with a badly broken arm, are ...

Turnbull must listen to Climate Change Authority whistleblowers

5 September, 2016 - Greens climate and energy spokesperson Adam Bandt says the board members who have blown the whistle on the Climate Change Authority’s unwill...

Commbank has questions to answer over Storm Financial revelations

5 September, 2016 - Greens Spokesperson for Treasury and Consumer Affairs, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, provides the following comments on the Commbank and Storm...

UK/Australia trade negotiations should face public scrutiny

5 September, 2016 - The Australian Greens have called on the Turnbull government to end the secrecy around trade negotiations and ensure that any potential deal...

Media Release: Wilson’s Evacuation Shows Offshore Detention Untenable

2 September, 2016 - Wilson Security’s decision to withdraw from Australian offshore detention centres shows that the Government’s mandatory detention regime is ...

Motion - Mining and Adani

2 September, 2016 - Senator WATERS I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 19 standing in my name for today, relating to the Adani coalmine....

Climate authority tells government to get its act together on clean transport

2 September, 2016 - MEDIA RELEASEClimate authority tells government to get its act together on clean transport The Greens have called on the government to liste...

Answers sought on nuclear waste delay

2 September, 2016 - The Australian Greens have branded the Liberal-National Government's 18 month delay in identifying a nuclear waste storage site in Australia...

Address-in-Reply – Nick McKim

2 September, 2016 - Senator McKIM Before I concluded my previous contribution on this, I was speaking about the fact that the government's so-called border prot...