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Greens would make ABC iView audio description trials permanent

16 May, 2016 - The Australian Greens are calling for ABC iView audio description trials to be made permanent, launching a package that would ensure the continue...

Cape Grim and poll finding global warming a vote-changer show old parties ignoring science and community

16 May, 2016 - Confirmation from Cape Grim that atmospheric carbon dioxide has reached 400 parts per million and another poll showing Australians want action on...

Auto industry left crashing while Labor & Liberals asleep at the wheel

16 May, 2016 - Greens Industry spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today said the Australian auto industry has crashed because Labor and the Liberals have been asleep at...

Greens to double Perth tree canopy by 2040

16 May, 2016 - Perth's tree canopy will double across the city by 2040 with every resident living within five minutes of a greenway under the Greens Urban Fores...

Greens would make ABC iView audio description trials permanent

16 May, 2016 - The Australian Greens are calling for ABC iView audio description trials to be made permanent, launching a package that would ensure the continue...

Democracy in the spotlight of our new-look Green Issue

15 May, 2016 - The GI Editors Welcome to the April 2016 edition of Green Issue which takes on the issue of Democracy. “About time” we hear you say. Point taken:...

Is ‘politics’ a dirty word? Or just ‘the Greens’?

15 May, 2016 - Chilla Bulbeck Following the launch of the Facebook page for our candidate for Curtin, Viv Glance, I – of course – asked all my friends to like t...

Boyup Brook church wins environmental award

15 May, 2016 - Jessica Morthorpe  St Saviours Anglican Church in Boyup Brook won credit for its first-class environmental efforts last October when it became th...

Liveable Yarra

15 May, 2016 - Rob Salter The City of Yarra, covering inner Melbourne suburbs like Richmond, Collingwood, Fitzroy and North Carlton, needed to update its Planni...

The Barnett Government continues to interfere with remote communities

15 May, 2016 - Sarah George Although the topic of forced Aboriginal community closures has almost disappeared from mainstream media, it doesnt mean the issue ha...

A personal perspective about preferences and Senate Voting Reform

15 May, 2016 - Dinny Laurence The all night debate on Senate voting reforms set the benchmark for ugliness in Parliament at an all time low, and it was already ...

Busselton Dunsborough Greens

15 May, 2016 - Michael Baldock More than two years have passed since the Busselton Dunsborough Greens held its first meeting. 2013 was a low point. In March at ...

Green Democracy and Corrupted Democracy

15 May, 2016 - Rob Delves Its one of our four pillars – Participatory Democracy – and in my opinion the most important. Im a great fan of the Animal Farm quote ...

Democracy fails again in the national debate on free range eggs standards

15 May, 2016 - Dinny Laurence There has been outrage about the government decision to confer the 'free range label on eggs from farms with outdoor stocking dens...

Plebiscites – good and bad

15 May, 2016 - Arran Morton The strongest argument for the plebiscite is that it is not only a fundamentally democratic exercise, but also an exercise in direct...