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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...

Greens urge Victorian Labor not to give in to Frydenberg's pro-gas agenda at COAG tomorrow

18 August, 2016 - Greens energy spokesperson Ellen Sandell says the Victorian Government needs to resist federal energy Minister Josh Frydenberg’s calls for the...

Greens support resident's home acquisition calls for Western Distributor

18 August, 2016 - Residents on Hyde Street, Yarraville have banded together to call for the Andrews Government to end their uncertainty and commit to offering v...

Greens (WA) Annual General Meeting 2016

17 August, 2016 - Nominations are invited for the office bearer positions of Co-convenor (2), Secretary and Treasurer, and positions of National Delegate, State...

Global Greens Congress 2017

17 August, 2016 - For the first time ever, the Global Greens and the European Green Party will hold their congresses together! https://youtu.be/9JOGYUABYhA Vis...

Greens support community calls for passage of tree clearing control laws

17 August, 2016 - The Queensland Greens support community calls for State Parliament to quickly pass laws to restore controls on large scale tree clearing. Gree...

Greens move to improve WA biodiversity laws after years of devastating species loss

17 August, 2016 - After 30 years of successive ALP and Liberal state governments allowing outdated laws for protecting WA’s rare and threatened plants and anima...

Greens offer Labor, Coalition fairer way to raise $6.5 billion

17 August, 2016 - In response to Malcolm Turnbull’s call on Labor to back a ‘Budget repair’ bill containing $6.5 billion of harsh cuts, Greens Treasury spokespe...