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Weekend rates are a right, not a private school privilege: Greens

6 October, 2015 - Greens workplace relations spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today said that weekend rates are a right, not a privilege for private school fees, and ...

We’ll be in a ‘seven day economy’ when Parliament regularly sits on weekends: Bandt

6 October, 2015 - In response to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s comments today on weekend rates, Greens spokesperson on industrial relations Adam Bandt MP to...

A titan in our time

6 October, 2015 - Susan Griffiths-Sussems Located halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica in the path of the “Furious Fifties” winds and storms, the Antarctic B...

Announcing: Australian Greens 2015 National Conference

6 October, 2015 - Alex Schlotzer (National Secretary) Every year, the members of the Australian Greens gather for a National Conference to discuss policy and co...

Reputation, reputation, reputation

6 October, 2015 - Rosanne Bersten The old adage says don't mention politics or religion. And yet this is what we do every day. Over the years we've developed ca...

Greens condemn police murder and call for community to come together

4 October, 2015 - The Greens have today called for the community to come together in the wake of the brutal shooting of police accountant Curtis Cheng outside t...

World Farm Animals Day: Greens call for truth in labelling and a ban on battery cages and de-beaking

1 October, 2015 - On the eve of World Farm Animals Day, the Greens are renewing calls for truth in ‘free range’ labelling and a ban on battery cages and de-beak...

Changes to Port deal won't protect exporters

30 September, 2015 - Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber says minor changes to the deal to sell off the Port of Melbourne won’t protect exporters from increased...

Richard Di Natale's National Press Club Address

30 September, 2015 - Firstly let me acknowledge that we are meeting here on the land of the Ngunnawal peoples and I pay my respects to my elders past and presen...

Economic modelling shows coastal shipping laws will be a disaster for Tasmania

30 September, 2015 - Economic modelling by the Maritime Union of Australia has confirmed that hundreds of Tasmanian jobs will be lost if the Liberal Party’s cha...

Australian and New Zealand Green parties call for deportation halt

29 September, 2015 - The Green parties of New Zealand and Australia are jointly calling on the Australian Government to halt the indiscriminate deportation of N...

Government cannot ignore rape and assault on Nauru: Greens

29 September, 2015 - The Australia Greens have called on the new Turnbull government to step in and remove children and their families from Nauru following the ...

Greens announce transition plan for Australia’s coal export sector

29 September, 2015 - • New industry report confirms global coal demand in terminal structural decline • Taxpayers and state governments will be left with a mine...

Media Release: Nick McKim to push for an “I-20” at global conference in Korea

29 September, 2015 - Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania Nick McKim will today depart for Jeju, Korea to deliver the keynote address at a conference that wil...

Medicare review necessary and long overdue: Greens

28 September, 2015 - Australian Greens health spokesperson and former GP, Dr Richard Di Natale, today welcomed the review of the Medicare Benefits Schedule but ...