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Greens push for national takeover of energy market after COAG fails on renewables

19 August, 2016 - Greens energy spokesperson Adam Bandt today said that the Greens will push to give the Commonwealth power for a national takeover of the energ...

Reef, climate & jobs at risk: Greens say fight to control land clearing must continue

19 August, 2016 - The Greens say the fight to control large scale land clearing in Queensland will continue. Greens spokesperson Andrew Bartlett says "our envir...

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 ...

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...

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...

Scott's Page

18 August, 2016 - Senator Scott Ludlam We all thought Election Day was the deadline, after which we could all pause and take a breath. But with the result hangi...

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 ...

Supporting Sustainable Agriculture

18 August, 2016 - Senator Rachel Siewert Apparently during the federal election campaign the Greens had more farmers running as candidates than the Nationals - ...

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...

Water conservation in the southern region of WA

18 August, 2016 - Adrian Price Blending water with electricity In the days when steam trains served farmers and rural communities with a wide variety of goods,...

Editorial: The Greens and WA Agriculture

18 August, 2016 - The Green Issue Editors While we celebrate the return of Rachel and Scott to the Senate, this GI takes a peak into our rural scene. The Greens...

Perspectives on GMOs

18 August, 2016 - Chris Johansen Greens Leader Richard Di Natale recently expressed his opinion that not everything about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) ...

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...

Volunteer experience of phase 1 of the election campaign (aka Federal election 2016)

18 August, 2016 - Chilla Bulbeck You have just completed the largest supporter engagement Greens WA campaign ever. We increased our lower house vote in 3 of ...