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Thinly veiled rhetoric to close Aboriginal communities

5 May, 2016 - Thursday, 5 May Premier Colin Barnett hadn’t ruled out remote Aboriginal community closures and continued to offer no solutions in a statement yes...

Nuclear Waste

5 May, 2016 - A process not a postcode There are no long‐term storage solutions for nuclear waste, which is why the Australian Greens believe that nuclear indus...

Call for jump racing to banned after two horse deaths at Warrnambool

5 May, 2016 - Bridget Judd, ABC The World Today ELEANOR HALL: The future of jumps racing in Victoria is under the microscope, after the deaths of two horses in ...

Perth Freight Link: going nowhere fast

5 May, 2016 - Estimates confirms no tunnel design exists and no transfer of funding of PFL until full project proposal documents completed. In dramatically shor...

Watering down work for the dole but no changes in remote communities a huge cause for concern: Greens

5 May, 2016 - Changing arrangements for work for the dole measures but keeping in place tougher requirements for Aboriginal communities shows discrimination is ...

Candidate for Solomon hails the closure of Wickham Point detention Centre

5 May, 2016 - Todd Williams, the Greens candidate for the seat of Solomon in the upcoming federal election, has welcomed the imminent closure of the Wickham Poi...

Local paper should not involved destruction of native forests

5 May, 2016 - The Australian Greens support the use of Australian paper if it is paper produced from plantation stock and from recycled stock, so it does not in...

Government must apologise for Bulmer-Rizzi treatment

5 May, 2016 - The Australian Greens are calling on the Government to apologise to Mr Marco Bulmer-Rizzi following revelations of more poor treatment by a govern...

Question without notice: The Budget

5 May, 2016 - Senator DI NATALE My question is to the minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Brandis. Last night, the budget did not mention global w...

A year as leader

5 May, 2016 - Richard Di Natale Joined Adam and Larissa to RenewAustralia “The difference between the Greens and the mainstream parties is that they have actual...

Childcare delay to hit families hard

4 May, 2016 - The Australian Greens have expressed regret at the government's decision to delay implementing seriously overdue changes to the early education an...

Leadbeater’s Possum colony safe for now

4 May, 2016 - After fierce questioning by Greens Spokesperson for Forests, Samantha Dunn, Labor has backed down and granted a temporary reprieve to the Leadbeat...

Greens condemn witch-hunt against voices for nature

4 May, 2016 - The Greens condemn the politically motivated witch hunt against the voices for nature in the government's recommendations in the House of Represen...

CSIRO cuts were ill-considered and must be reversed

4 May, 2016 - I want to speak in particular to the third report of this select committee, which was into the cuts to CSIRO science programs, and in particular t...