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Forward towards democracy

4 July, 2014 - Christine Cunningham The Australian Green's Charter outlines our democratic mission: "to build a society underpinned by values of participatory d...

NSW: Stirring times

4 July, 2014 - Hall Greenland These have been stirring times for the NSW Greens. In May we had the remarkable anti-fracking victory at Bentley in the north of t...

Kiwi and Green? Get involved!

24 June, 2014 - Tejopala Rawls Are you a Kiwi living here in Australia? Did you know you can vote back home without leaving Australia? This September 20th is el...

Planting the seed for 2016

24 June, 2014 - Susan Griffiths-Sussems While we are still not in the same situation as the US, we in Australia are increasingly on the same track.  We know tha...

Taking back the senate

23 June, 2014 - Senator Lee Rhiannon At the last federal election some candidates were elected to the Senate with less than one per cent of the primary vote. In...

WA: After the storm

20 June, 2014 - Chilla Bulbeck New member welcome More than 450 new members (who joined over the last year, basically during our three elections)  were invited ...

Australia risks international disgrace at World Heritage meeting

13 June, 2014 - Senator Larissa Waters THE ANNUAL UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting can be an exciting time for anyone who loves this planet's animals, pl...

Vale Karin Geradts

13 June, 2014 - Janet Rice Karin Geradts was a member and part of the fabric of The Greens since 1995. She was a member of the Greens Victoria State Council for...

Downsizing the Economy

13 June, 2014 - Chris Mardon Since the global financial crisis in 2008, there has been active discussion of the concept of de-growth, but some divisions have em...

Impact at the booth

12 June, 2014 - Ben Hermann On April 5 this year, election day for the WA senate, I set up a booth at Beldon Primary School, complete with a solar-powered lapto...

Busting the budget

11 June, 2014 - Christine Milne In my 25 years in politics I have never witnessed such a passionate and protracted push-back against a federal budget as we are ...

Obituary: Michael Denborough

1 June, 2014 - Liz Denborough Michael studied medicine in Cape Town South Africa and as part of his training went to treat people in the black townships. Later ...

Comment: Disadvantage the real threat to our children’s futures

1 June, 2014 - Senator Rachel Siewert A notable feature of the Abbott Government's short time in office has been their disconnection from the reality faced by v...

CSG: this generation's moment

1 June, 2014 - Chris Harris We won. The Bentley Blockade, in northern NSW, halted Metgasco's proposed tight sands gas drilling operation near Lismore. That vict...

Why Tony Abbott should resign as Minister for Women

1 June, 2014 - Senator Larissa Waters Tony Abbott, or at least his team of advisers, knows that Australian women don't take insults to their equality and indepe...