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Tax office endorses recent Multinational Tax moves

11 February, 2016 - The Australian Tax Office has endorsed legislation passed by the Greens on the last day of Parliament last year, saying they’re already seei...

Invalid oil leases highlights contempt for environment when it comes to supporting petroleum industry

11 February, 2016 - A number of offshore petroleum titles in marine parks have been deemed invalid following a major administrative error that occurred between ...

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Victorians being punished for ditching the East West toll road

11 February, 2016 - Senator RICE: I will move on to projects that have commercial-in-confidence issues with them and start off with Victoria. Victoria has been ...

BHP must compensate for dam failure at Samarco mine

11 February, 2016 - The collapse of the BHP/Vale tailings dams at the Samarco mine in Brazil is an ongoing disaster. In November last year, the Senate offered c...

Estimates: Melbourne airport third runway

11 February, 2016 - Senator RICE: I wanted to ask about the Melbourne Airport third-runway proposal and how that is rolling out. I understand that the airport's...

CSIRO CEO’s climate science cuts cast doubt on its future

11 February, 2016 - The Australian Greens today said the CSIRO CEO Larry Marshall’s decision to cut hundreds of jobs in climate science within the organisation ...

Australian Greens call on Government to expedite access to PrEP

11 February, 2016 - Australian Greens sexuality spokesperson Senator Robert Simms is calling on the government to expedite removing the barriers preventing peop...

WA energy saga continues

10 February, 2016 - Tuesday, 9 February The outcomes from a lack of energy foresight are only getting worse says Green energy spokesperson Robin Chapple MLC Mr ...

How many complaints is the Wind Farm Commissioner dealing with?

10 February, 2016 - Senator RICE: You said before that you had had complaints from 42 concerned residents. How many actual complaints were there? Mr Dyer: I wil...

Up to 23 consignments of produce sent overseas from farm linked to salmonella outbreak

10 February, 2016 - Questioning by Senator Rachel Siewert in Senate estimates last night has revealed Australian lettuce linked to an outbreak of salmonella may...

Greens MLC welcomes Land Administration reforms

10 February, 2016 - Wednesday, 10 February 2016 Greens Member for the Mining and Pastoral Region, Robin Chapple MLC, welcomes the Government’s Land Administrati...

Malcolm should cut the innovation buzzwords and genuinely move to Close the Gap

10 February, 2016 - The bitterly disappointing Prime Minister’s report on Closing the Gap shows there are many areas with next to no change in cutting Aborigina...

EPA is fast losing it's credibility

10 February, 2016 - Wednesday, 10 February 2016 Greens Member for the Mining and Pastoral Region, Robin Chapple MLC, has questioned the credibility of the Envir...

Australian Christian Lobby must end its crusade against tolerance and inclusion

10 February, 2016 - Fear-mongering from the Australian Christian Lobby on a program that aims to make schools more inclusive for young LGBTI people must stop, t...