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20,000 (and counting) support Safe School Coalition petition

25 February, 2016 - The Australian Greens are delighted to announce the petition calling for support for the Safe Schools Coalition has received more than 20,00...

Science, not shark ‘bite-offs’ should guide fishery decisions

25 February, 2016 - Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren MLC says suggestions that the number of shark ‘bite-offs’ should be used as an evidential basis for an expansion of...

Don’t Merge ABC & SBS: Greens

25 February, 2016 - Any merger of the ABC and SBS would be in name only, it would more closely resemble a takeover of SBS and NITV by the ABC, the Australian Gr...

Properly consult the community on the Western Distributor

25 February, 2016 - Victoiran Greens call on the Andrews Government to put the environment and community first and conduct proper community consultation as part...

IA provision was sneakily taken away

25 February, 2016 - It is indeed a pleasure to rise to speak on the Omnibus Repeal Day (Autumn 2015) Bill 2015, a week out from Autumn 2016. I certainly concur ...

Nuclear waste dump is not the answer to SA's financial woes

25 February, 2016 - I rise tonight to talk about the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission, which is currently underway in my home state of South Australia. It is...

Turnbull tax tinkerer, not reformer: Greens

25 February, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today said reports that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is backing down from tax reform and inste...

20,000 (and counting) support Safe School Coalition petition

25 February, 2016 - The Australian Greens are delighted to announce the petition calling for support for the Safe Schools Coalition has received more than 20,00...

Science not shark ‘bite-offs’ should guide fishery decisions

25 February, 2016 - Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren MLC says suggestions that the number of shark ‘bite-offs’ should be used as an evidential basis for an expansion of...

Labor and Liberal vote against Greens move to keep Australian born babies safe

25 February, 2016 - A move by the Australian Greens that would have allowed babies who were born in Australia to stay here, rather than be sent to Nauru, has be...

Like Abbott never left

25 February, 2016 - Senator Richard Di Natale Malcolm Turnbull has made no changes to the Direct Action sham, Abbott's pathetic pollution reduction targets, or ...

After Asha

25 February, 2016 - Emma Davidson and Rosanne Bersten For 10 days, unions, community groups and refugee rights organisations camped, rallied, sang, and even sle...

O-Week: Let's go!

25 February, 2016 - Pat Dollard Beyond the lectures and endless hours spent studying for exams, universities provide opportunities to become involved in your ca...

20 questions for Gösta Lyngå

25 February, 2016 - Emma Davidson Name: Gösta Lyngå Age: 85 Role with the Greens: Councillor in Sweden, Member of Swedish Parliament, founding member of ACT Gre...

Who benefits from the economy?

25 February, 2016 - Greta Werner Another Greens member recently told me they thought economics as a whole was about as bad as 'selling your grandmother'. Many p...