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Other centenaries to celebrate

24 April, 2015 - Anne Picot It has been impossible to avoid the wall-to-wall coverage of the centenary of the landing at Gallipoli by Australian troops on 25 Ap...

Finding our voice

24 April, 2015 - Debbie Gibson In 2012 the Greens NSW Women's Group decided to survey female members to try and get a picture of their involvement in the party ...

Congratulations, Dr Giz

14 April, 2015 - Chilla Bulbeck On 16 February Associate Dean at Murdoch University, Dr Janice Dudley, presented Giz Watson to the Chancellor of Murdoch Univers...

Harmony in the UK

14 April, 2015 - Natalie Bennett Did you know that all Australian adults currently in the UK are eligible to vote in British elections? It's true. So are most B...

NAPLAN? New plan please.

13 April, 2015 - Senator Penny Wright The annual NAPLAN tests will be held next month, with more than a million Australian students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9 to be...

Stop the three-word slogans

13 April, 2015 - Rachel Poole A favourite government mantra of late is “we've stopped the boats”. This catchy phrase, if repeated enough without context, sugges...

Next stop: 2016

13 April, 2015 - Giz Watson and Penny Allman-Payne (Australian Greens Co-Convenors) Congratulations to our NSW colleagues on yet another fantastic election resu...

The Australian government can't safeguard Putin's data. That means yours isn't safe, either

31 March, 2015 - Senator Scott Ludlam One of the questions I've been asked most in recent months is whether members of parliament will have their metadata store...

We must return funding to family violence services

30 March, 2015 - Senator Larissa Waters Women are living with men who they fear will kill them because those women have been turned away from overrun refuges an...

Sculpture by the sea

30 March, 2015 - Rowena Sierant Every time I walk past the sculpture made from flotsam and jetsam on Callala Beach, I stop to see if any newly found objects hav...

Solar saver

25 March, 2015 - Vivienne Glance Last week, in a surprise announcement, the WA Government approved the phasing out of the Office of State Development, and the f...

High-speed reversal

25 March, 2015 - Alex Schlotzer It's more than just which football code you follow. And it isn't what you'd expect.  We started out in Queensland. It became cle...

Together, we stand

17 March, 2015 - Giz Watson and Penny Allman-Payne (Australian Greens Co-Convenors) March 18, 2015: Congratulations to the Queensland Greens on officially gaini...

APGF Congress in NZ in June

16 March, 2015 - Josh Wyndham-Kidd The Congress The Congress will be held in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, June 12-14, and will be hosted by the Asia-Pacifi...