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Andrew Robb is running scared on independent TPP scrutiny

4 February, 2016 - Today Andrew Robb has signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) on behalf of the Australian government. Greens spokesperson for Tr...

Sacred art continues to be vandalised

4 February, 2016 - Tuesday, 2 February The continual vandalising of ancient Indigenous rock art in the Burrup peninsula has reached crisis point, says Greens ML...

Introducing Senator Robert Simms

4 February, 2016 - Meet Senator Robert Simms, Australian Greens senator for South Australia. At 31, Robert is the youngest senator in the Australian Parliament,...

Strong local opposition at all 6 proposed nuclear waste dump sites

4 February, 2016 - There is strong local opposition exists at all six sites currently under consideration for a nuclear waste dump in Australia. The communities...

Additional Estimates

4 February, 2016 - Mon, 2016-02-08 (All day) - Thu, 2016-02-11 (All day) Parliament House, Canberra Senate Commi...

Time to act on recognising overseas same-sex marriages

4 February, 2016 - Overseas marriage recognition laws must be standardised across the country to avoid the heartache and humiliation experienced by a British ma...

Decision imminent: UN determination on arbitrary detention of Julian Assange

4 February, 2016 - Friday morning Australian time, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights' Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) will make a determ...

Standing up for students and higher education

4 February, 2016 - Higher education The Greens believe that universities are more than just degree factories - they are places where...

Turnbull ‘mum’ on fate of refugee babies & children

4 February, 2016 - In response to his first question since yesterday’s High Court decision concerning the fate of the 37 babies and 90 children living in Austra...

Gutting CSIRO climate science is the enemy of innovation

4 February, 2016 - News that the Turnbull Liberal Government is sacking more CSIRO scientists, gutting climate science in Australia, shows what a climate-denial...

#LetThemStay - stop forced returns to Nauru!

3 February, 2016 - SNAP ACTION.  Organised by the Refugee Rights Action Network (RRAN) - www.rran.org . See the Event page . Today, the High Court delivered the...

The Auditor General should investigate the Commonwealth funding approvals for the Perth Freight Link

3 February, 2016 -  NOTICE OF MOTION                                                                          2 February 2016                                   ...

Greens move for House to decline ABCC bill in favour for broad-based anti-corruption watchdog

3 February, 2016 - Greens Industrial Relations spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today moved for the House of Representatives to decline the ABCC bill and instead supp...

Centrelink concerns read into the Senate after hundreds of complaints

3 February, 2016 - Awful Centrelink accounts have been read into the Senate after 88 pages of complaints were posted to Senator Rachel Siewert’s Facebook page l...

Senate backs Greens efforts to shed some light on Perth Freight Link

3 February, 2016 - On the same day the Senate voted to request the Auditor-General investigate the Perth Freight Link, the clock ran out on yet another delaying...