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World Farm Animals Day: Greens call for truth in labelling and a ban on battery cages and de-beaking

1 October, 2015 - On the eve of World Farm Animals Day, the Greens are renewing calls for truth in ‘free range’ labelling and a ban on battery cages and de-beak...

Changes to Port deal won't protect exporters

30 September, 2015 - Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber says minor changes to the deal to sell off the Port of Melbourne won’t protect exporters from increased...

Richard Di Natale's National Press Club Address

30 September, 2015 - Firstly let me acknowledge that we are meeting here on the land of the Ngunnawal peoples and I pay my respects to my elders past and presen...

Economic modelling shows coastal shipping laws will be a disaster for Tasmania

30 September, 2015 - Economic modelling by the Maritime Union of Australia has confirmed that hundreds of Tasmanian jobs will be lost if the Liberal Party’s cha...

Australian and New Zealand Green parties call for deportation halt

29 September, 2015 - The Green parties of New Zealand and Australia are jointly calling on the Australian Government to halt the indiscriminate deportation of N...

Government cannot ignore rape and assault on Nauru: Greens

29 September, 2015 - The Australia Greens have called on the new Turnbull government to step in and remove children and their families from Nauru following the ...

Greens announce transition plan for Australia’s coal export sector

29 September, 2015 - • New industry report confirms global coal demand in terminal structural decline • Taxpayers and state governments will be left with a mine...

Media Release: Nick McKim to push for an “I-20” at global conference in Korea

29 September, 2015 - Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania Nick McKim will today depart for Jeju, Korea to deliver the keynote address at a conference that wil...

Medicare review necessary and long overdue: Greens

28 September, 2015 - Australian Greens health spokesperson and former GP, Dr Richard Di Natale, today welcomed the review of the Medicare Benefits Schedule but ...

Turnbull Government blocking UN access to detention centres

26 September, 2015 - The Australian Government should give the United Nations free and unfettered access to Australian run detention centres, the Australian Gre...

Overcrowding worst on Geelong trains

25 September, 2015 - Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber says new V/line data reveals Geelong’s peak hour trains are full but the government has no plan to incr...

TPP meeting last chance for Australia to say no to ISDS

25 September, 2015 - Greens spokesperson for Trade, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, says that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) meeting beginning tomorrow in Atla...

Greens call on Turnbull to recall radicalisation booklet

25 September, 2015 - The Greens are calling on Malcolm Turnbull to recall and recycle the Radicalisation Awareness Kit that claims environmentalism is a pathway...

Greens call on Turnbull to recall radicalisation booklet

25 September, 2015 - The Greens are calling on Malcolm Turnbull to recall and recycle the Radicalisation Awareness Kit that claims environmentalism is a pathway...

Media Release: ACCC confirms voluntary Grocery Code of Conduct isn’t working

24 September, 2015 - The ACCC’s confirmation of the inadequacy of the voluntary Grocery Code of Conduct (GCC)* shows the government needs to step in and make th...