Qld News & Media Releases

Greens welcome Murujuga rock art World Heritage listing, but industrial threats persist

12 July, 2025 - The Greens welcome UNESCO including Murujuga on the World Heritage List and hope Labor will now ensure its survival by cancelling the draft appr...

Last chance for real climate action to save Great Barrier Reef from In Danger listing

10 July, 2025 - The Australian Greens urge the Australian and Queensland governments to act on UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee’s advice to protect the Great B...

Greens urge Minister Watt to cancel Woodside draft approval ahead of looming Murujuga decision

9 July, 2025 - As UNESCO delegates meet in Paris this week to consider Murujuga’s World Heritage bid, the Australian Greens call on Environment Minister Murray ...

Greens urge end to Robodebt, two years on from Royal Commission

8 July, 2025 - The Greens have called on Labor to finally end Robodebt amid growing calls from welfare organisations to fully implement the recommendations from...

Greens say action towards First Nations justice must be a priority of 48th Parliament

20 June, 2025 - The Greens have welcomed the holding of a round table with First Nations Ministers and the Coalition of the Peaks today, and called on the feder...

Police should not investigate police over Blak deaths in custody

7 June, 2025 - The Australian Greens call for an independent inquiry into the death of 24 year old Kumanjayi White, a Warlpiri man with a disability, in Alice S...

Greens Leader announces portfolios for the 48th Parliament, will make women's safety a priority of leadership

4 June, 2025 - Leader of the Australian Greens Senator Larissa Waters has announced the party’s new portfolio allocations ahead of parliament returning in July....

Labor’s Aged Care Act deferral a brief reprieve for older people who will be forced to pay more

4 June, 2025 - The Greens have cautiously welcomed the deferral of the major parties’ Aged Care Act to 1 November, which will provide a brief reprieve for older...

Raising the rate crucial to tackling violence against women

4 June, 2025 - The Australian Greens have urged the Albanese Government to urgently lift income support recipients out of poverty and put an end to the punitive...

Emissions remain higher under Albanese than Morrison, on the same week Labor approves ‘carbon bomb’

30 May, 2025 - The latest quarterly emissions update has revealed emissions are still going up and remain higher under Anthony Albanese than when Scott Morrison...

Major parties’ climate apathy will leave our reef ‘in danger’

30 May, 2025 - The Australian Greens echo the calls from the UNESCO World Heritage Committee for the Queensland and Australian governments to take drastic measu...

Environment Minister fails first test, approves climate-wrecking North West Shelf extension to 2070

28 May, 2025 - The Australian Greens have said the new Environment Minister has spectacularly failed his first test in the job, after approving the climate-wrec...

Albanese Government must reject Queensland Shark Control Program expansion

27 May, 2025 - The Greens call on the Albanese Government to reject a major expansion of shark nets used in the Queensland Shark Control Program, after the Quee...

Greens slam Labor for secretly preparing to approve Woodside’s North West Gas Shelf

22 May, 2025 - The Greens have slammed Labor for secretly preparing to approve Australia’s biggest coal and gas development for the next 45 years, saying the de...

Greens retain Ryan, will hold sole balance of power in the Senate

13 May, 2025 - The Greens have retained the Queensland seat of Ryan, after voters kept Dutton out by re-electing Elizabeth Watson-Brown MP as their strong, inde...