Qld News & Media Releases

Coalition's legacy will be the extermination of our native species

4 May, 2018 - The Coalition’s plan to cut the jobs of people working in the Environment Department specifically to protect threatened species can not be allowed...

Coalition’s Reef package ignores the climate elephant in the room

27 April, 2018 - To rescue the Reef we need no new thermal coal mines and a ban on fossil fuel donations, says Queensland Greens Senator Andrew Bartlett. "The C...

Clive and his coal mines are not welcome in Queensland

26 April, 2018 - A Clive Palmer monster mine, bigger than Adani, is what will happen if we open up the Galilee Basin to new coal mines, says Queensland Greens S...

Drug testing people on welfare is wrong

24 April, 2018 - Logan has double the population of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people compared to metropolitan Brisbane, and almost half of the peopl...

Queensland Greens call on Mayor of Ipswich to explain if waste sector donations behind decision to bin recycling

20 April, 2018 - Queensland Greens Senator Andrew Bartlett is calling on the Mayor of Ipswich to explain if waste sector donations were behind the councils deci...

The Great Barrier Reef will die unless we kick corporate money out of politics

19 April, 2018 - The stranglehold fossil fuel companies have over our political system is slowly killing off the Great Barrier Reef, says Queensland Greens Sena...

Queensland Greens stand with XXXX workers

18 April, 2018 - The Queensland Greens unequivocally support the right for XXXX workers to strike for fair pay and conditions, says Queensland Greens Senator An...

Greens: NT Labor caves in to fossil fuel industry and ditches fracking ban

17 April, 2018 - The Northern Territory Labor government's decision to open up fracking will put lives and livelihoods at risk, says Greens Senator and spokespe...

Cross River Rail announcement first step towards public transport as a basic right

16 April, 2018 - The Queensland Greens are today cautiously welcoming of the announcement by Federal Opposition Leader, Bill Shorten, of funding for the deliver...

Cross River Rail announcement first step towards public transport as a basic right

16 April, 2018 - The Queensland Greens are today cautiously welcoming of the announcement by Federal Opposition Leader, Bill Shorten, of funding for the deliver...

Britain bans ivory sales, Australia should too

6 April, 2018 - The Greens are calling on the Turnbull government to follow the lead of the British government in banning all ivory sales. Greens animal welfare...

Australia: let’s transition away from coal. Coalition: let’s form a coal faction.

3 April, 2018 - “What more proof do you need of the sickness in our political system than Coalition backbenchers forming a coal faction, says Senator for Queens...

Turnbull’s road funding nothing but a pork-barreling band aid.

3 April, 2018 - Malcolm Turnbull’s announcement of a small amount of road funding to shore up vulnerable Liberal seats in south-east Queensland simply exposes t...

Greens call for inquiry into Matt Canavan who is just a puppet of the coal lobby

28 March, 2018 - “We should be having an inquiry into why Matt Canavan could possibly keep insisting that burning coal is a beautiful thing, when it is responsi...