Green Issue

Newsletter of The Greens (WA)

Vol. 35, No. 2

April 2026

 

Articles

Defence Strategy? What Defence Strategy?

United States National Security Strategy must trigger a review of Australia’s alliance and of our own National Defence Strategy

Out of Sight Out of Mind

LNG: Labor, Japan and the Iran War

Solar + Storage = Security

The current Middle East Crisis impacts on Australia’s energy security and resilience to supply chain shocks. The Greens have policies to address this.

Famine in Waiting

Closure of the Strait of Hormuz has huge and immediate effects on global food production, with poor countries most adversely affected

Artificial Intelligence is a Dangerous Oxymoron

The Robodebt Class Action of 2025 provided compensation to victims of the unlawful AI-based government scheme, but there are other dangers also

Soil Carbon Offsets

Many things wrong about using soil capture of carbon to excuse ongoing emissions of greenhouse gases

From our MPs

Brad Pettitt’s April Update

Fuel crisis, housing accountability, and keeping up the pressure

Sophie McNeill’s April Update

Blowing the whistle on Woodside, followed by a gas chat, and trying to induce meaningful debate on the fuel crisis

Tim Clifford’s April Update

Our survey confirms renting has never been harder, but we have solutions. And worried how a data centre will disrupt local life.

Jess Beckerling’s April Update

So many issues addressed, like Alcoa in the Jarrah forests, sexual assault awareness, and activities in the Parliament, in the media and in the community

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Published by The Greens (WA) ABN 41 747 355 722, 91/215 Stirling St, Perth, WA 6000

Contributing editors Rob Delves, Chris Johansen, Tamsyn Heynes, Andrew Turk

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Authorised by Giz Watson & Simone Collins, The Greens (WA), 91/215 Stirling St, Perth, Western Australia 6000. ABN 41 747 355 722