Green Issue

Newsletter of The Greens (WA)

Vol.32, No. 3

June 2023

Articles

Affordable health care

Healthcare should be free at the point of delivery with no co-payments, which are in fact taxes on illness

Rent freezes and pixie dust

Some economists reject The Greens proposal of a rent freeze, arguing it will have many negative consequences. However, real life is more complicated.

Defence - against who, what?

Is the recent Australian Strategic Defence Review justifying AUKUS or did AUKUS predetermine the outcomes of that Review”?

RECOGNITION, RESPECT AND REPAIR

Australian survivors of the British nuclear testing regime visit Canberra to demand Recognition, Respect and Repair

THE 2023 EPA GREENHOUSE GAS GUIDELINES

WA’s Environmental Protection Authority Greenhouse Gas Guidelines were recently revised, but they can only recommend rather than regulate

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

Some thoughts relevant to Banksia Hill

10 years too long

From the reinstatement of offshore processing for refugees arriving by boat ten years ago, injustice to refugees continues, and is planned to continue

From our MPs

DORINDA COX'S JUNE UPDATE

Voice to Parliament and the voices of community

JORDON STEELE-JOHN’S JUNE UPDATE

Meetings with atomic survivors and GPs, addressing ME/CFS and ADHD, and enquiring into Australia’s dental care deficiencies

BRAD PETTITT’S JUNE UPDATE

Querying the state budget and addressing housing and homelessness, First Nations Reconciliation, youth justice, political donations, and more

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Contributing editors Rob Delves, Chris Johansen, Tamsyn Heynes, David Lumsden, Beverley Dight, Damian Brennan. Technical advice Pete. 

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