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Greens to Turnbull: we’ll believe infrastructure talk when we see action

24 November, 2016 - The Turnbull government’s response to Infrastructure Australia’s Australian Infrastructure Plan is shaping up to be just another example of ...

Green Growth Plan debacle postponed until after election

24 November, 2016 - Greens Planning Spokesperson Lynn MacLaren MLC has welcomed the Government’s decision to delay finalising its key planning document for the ...

Ending domestic violence is a wicked problem - Greens

24 November, 2016 - Violence against women is preventable and gender equity and adequate funding for front line services are at the heart of the solution, Green...

Greens urge bill that winds back transport funding for people with disability not be passed

24 November, 2016 - The Australian Greens have urged a bill that will wind back transport funding for people with disability who will not access the NDIS not be...

Greens call on Nats to cross the floor in the House to support the lower backpacker tax

24 November, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson welcomes the passage of the amended backpacker tax at a lower tax rate of 10.5% thr...

Greens push to take fracking ban national

24 November, 2016 - The test is on for the Nationals and the Labor party with the Senate today debating the Australian Greens’ bill to ban fracking and give lan...

Barnaby needs to put his mouth where the Murray is

23 November, 2016 - South Australian Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has challenged Barnaby Joyce to a public debate in Adelaide on the health of the Murray R...

Greens give Ministerial Standards some teeth

23 November, 2016 - The Senate today supported an Australian Greens motion to force the government to disclose currently secret meetings between former minister...

Australian dolphins safe from Super Trawler. Loch Ness monster now at risk.

23 November, 2016 -   Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, says that we have found out more about the future of the Geelong Star ...

Solar customers to lose out under Labor and Liberal plans

23 November, 2016 - Greens energy spokesperson Ellen Sandell says solar customers are set for higher power bills, regardless of whether the Victorian Government...

Super Trawler Geelong Star leaves Australian waters in mysterious circumstances

23 November, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson welcomes the news that the factory-freezer vessel Geelong Star has left A...

Women of Australia need more than words; the government needs to stand up, speak out and cough up.

23 November, 2016 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader and spokesperson for women spoke at a breakfast event for White Ribbon Day held in Parliament House this mor...

Community seeks rigour on Roe 8 as Government throws policies to the wind

22 November, 2016 - Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren says the differences in the two sides in the decades-long fight over Roe 8 have never been more stark, with communi...

South Australia dudded by Barnaby Joyce and MDBA

22 November, 2016 - The Murray Darling Basin Authority’s attempt to increase irrigation limits in the northern basin will reduce the already insufficient amount...

WA must follow Victoria’s leadership on gas

22 November, 2016 - Tuesday, 22nd November 2016 WA Greens MLC Robin Chapple said today that Western Australia should be looking to follow Victoria’s lead in ban...