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Shane Rattenbury
Leader of the ACT Greens &
Member for Kurrajong

Construction starts on Australia’s largest community-owned solar farm

28 August, 2020 - Today marks the first day of construction for a new community-owned solar farm in the ACT which will make solar energy more accessible for Can...

Thank you for all your contributions, Caroline Le Couteur MLA, ACT Greens Member for Murrumbidgee

27 August, 2020 - This week, Caroline Le Couteur took her place in the ACT Legislative Assembly for the last time, after a total of eight years representing the...

Australian first as ACT Greens secure commitment to regular pill-testing

20 August, 2020 - The ACT Greens are pleased today to have secured a commitment from ACT Labor to explore a pill-testing site in the ACT this Summer - an Austra...

Australian first as ACT Greens secure commitment to regular pill-testing

20 August, 2020 - The ACT Greens are pleased today to have secured a commitment from ACT Labor to explore a permanent pill-testing site in the ACT this Summer -...

Australian first as Greens secure commitment to raise the age of criminal responsibility in the ACT

20 August, 2020 - The ACT Greens have secured a commitment from the ACT Government to support raising the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 years - a...

Endangered ecosystems and Indigenous heritage need better protection

13 August, 2020 - The ACT Greens today welcomed a commitment from Chief Minister Barr that the ACT Government will now act to protect a local site of possible I...

Protecting Canberrans from harmful sexuality and gender identity conversion practices

13 August, 2020 - Following a commitment from the ACT Government in 2018, new legislation to ban sexuality and gender identity conversion practices has been int...

Mental health funding boost helping Canberra’s workers

7 August, 2020 - Local workplace mental health and wellbeing program provider OzHelp has received $100,000 as part of the ACT Government’s COVID-19 mental healt...

2020 Election: ACT Greens release major Drug Law Reform package to help end war on drugs

6 August, 2020 - The ACT Greens will today unveil a commitment to substantially reform the way drug use and dependency is dealt with in the Territory. This e...

Leadership needed to protect most vulnerable from gaming harm: ACT Greens

6 August, 2020 - As the COVID pandemic continues to impact our community, the Greens have today again called on the ACT Government to deliver a series of modest...