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Peter Whish-Wilson
Senator for lutruwita/Tasmania

Greens announce end to backpacker tax deadlock and $100mil for Landcare

1 December, 2016 - Senator Di Natale, Australian Greens Leader said today, “This is a victory for farmers who have been watching their fruit wither and die on t...

Greens pressure helps deliver much needed inquiry into tax and royalty evasion in fossil fuel Industry

30 November, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson welcomes the announcement of a government review into potential rorting of the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax and ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Negative gearing and CGT discounts are worsening the disparity between winners and losers

18 November, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson for Treasury, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, says that unless Malcolm Turnbull radically changes Australia’s econo...

Shark nets don't make the ocean safe, especially for marine life

17 November, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, has strongly criticised the Federal Environment Minister, Josh Frydenber...

Feds must intervene in Macquarie Harbour salmon farm regulation

16 November, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, has used the latest EPA reporting on the state of Macquarie Harbour to w...

If someone else was Agriculture Minister would the backpacker tax have been fixed by now?

9 November, 2016 - Peter Whish-Wilson, Greens Treasury spokesperson, provides the following comments about the government’s ongoing backpacker tax saga. “Yester...

RIP Barnaby's backpacker tax

8 November, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, announces the Greens position on the Government’s backpacker tax Bill. Senator Whis...

Government’s problems with the backpacker tax are all of its own making

4 November, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, provides the following response to the government’s increasingly desperate attempts...