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Peter Whish-Wilson
Senator for lutruwita/Tasmania

Tasmania left out in the cold by Federal Budget

30 March, 2022 - The Greens have slammed the Morrison Government for using the budget for cynical electioneering purposes, while simultaneously destroying what ...

Green boost for budding hemp industry

25 March, 2022 - Hemp has to be one of the most misunderstood plants on this planet. Despite it having multiple uses over thousands of years - including food, c...

Greens refer alleged carbon credits fraud to Auditor General

24 March, 2022 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt MP, has referred allegations of a $1 billion taxpayer funded climate fraud through the government’s carbon credits sc...

Regenerative Agriculture Boost From Greens

24 March, 2022 - While Australia’s leading farmers and the nation’s major farm groups endorse emissions reduction targets and set their own ambitious climate go...

50th celebration of the Greens takes Adam Bandt to party's roots

19 March, 2022 - Leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt will tonight attend 50th anniversary celebrations for the Green movement in Tasmania, marking a ful...

Greens pledge $580M to fix Tassie’s health system

18 March, 2022 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP has said that in balance of power in the Senate after the next election, the Greens will use thei...

Protecting Marine Life and Mitigating Risk of Shark Bites

10 March, 2022 - The Federal Government has an important role to play in protecting endangered marine life killed by lethal shark nets and drumlines deployed by...

If the Government did its job, we'd have policies that clean up Australia every day

6 March, 2022 - The Greens have called out the Morrison Government’s refusal to mandate waste and recycling targets as a key reason Aussies will again be found ...

Greens ready to hold government to account on plastics treaty

3 March, 2022 - The Greens have welcomed the UN agreement to negotiate a global treaty on plastic pollution by 2024, but warned Australia not to take a two-year...

Greens welcome offshore oil and gas exploration ban in NSW

23 February, 2022 - The NSW Government’s decision to ban offshore oil and gas exploration has been welcomed by the Greens, who have commended the coastal commun...

Liberals must scrap mandated logging target to save Swift Parrot from extinction

22 February, 2022 - The swift parrot is on the brink of extinction, and only hundreds of birds exist. The report released today by the Wilderness Society, BirdL...