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Nationals' quarter trillion climate bomb a dangerous joke

7 October, 2021 - The Greens have slammed the Nationals’ proposed $250 billion publicly funded coal and gas bank as robbing public money to chase stranded asset...

Greens’ integrity body scores top marks; PM’s model “weakest in country”

6 October, 2021 - The Greens’ model for a National Integrity Commission, which passed the Senate two years ago, has been given top marks by The Centre for Publi...

Australia cannot abandon refugees in PNG

6 October, 2021 -   The Australian Government cannot just wash its hands of the people it exiled to Papua New Guinea, the Greens say. “Today is a day to rememb...

Snowy a better way to build green hydrogen than handouts to billionaires

6 October, 2021 - The Greens say they do not trust the government to deliver green hydrogen instead of toxic methane, and that there are better ways to turn Aus...

Environment Minister approves third coal project in a month and more environmental destruction

5 October, 2021 - Greens Environment Spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young responded to the announcement the Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley has appro...

Greens to force debate on National Integrity Commission Bill

5 October, 2021 - In the wake of the NSW ICAC investigating former Premier Gladys Berejiklian, the Greens will move a concurrence motion in the next parliamenta...

Scott Morrison must listen to the UK, and boost 2030 targets in Glasgow

5 October, 2021 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt MP has called on the Prime Minister to take heed of the UK Cabinet’s demands of Australia, calling him a ‘coward’ for...

The Greens support WA Labor’s motion to raise the age

5 October, 2021 - The West Australian Labor party has passed a motion to raise the age of legal responsibility to 14 at their State conference. The Greens spoke...

Lib & Labor voted against Greens push to close ‘Pandora Papers’ loophole

4 October, 2021 - The ‘Pandora papers’ disclosed today reveal that Australia is a weak link in the fight against international tax avoidance, with accounting fi...

States’ heavy lifting on 2030 exposes federal climate stasis and weak targets

30 September, 2021 - The Greens have modelled the combined Australian State and Territory climate targets to show that the collective commitments made would amo...

NSW target makes Morrison a 2030 coward

29 September, 2021 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says the Liberal government in NSW has exposed the complete failure on a federal level to engage with the real t...

Decolonising international aid

29 September, 2021 - At a time of global crisis, the Greens will provide support and reparations for the Global South by boosting international aid through Offi...

Decolonising International Aid

29 September, 2021 - Media Release At a time of global crisis, the Greens will provide support and reparations for the Global South by boosting international...

Barnaby and Morrison working hand in glove to block climate action in the critical decade

28 September, 2021 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says Barnaby Joyce and Scott Morrison are trying to push the Australian climate debate out to 2050 ahead of the ...

Scomo's Glasgow no-show an act of climate cowardice

27 September, 2021 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt has said that Scott Morrison’s reported intention to avoid appearing at the COP26 Glasgow Climat...