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Greens welcome the release of the Media Reform Green Paper

27 November, 2020 - Greens Media and Communications Spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said: “We have seen two positive steps forward on media reform from ...

Greens warn water ministers not to put up white flag on saving the Murray-Darling tomorrow

26 November, 2020 - The Greens are warning water ministers not to put up the white flag on saving the Murray-Darling Basin and the environmental flows needed to...

New Parliamentary Group Formed to Combat Violence Against Women

25 November, 2020 -   On International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Greens Senate Leader and spokesperson on Women, Larissa Waters, has ca...

Greens condemn violence in Western Sahara

25 November, 2020 - The Australian Greens condemn the violence and breakdown in the UN-backed ceasefire in Western Sahara. Any acts of aggression by the Morocca...

Two more years in the fight to save Narrabri

25 November, 2020 - Despite Federal Government approval for the Santos Narrabri gas field, the community still has two years to stop the project and save Narrab...

Narrabri Gas approval a dangerous climate bomb

24 November, 2020 - Today’s federal approval of Santos’ Narrabri gasfields will do untold damage to our ability to keep global warming to 2 degrees, the Austral...

Counting koalas won’t save national treasure

23 November, 2020 - A koala census won’t save our national treasure and a moratorium on the clearing of critical habitat is still urgently needed, the Greens sa...

As Morrison prepares the ground to ditch Kyoto credits Liberals and Labor both failing 2030 test

20 November, 2020 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says the Government is right to reconsider its 2030 climate ambitions, but needs to do far more than just drop th...

No question SAS committed war crimes in Afghanistan, facilitated by failure of command

19 November, 2020 - Australian Greens Peace and Disarmament spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John said there was no question now that Australian special force...

Evidence continues to stack up against Cashless Debit Card

18 November, 2020 - The Greens have tabled a dissenting report to the inquiry into the Government’s Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Continuation of ...

Greens label Senate Inquiry into environment law reforms a sham, call on crossbench to refuse to pass the bill

18 November, 2020 - The Greens have slammed the two-week Senate Inquiry into major environment law reforms labelling it a ‘sham’ and are calling on the crossben...

Greens the only friends of coal workers as Liberal and Labor remain in denial about ‘decades’ of coal

18 November, 2020 - The Australian Greens leader, Adam Bandt, has called on the leaders of the Liberal, Labor and National parties to stop peddling fantasies an...

Commonwealth must take the lead in South Australia to prevent another COVID outbreak in aged care facilities 

18 November, 2020 - The Greens say that it is imperative that the Commonwealth learn the hard lesson from the Victorian aged care COVID outbreak and take leader...