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Australians ready to join the rest of the world in action as climate crisis worsens

28 October, 2020 - As the Morrison government talks up fossil fuel subsidies with its so-called ‘gas-led recovery’, only 12% of Australians want our economic re...

Live Export Backflip Will Hurt Animals

28 October, 2020 - Australian Greens Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the federal government has done an extraordinary and devas...

SAVE THE KOALA: Greens move for moratorium on habitat clearing

28 October, 2020 - The Greens have announced they’ll move for a moratorium on koala habitat clearing to save the national treasure from extinction. The legislat...

Statement On Kashmir

27 October, 2020 - The Australian Greens stand with the Kashmiri community on 27 October as they commemorate Black Day. Kashmir is a disputed territory and it i...

Environment Minister signs death warrant for Port Stephens koalas

27 October, 2020 - The Environment Minister Sussan Ley has signed a death warrant for koalas by approving the extension of the Brandy Hill quarry near Port Step...

Morrison's sham Carbon Credits a pro-fossil fuel perversion of the Carbon Price

26 October, 2020 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt has slammed reports of the Morrison Government offering a carbon credit scheme to Santos, saying it represented a pe...

Australia must sign the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

26 October, 2020 - Australia must urgently sign and ratify the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons now that it has become international ...

Australia Post investigation should review enormous executive salaries and bonuses

26 October, 2020 - Greens Spokesperson for Communications Senator Sarah Hanson Young responded to the Morrison Government’s terms of reference for an investigat...

Privatisation not the solution to Auspost debacle

26 October, 2020 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says the Australia Post debacle is symptomatic of corporatisation, a problem that would only be made worse by full...

Cap AusPost executive salaries

23 October, 2020 - Greens Senator, Sarah Hanson-Young says Australia Post has become quasi-public, quasi private and this is clashing with the community’s expec...

ADF must own & address allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan

21 October, 2020 - Australian Greens Peace and Disarmament spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John said allegations by American Marines that Australian special ...

Govt’s Arts and Entertainment Rescue Package Unspent

21 October, 2020 - Not a single dollar of the $250m arts and entertainment package the PM announced with Guy Sebastian four months ago has been spent, the Depar...

Mates investigating mates shows ICAC needed

21 October, 2020 - Revelations that the Finance Department inquiry into Assistant Minister Michael Sukkar was outsourced to the law firm he used to work for is ...

Climate revelations at estimates reveal Australia will blow carbon budget

20 October, 2020 - Under questioning from Greens Senate Leader, Larissa Waters, at Senate Estimates, the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources h...

BHP abandons Olympic Dam expansion showing PM picked a dud

20 October, 2020 - The Prime Minister picked a dud when he put BHP’s Olympic Dam on his list of 15 major projects for fast-tracking through Australia’s environm...