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Greens raise concerns about ACT Policing’s use of spit hoods

29 August, 2022 - The ACT Greens have expressed their concern about the use of spit hoods by ACT Policing, after it was revealed in Estimates today that a teena...

ACT Greens challenge $41m of public money given to horseracing industry

29 August, 2022 - Today in Estimates, Jo Clay MLA asked how it is in the public interest to provide $41 million of taxpayer funds to the horseracing industry. ...

Greens call on Plibersek to act on global leadership in oceans protection promise

28 August, 2022 - The Greens have called on Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to take a leading role in convening an emergency meeting with UN member states ...

Jordon Steele-John’s August update

28 August, 2022 - A missed opportunity for leadership in the disability space, pondering the climate bill and the nuclear threat, welcoming new Greens MPs and a...

Climate Refugees and Australia

28 August, 2022 - Officially, climate refugees don’t exist, but they will be rapidly multiplying in the years to come By Chris Johansen, Green Issue Co-edito...

A PHONE CALL MAKES A BIG CHANGE

28 August, 2022 - How a chance encounter with two detainees, Koffi and Lucky, led to a family taking up their case and then a continuing friendship that has enr...

Green Issue Editorial August 2022

28 August, 2022 - By The Green Issue Editors August Green Issue focusses on Australia’s contorted relationship with refugees. Coalition and Labor governments...

The right kind of outlaw

28 August, 2022 - The absolutely shameful treatment of Iranian refugee Ned Kelly, a victim of Australia’s seemingly bipartisan punitive refugee policy By Sen...

Words from Behind the Wire

28 August, 2022 - Writing as a path toward hope while teaching asylum seeker children on Christmas Island  By Reneé Pettitt-Schipp, Writer and Teacher ...

Music Talks

28 August, 2022 - Although the recent election provides a glimmer of hope for asylum seekers, we must continue pressuring the government to end the punitive app...

Denigration & Dehumanization – The Australian Way

28 August, 2022 - Australia has a long history of dehumanizing and denigrating non-white people, most recently asylum seekers arriving by boat. Media stereotypi...

Priorities, Persuasion and Possibilities

28 August, 2022 - It would appear that The Greens humane policies towards asylum seekers are opposed by most Australians, but support for the hardline Lib-Lab c...

Greens in Senate won’t rubber stamp Jobs Summit outcomes, want wages lift now

27 August, 2022 - Greens Leader and Workplace Relations spokesperson Adam Bandt has said any deal reached at the Jobs and Skills summit risked becoming nothing ...

Nets out now

26 August, 2022 - After the tenth whale has today been entangled in Queensland shark nets, the Greens are again calling on the state government for an urgent re...

ACT welcomes outcomes of Building Ministers Meeting

26 August, 2022 - From October 2023, all new homes built in the ACT will be required to have seven-star energy efficiency and minimum accessibility standards, e...