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Greens caution against weakening of IR laws, welcome Labor backing Greens’ gig-work policy

27 November, 2020 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, has said his party will fight moves to weaken the ‘better off overall test’ and welcomed Labor’s support for exte...

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 ...

Morrison Govt’s environment-wrecking laws dead in water, Senate Inquiry report shows

27 November, 2020 - The Morrison Government’s new environment-wrecking laws do not have enough support to pass the parliament the Senate Inquiry report into the...

Turning anger into action

27 November, 2020 - This month the world continued to change before our eyes, in some ways for the better. All of this is leaving Australia out in the cold, wit...

Blak Greens leading our party to Truth, Treaty and Voice

27 November, 2020 - We all have more work to do to decolonise our parliaments and our party.  This month, we made significant progress on the Australian Gr...

Local government is a great place to build our movement

27 November, 2020 - In Victoria’s recent local government elections, the Greens experienced historic wins around the state. It shows our messages have a br...

The shipping industry is killing our climate

27 November, 2020 - Last year, ships moved more than 11 billion tonnes of our stuff around the globe – and emitted more carbon than the aviation industry. It’s ...

How can you take meaningful action against the climate emergency?

27 November, 2020 - We know the federal government, along with most state jurisdictions, are dragging their feet on climate action. But local governments have s...

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...

Restorative justice empowers victims of crime

26 November, 2020 - Canberra’s world leading Restorative Justice Scheme has achieved an almost 100% participant satisfaction rate in the two years since it was ...

Inquiry confirms there is no future in nuclear

26 November, 2020 - The Victorian Greens have said Parliament’s recently tabled report into nuclear power has confirmed what they’ve known all along: that there...

Voting system in Victoria's upper house is broken, must be overhauled

26 November, 2020 - The Victorian Greens have welcomed the introduction of a bill that would make it illegal to pay an expert to ‘preference harvest’ during ele...

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...

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...