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Statement from Senator Larissa Waters

14 November, 2019 - The Greens absolutely do not support the statement made yesterday by Sherele Moody that firefighters are responsible for an increase in dome...

Government to pull safety net against injustice out from under vulnerable Victorians

14 November, 2019 - A bill is expected to pass parliament today that would abolish a long-standing right of appeal, despite opposition from the Victorian Greens...

Bushfire Emergency

13 November, 2019 - Bushfire Emergency Bushfires are currently devastating communities across Australia, tragically taking lives and destroying property. The...

Local Government Bill is a travesty for democracy in Victoria

13 November, 2019 - The Victorian Greens have come out swinging against Adam Somyurek MP’s proposed Local Government Bill, saying it would put councils up for s...

The Greens and Reason Party make history by joining forces for first ever co-sponsored bill

12 November, 2019 - The Victorian Greens and Reason Party will make history tomorrow when they table a co-sponsored bill introducing a two-year pill testing pil...

Morrison Must Wake From Climate Stupor On Bushfires: Faruqi

11 November, 2019 - Greens Senator for NSW, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has spoken to the tragedy of bushfires in her state and the Prime Minister's shameful silence on ...

“Oil Spill Risk” too big to give oil giant green light in the Great Australian Bight

11 November, 2019 - Big oil copped another blow to their plans to drill in the Great Australian Bight today, with the government agency NOPSEMA, rejecting Norwe...

The evidence is in; climate change is driving these catastrophic fires and the NSW government is in denial

11 November, 2019 - With catastrophic losses of lives, property and nature mounting, it is no longer possible to deny the reality of climate change and this mus...

NSW and Queensland burn as Morrison fails to get climate crisis under control

9 November, 2019 - Greens spokesperson for the climate crisis, Adam Bandt MP, has responded to the bushfires burning across NSW and QLD, saying Scott Morrison b...

Greens refer Liberal election signs to AFP

8 November, 2019 - The Greens have today referred the Victorian Division of the Liberal Party to the AFP over signs used at Victorian polling places during the ...

WA gas industry is a colossal, national climate bomb: Greens

8 November, 2019 - The Australian Government’s push for liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a low-emissions fossil fuel has been exposed with a new report finding no...

Coroner’s findings proof that policing the war on drugs unwinnable and damaging

8 November, 2019 - Today’s Coroners Court findings make it clear the aggressive ongoing police war against young people and the music industry is damaging and u...

No time to waste: ACT Greens reaffirm call for static pill testing site as NSW Coroner recommendations released

8 November, 2019 - As the NSW Deputy Coroner’s report on six music festival deaths recommends that pill testing be implemented in NSW, the ACT Greens have again...

Greens MP Cate Faehrmann to introduce pill testing bill next week following Coroner's findings

8 November, 2019 - Greens MP and Drug Law Reform and Harm Reduction spokesperson Cate Faehrmann has called on the Premier to commit to a pill testing trial over...

South Australians taken for mugs, as Feds and State Govt cut deal to reduce water flowing into Lower Murray

7 November, 2019 - Greens Senator for South Australia and Spokesperson for the Environment and Water, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young responded to the announcement S...