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5 Ways the Senate Voting System is Broken — and How to Fix it

2 March, 2016 - The Greens have campaigned for Senate reform for more than a decade. We believe that the Senate should be controlled by the voters, not by facel...

The Tivoli must be saved say the Greens

1 March, 2016 - 01/03/2016 The Tivoli is not currently heritage protected. However, even if it were listed on the heritage register, its location within the Sta...

Six Communities United in Opposition to Government’s Nuclear Waste Dump Plans

1 March, 2016 - Representatives from each of the six communities shortlisted as potential sites for a nuclear waste dump were hosted by the Greens in Parliament...

Logging native of forests fails the test, time to end RFA destruction

1 March, 2016 - Logging native of forests fails the test, time to end RFA destruction Tasmania’s failure to get obtain Forest Stewardship Council certification ...

Government concern for coral bleaching insincere unless Adani mine stopped

1 March, 2016 - With coral bleaching already confirmed in the Great Barrier Reef today and scientific concern for a mass bleaching event soon, the state and fed...

Greens call for federal support for electric car manufacturing following Holden announcement

1 March, 2016 - Australian Greens Senator for South Australia Robert Simms is calling on the Federal Government to back his bill currently before parliament to ...

Broome lock up changes small part of larger picture

1 March, 2016 - Thursday 25 February, 2016 Robin Chapple MLC, the Greens member for the Mining and Pastoral region, has acknowledged that the Broome police have...

Senate backs electric cars for SA

1 March, 2016 - The Senate has backed a motion from Australian Greens Senator Robert Simms calling on the government to refocus South Australia's car manufactur...

Six Communities United in Opposition to Government’s Nuclear Waste Dump Plans

1 March, 2016 - Representatives from each of the six communities shortlisted as potential sites for a nuclear waste dump were hosted by the Greens in Parliament...

Broome lock up changes small part of larger picture

1 March, 2016 - Thursday 25 February, 2016 Robin Chapple MLC, the Greens member for the Mining and Pastoral region, has acknowledged that the Broome police have...

20 Questions for Lynn MacLaren

1 March, 2016 - Emma Davidson Name: Lynn MacLaren Age: 53 Role with the Greens: Member of Legislative Council, WA. 1. What do you remember about your first elec...

Volunteer stories: Higgins

1 March, 2016 - Ling Toong It's Saturday afternoon in Melbourne, and the weather is typically indecisive, swinging between teasing sun and recidivist clouds. Wi...

Lent: 40 days of protest

1 March, 2016 - Sarah Nielsen-Harvey It was the second day of the Perth heatwave with a predicted 43 degrees. It was also the first day of Lent. But most import...

So which tax scare campaign is it?

29 February, 2016 - Today the Australian Senate called on the government to clarify which of their contradictory scare campaigns they plan on proceeding with. "...

Cross-party push for Territory rights on dying with dignity

29 February, 2016 - Australian Greens leader Dr Richard Di Natale has today reached across party lines to give notice of a co-sponsored bill that would overturn...