COMMUNITY NEWS
Supporting Public Housing Communities
On Saturday July 4 the Victorian Labor government announced that nine public housing towers in North Melbourne and Flemington would be placed under a “hard lockdown” preventing residents from leaving their home for at least five days. The Greens have supported and will continue to support governments taking a ‘health-first’...
Adam Bandt elected as Greens leader, kicks off fight for a Green New Deal
Adam Bandt MP, Member for Melbourne, has been elected as the Australian Greens Parliamentary Leader. Adam used his first media conference as leader to call for a government-led Green New Deal to tackle the climate emergency and the jobs and inequality crises. Adam also made a strong pitch to young...
Bandt push for free childcare as next step in Green New Deal plan
Australian Greens Leader Adam Bandt has outlined his vision for universal childcare as part of the Green New Deal recently unveiled after the change in leadership. Mr Bandt said his goal is for universally accessible and free childcare and detailed a policy that would be the first big steps to...
Scott Morrison caught cheating on climate: Bandt
Greens spokesperson for the climate crisis, Adam Bandt MP, has labelled Scott Morrison and his government a pack of climate cheats and said he has been caught out. The government’s climate cheating strategy is in tatters because: Currently, the Paris Agreement rules do not allow for dodgy carryover credits and current...
As Australia burns, the Liberals cheat and Labor spits in the face of victims: Greens
The Australian Greens have slammed Liberal and Labor for their climate failures and embrace of coal, both on the international stage and the while tackling the bushfires crisis currently crippling the east coast of Australia.
Greens move to depoliticise research funding
The Greens will move in the House and the Senate to reverse the Liberal government’s recent politicisation of Australian Research Council grants by requiring the Minister to publicly release all successful grant applications in a timely manner and without other government MPs or candidates involved. The government recently changed the ARC...
As climate bushfires continue government must reject CCS pipedream: Bandt
Greens climate and energy spokesperson Adam Bandt MP has slammed the government’s latest push for carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, dismissing it as a useless pipedream. “As the climate bushfires continue to devastate the country, the government’s only climate proposal is a pipedream,” said Mr Bandt.
NSW and Queensland burn as Morrison fails to get climate crisis under control
Greens spokesperson for the climate crisis, Adam Bandt MP, has responded to the bushfires burning across NSW and QLD, saying Scott Morrison bears some responsibility and must apologise to the communities impacted. “We're deeply saddened by the loss of life and our hearts go out to all the families and...
Joel Fitzgibbon is bullying his way towards climate disaster
Greens Acting Leader, Adam Bandt MP, has responded to Labor Shadow Minister for Resources Joel Fitzgibbon’s attack on Victorian fracking bans, warning that unleashing toxic methane gas will blow any chance of meeting the Paris Agreement goals. “Joel Fitzgibbon, the man Anthony Albanese has made responsible for Labor’s coal and gas...
Morrison should show some climate leadership and offer to host crucial climate summit
Acting Greens leader Adam Bandt MP and Greens spokesperson for Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, have called on Scott Morrison to show some climate leadership and offer to host the upcoming crucial COP25 Climate Summit. COP25 was due to be held in a fortnight in Santiago, however Chile has withdrawn from hosting...