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Australian Senate rejects National Sorry Day
Thursday, 11 May 2006, 9:03 pm | Australian Green Party
"I am extremely disappointed that the Government has refused to acknowledge the importance of National Sorry Day to Aboriginal Australians, and refused to support even the smallest symbolic gesture to recognise the grief caused by the removal of ... More >>
Prevention the key to police murders in Australia
Thursday, 11 May 2006, 8:58 pm | Australian Green Party
Greens MP and justice spokesperson Lee Rhiannon says if Labor and the Opposition were serious about tackling police murders they would ban semi-automatic handguns, not increase sentences after the fact. More >>
Howard must rule out uranium exports to India
Thursday, 11 May 2006, 8:54 pm | Australian Green Party
Prime Minister John Howard must immediately rule out permitting uranium exports to India, Australian Greens energy spokesperson Senator Christine Milne said today. More >>
Aust.: More aid money wasted on AWB & politicians
Thursday, 4 May 2006, 8:34 pm | Australian Green Party
The leeching of the Australian aid budget to support the interests of Australian business continues with a new contract valued at $104,500 recently allocated by AusAID for legal assistance at the Cole Inquiry. More >>
Aust: Asylum seekers must be properly protected
Wednesday, 3 May 2006, 7:45 pm | Australian Green Party
Australian Greens Senator Kerry Nettle said today that revelations that Chinese officials were allowed to interview asylum seekers, some of whom have since been found to be genuine refugees contravenes the Refugee Convention and is of great concern. More >>
Aust: Growing number of endangered species shame
Wednesday, 3 May 2006, 7:05 pm | Australian Green Party
Australians should be alarmed to discover that together with Brazil, China, Indonesia and Mexico, we have been assessed by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) as having a high number of threatened species, including our own unique endemic plants and ... More >>
MP blames Australians, Papuan women's persecution
Wednesday, 3 May 2006, 7:00 pm | Australian Green Party
Greens Senator Kerry Nettle responded to Senator Vanstone's comments today on West Papua and imprisoning women and children. More >>
Red List highlights threat to our oceans
Wednesday, 3 May 2006, 6:54 pm | Australian Green Party
"The release of the Red List of threatened and critically endangered species by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) clearly highlights the growing threat to our oceans," said Australian Greens fisheries spokesperson Senator Rachel Siewert ... More >>
Howard misjudges Australians: 77% support W. Papua
Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 9:28 pm | Australian Green Party
Prime Minster Howard has badly misjudged his fellow Australians over the right of West Papuans to self determination. A Newspoll shows that for every Australian who backs Mr Howard's recognition of West Papua as part of Indonesia, 15 want West Papuans ... More >>
Australian should ensure Papuan mother's safety
Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 9:25 pm | Australian Green Party
Australian Greens Senator Kerry Nettle today called on the federal government to ensure that Australian officials in Papuan New Guinea work with local authorities and the UNHCR to ensure the safety of Siti Pandera Wanggai, mother of 4 year old ... More >>
Australia should act, British court backing Hicks
Friday, 14 April 2006, 11:35 am | Australian Green Party
As predicted by Greens leader Bob Brown on Sunday, West Papuans landing on Australian shores will be excluded from applying for refugee or asylum seeker status. More >>
Australia should act, British court backing Hicks
Friday, 14 April 2006, 11:33 am | Australian Green Party
Greens Leader Bob Brown says the Australian government should accept the inevitability of David Hicks becoming a British citizen and call on the United States to free Hicks from solitary confinement in preparation for his exit from Guantanamo Bay. More >>
Australia shuts the door on West Papuans
Friday, 14 April 2006, 11:23 am | Australian Green Party
Australian Greens Senator Kerry Nettle said today's effective excision of mainland Australia from the Migration Zone means the government is turning its back on West Papua - an outcome that will appal the Australian public. More >>
Australia & Indonesia place 2 million under arrest
Monday, 10 April 2006, 7:52 pm | Australian Green Party
Prime Minister Howard’s use of the ‘Pacific Solution” will effectively place 2 million West Papuans under house arrest, Greens Leader Bob Brown said in Launceston today. More >>
Aust. & Papuan refugees: PM can't consult Jakarta
Friday, 7 April 2006, 4:52 pm | Australian Green Party
Prime Minister John Howard would breach international law if he were to consult Jakarta about individual refugees from West Papua, Greens Leader Bob Brown said today. More >>
Aust.: Police flooding the streets with cocaine
Friday, 7 April 2006, 1:19 pm | Australian Green Party
Greens MP and justice spokesperson Lee Rhiannon today gave notice of a motion for a parliamentary inquiry into why the NSW Crime Commission authorised the street sale of seven kilos of cocaine and whether this operation was appropriate and legal. More >>
Australia: Debate needed on Kurdish group ban
Thursday, 6 April 2006, 1:51 pm | Australian Green Party
The Greens will move in the Senate to disallow a government ban on the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) Senator Brown announced today. The government listed the PKK as a terrorist organisation in December last year following the visit of the Turkish Prime Minister. More >>
Aust.'s longest serving detainee X still in Limbo
Thursday, 6 April 2006, 11:07 am | Australian Green Party
Australia's longest serving detainee referred to in the Ombudsman's report as Mr X has been allowed to move into community detention but is still awaiting news of any permanent resolution to his plight. More >>
Aust. must ask: why more Papuan asylum seekers?
Wednesday, 5 April 2006, 7:56 pm | Australian Green Party
Australian Greens Senator Kerry Nettle today called on the government to bring the West Papua asylum seekers to the mainland for processing and not send them to Christmas Island. She also urged the Government to look at why more people have fled West Papua. More >>
Taiwan/Australia uranium deal fuels insecurity
Wednesday, 5 April 2006, 7:46 pm | Australian Green Party
The sale of Australian uranium to Taiwan is fuelling insecurity in the region, the Australian Greens said today. More >>
