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Australia welcomes West Papuans Asylum Seekers
Monday, 3 April 2006, 9:39 pm | Australian Green Party
Nettle welcomes West Papuans and calls for remaining asylum seeker to be brought to mainland More >>
Howard and Wen duck nuclear weapons question
Monday, 3 April 2006, 9:33 pm | Australian Green Party
Prime Minister John Howard's deal with Chinese Premier Wen to sell Australian uranium to China will see Australian uranium either directly or indirectly support China's nuclear weapons programme, the Australian Greens said today. More >>
Aust. Iemma: Raise rights with Chinese Premier
Monday, 3 April 2006, 9:28 pm | Australian Green Party
NSW Premier Iemma should have the courage to raise the ongoing human rights abuses committed by the Chinese security forces when he meets Chinese Premier Wen Jiabo at Sydney Airport tomorrow, according to Greens MLC Lee Rhiannon. More >>
Global responsibility for uranium ends with waste
Saturday, 1 April 2006, 4:03 pm | Australian Green Party
Australian must accept responsibility for the nuclear waste and weapons that flow from its uranium, Australian Greens energy spokesperson Senator Christine Milne said today. More >>
Wen's visit Aust.: Dollars before human rights
Saturday, 1 April 2006, 4:01 pm | Australian Green Party
The warm welcome being extended by the Howard government to Premier Wen representing the Chinese communist military dictatorship in Beijing demonstrates that the Howard government continues to put dollars before human rights and global security, the ... More >>
Australia: Mr X must be released
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 7:57 pm | Australian Green Party
Australian Greens Senator Kerry Nettle today called on Minister Vanstone to immediately grant Australia's longest immigration detainee a permanent protection visa as recommended by the Ombudsman last night. More >>
Aust. reassurances China uranium deal threadbare
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 7:55 pm | Australian Green Party
The Australian government's so-called secure safeguards covering its forthcoming treaty to sell uranium to China are fatally flawed, Australian Greens energy spokesperson Senator Christine Milne said today. More >>
Please help David Hicks: Brown to Blair
Monday, 27 March 2006, 8:00 pm | Australian Green Party
British Prime Minister Tony Blair nodded acknowledgement when asked to help David Hicks get out of Guantanamo Bay today by Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown. More >>
Aust: Confront Jakarta, pursue Papuan rights at UN
Saturday, 25 March 2006, 5:31 pm | Australian Green Party
"Australia should respond to Indonesia's demands that we break international law protecting West Papuan refugees by taking the issue of West Papuan independence to the United Nations," Greens Leader Senator Bob Brown said this morning. More >>
Australia: GM crop moratorium must stay
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 9:38 pm | Australian Green Party
Greens MLA Deb Foskey has flagged strong public resistance to the ACT Chief Minister's suggested abandonment of the ACT GM crop moratorium. More >>
System that wrongfully detains Australian citizens
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 9:35 pm | Australian Green Party
Greens Senator Kerry Nettle today described the Commonwealth and Immigration Ombudsman's report into the wrongful detention of and Australian citizen as 'depressingly familiar', and called on all parties to end the system of mandatory detention. More >>
West Papuans deserve permanent protection
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 9:34 pm | Australian Green Party
Greens Senator Kerry Nettle has welcomed the decision to grant protection visas to 42 of the West Papuan refugees who have been on Christmas Island, but questioned the temporary status of the visas. More >>
Australia: Cowardly Brethren will be investigated
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 9:27 pm | Australian Green Party
The cowardly Exclusive Brethren men who ran anti-Green ads during the election campaign represent a shadowy and bigoted sect which harms families. More >>
Indonesian Minister calls for a ban on Aust. MP
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 9:21 pm | Australian Green Party
Greens Senator Kerry Nettle today called on the Indonesian Defence Minister to retract the accusation made by his office that she is 'indirectly linked' to violent protests in the province of West Papua. More >>
Howard must call for killings in West Papua to end
Monday, 20 March 2006, 9:35 pm | Australian Green Party
Greens Senator Kerry Nettle today called on the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister to ensure that Indonesia stops the killings in West Papua. More >>
Howard should raise West Papuans' plight with Rice
Saturday, 18 March 2006, 5:16 pm | Australian Green Party
Greens Senator Kerry Nettle today called on the Australian government to raise the plight of the West Papuan people with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with a view to preventing the situation erupting into the kind of bloodshed seen in East ... More >>
Greens say Iraq war, 3 years on, is a nightmare
Saturday, 18 March 2006, 5:06 pm | Australian Green Party
Monday will be the 3rd anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and Greens Leader Bob Brown says Prime Minister Howard made a huge blunder by involving Australia. More >>
Greens support 'Black GST' campaign
Saturday, 18 March 2006, 5:03 pm | Australian Green Party
This morning in Melbourne a statement of support from Senator Rachel Siewert was presented to organisers of Camp Sovereignty. The camp has been established by the Black GST campaign to mark the 'Stolenwealth Games' and put the demands of Indigenous ... More >>
Aust.: refugee stranded in psychiatric hospital
Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 9:16 pm | Australian Green Party
Greens Senator Kerry Nettle today visited longterm immigration detainees in the Glenside psychiatric hospital in Adelaide to see for herself the condition of those the government have kept locked up indefinitely. More >>
Australian uranium must facilitate China's nuclear
Monday, 13 March 2006, 7:31 pm | Australian Green Party
"A vote for Mike Rann is a vote for open slather exports" – Brown Greens Leader Bob Brown says China is now moulding Australia's uranium export policy. More >>