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Aust: Intelligent Design infiltrates science class
Friday, 24 February 2006, 4:44 pm | Australian Green Party
Greens NSW Education spokesperson John Kaye today released figures showing that 2,800 private school students in Newcastle and the Hunter valley are at risk of being taught Intelligent Design as science. He called on federal and state education ministers ... More >>
Ingrid Betancourt - four years captive in Colombia
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 3:10 pm | Australian Green Party
Today is the fourth anniversary of the kidnapping of former Greens presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt, and her campaign manager Clara Rojas by FARC guerillas. Both remain captive with over 5000 other people, some held for more than eight years. More >>
Racism haunts ten years of Howard Government
Monday, 20 February 2006, 3:47 pm | Australian Green Party
Australian Greens Senator Kerry Nettle today said the Prime Minister's comments in 'The Howard Factor' regarding Muslim immigration, bookend a decade of government sullied by xenophobia and racism. More >>
Howard's meaner, ungreener Australia
Monday, 20 February 2006, 3:38 pm | Australian Green Party
Prime Minister John Howard will go down in history for having made Australia a nastier and more environmentally backward nation, Greens leader Bob Brown said today. More >>
List of top ten environmental activists
Thursday, 16 February 2006, 4:21 pm | Australian Green Party
Green activism is not for the fainthearted, as anti-whaling campaigners found last week. The environmental expert Fred Pearce selects the planet's top ten eco-warriors More >>
Aust.: Campbell Fails Whales
Thursday, 16 February 2006, 4:18 pm | Australian Green Party
Sending diplomats to international conferences is no substitute for sending surveillance ships to whale killing fields, Greens Leader Bob Brown said today. More >>
RU486 Abortion pill result a win for women
Thursday, 16 February 2006, 4:15 pm | Australian Green Party
Greens Senator Kerry Nettle today welcomed the success of the private members bill which allows the Therapeutic Goods Administration to consider any application for approval of the drug RU486 instead of the Minister for Health. More >>
Greens Call for Release of All Long Term Detainees
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 3:19 pm | Australian Green Party
“Despite the governments’ promises last year, three asylum seekers remain in detention who have spent more than five years locked up,” Victorian Greens Spokesperson on Refugees, Peter Job said today. “This in not acceptable in a country that claims ... More >>
Cheney shooting shows dangers of hunters
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 2:49 pm | Australian Green Party
The accidental shooting of another hunter by US Vice President Dick Cheney is a good example of why recreational hunters, with their crossbows, rifles and dogs, should be kept out of State Forests, said Greens MP and animal welfare spokesperson Lee ... More >>
Aust.: $700,000 to transfer West Papuan refugees
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 1:43 pm | Australian Green Party
In Senate Estimates hearings today Senator Kerry Nettle was told by departmental officials that West Papuan asylum seekers were transferred from Weipa to Christmas Island by the Air force who footed the bill. This would have cost the ADF approximately ... More >>
Aust.: Greens refer climate change scandal to ICAC
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 1:38 pm | Australian Green Party
Following from tonight's ABC Four Corners "Greenhouse Mafia" program Greens MP Lee Rhiannon has called on the corruption watchdog ICAC to investigate possible undue influence industry lobby groups may have exerted over the development of energy, ... More >>
Aust.: corruption of climate change policy
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 1:35 pm | Australian Green Party
Claims that the fossil fuel industry had unprecedented access to confidential Commonwealth government processes and the silencing of senior climate change scientists require an independent investigation, the Australian Greens said today. More >>
Aust.: WEA Chair squirms in Senate Estimates
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 1:31 pm | Australian Green Party
Senator Rachel Siewert said today that she believed the WEA had failed in its responsibility for oversight of AWB. More >>
Aust.: Minister should resign for flawed detention
Friday, 10 February 2006, 1:28 pm | Australian Green Party
Australian Greens Senator Kerry Nettle slammed the Government for yet another scandal in the Immigration Department and urged the Government to immediately end the detention and deportation of permanent residents. More >>
Finding cause of devil tumour should be priority
Wednesday, 8 February 2006, 2:08 pm | Australian Green Party
Further Commonwealth funding for research into the devil facial tumour needs to focus on finding the cause of the problem, Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania Christine Milne said in Canberra today. More >>
Aust: Stun guns kill, shouldn't be for riot police
Wednesday, 8 February 2006, 2:04 pm | Australian Green Party
Premier Iemma should call off a planned trial of electric stun guns by NSW riot police because far from being 'non lethal' Amnesty reports 103 people have been killed by them in North America, says Greens MP and Justice spokesperson Lee Rhiannon. More >>
Indon. claims on West Papuan refugees not credible
Friday, 3 February 2006, 2:14 pm | Australian Green Party
The new Indonesian Ambassador's assurances about the safety of West Papuan refugees if they are returned to Indonesia are not credible, Greens Senator Kerry Nettle said today. More >>
Greens plan: political donations online in 2 weeks
Thursday, 2 February 2006, 3:54 pm | Australian Green Party
Greens MP Lee Rhiannon is calling on the major parties to agree to disclose all donations within a fortnight of receiving them so the public can keep up to date with how big donors are buying access and influence with the major parties. More >>
Aust. pharmaceutical industry, political donations
Thursday, 2 February 2006, 3:45 pm | Australian Green Party
Greens MP Lee Rhiannon says during 2004/5 the pharmaceutical industry and Pharmacy Guild of Australia directed unusually large donations to NSW and Federal governments at a time when the NSW government backed down on supermarkets getting a bite of the ... More >>
Aust.: growing discontent, Baxter detention centre
Tuesday, 31 January 2006, 2:30 pm | Australian Green Party
The Victorian Greens Spokesperson on Refugees, Peter Job, today expressed his concerns about growing discontent amongst asylum seekers about their treatment in Baxter detention centre due to the Intransigent policies of the Department of Immigration and its ... More >>
