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The Labor Party last night lined up with the Greens to gut new funding to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). Labor Senators teamed up with the Australian Greens to cut $192.5 million of new funding for ARENA and disallow a regulation that expands the clean technology agency’s mandate to …

Labor, the Greens and Senate crossbench have teamed up to stop Australia's renewable energy agency from being able to invest in fossil fuels.

Labor and the Greens have teamed up in the Senate to vote down investment in cleaner fossil fuel technologies.  The proposed expansion to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) would have allowed it to fund the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and “blue” hydrogen,

The Greens successfully amended the NSW Coalition’s Local Government Elections Bill last night to put in place a long-needed ban on property developers being local councillors or council candidates. The Bill puts in place a number of integrity measures for the 4 September council elections and,

Jenny Leong MP, Member for Newtown and NSW Greens spokesperson on Housing and Homelessness has slammed the NSW Liberal/National Government’s 2021 budget which demonstrates they have no plan to end the housing and homelessness crisis for people across NSW even though they have the money and the solutions to do …

After a change of date due to flooding, Launceston's Winter Solstice Swim has now been moved to a new location. The fundraising event will now be held at Greens Beach, this Sunday June 27. Loaves and Fishes community partnerships manager Paul O'Rourke said continued flooding at the Gorge had left …

A renewed attempt to strengthen consent laws has been broadly welcomed, but ACT Greens leader Shane Rattenbury has expressed frustration that proposed consent reforms did not get support last term. An exposure draft bill,

The bill is unlikely to gain wider support, but the Greens say it shows the government doesn't really believe in "technology not taxes".

A leading advocacy body has joined the Tasmanian Greens in demanding further action from the state government in wake of the uncovering of Tassal's treatment of seals. Earlier this week, Environment Tasmania had a Right to Information request released about Tassal's treatment of seals,

Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack launched a tirade against the Greens in Parliament yesterday, after being called out on the LNP’s doomed climate policy. In Question Time on Thursday, Greens leader Adam Bandt challenged the Liberal National Party on their ability to protect agricultural workers if conditions in rural areas …