Media Releases

Brown calls for Parliament House walk

Media Release | Spokesperson Bob Brown
Monday 8th February 2010, 1:58pm
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Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown has called for a direct, uninterrupted walkway and bikeway from Canberra's Civic city centre to Parliament House.

Rudd should intervene in Whale War

Media Release | Spokesperson Bob Brown
Sunday 7th February 2010, 4:31pm
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The Rudd Government's decision to turn its back on the "whale war" in Australian Antarctic waters is irresponsible, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.


"The collision of a Japanese whaling ship and the Sea Shepherd vessel Bob Barker shows as much courage by Sea Shepherd as it does diplomatic cowardice by Canberra," said Senator Brown.

Australia should congratulate Obama on Dalai Lama meeting

Media Release | Spokesperson Bob Brown
Wednesday 3rd February 2010, 4:56pm
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Australian Greens leader Senator Bob Brown will move a motion at 3.30pm today that the Senate welcome news that US President Barrack Obama will meet His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Abbott absurdity: "20 million trees" while Libs destroy nation's biggest forests

Media Release | Spokesperson Bob Brown
Tuesday 2nd February 2010, 6:03pm
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The Opposition's plan to plant 20 million trees while its own Regional Forest Agreements foster the destruction of Australia's biggest forests is incongruous, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today.

Greens bring on Afghanistan troop withdrawal debate

Media Release | Spokesperson Bob Brown
Tuesday 2nd February 2010, 5:52pm
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As foreshadowed last year, Australian Greens Leader Senator Bob Brown will today move for the first Senate debate of the year to call on the Government to begin safely and securely withdrawing Australian combat troops from Afghanistan.


Last year the Government and Coalition voted down a Greens' motion to debate the ongoing deployment of troops to Afghanistan.


Following the London conference on Afghanistan, Senator Bob Brown said it was urgent the Parliament debate Australia's ongoing combat role in the region.

Gunns' humiliating defeat

Media Release | Spokesperson Bob Brown
Friday 29th January 2010, 5:27pm
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Australian Greens Leader Senator Bob Brown says Gunns' pay-off to the last 4 defenders in the notorious Gunns-20 case is a total back down and utter defeat for the litigants.


"Gunns has lost more than $1 million, and a much greater amount in damage to its reputation, by suing twenty environmentalists defending Tasmania's wild forests," said Senator Brown.


"This is ‘WE WERE WRONG' writ large by Gunns.


"Governments should legislate to prevent powerful, rich corporations like Gunns taking huge punitive actions like this to silence opponents," Senator Brown said.


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

Greens welcome Garnaut backing

Media Release | Spokesperson Bob Brown
Monday 25th January 2010, 5:31pm
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Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown has welcomed Professor Ross Garnaut's support for the Greens proposal for an interim carbon tax until the nation finalises its carbon emissions reduction strategy.


Professor Garnaut called the proposal ‘another politically practical way forward'.


Senator Brown and Greens climate spokesperson Senator Christine Milne wrote to Prime Minister Rudd last week flagging the $23 per tonne carbon tax, to begin this July and apply only to the 1000 worst polluters in Australia.

Brown calls for vote on new flag

Media Release | Spokesperson Bob Brown
Monday 25th January 2010, 11:44am
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Australian Greens Leader Senator Bob Brown has backed in calls for a modernisation of the Australian flag today.


"I congratulate Ray Martin for raising this issue on Australia Day eve, and agree wholeheartedly that it is high time we replaced the union jack with a dinkum Australian symbol on our flag," said Senator Brown.


"I call on Kevin Rudd to give Australians the opportunity at the next federal election to vote for a new symbol for our flag that properly reflects the country we are today.

Greens propose Garnaut's interim solution to break CPRS deadlock

Media Release | Spokesperson Bob Brown, Christine Milne
Thursday 21st January 2010, 11:44am
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The Australian Greens have today written to the Prime Minister, Opposition Leader and all relevant Senators proposing a deadlock-breaking interim solution to get Australia moving ahead with real action on the climate crisis.

The Greens propose that Professor Garnaut's suggestion of a two year carbon price fixed at $20 a tonne be implemented. This interim measure in the transition to a functional and effective emissions trading scheme would provide a $5 billion dividend for households and further revenue to invest in renewable energy, energy efficiency and other emissions reducing options.

"We Greens are putting forward another positive proposal to break the political deadlock and get Australia moving ahead to a clean future," Australian Greens Leader Senator Bob Brown said.

"The interim scheme is a building block for future action that's got real teeth. It will give certainty to increasingly impatient investors and will direct billions of dollars to Australia's householders instead of paying polluters to keep polluting.

Greens say don't delay, bring on Republic plebiscite at next election

Media Release | Spokesperson Bob Brown
Wednesday 20th January 2010, 3:46pm
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Australia is ready for a Republic and the Rudd Government should stop delaying and hold a plebiscite at the next election said Australian Greens leader Bob Brown in Canberra today.

Last year Senator Brown introduced the Plebiscite for an Australian Republic Bill 2008 for a plebiscite to be held at the 2010 election.