Environment, Biodiversity & Natural Heritage
The Greens were founded on the vision of a robust and healthy environment, and that vision continues today. We are working hard to promote environmental values in Parliament and protect our unique wildlife and wild places.
The 2011 State of the Environment report (SoE) shows Australia’s biodiversity on land and sea in alarming decline.
The Greens successfully negotiated the $946 million Biodiversity Fund as part of the Clean Energy Future Package, funding communities to restore bushland and native habitats and reduce the impacts of weeds and feral animals.
The Greens are pursuing reforms to our national environmental laws to urgently protect threatened species and to make sure our iconic areas, like the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, are protected for future generations.
We need environment laws that work to stop the biodiversity crisis, save our threatened species, and protect our precious places. Sign up to find out more about our work to fix our environment laws.
media-releases
06 Sep 2011
The federal government should not featherbed the big mining corporations by rebating state royalties, and Barry O'Farrell shoul...
media-releases
05 Sep 2011
The reporting of yet another loss for Ta Ann despite massive public subsidies is raising the spectre of the company as the new ...
news-stories
01 Sep 2011
1 September marks one year since the Australian Greens signed an historic agreement with Prime Minister Julia Gillard's Labor G...
media-releases
21 Aug 2011
"Some might call the predicted thousands of trucks descending on Canberra ending up as hundreds (ABC, 21/8/11) a ‘flop', but ...
media-releases
30 Jun 2011
Greens Leader Bob Brown today urged politicians of all stripes to engage in a mature debate about ownership of Australians' ass...
media-releases
23 Jun 2011
Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown says that the anticipated millions of dollars of taxpayers' money for logging companies shou...
media-releases
15 Jun 2011
In Senate question time today, the federal Minister for Forests Joe Ludwig told Greens Leader Bob Brown that no federal money h...
media-releases
11 Jun 2011
Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown today welcomed news that a consortium of buyers had put a bid in for the Triabunna woodchip ...
media-releases
10 Jun 2011
Deep seabed mining threatens our oceans and the marine environment of our neighbours, particularly Papua New Guinea where seabe...