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The Australian Greens want a strong and diverse economy that sets us up for the long term and does not undermine our environment and the wellbeing of our communities.

The Greens want our future energy needs to be met using renewable energy. Continued reliance on polluting fossil fuels such coal and coal seam gas is destroying our environment, risking our food security, skewing the economy and affecting local communities.

Senior Treasury officials have refuted industry spin about job creation and the claims that the benefits of the mining boom are universal.

The Greens are taking action in the community and in the Parliament with bills to strengthen our national laws to protect our precious water resources, farmland, rural communities and environment from the impacts of rapacious mining.

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Attack on environmental laws unsustainable

12 Apr 2012
Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown today condemned the government-business agenda to wreck environmental laws.
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Mining tax needs review to ensure revenue for Australia's future

19 Mar 2012
Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown has called on the government to review the mining tax soon after it begins, to increase reve...
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How would you spend $100 billion for Australia?

16 Mar 2012
How would you spend $100 billion for Australia?
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For a more efficient mining tax package: Brown

14 Mar 2012
Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown says the government could be setting an example to the world with an efficient tax to ensure...
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Greens will not abandon small business in Labor’s mining tax rush

11 Mar 2012
Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown says the government has itself to blame if the Senate delays passage of the mining tax packa...
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Mining campaign provides balance

06 Mar 2012
We need a review of coal mines not the gung-ho 'every mine, port or coal seam gas operation must go ahead' attitude t...
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Australia should secure its future with a fair dinkum mining tax

05 Mar 2012
"Wayne Swan is right. Australia's fair go is under threat," Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown says.
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Bob Brown and Larissa Waters press conference about the Great Barrier Reef, mining magnates, the media inquiry and Cabinet - 2 March 2012

02 Mar 2012
Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown and Senator for Queensland Larissa Waters stand up for the environment, local tourism and fi...
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Labor, Coalition combine to block Greens’ move to reveal truths about Lynas

29 Feb 2012
Despite ongoing and passionate protests in Malaysia, Labor and the Coalition closed ranks and the government's files on Lynas' ...
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Greens throw support behind Gladstone community

24 Feb 2012
Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown joined Greens Senator for Queensland Larissa Waters in Gladstone today to see the environmen...
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