The environmental issues we face are ideal recruiting for green parties, but the breakthroughs aren’t happening, and after 25 years as a federal party the Greens are still fighting on the same fronts.
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Greens senator Larissa Waters was forced to resign on Tuesday after she discovered she was still a citizen of Canada.
What are the odds of three Senate candidates without a snowflake’s chance in hell of winning the seats they were pursuing at the 2016 election suddenly finding themselves gifted places courtesy of the…
Bob Brown, a long-time critic, repeated his previous description of Lee Rhiannon as ‘the Greens’ version of Tony Abbott’.
Politics podcast: Matt Canavan on Adani
Matt Canavan tells The Conversation this mine is only one part of a plan for 'opening up the Galilee Basin' to provide investment opportunities, exports, and employment.
A federal ICAC will not solve the sorts of problems Australian politicians have recently embroiled themselves in.
Critics of Australia’s fuel tax credits system have pointed to its impact on the budget bottom line, but calculating that cost is far from straightforward.
Since retiring from politics in 2012, former Greens leader Bob Brown has continued to offer sharp perspectives on issues of national debate.
The government’s plebiscite on same-sex marriage is unlikely to get off the ground, with the Greens announcing they will vote against its establishment.
Sarah Hanson-Young – a loud voice on asylum-seeker issues – has lost a battle with her leader, Richard Di Natale, to keep her immigration portfolio in the Greens reshuffle.
Was Greens leader Richard Di Natale right to say the government spends $3 billion each year on the “offshore detention centre regime”?
With this election likely to produce a high number of non-major-party primary votes, the Greens have emerged as a strong third option and a headache for both Labor and the Coalition.
The Greens have successfully cast themselves as the party of climate science. But to hit their climate goals they may need to become even more radical, by embracing technologies like nuclear power.
The Coalition has ramped up the race to fund the Great Barrier Reef’s protection. All three major parties have promised hundreds of millions of dollars, but where from, and what will they be spent on?
Labor is heaving a sigh of relief after Malcolm Turnbull’s announcement that the Liberals will put the Greens below Labor everywhere. In particular, the embattled Labor MP for Batman, David Feeney, under…
Greens leader Richard Di Natale told Q&A that if there was a vote among people who are under 30 in Australia, there’d possibly be a Greens prime minister. What do the polls say?
With four weeks to go there is still much uncertainty in this election campaign. But, so far, the Greens would be pleased with their performance.
The Greens, who already hold the seat of Melbourne, are making a big play for two nearby Labor-held seats – Batman and Wills.
PolicyCheck unpacks the details and history of the Greens’ proposed $10 million Harm Reduction Innovation Fund drug policy.
Was Greens MP Adam Bandt right to say that the Liberals made $105 million worth of cuts to the Australia Council?
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Australian Politics, Monash University
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Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Public and Environmental Policy, University of Tasmania
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Professor, School of Politics Economics & Society, Faculty of Business Government & Law, University of Canberra
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Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer, Australian National University
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Associate Professor, School of Environmental & Rural Science, University of New England
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