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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.

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Campbell Newman to reopen native logging in Queensland

26 Feb 2013
The Australian Greens have condemned Premier Campbell Newman’s decision to reopen native forest logging in Queensland, th...
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Premier Newman plans to destroy wild rivers with irrigation and mines

25 Feb 2013
The Newman Government's plan to trash wild rivers protection for mining, coal seam gas and irrigation will devastate the Channe...
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AWU Coal Seam Gas push is anti-jobs

19 Feb 2013
The Australian Workers Union push to expand coal seam gas mining for domestic use, made public today, is short sighted, misguid...
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Key environment groups back Greens call

15 Feb 2013
Key environment groups have today strongly backed the Greens’ bill to stop the feds handing their national environment pr...
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Old parties condemn Reef with shale oil

13 Feb 2013
Premier Newman’s environmental vandalism knows no bounds, with the Great Barrier Reef set to suffer from open slather on...
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Minister shoots first on Whitehaven, might ask questions later

12 Feb 2013
The Australian Greens have revealed through Senate Estimates that the Labor Government has not begun investigating Whitehaven ...
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Senate Estimates: Whitehaven Coal and Gladstone

12 Feb 2013
Larissa Waters asks about the process around the approval of the Whitehaven Coal mine, and the establishment of the independent...
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Burke tries to have it both ways on the environment

08 Feb 2013
“It is disingenuous for Minister Burke to attack the NSW government on its coal seam gas credentials when his government...
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CSG and Environment Protection: Larissa Waters Take Note Speech

07 Feb 2013
My speech on coal seam gas and the government's proposed hand-off of environment powers. We can't trust NSW on coal seam gas,...
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Greens call on Minister to reject Whitehaven coal mine

06 Feb 2013
The Australian Greens are calling on Environment Minister Burke not to approve the controversial Whitehaven open-cut coal mine...
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