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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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Parties come clean on coal seam gas positions

28 Feb 2013
The old parties have made it clear they support coal seam gas, by voting against the Australian Greens’ motion in the Sen...
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Senator Waters: Coal Seam Gas motion (28 February 2013)

28 Feb 2013
Senator Waters moved a motion in the Senate, calling on the federal government to act to protect our land, water, communities a...
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Senator Larissa Waters' adjournment speech on Coal Seam Gas

27 Feb 2013
I rise to talk about coal seam gas and why it is, sadly, only the Greens who are standing with communities to protect our land,...
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Mining costs jobs and hurts families

26 Feb 2013
Mining employment in Queensland is marginal, volatile and costs jobs in agriculture and manufacturing say the Australian Greens.  
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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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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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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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Government must investigate Whitehaven misleading claims

07 Feb 2013
The Australian Greens have called on Minister Burke to reveal whether he will investigate claims of false and misleading infor...
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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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