Greens to introduce bill to monitor whaling
A bill to ensure that if future whaling occurs in Australia's whale sanctuaries - either off Australia or Antarctica - a policing vessel is on the scene has been sent to the Opposition.The Bill is...
View ArticleUTAS Vice Chancellor speaks out on CSIRO cuts
Greens Senator for Tasmania, and spokesperson for Antarctic issues, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, supports the comments by the University of Tasmania Vice Chancellor Peter Rathjen that Tasmania’s...
View ArticleBill to save petroleum titles over marine parks raced into legislation with...
“It is disappointing that the Government and the ALP have moved to validate offshore petroleum titles in marine parks that were deemed invalid”, said Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert.“Due to an...
View ArticleGovernments must consider Shark Spotters moving forward: Greens
The Australian Greens welcome news the co-founder and project manager for ‘Shark Spotters’, a successful non-lethal shark mitigation program from Cape Town, has been crowdfunded to visit Australia in...
View ArticleSenate Inquiry report calls on state and federal government(s) to act on...
Today the Senate Environment and Communications Committee has released a landmark report into the causes and impacts of marine plastic pollution in our waterways and oceans.Greens Senator Peter...
View ArticleCSIRO management to be grilled on final job cuts
Greens Senator for Tasmania and Chair of the Senate Select Committee into the Scrutiny of Government Budget Measures, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, will use tomorrow’s hearing into CSIRO cuts to get to...
View ArticleTurnbull Government protects Japanese whalers instead of whales
Greens spokesperson for Whaling, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, says that the Turnbull Government is doing more to protect the Japanese whalers from public scrutiny than it is doing to protect minke...
View ArticleCSIRO cuts Senate Report: Australia must value the work of our climate...
Chair of the Senate Select Committee into the Scrutiny of Government Budget Measures and Greens Senator for Tasmania, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, provides the following comments on the release of the...
View ArticleGreens welcome NSW Container Deposit Scheme decision and call on other states...
Greens spokesperson for Consumer Affairs, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson welcomes the news that NSW has followed in the footsteps of the South Australia and the Northern Territory by announcing plans for a...
View ArticleContainer Deposit Scheme is an inevitability for Tasmania
Senator Whish-Wilson said that the decision by the NSW Government to adopt a container deposit scheme was a big win for community campaigners around the country, and makes it inevitable that Tasmania...
View ArticleJohn Church’s treatment is emblematic of CSIRO fiasco
Greens Senator for Tasmania, and Chair of recent Senate Inquiry into CSIRO budget cuts, offers the following comments on redundancy notice issued to renowned sea-level rise scientist John Church while...
View ArticleReinstating marine parks and investing in shark research cornerstone of...
Addressing coral bleaching, investment in shark research, and reinstating our comprehensive marine parks system have been announced as part of the Australian Greens marine package today.Australian...
View ArticleGreens propose establishment of Marine Plastics CRC in Hobart
Greens Senator for Tasmania, Peter Whish-Wilson, have today announced that the Greens will be seeking to use their position in the new Parliament to push for the establishment of a Cooperative...
View ArticleGreens to invest in Antarctic Science. It's time to remove the world’s...
Greens spokesperson for Antarctica, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, has today released the most comprehensive Antarctic science funding package ever put forward by a political party.Senator Whish-Wilson...
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