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Latest news: ACT Greens

Canberra clubs weaning off pokies with grant funding

Local Denholm Samaras -
Six Canberra community clubs have received funding toward projects that will diversify their revenue and wean them off poker machines.

Committee votes down ACT Greens move to lower voting age

Local Nicholas Fuller -
A Legislative Assembly committee has handed down an unfavourable report on the ACT Greens’ proposal to give 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in local elections.

Environment becomes human right in Australian first

Local Nicholas Fuller -
The ACT will become the first Australian jurisdiction to recognise a healthy environment as a human right.

Liberals say Greens must repay election profit

Local Nicholas Fuller -
The Canberra Liberals have accused the ACT Greens of profiting from the 2020 election to fund their next campaign, a charge the Greens deny.

Labor and Greens concerned about religious discrimination bill

Local Nicholas Fuller -

The Federal Labor shadow cabinet and caucus are meeting today to discuss the Coalition Government’s controversial Religious Discrimination Bill. The ACT Government opposes the bill, while ACT Greens have called on Canberra’s Labor politicians to vote against it.

ACT Legislative Assembly gets heated over housing

Local Abbey Halter -
Mark Parton, has called on the ACT Government to urgently commit to review their public housing strategy to address the housing crisis.

Jo Clay MLA: Our right to a healthy environment

News Newstime Media -
In this op-ed piece, ACT Greens Member for Ginninderra, Jo Clay, argues the ACT Human Rights Act must recognise the right to a healthy environment.

Rattenbury outlines ACT Greens’ plans for 2022

Local Nicholas Fuller -
The ACT Greens are best known for their sustainability agenda, says party leader Shane Rattenbury, but they believe government has a central responsibility to look after those in the community who need support.

Greens promise to make Lake Burley Griffin swimmable again

Local Nicholas Fuller -
The Greens have made an election promise of $150 million to make Australia’s rivers and waterways – including the often blue-green algae-blighted Lake Burley Griffin – clean enough to swim in again within the next decade.

ACT Greens: Labor’s emissions announcement unacceptable to Canberrans

Local Newstime Media -
Labor's updated emission's targets are weaker than those they took to the 2019 Federal Election, and the ACT Greens have expressed dismay. 

Supporting kids, improving safety at heart of raising the age reform

News Newstime Media -
ACT Greens leader and ACT Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury responds to Bill Stefaniak's column on raising the age of criminal responsibility (CW 25 November 2021, p.14), arguing that supporting marginalised kids and improving community safety is at the heart of the ACT's reforms.

Greens propose animal-friendly netting in the ACT

Local Newstime Media -
The ACT Greens will today propose that all household netting be animal-friendly, so that creatures are no longer killed in people's yards.

Cain: ACT Government ‘sitting on hands’ on land supply and housing

News Newstime Media -
Canberra Liberals MLA for Ginninderra, Peter Cain, writes that the ACT Government should take action on rising house prices via land release.

ACT politicians urge federal leaders for action on climate change

Local Nicholas Fuller -
The ACT’s three party leaders will urge their Federal leaders to act more on climate change, following a motion by Greens MLA Jo Clay.

ACT first in Australia to sign UN anti-coal pledge

Local Nicholas Fuller -
The ACT Government became the first Australian jurisdiction to sign a United Nations statement to transition away from coal power.

To the editor: Keep cross-party dialogue constructive

News Newstime Media -
The ACT Parliamentary Greens take the opportunity of some significant cross-party constructive dialogue with the Liberals, and throw it back in the face of Canberra Liberals leader, Elizabeth Lee, this letter writer argues.
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