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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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Greens welcome Federal Court challenge to Minister Burke’s mining approval for the Tarkine

03 Apr 2013
Australian Greens Leader, Senator Christine Milne has welcomed today's move by the Tarkine National Coalition to lodge a case i...
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Labor cannot be trusted to care for the environment

28 Mar 2013
Today we see that 150 jobs in the Department of Sustainability and the Environment will be slashed, despite the mounting pressu...
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Christine Milne on James Price Point

26 Feb 2013
Christine Milne asked Minister Conroy a question in the Senate about James Price Point
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Another big sell-out by the Minister Against the Environment

11 Feb 2013
The Minister against Environment has done it again - he's given the green light for more environmental destruction, this time a...
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Burke allows mining in areas even John Howard protected

08 Feb 2013
Minister Burke's decision to abandon the Tarkine to the mining industry is not only a disgrace, but it's a crime against the environment.
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Burke must intervene as Barnett rubber stamps destruction of Aboriginal heritage at James Price Point

15 Jan 2013
Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke must intervene immediately to protect Aboriginal heritage at James Price Point and beyo...
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Tarkine trashed in cynical pre-Christmas dump

18 Dec 2012
In take-out-the-trash week, Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has today announced the first step in the trashing of the world ...
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Press conference: Christine Milne and Larissa Waters: environmental laws, NDIS

06 Dec 2012
Christine Milne and Larissa Waters addressed the press on our environmental protection laws, and other issues of the day. 
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Press conference: environmental protection laws

06 Dec 2012
Senators Christine Milne, Larissa Waters and Rachel Siewert joined a community rally outside Parliament House in Canberra to ce...
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The beautiful Tarkine

03 Dec 2012
A short glimpse of the unique wilderness, the Tarkine
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