The Australian Greens are calling on Labor to end the detention of children after six youths were taken to hospital following a fight between a group of teenagers at Pontville Detention Centre in Tasmania.

Australian Greens Leader Senator Christine Milne said this was the second incident in less than a month and was ample evidence that children needed to be put into families in the community.

"Keeping children in detention is shocking," Senator Christine Milne said.

Subjects: coal seam gas, asylum seekers

"The Prime Minister should cease her offensive rhetoric on the issue of 457 visas" Australia Greens Leader Senator Christine Milne said

"It's clear that ugly language is being used that is not going to help protect local jobs - instead it is just likely to whip up fear in the community.

"If the Prime Minister was serious about protecting local jobs and not just dog whistling, she would bring back proper labour market testing and get behind the Greens legislation to advertise jobs locally first.

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Subjects: Asylum seekers, children in detention, Manus, Pontville, ACT Liberals.

Christine Milne and Sarah Hanson-Young responded to the Government's Murray Darling Basin Plan, and responded to questions on asylum seeker policy, the Tasmanian forest talks, and Michael Danby

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Subjects:  Murray Darling Basin Plan, asylum seekers and temporary protection visas, Tasmanian forest talks, Michael Danby.

Christine Milne and Sarah Hanson-Young addressed the pressto comment on the Government's punitive asylum seeker policy and the Murray Darling Basin Plan.

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Subjects: Asylum seekers, Gaza, Murray Darling

The Human Rights Commissioner’s comments regarding offshore processing on Nauru have shown just how unacceptable the situation there is, the Australian Greens said.

 “The top expert on human rights in Australia has recognised that the human rights breaches that are happening on Nauru are totally unacceptable,” Greens’ spokesperson for immigration, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said.

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Subjects: mining, increasing the humanitarian intake, health of asylum seekers in detention, environmental protections, Tony Abbott

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Subjects: Olympic Dam, MRRT, renewable energy, humanitarian intake

FRAN KELLY: Resources Minister Martin Ferguson has said again this morning the mining boom is over. Do you agree?