Category: Australian Greens

Secret Relationship With Gang Leader Forces Left-Wing Greens Senator to Resign From Senior Position

Lidia Thorpe, deputy leader of the left-wing Australian Greens party has resigned from her position—but remains a senator—after revelations emerged of a relationship with the ex-leader of an outlaw motorcycle gang, which occurred at the same time she sat on a parliamentary committee investigating the criminal gangs. The joint-parliamentary committee on law enforcement she was…


‘Remember the Horrors of Communism’: Senator Implores Greens MP to Display National Flag in Office

Queensland Senator Paul Scarr has criticised left-wing Greens MP Elizabeth Watson-Brown’s decision not to display the Australian flag in her office and implored her to engage with local Vietnamese migrants who fled communism to make a new life in Australia. The Liberal Party senator’s address to Parliament brought attention to the Public Exhibition on Crimes…


Is Labor’s Marriage of Convenience With the Greens Over?

Commentary Following the 1987 Australian federal election, then Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke appointed senior party figure and powerbroker Senator Graham Richardson as minister for the environment. At that time, the Hawke Government sought to claim the “green agenda” against the perceived growing influence of the Greens in Australian politics. Richardson’s period as environment minister was…


Australian Greens Push for Free School Lunches

The Greens party in South Australia is calling for free school lunches for students saying it will ease child poverty and cost of living pressures. Greens education spokesperson Robert Simms said that with thousands of South Australian families living in poverty and the cost of living continuing to soar, the government should be doing everything…


Greens Party Calls for Government to Scupper Next Round of Tax Cuts

The left-wing Australian Greens is set a possible confrontation with the Labor government after its leader Adam Bandt signalled the party would attempt to scuttle a slated third tranche of tax cuts to families. In an address to the National Press Club on Aug. 3, Bandt claimed a further round of tax cuts would be…


Left-Wing Greens Could Influence Government to Enable ‘Destructive’ Policies: Shadow Environment Minister

Australia’s Shadow Environment Minister has warned that the left-wing Australian Greens party will push the centre-left Labor government to implement tough environmental laws, which could come at the expense of the economy. The comment comes as Labor’s Climate Change Bill is set to go before the lower house on Wednesday, with the Greens’ votes needed…


Australian Greens Play Hard Ball With Labor Government Over Net-Zero Deal

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is set for a tough fight with Greens leader Adam Bandt who is standing firm on legislating emissions reduction targets so that successive governments can never repeal them. The Labor government is set to introduce a new bill to enshrine climate change and net-zero policy into law but needs the left-wing Greens…


Left-Wing Australian Greens Play Hard Ball With Labor Government Over Net-Zero Deal

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is set for a tough fight with Greens leader Adam Bandt who is standing firm on legislating emissions reduction targets so that successive governments can never repeal them. The Labor government is set to introduce a new bill to enshrine climate change and net-zero policy into law but needs the left-wing Greens…


Left-Wing Australian Greens Leader Removes Australian Flag Out of TV Sight

Leader of the left-wing Greens Adam Bandt has been criticised for “virtue-signalling” after he pushed the Australian flag out of the TV camera shot in his press conference. On Monday afternoon, before Bandt and Deputy Greens leader Mehreen Faruqi arrived at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in the Sydney CBD, a member of the Greens pushed…


Women Are Turning Left

Commentary For the last few weeks in Australia, we’ve been treated to the unabashed celebration from our biased media about the ousting of the Coalition and wild assertions that this was all due to angry women turning on Scott Morrison. No mention, of course, of the fact that conservative parties everywhere are now struggling to…