Coal and gas corporations will love Labor’s utter failure of a climate target.

UPDATE: also unclear if the Treasurer was briefed by the scientists on the climate risk report. Maybe it's easier to keep signing off on coal and gas projects when you bury your head in the sand. If we see a weak climate target announced by Labor this week - this is why.

#breaking The PM was not briefed directly on the climate risk report despite being about to set Australia’s 2035 targets. He didn’t ask for a briefing from the scientists.

The revelations about Australia’s future under climate change detailed in the National Climate Risk Assessment are chilling. www.acs.gov.au/pages/nation...

The Prime Minister is at the Pacific Islands Forum, where Pacific nations are on the frontline of the climate crisis. They have called many times for Australia to stop opening new coal & gas. But this Gov listens to its fossil fuel donors over our Pacific neighbours.

Low climate targets benefit coal & gas company profits, while the rest of us pay for their damage. With mega-polluter Woodside on the BCA board, it isn't hard to connect the dots. We need a plan to phase out coal & gas + net zero by 2035 like the science demands.

The Environment Minister has approved a coal mine extension overnight – the first of the new Parliament. This is a decision that will lock Australia into providing coal for decades, and put threatened wildlife at risk. This is not climate action. This is a climate crime.

The frankly abhorrent display of white supremacy and racism yesterday has no place in 2025. In Victoria, Neo-Nazi’s stormed Camp Sovereignty, a peaceful First Nations meeting place, where people were ambushed and assaulted.

#breaking Greens just set up an inquiry into Labor's secret climate risk report. People have leaked that this report is "dire”, “diabolical” & “extremely confronting”. We deserve to know the truth about what climate change will do to Australia.

The weekend saw hundreds of thousands of people across Australia demanding action from Labor to end the genocide. Impose sanctions like we did on Russia. End the two-way arms trade. Ensure aid has safe passage into Gaza. Do it now, Labor.

This Sunday thousands of people will take part in a nationwide march for Palestine, including in Meanjin/Brisbane, where I will proudly join them. While the march across the Story Bridge has been denied by the courts, the event will still begin at 1pm in Raymond Park as planned.

A new Resolve poll shows 76% of working Australians support a 4-day work week while maintaining pay levels. It’s been over 40 years since Australia’s last reduction in working hours — our society has changed, it’s time working hours reflected that.

Labor is trying to bury the National Climate Risk Assessment to avoid legitimate scrutiny before they announce 2035 climate targets. The Greens successfully demanded the release of the report in parliament weeks ago, but the clock is ticking to the 25 August deadline.

Recognition of Palestine should have happened decades ago and is a fundamental right that the Australian Government has denied for too long. Now we need action: Australia must sanction Israel & end the two-way arms trade. Recognition won’t feed starving kids or stop the bombs.

A new Jobs & Skills Australia Report has confirmed that men out-earn women in 98% of the 688 occupations they analysed. Surprise! The gender pay gap is real and not just because we’re working less paid hours or don’t want to get our hands dirty.

Good to see Treasury agrees! Last month the Greens called for the Treasurer’s upcoming Roundtable to shift our economy to better help mothers re-enter the workforce. Our current tax system means a second parent, usually a mum, works additional days for virtually no take home pay.

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered the largest decline in coral cover since monitoring began, in a mass bleaching event caused by climate change-induced heat stress. Sea temps keep getting warmer because of successive governments’ failure to cut emissions.

The March for Humanity across Australia should be a wake-up call for politicians who refuse to take action to end the genocide. Thousands of people from all walks of life demanding in historic numbers that the government sanction Israel. Labor cannot - must not - ignore them.

The Greens are so pleased the Senate just unanimously passed the bill for a national code to prevent & respond to gender-based violence on uni campuses. This much needed reform will help prevent and tackle sexual violence on campus, and would not have happened without tenacious survivor advocates.

Adani was given free reign by both major parties to open up dangerous thermal coal mining in the Galilee basin. They got grants, they got royalty holidays, they got favours and public money, and in return, Australians get nothing. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Nationals and One Nation are now competing to see who gets to drive the clown car of climate denial. They're railing against Net Zero by 2050 while the actual scientists tell us we need to get to Net Zero in 10 years time. Make it make sense!

Words, while welcome, won’t feed starving kids. Other countries like France are moving beyond statements with concrete actions to build pressure on the state of Israel to end its genocide in Gaza. Australia must too. Recognise Palestine, implement sanctions, end the two-way arms trade.

The ICJ ruling makes it clear that every one of Labor's new coal or gas approvals risks Australia being legally liable for the climate consequences. This should be a turning point. Fossil fuel profits cannot override a climate safe future.

The Labor government has a choice this term to either work with the Greens in the Senate to legislate a climate trigger, or to continue approving toxic coal and gas that is sending our planet to collapse.

93 people killed in Gaza trying to access food, as UNRWA warns that Israeli authorities are "starving civilians" - including 1 million children. The Aus Government must take every action to pressure Netanyahu to stop. Other countries are stepping up action, and we must too.

Millions of young people are now, more than ever, concerned about their future. The housing crisis, climate change, and the cost of living, education and mental health mean if you’re just about to leave school, things are tougher now than they’ve been for generations before you.

The Murujuga Cultural Landscape is an awe inspiring illustration of culture and stories beginning tens of thousands of years ago. It truly deserves World Heritage listing, just as it deserves protection from North West Shelf’s acidic emissions so its ancient stories can continue to be told.

The Greens stand with Raelene Cooper and Save Our Songlines for the protection of rock art exemplifying tens of thousands of years of culture. We want to see this global treasure listed as World Heritage. What we don’t want is to see it destroyed by acidic emissions from Woodside.

Kumanjayi Walker was only 19 when he was killed by police in 2019 in his home community of Yuendumu. The coronial inquest into his death has exposed deep failures of justice and found the NT Police to be ‘an organisation with hallmarks of institutional racism’.

1 in 3 Tuvaluans have entered a ballot for a climate visa to Australia, whose government is fuelling their displacement by approving massive carbon bombs. Tuvalu may be uninhabitable in our lifetime. Labor must listen to our Pacific neighbours, not the greedy fossil fuel lobby.

Today's ruling is a win for Antoinette Lattouf, for journalistic integrity and freedom of speech. No one should be punished for speaking out about Gaza.

The fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran is welcome, but we cannot forget Gaza. At least 40 people have been killed in 24 hours, many of them trying to reach aid. We need a peace with justice across the region, including Palestine, where starvation and genocide is ongoing.

It’s clear from the events of recent weeks that First Nations justice must be an urgent priority of the 48th parliament, and the Greens are ready to work with Labor to get outcomes.

It was absurd enough that an independent inquiry into the death of Kumanjayi White was rejected, allowing police to forge ahead with investigating themselves yet again. Now, the NT Gov has scrapped its review of systemic racism in the NT police. Where is the justice?

Families on the brink of starvation being bombed while queuing for food should break all our hearts.  Reports Israeli forces killed over 50 Palestinians and injured hundreds as they sought desperately needed aid are gut wrenching.

The pettiness of two terrible men shouldn’t distract us from the truth: oligarchies are dangerous. A criminal emboldening hate, extremism and racism & a fascist billionaire shouldn't be in charge of leading a country. And Australia’s democracy should not be beholden to billionaires.

One in three Australian men admit to committing intimate partner abuse. Today’s report from Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) is a shocking reminder of the increasing prevalence of gendered violence in our community. It has to end.

House prices are up, again. The housing crisis is putting home ownership further out of reach for millions of renters and first home buyers. To fix this, Labor must end the $176b in tax handouts to wealthy property investors. Housing should be for people, not profit.

The North West Shelf extension is a disaster. It will release more pollution each year than all of Australia’s coal stations combined, threaten ancient Murujuga rock art, and deliver $0 to the public purse. Yet Labor approved it anyway.

New emissions data is out - and it’s not good news. Carbon pollution is going up, and it’s higher than under Morrison’s Libs. Labor’s approval of new coal and gas like the North West Shelf has consequences for the planet. Two climate tests so far - and Labor’s failed both.

For 13 years UNESCO has warned the Great Barrier Reef could be listed ‘In Danger’. After multiple bleaching events and 50% coral loss, our Reef faces its final warning while the major parties stall on meaningful action toward net zero.

Labor have just approved a 45 year extension to our most polluting gas project faster than Peter Dutton said he would if he won office. They sold out to their fossil fuel donors a long ago, and it's never been clearer.

It is encouraging to see the PM and his government take a more principled stance toward condemning Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Actions speak louder than words. We urge the Australian government to recognise the State of Palestine at the UN conference in NYC next month.

Under the cover of the on-again/off-again Coalition drama, Labor is gearing up to approve an absolutely catastrophic gas project. Woodside’s North West Shelf is an untapped climate bomb. This approval would mean supercharged floods, fires and species extinctions.

Incredibly saddened to hear that a man from Moto has lost his life in the New South Wales floods. My thoughts are with his family - and with the entire mid-north coast community facing another devastating flood crisis. Thank you to the SES and everyone helping each other.

The Greens welcome WGEA’s release of public sector gender pay gap data for the first time today - what a win for the advocates who have long called for more transparency of the gender pay gap.

The UN has warned that 14,000 babies could die if Israel continues to block humanitarian aid in Gaza.  This would be utterly catastrophic. The Australian Government must take every action they can to pressure Netanyahu to stop.

The Manning River flood level at Taree is now the highest in recorded history, 150 rescues in 24 hours. Dozens still stranded. This is not normal. To everyone caught in the path of flash-flooding on the mid north coast of NSW: please listen to emergency advice & stay safe.

The unprecedented strike on Khan Younis is profoundly distressing – tens of thousands forced to flee under evacuation orders, while humanitarian zones are bombarded. Australia must sanction the Netanyahu government.

The North West shelf decision will be the Gov’s first test on climate: will they approve the dirty gas carbon bomb of Woodside's Burrup Hub extension? You can't protect the climate or nature by approving a project that would use 91% of the government's net zero 2050 carbon budget.