Senate calls for Australian Government to back Sri Lankan war crimes...
As the international community prepares to vote at the March meeting of the United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Council on a war crimes investigation for Sri Lanka, the Australian Greens have...
View ArticleGreens call for Royal Commission into offshore detention incidents and death
The Australian Greens have called on Tony Abbott to initiate a Royal Commission into the conditions and management of Australia's offshore detention camps, which led to the death of an Iranian refugee...
View ArticleOp-ed: Australia must act beyond self-interest
If we needed any more evidence that a large part of the Abbott government's foreign affairs agenda is motivated purely by domestic power games over refugees, we need look no further than the current...
View ArticleGreens say Australia should be ashamed of Rajapaksa’s praise
The Australian Greens say it was not a "bold move" to withhold support from a UN war crimes investigation, but rather a shameful demonstration that Australia is appeasing the government in Sri Lanka to...
View ArticleGreens Leader Christine Milne demands truth on asylum seekers
Greens Leader Christine Milne asks Tony Abbott: "Are you going to return the persecuted to the persecutors? Australians need to know."
View ArticleGreens call on President Widodo to honour human rights pledge
Australian Greens Leader Christine Milne has written to the Indonesian President urging him to reconsider his determination to apply the death penalty to Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukamaran."I...
View ArticleCandlelight vigil for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran
I acknowledge the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition and my parliamentary colleagues one and all, and all of you. And all of the people around Australia and around the world who stand in...
View ArticleStatement from Greens Leader Christine Milne on the execution of Andrew Chan...
On behalf of the Australian Greens I express my deepest sympathies to the families and friends of Andrew Chan, Myuran Sukumaran, and the six other people who have been executed in Indonesia...
View ArticleGreens call for new safeguards to protect against the death penalty
Greens Leader Christine Milne has proposed further actions in response to the Bali Nine executions and says the Australian Parliament must demonstrate its cross-party opposition to the death penalty...
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