Did you know that the Greens team in the Senate are ready to go on 36 proposed laws that would make Australia more sustainable, fairer, more peaceful and more democratic?

By voting Greens in the Senate, you increase the ability for a larger Greens Senate team to get these improvements debated and passed into law by the Parliament.

Some of the highlights include:
- Farmers' right to refuse Coal and CSG mining on their land
- Ending fossil fuel political donations and subsidies
- Protection for the Great Barrier Reef, alpine areas and marine life.
- Support for the local livestock industry
- Strengthening Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander land rights and granting of native title
- Helping single parents and Australians who need Newstart
- Freeing children from detention and increasing our humanitarian visa intake
- Marriage equality
- Dying with Dignity
- Gender & pay equality
- A National ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption)
- Requiring a majority vote of the Parliament, not just the PM, to send Australians into war.

In all there are:
- 12 Environmental & animal welfare bills.
- 9 Social Justice bills including Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people.
- 6 bills to strengthen democracy and peace for Australia.
- 5 bills to achieve justice for asylum seekers and fairer migration rules.
- 4 equality bills.

But it will take YOUR #1 Greens vote in the Senate to give the Greens the Senators they need to achieve these goals.
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...and a spectacular own-goal from Barnaby Joyce's supporters trying to knock out the Greens candidate on a technicality, instead of debating policy.

Via the Glen Innes Examiner - 

Glen Innes high school teacher Mercurius Goldstein has filed resignation papers with the NSW Department of Education in order to contest the 2016 Federal election as the Greens candidate in the seat of New England.

"I am fully committed to working with the people and communities of New England as we spread the message to transition away from fossil fuels, fairly fund public schools and TAFE, and to maintain local jobs though our local livestock industry,” Mr Goldstein said.

"I have known all along that campaigning for New England would require this level of commitment, ever since my preselection was announced at AgQuip in Gunnedah last August.

"It's a sign of how nervous Barnaby Joyce's supporters are that some would seek to knock out the Greens candidate on a technicality, instead of debating the policy issues with me."

Mr Goldstein said he welcomed the heightened level of interest in the Greens campaign for New England, and trusts that it will continue.

​“I will be campaigning to keep local councils strong through a referendum proposal, to protect water infrastructure from privatisation, and to ensure that farmland throughout New England would be kept free from coal and CSG mining."

The Greens Senate team #1 Lee Rhiannon, #2 Michael Osborne and #3 Jane Oakley are journeying around NSW to spread the Greens message, here with Carol Vernon for Cowper.

There are 36 Greens Bills on the Senate notice paper that will make a fairer, more sustainable, socially just and peaceful Australia.

It will take your Greens votes in the Senate to boost our numbers and help pass these bills into law.

​On July 2, Vote 1 Greens in the Senate!