The Latest Breaking News from Bob Brown

This elegant film uses the natural world to wrap an ancient context around contemporary politics and the former Australian Greens leader’s drive to save the environment

An environmental group has lost its latest court battle with a mining company that's planning to build a controversial new tailings dam in Tasmania's west.

The Bob Brown Foundation has lost a court challenge related to a contentious mining waste dam proposal in Tasmania.

Violence in NSW state schools has surged by 50% in the past decade, and celebrated Australian painter John Olsen has died aged 95.

The Greens co-founder didn’t hold back in a far-reaching interview with Crikey, weighing in on the danger of AUKUS, his admiration for Extinction Rebellion activists, and Lidia Thorpe’s Mardi Gras protest.

Passionate environmental folk law hero and former senator Dr Bob Brown shares his hopes for the future of the planet in doco, The Giants

It is understandable if observers have struggled to neatly categorise the agreement struck on Monday between the Albanese Labor Government and the Australian Greens party to progressively reduce industrial emissions.

The Greens have backed Labor’s safeguard mechanism after being assured of an absolute cap on emissions, and controversial Liberal MP Moira Deeming has survived a push to have her expelled from the Victorian Liberal Party.

Some Greens want to pass the safeguard mechanism changes and keep fighting on fossil fuels while others want to attack it as a Coalition creation that can’t be redeemed

"Taking action on climate means dealing with the question of coal and gas," Greens leader Adam Bandt said.

The wording of the Voice referendum is close to being announced after intense talks between senior Labor figures and Indigenous leaders, and negotiations over Labor’s safeguard mechanism between Greens Leader Adam Bandt and Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen are continuing in ‘good faith’.