The Greens’ Amanda Bresnan is ringing the bell for her plans to make roads safer for pedestrians:
“An important part of the Greens’ transport strategy is to reduce traffic speeds at key pedestrian areas such as schools, shopping centres and community centres, and to install new pedestrian crossings and footpaths.
“We have already made submissions to the [...]

The Liberals’ Vicki Dunne is huffing and puffing to the ABC about the results of her epic FOI haul into correspondence between the Human Rights Commission and The Greens:
Liberal MLA Vicki Dunne says emails, released under freedom of information, show the Greens sought advise from the Human Rights Commission on questions to ask during parliamentary [...]

The Greens’ Amanda Bresnan is heralding the triumph of what she sees as The Greens Red Rapid bus routes:
The latest ACTION passenger figures obtained by the ACT Greens reveal the Red Rapid has quickly grown to become the fourth most popular bus route in the ACT.
The ACT Greens negotiated the introduction of the Red Rapid [...]

The Greens have announced their candidates for the October election.
The four Green MLAs will be recontesting their seats, and have been pre-selected by the party to run as the four lead candidates for the election.
“It’s very exciting to see such a great Greens team for 2012,” Ms Hunter said.
“The people standing for the Greens include [...]

The Greens are having a major dummy spit after their plans to screw the renters of Canberra in the name of energy efficiency was defeated by a Labor/Liberal alliance in the Legislative Assembly:
“The Government is effectively leaving 1/3 of Canberrans out of its plans to improve energy efficiency,” Greens Climate Change spokesperson, Shane Rattenbury MLA, [...]

The Canberrra Times brings word that RiotACT’s own Gungahlin Al (aka Alan Kerlin) is throwing his hat into the political ring as a Green candidate for Molonglo.
With the Greens hard up against it to hold Caroline Le Couteur’s seat (kindly calculated by neutrals to have roughly a snowball’s chance in hell) a new high profile [...]

So as 2011 comes to an end we look forward to the prospect of an ACT election in October next year.
Our once every four years, all or nothing, chance to have some sort of say in how we’re governed, where we get presented a smorgasbord of candidates most Canberrans have little to no idea about.
Let’s [...]

2011 saw some considerable idealism from the Greens as they pursued their dream of getting Canberra’s lazy bogans to live like Germans, in particular on the subject of shopping trolleys.
As it happens shopping trolleys have been occupying my mind recently during my weekly outings to the Aldi at Jamison (free open air parking, cheap dog [...]

In NSW Smoking in a car with a child under the age of 16 is against the law. The NSW Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2008 creates an offence  of smoking in a car with a child under 16 years of age in the vehicle. A $250 on the spot fine applies to the [...]

The Greens’ Meredith Hunter is calling for a review of whistleblower laws.
The ACT Greens will today table a motion calling for a review into Whistleblower laws, a response to the Justice and Community Safety Report into the Freedom of Information Act 1989 and a response to the Ombudsman’s concerns about complaint handling in the ACT.
“A [...]

Hatfield-Dodds has it – unsure what the rest of her party thinks

The Greens Caroline Le Couteur has thrown her party’s balance of power votes in the Legislative Assembly behind the merger of the University of Canberra and the Canberra Institute of Technology.
“The Greens see this as an opportunity. Our priority must be to ensure that we provide the best educational opportunities for students and continue to [...]

The Greens have announced the release of a discussion paper on police car chases.
“Police car chases are the deadliest part of police operations. We think they should be used cautiously and only for serious violent crimes where public safety demands the offender be immediately apprehended.” Shane Rattenbury said.
“The ACT has seen seven people die since [...]

The Greens’ Shane Rattenbury has responded to this morning’s shock ending of the solar feed in tariff scheme
The unexpected overnight re-closure of the feed in tariff scheme has highlighted the need to remove the cap on the scheme according to ACT Greens Energy spokesperson Shane Rattenbury.
“No-one anticipated this cap would be reached in just [...]

CSIRO announced days ago that they are growing GM wheat in the ACT, and that they will judge whether it’s fit for human trials in less than two years, e.g. nowhere near enough time to gauge health ill-effects.
Once upon a time this sort of issue was core Green.
At federal level you rarely hear [...]

The Greens’ Shane Rattenbury is taking considerable pleasure in telling the Canberra Liberals “Told you so!” after the High Court of Australia threw out the NSW anti-bikie laws.
“In 2009 the Canberra Liberals argued strongly for the need for laws similar to those in NSW to be adopted in the ACT. They argued the Government needed [...]

The Greens’ Amanda Bresnan has announced the release of a discussion paper titled: “A Better Transport Solution for Gungahlin and Wider Canberra”:
The paper argues for a greater commitment to sustainable transport and critically analyses the Government’s approach to transport planning.
“The ACT Greens want to see real transport solutions – solutions that will create convenient, [...]

Labor’s Joy Burch has come out swinging against the housing policies of her partners in Government, the Greens, and their public housing policies:
The ACT Greens must explain to the Canberra community how they would pay for their call to increase public housing by 30 per cent in 10 years, which would cost more than $1.4 [...]

The Liberals’ Alistair Coe is shrieking after his discovery that the Greens don’t favour new road building or urban sprawl.
“Why do the Greens believe that Gungahlin residents should have to put-up with congested roads like the half built GDE?
“How many hours of lost productivity and accidents must occur before the Greens realise that the current [...]

One might be forgiven for thinking that the urban lakes of Canberra were universally loved.
But it turns out the Greens don’t like them and are celebrating the decision to scrimp on Molonglo and not give that development water amenity.
“The Greens have been calling on the Government to rule out a big new dam in the [...]

The Greens’ Amanda Bresnan is concerned that construction of 500 parking places in the Parliamentary Triangle will be bad for transport.
“It might seem like the sale of land in the Parliamentary Triangle for a 500-space car space is a positive move, but we think that in the long run this will only entrench Canberra’s transport [...]

The Greens’ Shane Rattenbury is saying a few words over the body of the solar industry after Simon Corbell’s dramatic decision over night to close the feed-in tariff scheme:
“The failure has been the artificial brick wall created by the Government, and supported by the Liberal party, by capping the small scale solar scheme at 15 [...]

The Liberals Brendan Smyth is furious with the Greens for greenlighting the Ascension of Katy Gallagher to the Stanhopian throne:
“This is simply the latest action taken by a Greens Party that makes a lie of their so called ‘third party insurance.’ They are the far left branch of the Labor Party, no matter how little [...]

The ABC has the unsurprising news that the Greens have met and decided they will back Katy Gallagher as Chief Minister if the Labor Caucus puts her up as expected tomorrow.
The Greens say the party will not demand drastic changes to the parliamentary agreement with Labor.
But a spokesman says the agreement will need to be [...]

Well, in reviewing the budget and also getting the published highlights from what is to be the response tonight by Abbott, it really makes me wonder which way I will vote at our next elections.
The Labour/Greens Federal Party is just so on the nose that it would be physically impossible to make a vote for [...]

To date the Liberals have not managed to get any response to yesterday’s budget online.
But as responses come in we’ll post them here.
1) First off the rank is the Canberra Symphony Orchestra. They’re thrilled:
The Canberra Symphony Orchestra efforts to bring classical music to ACT school children through the highly successful Noteworthy program have been boosted [...]

The Greens’ Meredith Hunter has announced the Greens $41 million budget proposals which the government can probably ignore because who really thinks the Greens are going to side with the Liberals on anything now?
“While many are prospering in Canberra at the moment it’s important to recognise that life is still hard for many families who [...]

Yesterday the Liberals tried to censure Simon Corbell for the ongoing failures at the prison.
It failed due to lack of support by the Greens.
In today’s Canberra Times the Greens’ Amanda Bresnan has expressed frustration at the never ending censure motions being moved by the Liberals.
Which did make us wonder what the threshold for the [...]

Last night the Greens’ Caroline Le Couteur announced she’s asking the government to budget a feasability study (so a million miles from actual action) for a “cycle highway” linking the new conurbation of Molonglo to civilised lands.
(On the basis that Greens get their sense of humour surgically removed on entry to the Legislative Assembly building [...]

Greens legal spokesperson Shane Rattenbury is is drawing attention to his budget submission to improve funding to Community Legal Centres:
“The time has come for Government action to help our Community Legal Centres reach their full potential. It is quite well accepted now that a CLC Office Hub is the next step we need to take.
“CLCs [...]

The Greens’ Amanda Bresnan is calling for more energy efficiency spending on retro-fitting public housing stock:
“Already we know that people who live in public housing are over represented when it comes to difficulty paying energy bills. Allocating extra funds to improve energy efficiency across the Government’s 11 500 houses is a wise investment that will [...]

Green Senator Bob Brown is again taking an interest in Canberra (earlier in the month he unveiled a vision to link Parliament and Civic with a walkway) and proposing a light rail system for our fair city:
With Greens’ transport spokesperson Senator Scott Ludlam and leader Bob Brown, the Greens Senate candidate for the ACT Lin [...]