Greens
Rudd deserves benefit of doubt on gay marriage backflip
Stephanie Peatling Kevin Rudd has joined the ranks of politicians who have changed their mind on same sex marriage.
Nicholas Reece
Greens see the campaign light at the political crossroads
Nicholas Reece Sensibly, the party is reclassifying its most contentious policies.
Judith Ireland
Just how different can the Greens afford to be?
Judith Ireland The Greens have long prided - and pitched - themselves as being different from the other parties. The question is, how different can they afford to be if they want an extra 400,000 votes.
Katharine Murphy
The Greens' war within
Katharine Murphy Christine Milne's challenge is stark: develop mainstream policies or risk irrelevance.
Paul Sheehan
Greens stay silent after abject elections
Paul Sheehan It was surprising how little was made about the meltdown in the Greens vote in statewide local elections held in NSW over the weekend.
Michelle Grattan
Greens are as stubborn as Abbott
Michelle Grattan Mostly it's the opposition that has been in the frame for stymieing efforts to get a more effective policy to combat people smuggling.
Daniel Andrews
Purist Greens have no desire to govern
Daniel Andrews In just over two weeks, voters in the Victorian state seat of Melbourne will have the chance to vote for the person and party who they believe can best deliver for them.
Narelle Miragliotta
ALP's big Greens gamble
Narelle Miragliotta Labor's recent declaration of war against the Australian Greens is a very public concession that the minor party has moved from political fringe dweller to a credible electoral threat.
Martin Flanagan
Painting Greens black - it's a shire thing up Noosa way
Martin Flanagan The Greens and the people who support them are routinely decried by their enemies as thinking they are morally superior to others.
Gerard Henderson
Dumping PM won't stem bleeding caused by thorny Greens
Gerard Henderson Sometimes politicians are deauthorised not so much by defeat as by their response to failure. The late Liberal Party leader Billy Snedden never recovered from his comment, after his defeat by Labor's...
ACT Greens' funding keeps growing
The ACT Greens received an unprecedented half a million dollars in donations, loans and election funding in the past financial year, the biggest in the local party's history.
Greens could be cut down by colleague
ACT Greens Shane Rattenbury and Caroline Le Couteur could face a challenge to their incumbency as lead candidates for their party in the Molonglo electorate in this year's election.
Sean Nicholls
Greens hand O'Farrell a surprise gift
Sean Nicholls A fter a difficult start to the political year, Barry O'Farrell had an unexpectedly sweet victory on Thursday: the passage of his bill to ban political donations from corporations.
Greens' federal call for gay marriage
The ACT Greens will call tomorrow on their ALP colleagues to vote against national Labor policy and support equal marriage rights at a federal level. The party will ask the Legislative
Phillip Coorey
Greens held cards on mining tax but chose protest over action
Phillip Coorey Later today, if all goes to plan, the Senate will pass the legislation for the minerals resources rent tax, enabling it to start on July 1.
Gerard Henderson
Media's soft treatment of Brown opens door to the little Greens men
Gerard Henderson Imagine the media reaction if the atheist Julia Gillard or the Christian Tony Abbott raised the possibility, in a major address, of extraterrestrial life on one or more planets beyond Earth.
Shaun Carney
Brown hands lucky Labor a paler shade of Greens
Shaun Carney Lucky breaks have been few and far between for the Gillard government but Bob Brown's resignation offers a genuine opportunity to win back some of the former Labor voters who have re-identified as...
Natasha Stott Despoja
Party unity vital as Greens face their biggest test
Natasha Stott Despoja Bob Brown's decision to step down as Greens' leader - and resign from the Senate from June - will test the Greens as never before.
Peter Hartcher
Greens' sustainable future
Peter Hartcher On announcing his retirement from politics, Bob Brown yesterday recalled his life in his home state of Tasmania in the 1980s, when "I couldn't walk down the street without windows being wound down"...
Phillip Coorey
Labor's fear is that Milne's Greens will lack Brown's pragmatism
Phillip Coorey The Gillard government's immediate reaction to the departure of the Greens leader Bob Brown and to his replacement by Christine Milne was one of concern.
