We know that shark nets are indiscriminate killers of marine wildlife that don’t keep beachgoers safe (& may even attract sharks!).

These NSW trials are a positive first step towards getting nets off our beaches and investing in alternatives that actually keep people safe.

Prime Minister you must act!

Declare the SA algal bloom a National Emergency so communities and researchers can get the resources and help they need.

And end the new fossil fuel projects that are driving these heatwaves – starting by revoking the North West Shelf approval!

We need to start treating marine heatwaves like the disasters they are.

The SA toxic algal bloom – driven by a heatwave – is just another example of the devastation they wreak on our wildlife & communities.

And we know they will only get worse as the oceans warm further.

The Greens are ready to work constructively across party lines to increase our marine protected areas. Importantly, we want more parks placed in ecologically significant areas of the marine environment & to include no extractive activities such as drilling for oil and gas!

This Treaty is critical for achieving the global 30x30 aim to protect 30% of oceans by 2030.

It's a positive step – one that only last week I called on the Govt to urgently take. But Australia still has much to do before we come close to being world leaders in ocean protection.

Labor must reject not only this new plan by the QLD govt, but also work with the Greens in the next federal Parliament to strengthen our environment laws and close the loophole that allows the continued use of nets and drumlines on Australian beaches in the first place.

The QLD govt's $88M investment is not to protect our beaches, it's to protect politicians!

Sharks are being scapegoated to sow fear & division in an LNP culture war.

The use of destructive nets on Australian beaches is absurd when there are so many better alternatives!

We know lethal nets and drumlines are indiscriminate killers of marine wildlife & research shows they don’t actually reduce shark interactions. In fact, shark nets can attract sharks to beaches where they can feed on marine wildlife caught in the nets.

But clearly dirty fossil fuel profits are just more important in the eyes of the Albanese Government.

The approval of the North West Shelf extension is a complete betrayal by Labor – of our wildlife, environment, oceans, life on this planet and future generations.

Our oceans are cooking.

Just south of where Labor has detonated this climate bomb, Ningaloo Reef has suffered record mass coral bleaching due to warming oceans. And to the east the Great Barrier Reef has been hit with a seventh major bleaching event!

Do Labor not understand we are in a climate crisis, or do they just not care?

This climate bomb will release up to 6.1B tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.

That’s well over the maximum 3.5B tonnes of emissions the govt can release while still achieving net-zero by 2050.

The evidence in this report is clear – there is no more time to waste.

The Greens call on both major parties to commit to mandating our nation’s waste reduction targets, banning harmful single use plastics, and legislating EPR schemes in the next parliament.

Like most environmental problems, plastic pollution is also a political problem.

It’s hardly surprising that policies have failed given successive governments have chosen to put the responsibility for waste on consumers, rather than hold big producers & retailers to account.

A Senate inquiry into marine invasive species recommended establishing and funding a long-spined sea urchin task force, and the Greens are eager to work with all sides of politics in the next parliament to make this a reality.

Just imagine how much more pressure we’ll be able to apply with more Greens in Parliament.

Next, let’s get dental into Medicare and end native forest logging!

Vote 1 Greens to keep Dutton out and push Labor to act.