The deal announced today on live music licence conditions is a first step, not a solution, the Greens say.

Greens MLC Greg Barber said  " The licence conditions that killed the Tote were put on at the discretion of the Commissioner and could have been removed at the stroke of a pen.  There are many, many other venues with the same conditions, and lots of pubs that won't run any kind of music at all because it's too much of a hassle."

The Greens want to see the Ombudsman appear before a parliamentary committee to explain his recommendations on the Brookland Greens landfill site.

Peter Garrett will require a study of the environmental impacts* of Goulburn Valley irrigation upgrades six months after the Greens called for him to intervene.

Greens MLCs Greg Barber and Sue Pennicuik expressed cautious optimism today in the long battle to save old growth forest at Brown Mountain from the loggers and the woodchippers.

Long-Footed Potoroo stages own rescue
The Greens Victoria have learned that footage taken in a controversial Brown Mountain logging coupe has been confirmed by independent fauna experts to be of a long-footed potoroo, previously denied to be present by Department of Sustainability and Environment biodiversity assessors.

“The minister must intervene and stop logging on the site permanently”, Greg Barber said today.

The Select Committee on Train Services established by The Greens has had a high profile recently.  The 7 member committee was established to inquire into the factors leading to and causes of failures in the provision of metropolitan and V/Line train services.  Submissions are now closed and the first round of hearings completed Tuesday 21 July 2009.

The Victorian Upper House last night supported a Greens motion to set up an inquiry into the reasons for failures in the provision of metropolitan and V/Line train services.

Greens transport spokesperson Greg Barber MLC said: "The ongoing high level of delayed trains and the catastrophic collapse of services during the January heatwave show a system in ongoing decline.  We need to stop the tender until the causes of the crisis are understood and way forward found."

Greens MLC Colleen Hartland has presented a petition to parliament organised by West Sunshine community campaigners, with 2,741 signatures of people opposing the new roads and tunnels proposed in the “Eddington Report”.

Australia needs nationally consistent price guarantees for renewable energy (known as "feed-in tariffs"), as the most effective and efficient way to build a people-powered, zero emissions energy network and help drive a 'green economic recovery', eight Greens MPs said today.

The Inquiry into the economics of the Port Phillip Bay Channel Deepening project was released in the State Parliament today.