Surprising many inside the party and out, David Shoebridge has been chosen as the new leader of the Australian Greens, with Steph Hodgins-May as deputy.

In a shock announcement, Queensland Senator Larissa Waters has announced she is stepping down as Leader of the Australian Greens.

Australia has a new environment minister in Murray Watt and a new federal Greens' leader in Larissa Waters; they are both Queenslanders, lawyers, and senators. Is this good news for our environment?

Apparently menopause lasts one day. You could have fooled me. I thought it was the chapter title for this weird bloaty, flushy, foggy, angry, teary decade of my life. But apparently menopause only describes the day, 12 months after your last period when you are no longer peri-menopausal. Which by the way, no doctor I saw ever mentioned was a thing. And perimenopause can go for a decade. And postmenopausal goes for the rest of your life.

A Greens motion was unanimously passed in the Senate yesterday condemning ‘the litany of sexist, misogynistic, and racist slogans which have been used by Wicked Campers on their hire vans’.

Echonetdaily was given the opportunity to ask questions of the three Green MPs before their appearance at St John’s Catholic School hall in Mullumbimby on Saturday night.