Australian Greens
The Australian Greens are a major Australian political party, formally established in 1992 through the federation of state-based Greens parties that had grown out of the environmental movement since the 1970s. Nationally, the party is best known for climate and environmental policy — but it also holds a specific, sourced record of governance-reform activity, distinct from that broader platform.
Democracy-reform record
- National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC). When the NACC Bill passed the Senate in November 2022, Greens-negotiated amendments gave the Commission's Inspector expanded real-time oversight and auditing powers over its own workings. (Greens media release)
- Political donations reform. The party's "Clean Up Politics" campaign has repeatedly pushed to cap political donations and ban donations from "dirty industries" (banking, mining, defence, gambling, fossil fuels among them), reintroducing legislation to that effect in February 2026. (Clean Up Politics, Feb 2026 media release)
- Truth in political advertising. The ACT Greens have pushed to extend South Australia's truth-in-political-advertising law — which lets the state electoral commission rule on and correct factually false campaign material — to the national Electoral Act. (Greens ACT)
Position and caveats
The Greens are a general-purpose political party contesting elections across the full range of policy areas — climate, housing, industrial relations, foreign policy, and more — not a single-issue democracy-reform organisation. DOD is not tracking, endorsing, or making any judgment on that broader platform, and does not follow the party as a matter of course the way it follows organisations whose entire reason for existing is governance reform (compare Pirate Party Australia).
The Greens are included here because the accountability framework's test is whether an organisation is working on how people participate in governance — mechanisms, structures, reforms, accountability systems — not whether DOD agrees with everything else it does. By that test, the party's anti-corruption, donations-transparency, and electoral-integrity record above is genuine, sourced, and sustained across more than a decade, not a one-off policy position. Tracking it here is no more an endorsement of the Greens' wider platform than tracking Grattan Institute's democracy program is an endorsement of its housing or energy policy work.
Links
- Website: greens.org.au
See also
History
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1992-08-30
Federal party formally established, uniting Australia's state-based Greens parties
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In 1992 Australia's state-based Greens parties joined together, fronting the press on 30 August to announce the new federal party, the Australian Greens
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2019-09-27
ACT Greens push a truth-in-political-advertising bill modelled on South Australia's law
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The Greens are proposing to amend the Electoral Act to include provisions similar to those that exist in South Australia that makes it illegal to disseminate political material or advertising that is factually incorrect during the election period
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2022-11-29
Wins amendments strengthening Inspector oversight powers as the National Anti-Corruption Commission bill passes the Senate
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Greens amendments to the NACC bill give significant additional powers to the Inspector of the Commission to provide real time auditing and monitoring of the NACC’s workings and to guard against potential overreach and maladministration
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2026-02-05
Reintroduces a Bill to cap political donations at $3,000 per term and ban donations from "dirty industries"
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It will cap donations at $3,000 per term, finishing the job abandoned when Labor and the Liberals cut a backroom deal
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