---
title: Australian Greens
type: party
status: active
country: AU
website: https://greens.org.au
logo: /assets/org-logos/australian-greens.svg
contact:
  checked: 2026-08-15
  email: greens@greens.org.au
  form: https://greens.org.au/contact
  note: National office contact. State/territory offices and individual federal MPs
    also publish their own direct contact details on the same page.
  phone: 02 6140 3217
  source: https://greens.org.au/contact
summary: Australia's Greens party — tracked here for a specific, sourced governance-reform
  record (anti-corruption oversight, political donations transparency, truth-in-advertising
  law), not for its much broader multi-issue platform, which DOD does not track or
  endorse. Won amendments strengthening independent oversight when the National Anti-Corruption
  Commission Act passed the Senate in 2022, and has repeatedly proposed capping political
  donations and banning donations from "dirty industries."
concepts:
- radical-transparency
- accountability-sink
- democracy
location:
  latitude: -35.1869
  longitude: 149.133
  name: Gungahlin, Canberra, Australia
  precision: city
related_orgs:
- pirate-party-australia
- australian-democrats
events:
- date: '1992-08-30'
  title: Federal party formally established, uniting Australia's state-based Greens
    parties
  url: https://greens.org.au/about/our-story
  quote: 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
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-15'
  notable: true
- date: '2019-09-27'
  title: ACT Greens push a truth-in-political-advertising bill modelled on South Australia's
    law
  url: https://greens.org.au/act/news/greens-push-truth-electoral-advertising
  quote: 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
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-15'
  notable: false
- date: '2022-11-29'
  title: Wins amendments strengthening Inspector oversight powers as the National
    Anti-Corruption Commission bill passes the Senate
  url: https://greens.org.au/news/media-release/nacc-bill-passes-senate-historic-vote-critical-greens-amends-integrity
  quote: 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
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-15'
  notable: true
- date: '2026-02-05'
  title: Reintroduces a Bill to cap political donations at $3,000 per term and ban
    donations from "dirty industries"
  url: https://greens.org.au/news/media-release/greens-legislation-would-ban-dirty-donations-aec-data-reveals-major-parties
  quote: It will cap donations at $3,000 per term, finishing the job abandoned when
    Labor and the Liberals cut a backroom deal
  proof_level: high
  url_checked: '2026-08-15'
  notable: false
activity:
  dod:
    checked: 2026-08-15
    date: 2026-08-15
    note: Page created and sourced directly against greens.org.au primary documents
      (media releases, campaign pages, "Our Story"), following up on internal research
      into Australian parties' democracy-reform records.
last_checked: '2026-08-15'
---

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](https://greens.org.au/news/media-release/nacc-bill-passes-senate-historic-vote-critical-greens-amends-integrity))
- **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](https://greens.org.au/campaigns/clean-politics), [Feb 2026 media release](https://greens.org.au/news/media-release/greens-legislation-would-ban-dirty-donations-aec-data-reveals-major-parties))
- **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](https://greens.org.au/act/news/greens-push-truth-electoral-advertising))

## 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](pirate-party-australia.md)).

The Greens are included here because the [accountability framework](../projects/accountability-framework/index.md)'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](grattan-institute.md)'s democracy program is an endorsement of its housing or energy policy work.

## Links

- Website: [greens.org.au](https://greens.org.au)

## See also

- [Radical Transparency](../concepts/radical-transparency.md)
- [Accountability Sink](../concepts/accountability-sink.md)
- [Democracy](../concepts/democracy.md)
- [Pirate Party Australia](pirate-party-australia.md)
- [Australian Democrats](australian-democrats.md)