Animal Welfare
Lee is the Australian Greens spokesperson on animal welfare. The Greens are the only major party to have such a specific portfolio responsibility. Before being elected to federal parliament Lee was a Greens MP in NSW Parliament for over a decade, where she also held the animal welfare portfolio.
Lee is currently campaigning on a range of issues, from banning live exports to protection of native species, more humane laws governing factory farming and empowering consumers to eat more ethically by ensuring proper labelling. Lee is excited about the surge of interest from the community in animal welfare issues and believes that by working with the community we can help drive shifts in government policy to achieve animal rights. She is a member of the Vegan Society NSW.
media-releases
25 Apr 2009
The Australian Greens today renewed calls for the Australian Government to intervene in the treatment by Japanese authorities o...
media-releases
24 Feb 2009
The Federal Government has no idea what whaling operations may have occurred in our own Antarctic waters, say the Australian Gr...
media-releases
07 Feb 2009
The Australian Greens today called on the Government to urgently invest in research to save the pipistrelle microbat, found onl...
media-releases
03 Feb 2009
A ‘compromise' package put forward by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) that would see radical changes to Japan's wh...
media-releases
20 Jan 2009
The Australian Greens today called on the Government to immediately initiate legal action against Japanese whalers, following t...
media-releases
29 Dec 2008
The Australian Greens today called on the Minister for the Environment Peter Garrett to explain why Japanese whalers were in Au...
video
10 Dec 2008
A New Zealand whale is beached, and rather confused.
media-releases
26 Nov 2008
The Government has a responsibility to act with urgency to stop Japanese whaling operations, said the Australian Greens today.
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news-stories
21 Nov 2008
Peter Garrett's confirmation that the Government will not be sending a vessel to the Southern Ocean this year to monitor whalin...
media-releases
21 Nov 2008
The Australian Greens today expressed deep concerns for the upcoming whaling season, after comments from Minister Garrett revea...