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Labor is entrenching disadvantage

1 May, 2024 - Following calls from leading economists for the Albanese Government to increase Jobseeker and Youth Allowance to 90% of the Age Pension, Labor can...

National Cabinet a disgraceful missed opportunity

1 May, 2024 - Reacting to the National Cabinet communique, Greens spokesperson on Women and Leader in the Senate Larissa Waters said: “What a deeply underwhe...

Greens welcome targets to increase CALD leadership in the APS

30 April, 2024 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader Senator Mehreen Faruqi, who has long advocated for the need to increase the representation of people of colour ...

The nation said NO MORE gendered violence, now we need our government to act

29 April, 2024 - Lines attributable to Greens leader in the Senate and spokesperson on women, Larissa Waters “Thousands of people joined marches around the c...

Labor ignores its own Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee two years running

26 April, 2024 - The Greens have slammed Labor for ignoring the recommendations of its own hand-picked advisory body two years in a row, calling for an immediat...

Labor’s MIA in Perth on Mental Health Supports

26 April, 2024 - The Chair of Mental Health Australia has resigned because the Labor government has failed to take sufficient action on mental health policy. ...

Government can take action on men’s violence without waiting Royal Commission

26 April, 2024 - A Royal Commission could draw further attention to this epidemic, but we already know what needs to be done to reduce and eliminate violence ag...

Australia exported $1.5 million worth of weapons to Israel in February 2024, fresh DFAT data shows

26 April, 2024 - Just published data from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade shows that in February 2024 alone Australia directly exported over $1.5 mi...

Australia exported $1.5 million worth of weapons to Israel in February 2024, fresh DFAT data shows

26 April, 2024 - Just published data from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade shows that in February 2024 alone Australia directly exported over $1.5 mi...

Labor is MIA on Mental Health

26 April, 2024 - The Chair of Mental Health Australia has resigned because the labor government has failed to take sufficient action on mental health policy.&nb...

International students being scapegoated by the Labor Government, say Greens

24 April, 2024 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Spokesperson for Education, Senator Mehreen Faruqi has reacted to recent revelations that universities are ...

Women must feel safe in all workplaces

24 April, 2024 - The Guardian reports today that the Australian Border Force’s marine unit is rife with “inappropriate workplace behaviours including sexual har...

Greens support Gaza solidarity encampment at Sydney University, call on universities to divest from Israel

24 April, 2024 - The Australian Greens are rallying behind the students and staff at Sydney Unviersity who have started an encampment on the quad lawns, protest...

CPI shows student debts to rise by 4.8% on June 1, as Greens demand indexation be scrapped in May budget

24 April, 2024 - Student debts will go up 4.8% this June adding an estimated $3.3billion to the debt burden of Australians unless the Labor Government urgently ...