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Bandt announces new portfolios, elevates dental health

27 February, 2020 - Leader of The Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP has announced new portfolio allocations, including the creation of a new portfolio of Dental H...

Greens send nuclear waste dump bill to inquiry

27 February, 2020 - The Greens have referred the legislation to build a nuclear waste dump in South Australia to a Senate Inquiry for scrutiny of the laws and t...

Hanson-Young welcomes Greens portfolio announcement

27 February, 2020 - Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has welcomed the announcement she is continuing as spokesperson for Environment and Water, and Media and C...

Unis need Covid-19 rescue package: Greens

27 February, 2020 - Greens Education Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has called for urgent measures to protect staff, students and the university sector f...

Upper House Inquiry Report into Northern Beaches Hospital finds public-private partnership model a failure

27 February, 2020 - A NSW Upper House Committee Report handed down today into the Operation and Management of the Northern Beaches Hospital has recommended that...

Greens call for immediate moratorium on CSG in NSW following scathing parliamentary report

27 February, 2020 - Today a scathing report was released by the parliamentary inquiry into the CSG industry in NSW detailing how the NSW Government has failed t...

Victoria finally catches up to the rest of the country with introduction of spent convictions scheme

27 February, 2020 - The Victorian Greens have welcomed news that the Andrews Government will commit to introducing a spent convictions scheme. The Greens int...

Tree efforts welcomed, but still so much more to do: ACT Greens

27 February, 2020 - The ACT Greens have again called on the Government to demonstrate its commitment to urgent action at a time of climate emergency, by plantin...

Emergency action needed from PM to stop more deaths from violence

26 February, 2020 - The Prime Minister must address the national crisis of women’s death by violence with a $5 billion investment in domestic violence response ...

Coalition, Labor and One Nation let NSW get away with floodplain harvesting

26 February, 2020 - The Liberals, Nationals, Labor and One Nation have refused to support the Greens call for the NSW Government to reinstate the moratorium on ...

Government subverts democracy twice in two sitting weeks to gag transparency on rorts

26 February, 2020 - The Morrison Government is actively subverting democracy by twice in the past two sitting weeks using procedural games to avoid greater tran...

Bandt: We need a Green New Deal to stave off risk of recession

26 February, 2020 - The Government needs to implement a Green New Deal to keep the economy moving and stave off the growing risk of recession, said Leader of th...

Manyana Tree Clearing Petition shows power of local community

26 February, 2020 - A petition presented to the NSW Parliament today with over 1,500 signatures shows the power of the small community of Manyana in the Shoalha...

Government undermines circular economy by allowing 85 per cent of Victoria's waste to be burned

26 February, 2020 - The Andrews Government has announced that it will allow one million tonnes – or 85 per cent – of Victoria’s household waste to be incinerate...