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Additional funding to support victims of crime

2 September, 2020 - Victim Support ACT will receive $130 000 in funding to meet substantial increases in demand for frontline victim services as a result of the...

COVID-19 Mental Health Grant winners announced

2 September, 2020 - Minister for Mental Health Shane Rattenbury has announced the recipients of the COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing Innovation Grants Progr...

Greens launch major plan to tackle Canberra’s growing inequality crisis

2 September, 2020 - The ACT Greens will today launch their ‘Supporting the Community Sector’ package - a comprehensive action plan to tackle Canberra’s growing ...

Anglicare figures reinforce the needs to address the housing crisis: ACT Greens

1 September, 2020 - The Greens have today echoed Anglicare’s call for major investments in social and affordable housing, to ensure everyone can afford a decent...

Be kind and respectful to our nurses and midwives

1 September, 2020 - The ACT Government has launched a new campaign to increase community awareness and understanding about acceptable behaviour towards nurses a...

ACT Government outlines expanded plan for nation-leading Justice Reinvestment efforts

31 August, 2020 - The ACT Government has today released its latest ‘Reducing Recidivism 2020-2023’ Plan, that will accelerate the ACT’s nation-leading Justice R...

New Plan to improve regional planning and integration of mental health services

31 August, 2020 - The ACT Government and Capital Health Network will today launch the region’s five-year Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan which aims to...

Construction starts on Australia’s largest community-owned solar farm

28 August, 2020 - Today marks the first day of construction for a new community-owned solar farm in the ACT which will make solar energy more accessible for Can...

Caroline Le Couteur Valedictory Speech

27 August, 2020 -   Madam Speaker, I would like to start by saying thank you to the thousands of people who have voted for me over the four ACT elec...

Thank you for all your contributions, Caroline Le Couteur MLA, ACT Greens Member for Murrumbidgee

27 August, 2020 - This week, Caroline Le Couteur took her place in the ACT Legislative Assembly for the last time, after a total of eight years representing the...

CRS Fyshwick waste proposal

26 August, 2020 - Comments below attributable to Jo Clay regarding the CRS Waste facility: The ACT Greens today called on waste company CRS to publicly clari...

Real reforms to our planning system… but the fight for a climate-ready Canberra goes on.

25 August, 2020 - I’m pleased to announce that the Greens have secured agreement on a range of important reforms that will help make our planning system work fo...

Australian first as ACT Greens secure commitment to regular pill-testing

20 August, 2020 - The ACT Greens are pleased today to have secured a commitment from ACT Labor to explore a permanent pill-testing site in the ACT this Summer -...