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Adam Bandt
MP for Melbourne (2010-2025) and Greens Leader (2020-2025)

Billionaires have too much power

25 March, 2021 - by Adam Bandt — Big corporations and billionaires in this country have too much power. That is corrupting democracy. And they are also not p...

Environment Protection Authority

25 March, 2021 - By Adam Bandt: The relentless destruction of Australia's habitat is causing constant upgrading of the risk to our animals to 'endangered', '...

Family Law System

25 March, 2021 - by Adam Bandt — I rise to speak in support of this bill. I commend the member for Morton for bringing this forward, because it is designed t...

Freedom of Speech in Higher Education

25 March, 2021 - by Adam Bandt – Academic freedom is essential to our universities, for both academic and general staff, and university staff must be free to...

March 4 Justice

25 March, 2021 - by Adam Bandt — The women of Australia are speaking loudly and speaking clearly, but the men of this government are still not listening. But...

Medicinal Cannabis

25 March, 2021 -  I rise to speak on the Narcotic Drugs Amendment (Medicinal Cannabis) Bill 2021. The Greens were part of the push in this place to start t...

Raise JobSeeker

25 March, 2021 - by Adam Bandt  This government is cutting the support for people who are doing it tough as we deal with the pandemic. This government i...

The Government is acting for big corporations and billionaires

25 March, 2021 - by Adam Bandt — This Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 1) Bill 2021 is the latest example of the government using COVID as a cover ...

It's closer than you think: new research shows 828 votes away from shared power

22 March, 2021 - A Parliamentary Library Brief, provided to the Greens, reveals that a minority parliament is only 828 votes away, and looms as one of the most ...

Housing is cooked

18 March, 2021 - By Adam Bandt A few years ago, I was sitting at one of my local listening posts, and someone called Penny came along and said: 'I've never b...

Morrison, Andrews have dropped ball on Yallourn

10 March, 2021 - The Greens have responded to the early closure of Yallourn by 2028 by slamming the Federal and State governments’ refusal to legislate a clear ...

More voices denounce Mathias Cormann's pitch for OECD Secretary General

9 March, 2021 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP has welcomed the growing chorus of voices questioning Mathias Cormann’s suitability for the role o...