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Adam Bandt
Greens Leader & MP for Melbourne

Gas industry wishlist a fracking nightmare: Bandt

14 September, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP has today slammed a proposed wishlist from Australia's peak gas body that would see the metha...

Cost of fast-tracking tax cuts could fund $225b of recovery investment instead, new PBO costings reveal

10 September, 2020 - As calls grow for a $220b infrastructure spend to tackle the recession, new costings completed by the Parliamentary Budget Office, at the r...

Greens welcome Labor backflip on reprehensible JobKeeper claims, hope Liberals next

3 September, 2020 - The Greens have welcomed Labor’s backflip on its utterly reprehensible claim that JobKeeper payments to low-hours workers were ‘waste’ that ...

Tale of two economies – big business profits while main street hit with austerity

2 September, 2020 - The Australian economy is experiencing the best of times and worst of times, as both company profits and share prices soar, while on the oth...

Greens will campaign to defeat gaslighting of Australia’s Green Bank

1 September, 2020 - Australian Greens Leader Adam Bandt says his party will fight to defeat the government's attempt to amend the Clean Energy Finance Corporati...

Green recovery needed to lock in emissions reductions

31 August, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP has said figures showing an 18% drop in emissions as a result of the coronavirus are doomed to b...

Expanded values test is unnecessary

28 August, 2020 - The Government’s attempts to force citizens through an expanded values test is unnecessary, the Greens say, while welcoming the commitment to ...

Orwellian Gov bill defines gas as clean energy, war as peace and freedom as slavery

27 August, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt, has today slammed as Orwellian a new Bill from the Morrison government that redefines ‘low emissi...

PM must strip Abbott’s pension if reported foreign ties are true

27 August, 2020 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, has said Scott Morrison must strip Tony Abbott of his Prime Ministerial pension, if reports are correct that Abbott...

Greens move to stop Government JobKeeper 2.0 wage cut powers

25 August, 2020 - The Greens have described a government bill to extend IR ‘flexibility’ and create a special tier of businesses as corporate welfare at workers...

10 Years on, Greens-Labor Agreement a formula for progressive change

21 August, 2020 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt will celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the power sharing Parliament and the agreement between Labor and the Greens...

Law change necessary after low minimum wage decision

19 August, 2020 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt MP has today said the 2019-20 annual wage review increase was too low and that a change to the Fair Work Act was now ...