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Adam Bandt
Greens Leader & MP for Melbourne

Statement on Parliament sittings

6 August, 2020 - I am pleased the Parliament will sit again. In a crisis we need more democracy, not less, and the Greens opposed the initial agreement between ...

Morrison Government can grant COVID sick leave without Parliament

3 August, 2020 - The Morrison government can use the extensive coronavirus crisis powers already granted to it by Parliament to immediately grant paid COVID-19 ...

Paid pandemic ‘leave’ not enough & won’t properly support health effort

3 August, 2020 - Scott Morrison’s pandemic payment announcement is a poor substitute for sick leave and doesn’t properly support the public health push to conta...

Gov must pass Greens COVID leave bill, Labor must firm up on JobKeeper 2.0

2 August, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt MP, said with the situation in Victoria changing by the hour, people deserved clarity from the Gove...

Zero carbon grid possible by 2040

30 July, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt has today said the release of the final system plan for Australia's energy grid showed that a transit...

COVID Committee gas report shows fossil fuel sector letting manufacturing

29 July, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP said reporting of a National COVID Commission presentation on natural gas showed a growing disconn...

Greens seek PM's support for COVID leave bill

29 July, 2020 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, has written to the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, seeking time when Parliament resumes in August to pass a Greens’ b...

Shadow Minister puts Labor in lockstep with Liberals on climate

28 July, 2020 - Australian Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says statements today from Labor’s Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Resources, Joel Fitzgibbon, put the...

Unions, welfare groups & Greens all back jobs over tax cuts

28 July, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt, has commended peak worker and social services groups for coming out hard against the proposed accel...

Costings show bringing forward tax cuts would cost an extra $28 billion

27 July, 2020 - The Australian Greens have released costings from the Parliamentary Budget Office on the cost of bringing forward income tax cuts. The costings ...

Greens will oppose Liberal & Labor agreed cuts to low-income JobKeeper and JobSeeker

21 July, 2020 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt and spokesperson on Family and Community Services Senator Rachel Siewert have responded to today's announcement that th...

Statement from Adam Bandt on the cancellation of Parliament

18 July, 2020 - Democracy should not be a victim of the pandemic. We need a health-first approach if we are to have any chance of effectively eliminating commun...