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Adam Bandt
Greens Leader & MP for Melbourne

Federal Government must lift VIC childcare support & move to free childcare

6 August, 2020 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says a return to free childcare is needed in Victoria immediately and that the success of the initial COVID-19 child...

JobKeeper cuts will force up to 83,000 Victorians out of jobs

6 August, 2020 - The Australian Greens have released analysis of ABS data which shows 83,100 workers on JobKeeper in Victoria are casuals in industries now subj...

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 ...