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Adam Bandt
Greens Leader & MP for Melbourne

Jobs figures show need for Green New Deal

20 February, 2020 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt said today’s jobs figures reveal a jobs crisis in Australia, especially amongst young people, and underscore the ne...

Labor’s 2050 target blows 2 degrees and gives up on Paris Agreement: Bandt

20 February, 2020 - Australian Greens Leader Adam Bandt has slammed Anthony Albanese’s move to adopt a net zero by 2050 pollution target, saying it will blow th...

Royal Commission a Climate Whitewash

20 February, 2020 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, has responded to the Prime Minister’s bushfire Royal commission announcement. “This Royal Commission looks like a...

Bandt: PM's technology target nothing more than a smokescreen

18 February, 2020 - The Prime Minister's leaked plan to adopt a so-called "technology target" instead of committing to Australia reaching net zero emissions by ...

Bandt: We need a Royal Commission into wage theft

18 February, 2020 - The Greens are calling for a Royal Commission to fully investigate the extent of wage theft and below-award payment in Australia following r...

Bandt calls for growth in ‘renewables mining’ with a Green New Deal

17 February, 2020 - Australian Greens Leader Adam Bandt has called for a growth in ‘renewables mining’ jobs and a phase out of thermal coal as part of the Green...

Bandt: Greens pitch Green New Deal to business leaders

12 February, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt, MP has reached out to the CEOs of Australia’s leading peak business and industry bodies to discu...

First QT Question by a Greens Leader Used To Highlight Climate Crisis

10 February, 2020 - Adam Bandt MP has today used his first question to the Prime Minister as Leader of the Australian Greens to highlight the government’s inact...

Labor joining the Liberals in hugging coal: Bandt

9 February, 2020 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt MP has slammed Labor Deputy Leader Richard Marles comments on ABC's Insiders program and called on Anthony Albanese ...

Bandt in push to double firefighters with coal levy

5 February, 2020 - As part of the Green New Deal to solve the climate crisis, Greens Leader Adam Bandt has called for the doubling of the number of paid firefig...

Adam Bandt elected as Greens leader, kicks off fight for a Green New Deal

4 February, 2020 - Adam Bandt MP, Member for Melbourne, has been elected as the Australian Greens Parliamentary Leader. Adam will use his first media conference...

This is what the climate emergency looks like

24 January, 2020 - By Adam Bandt This summer has made it eerily clear what the climate emergency looks like in Australia. As I dropped my kids off at c...