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Janet Rice
Senator for Victoria

Budget provides $9000 a year for the wealthy and does nothing to raise the rate of income support.

26 October, 2022 - Australian Greens Social Services spokesperson Senator Janet Rice has condemned Labor’s decision to give tax cuts to the wealthy while one th...

There’s a threatened species crisis - yet no money in the Budget for native forests and habitat restoration.

26 October, 2022 - Australian Greens Spokesperson for Forests, Janet Rice, has lashed out at the Labor Government for failing to budget to protect native forest...

First hearing of the inquiry into the extent and nature of poverty in Australia

20 October, 2022 - The first hearing of the inquiry into the extent and nature of poverty in Australia has heard from community organisations, advocacy groups a...

Inquiry into poverty in Australia starts in Anti Poverty Week

14 October, 2022 - The first hearing of the Greens’ led Senate inquiry into the nature and extent of poverty and cost of living pressures in Australia begins on...

The burning of native forest biomass is not renewable energy

30 September, 2022 - Today the Federal Government’s Native forest biomass in the Renewable Energy Target consultation paper was released with submissions open t...

Goodbye to the Cashless Debit Card

28 September, 2022 - Australian Greens Social Services spokesperson Senator Janet Rice has welcomed the end of the cashless debit card after the bill passed ton...

Abolishing the Cashless Debit Card is a start, but we must end all compulsory income management

24 September, 2022 - Australian Greens Social Services spokesperson Senator Janet Rice has welcomed the end of the cashless debit card in four affected communit...

Greens call for National Cabinet to extend Pandemic Leave Payments

13 September, 2022 - Greens social services spokesperson, Senator Janet Rice, has urged the Federal Government to extend Pandemic Leave Payments beyond Septembe...

Greens establish Senate inquiry into poverty and cost of living

7 September, 2022 - Almost 50 years to the day (29 August, 1972) after the historic Henderson Commission of Inquiry into poverty, and after years of inaction by...

Newsflash to Minister Rishworth: There’s room in the budget to raise the rate of Jobseeker

30 August, 2022 - Australian Greens spokesperson for social services, Senator Janet Rice, has scoffed at Minister Rishworth’s assertion this morning that there ...

Robodebt Royal Commission must be forward-looking to ensure cruel scheme never happens again

25 August, 2022 - The Greens are calling for a forward-looking Robodebt Royal Commission, and for the Labor Government to address structural factors in our coun...