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Janet Rice
Senator for Victoria

New environment laws must ban native forest logging

22 May, 2023 - Only a total ban on native forest logging will help conserve the environment and save the wildlife that call our forests home, the Greens say, fo...

Senate inquiry exposes Labor’s plan to expand compulsory income management

15 May, 2023 - Today, the Community Affairs Legislative Committee held a hearing into Labor’s proposed Income Management Reform Bill, which essentially reintrod...

Poverty in Australia Senate Inquiry Interim Report Tabled

4 May, 2023 - Senate committee recommends government take urgent action on poverty, but Labor refuses to support their own calls while in Opposition to raise Jo...

Labor making the wrong choices, again, on JobSeeker

19 April, 2023 - The Greens have slammed the Labor Government’s refusal to substantially increase job seeker and rent assistance, despite the recommendations of...

Greens introduce Bill for an independent Anti-Poverty Commission

30 March, 2023 - The Greens have today introduced the Ending Poverty in Australia (Antipoverty Commission) Bill 2023 to the Senate. The bill lays out a legislat...

Urgent cost-of-living response needed for women and children in poverty

28 March, 2023 - Recent reports from ACOSS and analysis by Anti-Poverty Week have confirmed that poverty and homelessness are disproportionately impacting women...

Greens call for Poverty Reduction Package in May Budget

22 March, 2023 - Following a ACOSS/UNSW report released today highlighting the inadequacy of Australia’s social security system and the depth of poverty fo...

One year on from the Lismore floods, Senate poverty Inquiry hears from a community left behind

21 February, 2023 - The fifth hearing of the year-long Senate inquiry into the extent and nature of poverty in Australia was held today in Lismore. Almost a ...

One year on from the Lismore floods, Senate Poverty Inquiry hears from a community left behind

21 February, 2023 - The fifth hearing of the year-long Senate inquiry into the extent and nature of poverty in Australia was held today in Lismore. Almost a ...

Greens urge Labor to act on calls to raise Jobseeker in May’s budget

17 January, 2023 - Australian Greens spokesperson for social services, Senator Janet Rice, is again urging Minister Jim Chalmers to heed calls from the Greens, ...