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Larissa Waters
Senator for Qld & Greens Leader in the Senate

Reform the whole system to end political corruption

9 December, 2021 - Media Release  The Greens have announced a policy to reform the political system, clean up politics, and strengthen democracy. At the...

Reform the whole system to end political corruption

9 December, 2021 - The Greens have announced a policy to reform the political system, clean up politics, and strengthen democracy. At the end of a bruising poli...

Liberals and Labor join hands to kill off accountability in the Senate

2 December, 2021 - The Greens say today’s move by the Coalition and Labor to reaffirm their dodgy deal to permanently axe Senate motions represents one more nai...

Liberals and Labor conspire to silence charities

1 December, 2021 - Labor has signed on to the government’s anti-democracy agenda by voting for new legislation designed to silence critical voices from the nonp...

Government must act swiftly on Jenkins recommendations

30 November, 2021 - The Greens have warned the government that Australian women expected them to swiftly and fully implement the recommendations of the Jenkins ...

More action needed to eliminate violence against women

25 November, 2021 - On International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women the Greens have called for the Morrison Government to commit serious fund...

Government’s DV Commission is more about optics than women’s safety

24 November, 2021 - The Greens say the government’s Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission is an inadequate response to the women’s safety crisis that ...

Greens call for increase in WGEA’s powers

24 November, 2021 - The Greens say the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) must be given more powers to tackle gender inequality in the workplace, including...

Shameful and traumatic family law inquiry comes to a welcome end

23 November, 2021 - The Greens say today’s tabling of the Final Report of Pauline Hanson’s toxic family law inquiry marks the welcome end of more than two years...

Cowardly PM shelves corruption watchdog bill as government unravels

19 November, 2021 - Reports that Scott Morrison will abandon his weak anti-corruption body until after the election shows that he never intended to do it in the...

PM’s feeble integrity body would be unable to investigate Sukkar allegations

8 November, 2021 - The Greens say that the government’s proposed integrity body would be incapable of investigating new revelations that Assistant Treasurer Mic...

Morrison sacrifices Great Barrier Reef for fossil fuel cash

5 November, 2021 - The Greens say today’s report that more than 98% of the Great Barrier Reef’s coral reefs have suffered bleaching is a damning indictment of t...