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Larissa Waters
Senator for Qld & Greens Leader in the Senate

Voter ID laws fix an imaginary problem while creating real ones

28 October, 2021 - The Greens say the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Voter Integrity) Bill 2021, introduced to parliament today, is more cynical Morrison Gove...

Voter ID laws a Trumpian culture war tactic from a desperate government

27 October, 2021 - The Greens say proposed voter identification laws are a solution in search of a problem that will only serve to disenfranchise voters who are...

Disasters of rampant outsourcing of the public service laid bare

19 October, 2021 - The Greens says today’s second interim report from the Select Committee on Job Security shows that the Morrison Government’s ideological miss...

Senate vote to force PM’s hand on Greens’ National Integrity Commission Bill

18 October, 2021 - On Thursday the Senate will vote on a motion that could force the PM to bring the Greens’ National Integrity Commission Bill on for debate in...

Gambling donations a stain on our democracy, but Liberals, Nationals and Labor happy to keep cashing in

14 October, 2021 - Forensic research by the ABC has shed new light on just how important a ban on political donations from the gambiling industry is. The ABC’s ...

Another day, another rort: Greens to push for vote on their National Integrity Commission bill

13 October, 2021 - The Green says revelations that community grants from the Building Better Regions Fund were disproportionately awarded to Coalition seats onc...

Greens’ integrity body scores top marks; PM’s model “weakest in country”

6 October, 2021 - The Greens’ model for a National Integrity Commission, which passed the Senate two years ago, has been given top marks by The Centre for Publi...

Greens to force debate on National Integrity Commission Bill

5 October, 2021 - In the wake of the NSW ICAC investigating former Premier Gladys Berejiklian, the Greens will move a concurrence motion in the next parliamenta...

PM’s COAG bill a slippery slope to increased executive power

27 September, 2021 - The Greens say evidence presented at today’s inquiry into the government’s COAG Legislation Amendment Bill shows just how far the PM has st...

Porter's got to go

16 September, 2021 - The Greens say the Prime Minister should dump Christian Porter from his Ministry, and that the so-called "investigation" into whether the s...

Secret Porter donor makes a mockery of donations laws

14 September, 2021 - The Greens say Christian Porter’s refusal to reveal who partially funded his defamation case against the ABC is the latest chapter in a sor...

1000 days waiting for a federal ICAC

8 September, 2021 - The Greens have slammed the government for its thousand day failure to introduce a federal corruption watchdog, saying that the four-digit d...