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Larissa Waters
Senator for Qld & Greens Leader in the Senate

Greens call on PM to stand down Sukkar

25 August, 2020 - The Greens are calling on the Prime Minister to stand down Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar while the Department of Finance investigates the...

Vote 1 Greens in the NT Election to protect the Territory from fracking

18 August, 2020 - This Saturday's Northern Territory election has the potential to make history by electing a strong, independent Greens voice to Parliament, Gr...

Major parties reject the need for parliamentary standards

12 August, 2020 - Despite the conduct of politicians having declined year on year and public confidence in democracy bottoming out, both major parties have reje...

Australia needs to raise the minimum wage for women's economic security

5 August, 2020 - The Greens have welcomed the updated Economic Security for Women’s White Paper, and called on the government raise the minimum wage to address ...

Latest government rort must be investigated by the Senate

31 July, 2020 - Senator Larissa Waters will call the Senate to vote on an inquiry into the Coalition’s rorting of government grants, which will include the Shin...

Government continues attack on Reef science

28 July, 2020 - The Coalition and One Nation have cemented their position as science denialists, having spent Monday badgering some of Australia’s peak scientif...

Privatised reef protection plan still ignores climate crisis

14 July, 2020 - The release of the 2020-2021 workplan for the Reef Trust Partnership once again shows the Reef requires comprehensive, science-based protection ...

Backroom Labor boys doing their coal donors’ bidding

13 July, 2020 - The Labor party backroom boys are pressuring Queensland’s Labor Premier to approve stage 3 of the New Acland coal mine, showing fossil fuel dono...

Crown of Thorns funding is bandaid solution while climate crisis is ignored

13 July, 2020 - The Greens welcome any improvements to deal with Crown of Thorns starfish, but it is a bandaid solution while the big threats to the Reef - clim...

Greens slam lobbying revolving door revealed in ANAO report

26 June, 2020 - In another damning report, the Australian National Audit Office has found that the government does not adequately assess conflict of interests r...

Greens push to ban dirty political donations and restore democracy

17 June, 2020 - The Greens will today introduce a bill in the Senate that will prohibit political donations from certain industries, and impose a cap on all oth...

Greens call on Parliament to unite and tackle corruption

16 June, 2020 - The House of Representatives will today be forced to debate the implementation of a national integrity commission, after the Senate expressed fr...