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Larissa Waters
Greens Leader & Senator for Qld

Government must provide immediate aid to support women and girls in Afghanistan

19 August, 2021 - Greens senators Larissa Waters, Mehreen Faruqi and Janet Rice have written to the Minister for Women and Foreign Affairs Marise Payne to urge ...

Women falling behind as gender pay gap widens

19 August, 2021 - The Greens have renewed their calls for action on closing the gender pay gap after the Workplace Gender Equality Agency today revealed that th...

Electoral Act amendments would undermine democracy and stifle dissent

16 August, 2021 - The Greens are calling on Labor and the crossbench to oppose government amendments to the Commonwealth Electoral Act that would limit democrat...

No whale should suffer for false sense of security

11 August, 2021 - Another whale is separated from its pod and suffering after being entangled in a deadly shark net which it was forced to drag for kilometres b...

Government ordered to produce documents relating to dodgy fracking grant

10 August, 2021 - The government must release documents relating to the awarding of a $21 million grant to Liberal Party-aligned fracking company Empire Energy,...

Greens move for independent inquiry into Christian Porter

4 August, 2021 - The Greens today will move for an independent inquiry into Christian Porter’s fitness to be a Minister after the PM this week promoted the form...

Why wait? The Green's anti-corruption bill could be voted on next week

27 July, 2021 - The Greens say Australia can have a robust and effective federal anti-corruption framework in place within weeks if the government brings the Gr...

Government's Beetaloo grants gift public money to party donor

7 July, 2021 - The Greens say today’s awarding of $21 million of public money to a private corporation to frack the Northern Territory will turbocharge climate ...

Greens today will seek to progress Porter inquiry bill on anniversary of his accuser’s tragic death

24 June, 2021 - On the one-year anniversary of the suicide of Christian Porter’s accuser the Greens have called on the government, One Nation and Senator Jacqui...

Libs and Labor join forces to crush Senate transparency and democracy

23 June, 2021 - The move by the Coalition and Labor to permanently axe Senate motions is an attack on transparency and democracy that entrenches the big parties...

Great Barrier Reef in danger, government in denial

22 June, 2021 - The Greens have slammed the government’s knee-jerk climate denialism as the world delivers yet another stark warning that we risk losing the Gre...

Greens renew call for publicly funded abortion after private clinic closures

18 June, 2021 - The Greens have renewed their call for publicly funded abortions after private service Marie Stopes announced yesterday it was shutting down fou...