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Larissa Waters
Senator for Qld & Greens Leader in the Senate

Greens move to dissolve toxic family law court inquiry

14 October, 2019 - The Greens will introduce a motion in the Senate today to dissolve the damaging Joint Select Committee Inquiry into Australia’s Family Law Sy...

Qld should stop propping up coal and invest in communities: Greens

30 September, 2019 - Greens Co-Deputy Leader Larissa Waters and Queensland Greens Member for Maiwar Michael Berkman have called on the Queensland Government to ...

Greens call for five-year 'cooling off' period for post-Ministerial lobbying and cut pollie pension for breaches

27 September, 2019 - The Greens have welcomed the report from the ministerial integrity inquiry that recommends the re-investigation of Christopher Pyne and Jul...

Liberals should end the war on Reef science

17 September, 2019 - The Liberals have cemented their position as a party of science denial by seeking to establish a parliamentary inquiry into the science on ...

Bishop and Pyne face Questioning today – Greens push for stronger ministerial codes of conduct

9 September, 2019 - Former senior Liberal cabinet members Julie Bishop and Christopher Pyne will give evidence today at a Senate inquiry into their compliance w...

Greens Corruption Watchdog Bill passes the Senate

9 September, 2019 - The Australian Senate has sent a strong message to the Morrison Government that it wants a federal corruption watchdog with teeth, voting 35...

Greens reintroduce fracking ban and landholder rights bill

31 July, 2019 - A bill to ban fracking and give farmers the right to say no to coal seam gas mining and fracking on their land was introduced to the Senate this...

Greens say Adani fight is 'far from over'

13 June, 2019 - The decision by Queensland's Labor Government to grant approval for the Adani Carmichael coal mine's groundwater management plan is deeply disap...

Greens launch biggest ever Queensland campaign

23 April, 2019 - The Queensland Greens today launched their federal campaign with leader Dr Richard Di Natale, co-Deputy Leader and Senator for Queensland Laris...

Greens Pledge to Block Labor's Gas Plan

23 April, 2019 - Bill Shorten's proposed plan to spend $1.5 billion opening up dirty natural gas drilling in the Galilee and Beetaloo Basins proves that the Lab...

Greens launch participatory democracy policy for citizens juries and petitions to be debated

15 April, 2019 - The Greens are today announcing a commitment to bring the voice of the people into politics through trials of Citizens Juries and participatory...

Waters and Bandt announce plan to create clean energy jobs for Qld

12 April, 2019 - 47,570 full-time jobs a year would be created in Queensland under the Greens plan to rapidly transform Australia’s energy system to renewables ...