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Larissa Waters
Senator for Qld & Greens Leader in the Senate

Budget missed opportunity for public transport and clean energy in Queensland

4 May, 2016 - The Liberal Government's budget fails to provide public transport or clean energy jobs in Queensland and instead focuses on military spending in o...

Greens condemn witch-hunt against voices for nature

4 May, 2016 - The Greens condemn the politically motivated witch hunt against the voices for nature in the government's recommendations in the House of Represen...

Inadequate domestic violence funding which lasts only until just after the election

4 May, 2016 - The Turnbull Budget locks in Abbott's cuts to domestic violence services and subjects women's legal and housing services, which help women escape ...

Greens to expose Labor’s $1 billion clean-energy funding black hole

2 May, 2016 - With Labor announcing a climate policy that seems to largely lock in the Abbott/Turnbull $1.3 billion cut from the Australian Renewable Energy Age...

Greens announce doubling of funding for women’s shelters and call for federal budget funding

29 April, 2016 - The Greens have announced a plan to double funding for women’s shelters and are calling on the Turnbull Government to reverse its domestic viol...

Greens announce 7-point plan to revitalise reef and economy as coal industry collapses

28 April, 2016 - The  Greens say Australia should be planning for a future without coal, not a future without our spectacular Great Barrier Reef, announcing a p...

Re-announcement of $50 million for Reef today equals Government’s Reef funding cuts

26 April, 2016 - The Environment Minister's announcement of $50 million in Reef Trust projects today is a re-announcement of existing Reef funding and is underm...

Australian Greens pledge to implement Paris Agreement

22 April, 2016 - The Australian Greens have joined with over 90 Greens parties around the world in committing to implement the Paris Agreement, reached at the U...

Cabinet Ministers undermining Paris agreement being signed tonight by questioning climate science

22 April, 2016 - With Cabinet Ministers questioning climate science, the world will have little confidence in Greg Hunt's signature on the Paris climate agreeme...

Domestic violence advertising campaign must come with boost to crisis funding for women who reach out as a result

20 April, 2016 - With the launch today of the advertising campaign to tackle attitudes that allow domestic violence to fester, the Greens are calling for the Tu...

Near blanket Reef bleaching shows we must quit coal

20 April, 2016 - With the National Coral Bleaching Taskforce finding 93 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef has coral bleaching, the Greens have renewed calls fo...

Legal Aid urgently needs funding boost given high demand for domestic violence family law services

18 April, 2016 - With new analysis showing 79 per cent of Legal-Aid-assisted family law cases include domestic violence, the Greens today renewed their call for...