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Larissa Waters
Senator for Qld & Greens Leader in the Senate

Liberals’ support for climate sceptic motion is anti-science and anti-jobs

9 March, 2016 - The motion adopted by the NSW Liberals calling on the Turnbull Government to arrange public debates on whether climate change is real shows how ...

$100 000 gender pay won’t be fixed by hiding it

3 March, 2016 - With a report out today, showing senior female managers earn $100 000 less per year than male counterparts, the Greens are urging the other part...

Allegations of shonky business more evidence against Adani company

3 March, 2016 - Revelations that an Adani subsidiary's own lawyer is accusing it of fraud is yet another warning that this company should not be trusted with th...

Government concern for coral bleaching insincere unless Adani mine stopped

1 March, 2016 - With coral bleaching already confirmed in the Great Barrier Reef today and scientific concern for a mass bleaching event soon, the state and fed...

Qld Labor’s inaction on a dump levy stinks

29 February, 2016 - The Queensland Labor Government must urgently re-introduce a waste management levy to stop Queensland being treated as a dumping ground by o...

We need more than a Band-Aid approach to help Pacific neighbours with extreme weather

24 February, 2016 - Responding to the devastation Cyclone Winston brought to Fiji, the Greens have called for more humanitarian assistance for Fiji, an overall ...

CSIRO climate science saves lives and money

22 February, 2016 - The Climate Council's report today shows CSIRO climate science, which faces cuts presided over by the Liberal Turnbull Government, helps fir...

Greens' plan to cover Council roofs with solar panels and cut Council power bills

15 February, 2016 - Council can cut its power bills and save ratepayers money under a Greens' plan, announced today, to allow solar companies to install solar p...

Gutting CSIRO climate science is the enemy of innovation

4 February, 2016 - News that the Turnbull Liberal Government is sacking more CSIRO scientists, gutting climate science in Australia, shows what a climate-denial...

Qld Labor approves Southern Hemisphere’s largest coal mine to cook the Reef and the planet

3 February, 2016 - The Queensland Labor Government's approval of the Adani Carmichael mine is a climate pollution disaster, which threatens our Great Barrier Re...

Senate agrees 150 days without a Sex Discrimination Commissioner in unacceptable

3 February, 2016 - The Senate has passed an Australian Greens motion calling on the Turnbull Liberal Government to hurry up and appoint a Sex Discrimination Com...

Greens Senate Inquiry into the exposure of Australians’ investments to the carbon bubble

2 February, 2016 - The Australian Greens have today established a Senate Inquiry into how transparently companies report their investments in fossil fuels and t...