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Larissa Waters
Senator for Qld & Greens Leader in the Senate

Women’s safety left behind, again

10 May, 2023 - With every budget the government ignores the women’s safety sector’s sustained calls for $1 billion in funding, leaving frontline family and dome...

Budget must make abortion and contraception free

28 April, 2023 - Today is the fifth and final public hearing of the Greens initiated Universal access to reproductive healthcare inquiry. The inquiry has hea...

Single Parenting doesn’t stop at 13

27 April, 2023 - The Greens are urging Labor to use the upcoming Budget to remove the Parenting Payment Single cut off and fully reinstate the eligibility age t...

Government must heed the advice of its Women's Economic Equality Taskforce

19 April, 2023 - The Greens are calling on the Government to accept all recommendations of the Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce (WEET) in the May Budget, and...

Reviews are in: AAD culture is bad for women

5 April, 2023 - With yet another damning report confirming widespread cultural problems at the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), the Greens are calling for T...

Attitude adjustment needed on gendered violence

29 March, 2023 - Today’s release of the latest National Community Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women Survey (NCAS) shows that serious cultural change is n...

Greens welcome family law reforms that put kids first

29 March, 2023 - The Greens welcome the introduction of family law amendments aimed at putting children’s welfare first in family law matters. After years of...

Urgent cost-of-living response needed for women and children in poverty

28 March, 2023 - Recent reports from ACOSS and analysis by Anti-Poverty Week have confirmed that poverty and homelessness are disproportionately impacting women...

Status of Women Report Card: failing with flying colours

8 March, 2023 - The Greens note today’s announcement of Status of Women Report Card, but a mere distillation of existing data is inadequate, we need actions and...

Labor must return dirty donations before safeguard negotiations

13 February, 2023 - The Greens have called on Labor to return $896,000 in donations from corporations covered by its proposed Safeguard mechanism to give the pu...

Dodgy donation laws a safe bet for gambling industry

9 February, 2023 - News that the Communications Minister, who oversees the Interactive Gambling Act and was previously the shadow minister in charge of online b...

Coal and gas donations wrote the Safeguard legislation, new AEC donations data reveals

1 February, 2023 - Political donations data published today by the Australian Electoral Commission shows that the Liberals, Nationals and Labor raked in a combi...