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Mehreen Faruqi
Deputy Leader & Senator for NSW

Flotilla participants welcomed home in Sydney after kidnapping, imprisonment and abuse by Israel

25 May, 2026 - Senator Faruqi joined family, friends, and supporters at Sydney International Airport this morning to welcome home seven of the brave Australian ...

Albanese and Wong utterly failing to protect Australians as Israel kidnaps 11 more Australian humanitarians

19 May, 2026 - Eleven Australians have been kidnapped in international waters by Israel while trying to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid to people in...

Budget fails communities of colour and students: No changes to JRG, nothing for the National Anti-Racism Framework

13 May, 2026 - Greens Deputy Leader and spokesperson for Higher Education and Anti-Racism, Senator Faruqi, has responded to last night’s federal budget, which f...

Ceasefire welcome, time to cut the ties with the US

8 April, 2026 - The agreement between Israel, the US and Iran to a two-week ceasefire is a positive development in a war that should have never started. This il...

Senators Faruqi, Thorpe & Payman write to President demanding action on racism in the Senate

12 March, 2026 - Senators Mehreen Faruqi, Senator Lidia Thorpe and Senator Fatima Payman have written to President Sue Lines calling for urgent action to addres...

Ban on public sale of SGARs is a big win for animals

11 March, 2026 - After a four year review into rodenticides, the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) certified yesterday that it is...

Labor Government refuse to support Greens motion in the Senate calling for action to combat rising Islamophobia

11 March, 2026 - March 15 is the seventh anniversary of the Christchurch mosque massacre, where an Australian white supremacist killed 51 Muslims and it marks t...

Republic now: Greens call on Albanese to cut ties with the whole monarchy

24 February, 2026 - Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Greens Leader and spokesperson for the Republic, has commented on Prime Minister Albanese’s letter to the UK ...

Albanese must adopt systemic Racism@Unis plan, scrap one-sided Anti-Semitism Envoy ‘report cards’

17 February, 2026 - The Race Discrimination Commissioner today released the final report of the Racism@Uni study, Respect at Uni: Study into Antisemitism, ...