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Mehreen Faruqi
Deputy Leader & Senator for NSW

Australia should co-sponsor Vanuatu’s ICJ resolution

23 February, 2023 - Greens Deputy Leader and International Aid & Global Justice spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has urged the Australian Government to c...

Uni wage theft report a wake-up call for government

20 February, 2023 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that a new NTEU report on $83 million of stolen w...

Endorsement of draft behaviour codes a turning point

8 February, 2023 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has said that today’s parliamentary endorsement of Behaviour Standards and Codes is ...

Speech: Revising the Definition of Anti-Semitism

8 February, 2023 - In November, the Parliamentary Friends of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance wrote to university vice-chancellors urging them t...

Speech: The Jenkins Report and Parliamentary Standards

8 February, 2023 -  I rise to speak to the 2022 annual report from the Parliamentary Leadership Taskforce, which provides an update on the implementation o...

Speech: Job-Ready Graduates and Student Debt

7 February, 2023 - I wish to speak to the Higher Education Support Amendment (2022 Measures No. 1) Bill 2022. I will come to the Greens' position on this bill i...

Speech: Santos's Pilliga Narrabri Gas Project

7 February, 2023 - Last month I joined the fearless and staunch Gamilaraay people in Coonabarabran in their ongoing fight against Santos's Pilliga Narrabri gas ...

Statement from Greens Leader Adam Bandt addressing Senator Lidia Thorpe's resignation from the party

6 February, 2023 - Senator Lidia Thorpe has advised Greens Leader Adam Bandt of her decision to resign from the Australian Greens, but remain in the Senate.&nbs...

Greens call for acceleration of gas code of conduct

19 January, 2023 - The Greens have called for the rapid introduction of an interim Mandatory Code of Conduct with teeth for gas companies, to lay bare the excus...

Safeguard rules released today must go further to curb coal and gas: Greens

10 January, 2023 - The draft Safeguard Mechanism rules released by the Federal Labor government today don’t go far enough and risk continuing to be captured by ...

Inflation remains high as Greens introduce bill to freeze student debt

30 November, 2022 - Greens Deputy Leader and Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi will today formally introduce a private senator’s bill that abolishes...

Behavioural codes of conduct will make parliament a safer place

29 November, 2022 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that new behavioural codes of conduct developed by the Joint Select Committe...