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Mehreen Faruqi
Deputy Leader & Senator for NSW

Speech: International Women's Day

23 February, 2021 - On 8 March, millions of people across the world will be marking International Women's Day. We will look back and reflect on how far we've co...

Speech: Workers' Wages

23 February, 2021 -  I thank Senator Walsh for bringing this matter of public importance to the Senate. Over the last 40 years, Australia has gone from being on...

Speech: Global Solidarity and Human Rights Crises

17 February, 2021 - It has become easier over the last 12 months for many of us to forget about, or at least deprioritise, the struggles of oppressed people acr...

Speech: The Children of WorkChoices

17 February, 2021 - This government is full of the ideological children of John Howard. A fundamental project of the Liberal and National parties is shifting th...

Labor backflip would only benefit the rich

15 February, 2021 - Australian Greens Housing spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said reports that Labor may scrap commitments to wind back negative gearin...

Greens welcome Labor’s rejection of PEP11

5 February, 2021 - The Australian Greens have welcomed Labor’s confirmation today that the party opposes the renewal of the Petroleum Exploration Permit 11 (PEP...

Racism in Australia not going away: Scanlon report

4 February, 2021 - Australian Greens Anti-Racism spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the Scanlon Foundation’s Mapping Social Cohesion report for 2...

Speech: Liberal false equivalences on the far-right

4 February, 2021 - If you needed any more evidence that this government has absolutely no interest in grappling with the existential threat of far-Right extremi...

Speech: Our manufacturing future

4 February, 2021 - The Nationals claim to have a plan for manufacturing, but all this is is a plan for locking in a climate catastrophe and destroying the futur...

Speech: Shark fishing

3 February, 2021 - I rise tonight to speak about the global shark fin trade and inhumane practise of shark finning. For some years I have spoken out about shark...

Speech: Stopping the spread of far-right extremism

3 February, 2021 - I rise to speak on the matter of urgency before the chamber. As senators would know, this is an issue that is front of my mind as the Greens ...

Uni Job Carnage Devastating But Predictable

3 February, 2021 - New figures released by Universities Australia today that more than 17,000 university jobs have been lost in the past year are devastating bu...