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Mehreen Faruqi
Deputy Leader & Senator for NSW

Millions of Australians face “debt avalanche”- A whopping 7.1% rise in their student debt on 1 June

26 April, 2023 - CPI figures released this morning confirm that millions of Australians will be slugged with a 7.1% increase in their student debts on 1 June. ...

The activity test must go and early childhood education and care workers deserve a pay rise now

19 April, 2023 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed the Women's Economic Equality Taskforce’s recomm...

Labor betrays millions of Australians with student debt

18 April, 2023 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has lashed the Government for refusing to back her bill which...

Labor must clean-up Morrison’s Job Ready Graduates mess

13 April, 2023 - Submissions to the University Accord process show that the fee hikes and funding cuts associated with the Job Ready Graduates scheme should be ...

Government must act on abattoir allegations

28 March, 2023 - Last night’s 7.30 report exposed the horrific suffering endured by pigs in Australian abattoirs when they are stunned using CO2 before slaughte...

Speech: The Safeguard Mechanism

28 March, 2023 - I rise today to support this bill, the Safeguard Mechanism (Crediting) Amendment Bill, but I am doing so with a heavy heart because of the miss...

Speech: Anniversary of the Iraq War

22 March, 2023 - March this year is the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, led by the United States and its lackeys, including, shamefully, this country....

Speech: Anti-Trans Attacks

22 March, 2023 - It has been a very tough time for the trans community. This weekend we saw a vile alliance of hate between transphobes, Neo-Nazis and other far...

Speech: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

20 March, 2023 - Every year, 21 March marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, or IDERD—at least, it does in every other c...

Overwhelming support for Student Debt Freeze in Senate Inquiry

16 March, 2023 - Submissions to a Senate inquiry into a bill introduced by Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Spokesperson for Edu...

Government must reckon with Islamophobia

15 March, 2023 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Anti-racism spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has urged the Government to reckon with the ugly reality of...

Australia should restore the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

14 March, 2023 - Greens Deputy Leader and Anti-Racism spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has called on the Labor Government to restore “Harmony Day”, held annu...