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Mehreen Faruqi
Deputy Leader & Senator for NSW

Speech: Greyhound Racing

6 March, 2023 - 2023 got off to a bad start for greyhounds. It's only March, and there have already been 25 track deaths and 1,963 injuries this year. Over the ...

Speech: Paid Parental Leave

6 March, 2023 - I rise to speak about the Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Improvements for Families and Gender Equality) Bill 2022 and associate myself with the ...

Speech: PhD Students and Academic Research

6 March, 2023 - I rise to speak to the Higher Education Support Amendment (Australia's Economic Accelerator) Bill 2022. This bill amends the Higher Education Su...

Greens urge Labor to stare down live export industry pressure

2 March, 2023 - Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Spokesperson for Animal Welfare, has criticised  efforts by the live sheep expo...

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...