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Sarah Hanson-Young
Senator for South Australia

Senate hears Labor’s environmental integrity extinct after capitulation to mining & fossil fuel lobby

17 April, 2024 - Today’s Senate hearing into Australia’s Extinction Crisis has heard expert evidence that Labor’s broken promise to deliver strong env...

Labor breaks promise to deliver real environmental protection

16 April, 2024 - The Albanese Government has today announced they will dump their already overdue environmental law reform package in a capitulation to polluter...

Greens welcome Government's proposed decision to reject nature-wrecking project at Toondah Harbour

9 April, 2024 - Today Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has announced her proposed decision to refuse a development in Toondah Harbour's globally significant...

Soundcheck report puts spotlight on lack of government support for festivals

9 April, 2024 - Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens Spokesperson on the Arts and Chair of the Senate Inquiry into the National Cultural Policy said: ...

Greens will apply Senate spotlight to Government's secret environment law reform

2 April, 2024 - The Greens will use a Senate inquiry into Australia’s extinction crisis to probe the Federal Government’s environmental law refor...

Labor 'taking out the trash' with massive gas approval on Easter eve

28 March, 2024 - The Greens have accused Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek of taking out the trash after she approved yet another massive fossil fuel project...

Spendour in the Grass cancellation shows need for urgent festival funding

27 March, 2024 - “Today’s shock cancellation of the beloved Splendour in the Grass Festival is yet another reminder that we need urgent funding to support festi...

Tax breaks for hollywood can’t be rubber stamped while local content rules remain stalled

27 March, 2024 - The Greens won’t rubber-stamp new tax breaks for large Hollywood film studios through the Senate while local, Australian content rules for stre...

Gas fast-track committee report exposes Labor/Liberal climate deal

22 March, 2024 - Today’s Senate report confirms Labor and the climate-denying Liberals are backing new laws to fast-track gas projects and remove First Nations ...

NSW & Federal Labor must stop logging Koala habitat, native forests: Greens

22 March, 2024 - The Australian Greens have called on the NSW and Federal Labor Governments to immediately halt logging of critical koala habitat as a nati...

Australia’s environment rating downgraded as Greens call on Labor to drop climate-cooking ‘gas loophole’

19 March, 2024 - On a day when Australia’s national environmental scorecard has been downgraded by the ANU, the Greens have called on Labor to drop its ‘ga...

Greens link passage of EV laws to Labor’s gas fast-track bill

13 March, 2024 - The Greens have warned that a new Labor bill to fast-track gas projects, which the Treasurer said this week was a change sought by Peter Dutton...