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Sarah Hanson-Young
Senator for South Australia

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...

Adelaide Festivals, arts deserve public holiday recognition: Greens

11 March, 2024 - With Adelaide's 'Mad March' festival season in full swing, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has written to SA Premier Peter Malinauskas asking him to...

Chalmers exposes Labor as climate change con artists: Greens

11 March, 2024 - Responding to news that Labor would agree to Coalition demands to rewrite environment laws to fast-track new gas projects in the middle of a cl...

Climate change cooking our festivals, culture: Greens

9 March, 2024 - The Greens say climate change threatens our culture and way of life as soaring temperatures threaten multiple large music festivals and cultural...

Koala killings warrant logging pause, investigation: Greens

5 March, 2024 - Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young says footage and reports of dozens of killed and severely injured Koalas from logging on K...

Minister must designate Meta under the News Media Bargaining Code

1 March, 2024 - Today’s announcement from Meta that they will no longer be entering into commercial deals with news organisations is a huge blow to pu...

Dr Andrew Forrest backs Climate Trigger while Labor backs gas

26 February, 2024 - Monday 26 Feb 2024 The Greens have called on Labor to listen to business leaders like Dr Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest who today called for a c...