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Sarah Hanson-Young
Senator for South Australia

Senate backs call for local content rules for online streaming services

8 December, 2020 - The Senate has today backed a Greens motion calling on the Government to implement Australian content quotas for online video streaming subsc...

Koalas and Fraser Island burned – climate will take Australia's treasures

7 December, 2020 - The Australian Greens have warned that the government’s climate inaction is pouring fuel on fires incinerating our country’s iconic animals, ...

Morrison Govt inaction on climate crisis threatens World Heritage Sites

4 December, 2020 - The Australian Greens responded to the International Union for Conservation of Nature declaring climate change the top threat to natural Worl...

Morrison Govt and One Nation vote against koala protections

30 November, 2020 - The Morrison Government and One Nation have teamed up to vote against a moratorium on the clearing of koala habitat in the Senate today. Gre...

Greens welcome the release of the Media Reform Green Paper

27 November, 2020 - Greens Media and Communications Spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said: “We have seen two positive steps forward on media reform from ...

Morrison Govt’s environment-wrecking laws dead in water, Senate Inquiry report shows

27 November, 2020 - The Morrison Government’s new environment-wrecking laws do not have enough support to pass the parliament the Senate Inquiry report into the...

Greens warn water ministers not to put up white flag on saving the Murray-Darling tomorrow

26 November, 2020 - The Greens are warning water ministers not to put up the white flag on saving the Murray-Darling Basin and the environmental flows needed to...

Two more years in the fight to save Narrabri

25 November, 2020 - Despite Federal Government approval for the Santos Narrabri gas field, the community still has two years to stop the project and save Narrab...

Narrabri Gas approval a dangerous climate bomb

24 November, 2020 - Today’s federal approval of Santos’ Narrabri gasfields will do untold damage to our ability to keep global warming to 2 degrees, the Austral...

Counting koalas won’t save national treasure

23 November, 2020 - A koala census won’t save our national treasure and a moratorium on the clearing of critical habitat is still urgently needed, the Greens sa...

Greens label Senate Inquiry into environment law reforms a sham, call on crossbench to refuse to pass the bill

18 November, 2020 - The Greens have slammed the two-week Senate Inquiry into major environment law reforms labelling it a ‘sham’ and are calling on the crossben...

Senate Inquiry into Media Diversity established

11 November, 2020 - The Greens have successfully established an inquiry into media diversity with the support of the Senate today. Greens Spokesperson for Media...