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Sarah Hanson-Young
Senator for South Australia

Morrison Govt should rule out lifting ban on parrot importation

25 August, 2020 - The Greens have called on the Morrison Government to rule out lifting a ban on the importation of exotic parrot species into Australia. Greens...

National tourism plan urgently needed with 172k businesses on brink of bust

20 August, 2020 - 172,000 tourism businesses across Australia are just two weeks away from going bust, the Covid19 Senate Committee has heard today, prompting t...

Centre Alliance must show spine on super

18 August, 2020 - The Greens have today slammed Centre Alliance for reportedly helping the Liberal Party abandon an election promise and delay an increase to wo...

Arts and entertainment industry funds won’t flow till restrictions lifted

11 August, 2020 - The Secretary to the Prime Minister has today told the Senate’s Covid Committee that money previously promised to help the arts & entertainmen...

SA Govt must rule out cut to River Murray water allocation

7 August, 2020 - The Greens are calling on the South Australian Government to guarantee the state won’t lose a single gigalitre of water allocated to it under t...

Govt claims $10m for Fox Sports is a Covid Response Measure but no extra funding for ABC

6 August, 2020 - The Morrison Government’s $10million for Fox Sports to broadcast women’s and niche sports is part of its Covid Response Package, yet no extra f...

Pandemic Leave desperately needed with a quarter of South Aussie workers having no leave entitlement

6 August, 2020 - Greens Senator for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Young has called for South Australia to be included in the Federal Government’s Paid Pandemic L...

Australia Post and Christine Holgate Settlement

4 August, 2020 - Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, chair of the Senate Inquiry into Australia Post and Greens spokesperson for communications, responded to the statem...

Wildlife toll shows environment needs stronger protections

29 July, 2020 - With a revised tally of killed or displaced wildlife from the summer’s bushfires coming in at three times initial estimates, it’s clear now is n...

Greens welcome Liberal Minister’s comments and call on Labor to join the fight.

25 July, 2020 - The Greens have welcomed the intervention from NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean who has broken ranks today with the Federal Government over pl...

PM bells the cat on plans to weaken environmental protections

24 July, 2020 - Greens Spokesperson for the Environment Senator Hanson-Young responded to the PM's comments today on changes environmental laws: “The Prime Mins...

States and territories should tell PM today they won't stand for weakening of environment laws

24 July, 2020 - State and Territory leaders should tell the Prime Minister today they won’t stand for a further weakening of environmental laws to green light m...