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Sarah Hanson-Young
Senator for South Australia

Nation ‘misty-eyed’ as Omid declared dead

29 April, 2016 - The Australian Greens have expressed their condolences to the friends, family and wife of a young man named Omid who has died after self-immola...

SA Greens join with traditional owners in saying ‘no’ to waste dump

29 April, 2016 - State and Federal South Australian Greens are calling on the community to stand together with traditional owners who are fighting against havin...

Government has no refugee plan beyond fear-mongering election politics

28 April, 2016 - The Australian Greens have accused the government of having no plan for people seeking asylum, besides using them as the basis for a divisive f...

Manus Island illegal; time to close the camp and bring the people to Australia

26 April, 2016 - The Australian Greens have welcomed the PNG Supreme Court's decision, declaring the Manus Island camp to be illegal, and have called on Malc...

Order for the Production of Asylum Seekers

20 April, 2016 - Senator HANSON-YOUNG I move: That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Prime Minister, no later than 9.30 am on Thursday...

Labor and Liberal vote against SA jobs and Whyalla Steel

19 April, 2016 - The Labor and Liberal parties combined to defeat a motion* from SA Green Senators Robert Simms and Sarah Hanson-Young in support of the steel i...

Senate demands government’s Wilson documents

19 April, 2016 - The Senate has supported a Greens motion ordering the government to table all contracts that it holds with Wilson Security and any information ...

A Better Way – Greens announce plan to welcome 50,000 refugees a year

16 April, 2016 - The Australian Greens have unveiled a bold yet fiscally responsible vision to harness the nation building capacity that people seeking asylum ...

Nauru rape victim must be transferred to Australia

15 April, 2016 - The Australian Greens have called on Malcolm Turnbull to offer a woman, allegedly raped on Nauru while suffering an epileptic seizure, safe pas...

Greens launch SA clean energy plan to power the new economy and create jobs

11 April, 2016 - Greens leader Senator Richard Di Natale is visiting Adelaide today to announce the South Australian component of the Greens’ RenewAustralia pla...

Gov must strip Wilson Security of contracts

5 April, 2016 - Wilson Security should be stripped of their contracts for the offshore detention camps on Manus Island and Nauru after its poor corporate govern...

Childcare package to leave hundreds of thousands worse off, needs work: Greens

4 April, 2016 - The government's childcare package will result in hundreds of thousands of families being worse off and will need to be amended, the Australian ...