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Sarah Hanson-Young
Senator for South Australia

Government’s lack of exit strategy for Manus Island alarming: Greens

3 March, 2016 - Following comments from the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea relating to the burdensome nature of the Manus Island detention centre and the ne...

Greens introduce bill to stop government holding children in detention

2 March, 2016 - The Australian Greens have today introduced a Private Members Bill into the Senate that would end the government's practice of locking children ...

Labor and Liberal vote against Greens move to keep Australian born babies safe

25 February, 2016 - A move by the Australian Greens that would have allowed babies who were born in Australia to stay here, rather than be sent to Nauru, has be...

Dutton’s ‘blackmail’, ‘self-harm’ comments a disgrace: Greens

22 February, 2016 - The Immigration Minister's claims that he is being held to ransom and blackmailed by a one-year-old girl are inexcusable, the Australian Gre...

Nauru visa ban shows Prison Island’s paranoia

19 February, 2016 - The reported ban on all Australian and New Zealand visitor visas to Nauru shows the paranoia of the remote Pacific nation, the Australian Gr...

Greens support Lady Cilento Hospital staff stopping government cruelty

12 February, 2016 - The Australian Greens have congratulated the doctors and nurses at the Lady Cilento Hospital in Queensland who are standing up to the govern...

Greens urge PM to accept Victorian offer to let asylum seekers stay

6 February, 2016 - The Australian Greens have today urged Malcolm Turnbull to accept the Victorian Government's offer to give refuge to the 267 asylum seekers s...

PM must condemn Dutton’s racist dog-whistle

5 February, 2016 - The draft cabinet briefing, reportedly prepared for the Immigration Minister and leaked to the media today, proposing a radical overhaul of t...

Turnbull ‘mum’ on fate of refugee babies & children

4 February, 2016 - In response to his first question since yesterday’s High Court decision concerning the fate of the 37 babies and 90 children living in Austra...

Sending children to Nauru would be child abuse on the PM’s watch

3 February, 2016 - Following today's High Court's decision on offshore detention on Nauru, the Australian Greens have called on the Prime Minister to rule out s...

Babies should not be sent to Nauru

2 February, 2016 - The Australian Greens have called on Malcolm Turnbull to guarantee that no children will be sent back to Nauru, regardless of the outcome of ...

Australia fairly slammed by Human Rights Watch

28 January, 2016 - The Australian Greens have called on Malcolm Turnbull to address the criticisms levelled against his government, due to its treatment of peop...