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Steph Hodgins-May Senator for Vic

Greens will push for Senate Inquiry into childcare safety crisis, say enough is enough on patchwork fixes

15 August, 2025 - The Greens will move to establish a Senate Inquiry into the safety and quality of early childhood education and care as soon as Parliament res...

Greens urge the Government to put early learning on the productivity agenda

14 August, 2025 - Ahead of the Government’s productivity roundtables, the Productivity Commission’s interim report on Delivering quality care more efficiently r...

Greens welcome universal childcare on the agenda but urge Labor to lead — not outsource

11 August, 2025 - The Greens say Labor’s outsourcing of the Early Education Service Delivery Prices Project to Deloitte falls short of actual progress towards r...

Childcare bill passes but Greens say reactive legislation is not enough to keep kids safe

31 July, 2025 - The Greens say the newly passed Strengthening Regulation of Early Education Bill - which gives the Government new powers to cut off Child Care S...

Greens demand greater transparency after Albanese Government ranked among worst on document releases

24 July, 2025 - Damning new research from the Centre for Public Integrity has revealed that the Albanese Government is worse than the Morrison Government when i...

Greens’ sector-backed childcare watchdog is ready to go while the Government stalls with band-aid fixes

16 July, 2025 - In response to news that the government will look to establish a national database of childcare staff, the Greens are continuing to urge the gov...

If Minister Bowen is serious about climate change, he must release missing climate risk report

16 July, 2025 - The Greens are demanding the government immediately release the final report of the National Climate Risk Assessment in the wake of yesterday’s ...

It's time for tri-partisan reform to fix early childhood education

11 July, 2025 - This op-ed was published in the Canberra Times in July 2025.  With parliament returning in just two weeks, we have a rare chance to work...

Greens say fossil fuel lobbyists must get dirty influence out of climate policy

9 July, 2025 - The Greens have slammed the Albanese Government’s cosy relationship with fossil fuel lobbyists, in the wake of the release of a new white paper e...

Greens urge Royal Commission into safety and quality of early childhood education

1 July, 2025 - In light of a breaking story of alleged sexual assaults linked to an employee who worked at a number of childcare centres across Melbourne, the G...