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Tiny tax tweak Budget a missed opportunity to get dental into Medicare, tax the big corporations: Greens

25 March, 2025 - The Australian Greens have said today’s budget was a missed opportunity to deliver real cost of living relief by getting dental into Medicare, ...

Paltry fine for billion dollar coal company after polluting Royal National Park

25 March, 2025 - The Land and Environment Court has fined Peabody Coal just $196,560 of the maximum penalty of $5 million for the spilling of coal sludge into t...

Greens to send Labor's rushed environmental legislation to inquiry

25 March, 2025 - “The Government’s rushed legislation to gut environment laws must be scrutinised properly. “Murky legal questions about the environmental co...

Brisbane locals say no to a major stadium at Victoria Park/Barrambin

25 March, 2025 - Media leaks today reveal that the Queensland LNP Government has ignored many of the recommendations of their supposedly independent venues revi...

Greens offer full support for workers and unions with the introduction of paid reproductive health leave bill

25 March, 2025 - As Dutton declares his intention to make life harder for workers the Greens are doubling down on supporting workers rights with a groundbreakin...

The CLP Government’s proposed public housing reforms will only fuel crime and further entrench disadvantage

24 March, 2025 - Background The CLP Government’s public housing reforms will fast-track evictions for tenants with unpaid rent, property damage, or antisocia...

Environment laws are supposed to protect the environment, not green-light destruction

24 March, 2025 - Comments attributable to Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens Spokesperson for the Environment and Water. “These rushed laws will gut Australi...

Labor’s budget savings on consultants don’t go far enough

24 March, 2025 - Labor has consistently refused to separate the amount spent on consultants from the overall spend on external contractors so it’s impossible to...

Queensland public school deal locks in underfunding for another decade

24 March, 2025 - Federal Labor’s school funding agreement today with the Queensland Government guarantees that another generation of public school kids will nev...

Labor must rule out trashing environment laws if they want to truly protect nature

22 March, 2025 - Senator Sarah Hanson Young, Greens Spokesperson for the Environment and Water has responded to the Albanese Government's environment announceme...

$4 billion to Sovereign Defence Capacity

22 March, 2025 - The Greens today launched a policy that will reallocate $4 billion from savings within the Defence budget towards domestic production capabilit...

Greens propose new ‘Climate Response Service’ to aid flood and fire response

22 March, 2025 - Australia would have a Climate Response Service to put thousands of people on the ground and help prepare for fires, floods, and cyclones; and ...

Murray Watt missing in action on mutual obligations disaster

21 March, 2025 - The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations’ extraordinary admission today that more elements of mutual obligations have been pau...

Still no consequences for PwC tax scandal

21 March, 2025 - Assistant Treasurer, Stephen Jones has claimed that the government has not forgotten the PwC tax leaks scandal even though it’s been two years ...

Chlamydiosis discovered in South West Sydney Koalas and public kept in the dark

21 March, 2025 - Koalas in one of the few chlamydia free populations in NSW have been found with the disease that causes infertility, blindness and increas...