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GREENS SLAM LABOR FOR BACKFLIPPING ON GAS AND SUPPORTING MORE CLIMATE-DESTROYING FOSSIL FUELS

9 September, 2024 - The Greens have slammed the Victorian Labor government for encouraging more fossil fuels in the middle of a climate crisis as Labor plots mo...

New minimum energy efficiency standards delivering comfortable homes for renters

9 September, 2024 - Today the ACT Government has released a report showing that changes to energy efficiency standards made in April last year have improved liv...

CARE ABOUT COST OF LIVING? FREEZE RENTS

8 September, 2024 - Today ACT Greens MLA Jo Clay has introduced a bill to help defend Canberra’s renters against the housing crisis, by putting a two-year freez...

ACT Government releases new plan to protect the Grey-headed Flying Fox

7 September, 2024 - The ACT Government has today released the Native Species Conservation Plan for the Grey-headed Flying-fox, which outlines strategic actions ...

Labor's reverse Robin Hood: Public schools bleeding money to private schools

6 September, 2024 - The Greens say Labor’s school funding plan is a ‘reverse Robin Hood’, bleeding public schools dry to give to wealthy private schools. New...

Irrational and illogical international student caps must go

6 September, 2024 - After the third hearing on the ESOS bill Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Greens Leader and spokesperson for Higher Education, has said that t...

Greens Statement on COP29

6 September, 2024 - The 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 29) will convene in November 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Australia Greens do not supp...

Statement on Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes and Genocide in Tigray

6 September, 2024 - The Australian Greens are deeply concerned about the situation in Tigray and the findings of human rights abuses that are detailed in the Ne...

Frontline services funding is welcome, but one in four women still not getting the help they need

6 September, 2024 - Today’s National Cabinet announcement brings total funding for the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children to $3.7 billion ...

Labor Letting the RBA Crash the Economy

6 September, 2024 - Treasurer Jim Chalmers is sitting on his hands while the RBA is causing massive pain to young people and mortgage holders and deliberately r...

Staged implementation for electronic monitoring

6 September, 2024 - The ACT Government is preparing to introduce electronic monitoring for existing community-based orders in a staged approach to implementing ...

Review highlights next steps to reduce First Nations incarceration rates

6 September, 2024 - The first phase of an independent review by the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at the University of Technology Syd...

NSW Labor abandons Closing the Gap targets as First Nations Remand numbers soar

6 September, 2024 - During Budget Estimates it was revealed that the rates of First Nations children and young people on remand in the 12 months since June 2023...

ACT Government to reduce emissions through low carbon concrete in government projects

6 September, 2024 - Today the ACT Government has committed to using low carbon concrete in all future government construction projects, where it is appropriate ...

Old Parties Choose Horse Racing and Gambling Over Housing (Again and Indefinitely)

5 September, 2024 - ACT Labor and the Canberra Liberals have today voted to not consider alternatives for the future of Thoroughbred Park, doubling down on thei...