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SA on a road to nowhere under Liberals

3 April, 2019 - South Australians have been left high and dry under Scott Morrison’s pre-election budget. “With no marginal seats to throw cash at, South Aust...

$245.7m for school chaplains puts LGBTIQ+ students in danger, say Greens

3 April, 2019 - The Morrison government putting $245.7 million into religious chaplains in secular, public schools over the next four years puts LGBTIQ+ student...

Christmas Island reopening a cynical waste

3 April, 2019 - The Liberals spending $185m to reopen and then close Christmas Island is rank cynicism and deeply wasteful, Greens Immigration spokesperson Nick...

Greens: Election Budget Won't Impress Canberrans

3 April, 2019 - The Election Budget delivered by the Morrison Government last night will do nothing to impress Canberrans crying out for action on climate chang...

It's official - Environment & Local Government Ministers stripped of all power

3 April, 2019 - The Berejiklian government has official stripped Ministers for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government of all their responsibilities to m...

Inspector characterises Hakea prison as “overcrowded, over-stretched and over-stressed

3 April, 2019 -  Media Release: Tuesday 2 April 2019   Greens spokesperson for Corrective Services Hon Alison Xamon MLC has today called on the ...

Mental Health Code of Practice falls short of meaningful change for FIFO workers

3 April, 2019 - Greens spokesperson for Mental Health Hon Alison Xamon MLC has said that the Code of Practice for the mental health of FIFO workers released tod...

Lethal shark culling to end in Great Barrier Reef

2 April, 2019 - Healthy Oceans spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, today praised the order from the Administrative Appeals Tribunal which will see an end ...

Federal Budget a cynical mess: Greens

2 April, 2019 - This budget is a cynical attempt to buy votes instead of planning for the nation’s looming challenges. What we needed was a plan to tackle the c...

Independence lost and this state's natural, cultural and built heritage will suffer

2 April, 2019 - The Liberal government has today indicated they intend to dissolve crucial independent offices including the Office of Environment and Heritage ...

Labor’s weak EV policy lacks mechanisms on achieving their EV target, leaves Australia stuck in the slow lane, say Australian Greens

1 April, 2019 - Labor’s electric vehicle policy including a target of 50% by 2030 is weak and lacks any clarity or mechanisms to achieve the target, say the Aus...

Compensation for Australia's thalidomide survivors must be allocated in tomorrow's federal budget

1 April, 2019 - Monday, 1 April 2019 Australian Greens Disability Rights spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John has supported calls by Thalidomide Group Austra...

Labor dishes up dog's breakfast of Liberal leftovers on climate

1 April, 2019 - Labor dishes up dog's breakfast of Liberal leftovers on climate Greens’ climate change spokesperson and Co-Deputy Leader, Adam Bandt, said that ...

$527 million funding for Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation is a massive win for disabled people, not Morrison Government

1 April, 2019 - Tuesday, 2 April 2019 Australian Greens Disability Rights spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John has called the announcement of $527 millio...

$324 billion reasons the PRRT is a joke

1 April, 2019 - Treasury spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, today commented on new tax statistics released by the ATO revealing tax credits to oil and ga...

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