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National redress scheme for survivors of child sex abuse supported by Senate

14 September, 2016 - The Senate has supported a motion calling on the Government to provide funding of last resort as part of a national redress scheme for surv...

Asylum Seekers

14 September, 2016 - Senator McKIM My question is to the Attorney-General, representing the Prime Minister. Attorney, today Save the Children and UNICEF reveale...

Statement on the marriage plebiscite

13 September, 2016 - "I said I would wait to see the government's proposal and, now that I have, I won't be supporting it," Senator Hanson-Young said. "This isn...

Greens support Triple J moving date of Hottest 100

13 September, 2016 - With calls becoming louder every year to respect those for whom January 26 represents a tragedy, not a celebration, the Greens strongly sup...

Census

13 September, 2016 - Senator LUDLAM I, and also on behalf of Senators Lambie and Xenophon, move: That the Senate— (a) notes:    (i) the technical failures of th...

Omnicuts short change ARENA and Australia’s most vulnerable

13 September, 2016 - Australian Greens Leader Senator Di Natale, Spokesperson for Community Services Senator Siewert and Spokesperson for Energy and Climate Cha...

We need assisted dying as well as proper advance care directive laws

13 September, 2016 - Victorian Greens health spokesperson Colleen Hartland welcomes the Government’s critical improvements to advance care planning but says the...

The government has fallen in line with industry spin on Regional Forest Agreements

13 September, 2016 - I also rise to speak to the motion that the Senate take note of the Australian and Tasmanian Government Response to the Review of the Imple...

Greens to protect renewable energy jobs in WA

13 September, 2016 - Renewable energy projects in Western Australia will cease to exist without continued funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (A...

The staggering financial cost of Australia’s inhumanity

13 September, 2016 - A report from the Australian National Audit Office has revealed that it costs $573,000 per person per year to keep people in offshore deten...

Greens support Triple J moving date of Hottest 100

13 September, 2016 - With calls becoming louder every year to respect those for whom January 26 represents a tragedy, not a celebration, the Greens strongly sup...

Turnbull caves in on plebiscite funding

13 September, 2016 - Turnbull caves in on plebiscite funding The Greens have urged Labor to fully commit to block any marriage equality plebiscite, after Cabine...

Omnicuts short change ARENA and Australia’s most vulnerable

13 September, 2016 - Australian Greens Leader Senator Di Natale, Spokesperson for Community Services Senator Siewert and Spokesperson for Energy and Climate Cha...

Transparency, accountability and responsibilities of our rural research and development corporations

13 September, 2016 - I rise today to speak to the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Amendment Bill 2016. I am pleased to say that this is the fir...

Abrupt announcement of Macquarie Island station closure is worrying

13 September, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson says that the last-minute-to-midnight decision to close of the Macquarie...