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Cutting funding while increasing Uni debt not the answer

5 December, 2016 - Targeting university students and increasing their debt is not the answer to the long term sustainability of Australia’s higher education sec...

Senate Inquiry tomorrow: Should bank executives go to jail when their banks perpetuate white-collar crimes?

5 December, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, will be attending the white-collar crime Senate Inquiry hearing tomorrow in Melbour...

Crunch time for housing services

4 December, 2016 - Emma Davidson The rising tide of Australians impacted by housing affordability issues has become impossible to ignore. Everyone has heard abo...

Greens deliver for Tasmania when others fail

3 December, 2016 - Today Greens Senators for Tasmania Peter Whish-Wilson and Nick McKim were thanked by representatives of the Tasmanian agricultural community ...

Turnbull govt will condemn the Reef with billion dollar loan to Adani

3 December, 2016 - The Turnbull government has reportedly given "conditional approval" for a $1 billion loan of public money to build the railway for the Reef-d...

Senate condemns Japan for breaching international and Australian law ahead of Sea Shepherd’s Hobart departure

3 December, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson today met with the Sea Shepherd crew in Hobart before they leave to search...

Turnbull Government should not interfere in the City of Fremantle Australia Day decision

3 December, 2016 - Interfering with a decision by the City of Fremantle to move Australia Day celebrations is significant overreach by the Turnbull Government a...

Greater transparency needed in NDIS transition: Greens

2 December, 2016 - The Greens have called on the State Government to make public the draft legislation and results of the comparative evaluation in the transiti...

Greens backpacker outcome provides security for Tasmania

2 December, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson is relieved to see the backpacker tax impasse finally resolved to provide certainty ...

Fast track taskforce to prepare for smelter closure

2 December, 2016 - Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber has called for the State Government to fast track the establishment of a transition taskforce to prepare ...

MOTION: World AIDS Day 2016

2 December, 2016 - Senator SMITH (Liberal Party): I, and also on behalf of Senators Pratt and Rice, move: That the Senate— (a) notes that:    (i) 1 December 201...

Jobs Australia and ANU reports show CDP must be relegated to the policy dustbin

2 December, 2016 - The disastrous failings of the Community Development Programme (CDP) in remote Australia have been criticised by Jobs Australia and the ANU, ...

Finally, action on Wicked Campers?

2 December, 2016 - Wicked Campers exploit a loophole in the Advertising Standards to advertise using sexist, racist and homophobic slogans and on Monday, we mig...

Greens backpacker tax deal is a win for farmers and the environment

2 December, 2016 - This political grandstanding from Labor tonight is sour grapes because we have been able to deliver an outcome that they are jealous of and t...

MOTION: Regional Forest Agreements

2 December, 2016 - Senator RICE: I move: (a) notes that:    (i) Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) have been in place as 20-year agreements, designed to manage t...