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Greens to install solar panels for public and community housing

16 June, 2016 - Australia's whole stock of public and community housing would be retrofitted with solar panels to ease power bills for low income earners and ma...

Greens announce plan to expand Medicare-funded dental care

15 June, 2016 - The Australian Greens Denticare plan will invest $6.6 billion over the forward estimates to provide essential dental care to millions of Austral...

Greens’ vision for solar on every Queensland roof to cut power bills especially for renters

15 June, 2016 - The Greens today outlined their vision for solar on every Queensland roof, including rented homes, to drive down power bills. Qld Senator Lariss...

Greens call on Labor to commit to an independent environmental watchdog

15 June, 2016 - The Australian Greens call on Labor to commit to establishing an independent environmental watchdog, rather than just saying they will explore o...

Restoring the TAFE system to provide strong learning foundations for Australians

15 June, 2016 - The Australian Greens would cease taxpayer money being poured into the broken for-profit VET sector and fund a $400 million TAFE rescue package ...

Greens to invest in giving Australians access to justice

15 June, 2016 - The Greens have announced a comprehensive access to justice plan to restore the Liberal Government’s cuts and invest $716 million in community l...

Richard's economic vision for Australia

15 June, 2016 - I acknowledge the elders past and present of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation as traditional owners of this beautiful harbour on which we m...

Coalition should tell Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voters whether they will pursue treaty after July 2

14 June, 2016 - The Greens have welcomed a shift towards considering treaty by the Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, and have called on the Coalition to make clea...

Greens' Statement on How to vote (HTV) Decisions

14 June, 2016 - The Queensland Greens have confirmed that the following parties will feature in some way on the half a million Queensland Greens how-to-vote car...

Greens call on old parties to match funding commitment to WA domestic violence services

13 June, 2016 -   The Greens today called on the old parties to match their funding commitment of $54 million per year over ten years for specialist domestic vi...

Malcolm, leave our carers alone

13 June, 2016 - Eyeing off the carers payment as a way to plug up the budget is another short-sighted and unfair attack on vulnerable Australians by the Coaliti...

Greens set out five steps to republic by 2020

13 June, 2016 - Greens Leader Richard Di Natale is marking the Queen's Birthday by setting out a 5-step path to allowing Australians to serve as our own heads o...

Cutting money from clean energy and approving coal mines is not a plan to save the Reef

13 June, 2016 - The Turnbull Government's $1 billion Reef Fund is effectively a cut from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and is undermined by the Adani coa...

Greens call on old parties to match funding commitment to WA domestic violence services

13 June, 2016 -   The Greens today called on the old parties to match their funding commitment of $54 million per year over ten years for specialist domestic vi...