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Face up: “The Capability” will be a major digital rights campaign in 2016

17 December, 2015 - The Turnbull Government appears intent on developing a national facial recognition ‘Capability' after a preliminary Privacy Impact Assessmen...

Poll shows Queenslanders put Great Barrier Reef before coal

17 December, 2015 - A poll, released today, shows Queenslanders love the Great Barrier Reef and believe the dying coal industry should be made to clean up its o...

Tasmania Short-Changed By MYEFO

17 December, 2015 - Tasmania has been left completely short-changed by the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook, with $46 million ripped out of the state and no...

ASIO head deserves better than attacks from Liberal backbenchers

17 December, 2015 - The head of ASIO deserves better than criticism from ill-informed Liberal backbenchers, Greens spokesperson for Legal Affairs Nick McKim say...

EPA review must not leave out flawed decisions such as Mangles Bay canal estate

17 December, 2015 - Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren says that a review of the EPA’s policies and procedures announced by the Environment Minister today will be meaning...

Greens urge Government to implement Senate report into Out of Home Care

17 December, 2015 - The Greens are urging the Minister for Social Services to read and implement the 39 recommendations of the Senate report on out of home care...

The Australian community deserves regulation that protects their best interests

17 December, 2015 - The Australian Greens are concerned at news reports that regulators may not be appropriately regulating food derived from new genetic modifi...

Company logos don’t belong on our Great Barrier Reef

16 December, 2015 - 16/12/2015 The Australian Greens condemn the Liberal Government’s plan to allow companies to brand the Great Barrier Reef. Senator Lari...

Big Win for Community, Big Problems at EPA

16 December, 2015 - The huge win for the community campaign to stop the Roe 8 destruction of the Beeliar wetlands has highlighted dangerous inadequacies with th...

Ad-hoc aged care cuts hurt older Australians

16 December, 2015 - The Coalition's latest cuts to aged care programs are large, ad-hoc cuts, like the earlier Abbott budget cuts to social services. Aged care ...

Company logos don’t belong on our Great Barrier Reef

16 December, 2015 - The Australian Greens condemn the Liberal Government's plan to allow companies to brand the Great Barrier Reef. Senator Larissa Waters, Aust...

Ad-hoc aged care cuts hurt older Australians

16 December, 2015 - The Coalition's latest cuts to aged care programs are large, ad-hoc cuts, like the earlier Abbott budget cuts to social services. Aged care ...

Most vulnerable still paying for budget repair

15 December, 2015 - It is very disappointing to see that the cruel and unfair budget measures are still on the Government's agenda.  Punitive measures that hurt...

Funding Support for the Australia Council

15 December, 2015 - Senator LUDLAM: Do you have a sense of the additional money that those companies are then able to generate throughout that investment? For e...

Environment, climate change and the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook

15 December, 2015 - Senator Larissa Waters, Australian Greens climate change and environment spokesperson, comments on the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook:...