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Australian and New Zealand Green parties call for deportation halt

29 September, 2015 - The Green parties of New Zealand and Australia are jointly calling on the Australian Government to halt the indiscriminate deportation of N...

Medicare review necessary and long overdue: Greens

28 September, 2015 - Australian Greens health spokesperson and former GP, Dr Richard Di Natale, today welcomed the review of the Medicare Benefits Schedule but ...

Turnbull Government blocking UN access to detention centres

26 September, 2015 - The Australian Government should give the United Nations free and unfettered access to Australian run detention centres, the Australian Gre...

Greens call on Turnbull to recall radicalisation booklet

25 September, 2015 - The Greens are calling on Malcolm Turnbull to recall and recycle the Radicalisation Awareness Kit that claims environmentalism is a pathway...

Greens call on Turnbull to recall radicalisation booklet

25 September, 2015 - The Greens are calling on Malcolm Turnbull to recall and recycle the Radicalisation Awareness Kit that claims environmentalism is a pathway...

Overcrowding worst on Geelong trains

25 September, 2015 - Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber says new V/line data reveals Geelong’s peak hour trains are full but the government has no plan to incr...

TPP meeting last chance for Australia to say no to ISDS

25 September, 2015 - Greens spokesperson for Trade, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, says that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) meeting beginning tomorrow in Atla...

Media Release: ACCC confirms voluntary Grocery Code of Conduct isn’t working

24 September, 2015 - The ACCC’s confirmation of the inadequacy of the voluntary Grocery Code of Conduct (GCC)* shows the government needs to step in and make th...

The economic benefits of the Great Forest National Park

24 September, 2015 - A new report released today shows Victoria would see significant economic and social benefits generated by the establishment of the propose...

V/line Grand Final holiday timetable will hurt regions

23 September, 2015 - Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber says the decision to run less V/line trains and buses on the Grand Final public holiday will make it ha...

PM must ditch IR bills that ‘wage war with unions’ and workers

22 September, 2015 - Greens industrial relations spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today called on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to ditch the industrial relations bi...

Media Release: Tourism, International Education ministries present challenges and opportunities for Richard Colbeck

21 September, 2015 - Newly appointed Tourism and International Education Minister Richard Colbeck will need to embrace Tasmania’s wilderness values to be a succ...

Opportunity to fix broken treaty-making process lost with failure to trade Robb

21 September, 2015 - Greens spokesperson for Trade, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson makes the following comments regarding the recent portfolio shuffle: “It is disap...

The Government's Free Trade Jobs #MATHSFAIL

18 September, 2015 - While touting how *amazing* their China, Korean and Japanese Free Trade Agreements are, the government has made a humiliating error in repe...

Greens support Ombudsman’s call for new approach to criminal justice

18 September, 2015 - The Victorian Ombudsman’s report into the rehabilitation and reintegration of prisoners is a wake-up call that the endless ‘tough on crime’...