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Interim Report on Study into Racism in Universities reveals the need for anti-racist campuses

19 December, 2024 - Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and spokesperson for Anti-Racism and Higher Education, has reacted to the int...

Ministerial Direction 111 removes the worst of MD 107 but implements international student caps by stealth

19 December, 2024 - Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and spokesperson for Higher Education, has reacted to Labor’s replacement of ...

Mid-year budget update a wasted opportunity to tackle the cost-of-living

18 December, 2024 - The Australian Greens have called today’s mid-year budget update a wasted opportunity to tackle the skyrocketing cost of living at a time wh...

Albanese should use Tassie visit to end salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour

14 December, 2024 - The Australian Greens have responded to Prime Minister Albanese cosying up to multinational salmon farming corporations on Tasmania’s west c...

LNP’s nuclear con job betrays regional Queensland

13 December, 2024 - The Greens say Dutton’s nuclear announcement is a con job for coal that will drive up costs for regional communities and set back action on ...

Greens Respond: ADHD Inquiry Government Response Released

12 December, 2024 - The government has today finally responded to the Senate inquiry into attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis and support ...

Labor finally shifts towards Greens position after tens of thousands killed in Gaza

12 December, 2024 - The Greens have said Labor’s move towards the Greens’ consistently advocated position for an immediate, permanent and unconditional ceasefir...

Parents left disappointed by Labor’s childcare half-measures: Greens

11 December, 2024 - The Greens say Labor’s announcement on early childhood education and care falls short of providing genuine reform required to fix the childc...

LGBTIQA+ health action plan light on meaningful reform

11 December, 2024 - The Greens welcome the Albanese Labor Government’s release of the long-awaited National Action Plan for the Health and Wellbeing of LGB...

Environment Minister chooses to do nothing again on regulating big businesses who pollute

11 December, 2024 - Yesterday was the last meeting of federal and state environment ministers before the federal election and there was very high expe...

Greens push for big banks to offer low-rate discount mortgages could save North Queenslanders thousands

10 December, 2024 - While in Cairns and Townsville Greens Senator for Queensland Larissa Waters demonstrated how the Greens plan to require the big banks to off...

RBA stubbornness hurting Australians

10 December, 2024 - The Reserve Bank’s decision not to reduce interest rates will needlessly hurt mortgage holders and put more Australians out of work, the Gre...

Greens preselect award-winning poet Omar Sakr in Blaxland

10 December, 2024 - Dr Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Greens Leader and Senator for New South Wales, is excited to announce the preselection of Omar Sakr as the Greens ...