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Morrison government missing-in-action while climate emergency plunges profits of Australian farms

18 December, 2019 - Greens Senator Janet Rice has slammed the government’s failure to act as farmers suffer the effects of the climate emergency, following a da...

Murray-Darling the real victim of environmental vandalism at Water Ministers meeting

17 December, 2019 - Today’s meeting of the Murray–Darling Basin Ministerial Council has left the River system in crisis, robbed the environment, and has left So...

Newcastle Named Deadliest Track for Greyhounds in New South Wales, Followed by Gosford, Lismore and Nowra

17 December, 2019 - Australian Greens Senator and Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has released figures showing that The Gardens outside Newcastl...

Blind & vision-impaired Australians celebrate audio description on public broadcasters

17 December, 2019 -   Tuesday 17th December 2019 Our blind and vision-impaired communities are celebrating today, after years of campaigning alongside the Green...

MYEFO: more than 90% of budget surplus is due to a structural underspend in the NDIS

16 December, 2019 - Australian Greens Disability Rights & Services spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John said the vast majority of the government's reduced bu...

MYEFO: Do nothing government dreaming of ever higher house prices

16 December, 2019 - Greens’ Treasury spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, responded today to the release of the Mid-Year Economic Forecast and Outlook (MYE...

Libs go nuclear at the beck and call of mining lobbyists

13 December, 2019 - The Greens have condemned the Liberals’ plan to introduce nuclear power at the behest of their big corporate mining donors, in the Coalition...

ATO tax report proof of broken system

12 December, 2019 - Data released in the ATO's Tax Transparency Report today showing that a third of our largest companies paid no corporate tax last year are p...

Government response to Digital Platforms Inquiry misses the mark

12 December, 2019 - After dragging its feet for over half a year, the Morrison Government has finally delivered its response to the Final Report of the ACCC Dig...

Scott Morrison caught cheating on climate: Bandt

12 December, 2019 - Greens spokesperson for the climate crisis, Adam Bandt MP, has labelled Scott Morrison and his government a pack of climate cheats and said ...

As Australia burns, the Liberals cheat and Labor spits in the face of victims: Greens

11 December, 2019 - The Australian Greens have slammed Liberal and Labor for their climate failures and embrace of coal, both on the international stage and the...

Adani gets 12.5 billion litres of water while 67% of Queensland in drought

10 December, 2019 - The Morrison Government’s decision not to consider the impacts of Adani sucking up 12.5 billion litres of water from a region in deep drough...

Religious Discrimination Second Exposure Draft

10 December, 2019 - The second exposure draft of the Liberals' Religious Discrimination legislation has made already bad legislation even worse. "The Liberals h...

Latest Live Export Cruelty Scandal Shows Nothing Has Changed

10 December, 2019 - Australian Greens Senator and Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has responded to reports hundreds of Australian cattle sold fo...