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Disgraceful Aboriginal incarceration and child removal rates hit international stage with scathing UN report

4 April, 2017 - A preliminary report handed down by the UN special rapporteur on Indigenous rights on Aboriginal incarceration and child removal has thrust Aust...

Turnbull needs to stop throwing petrol on the housing fire

4 April, 2017 - Greens Treasury spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, is today calling on the Government to end its reckless support for negative gearing an...

Greens welcome City of Hobart opening discussion about changing the date for Australia Day

4 April, 2017 - The Australian Greens have welcomed the City of Hobart opening up a discussion about changing the date for Australia Day. “Well done to the City...

Turnbull needs to stop throwing petrol on the housing fire

4 April, 2017 - Greens Treasury spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, is today calling on the Government to end its reckless support for negative gearing an...

NXT deal on company tax cuts could open way for fracking in the Northern Territory: Greens

1 April, 2017 - "It is very concerning that Nick Xenophon's cave-in on company tax cuts includes opening up the possibility of a gas pipeline in the Northern Te...

18C retention a great win for multicultural Australia

31 March, 2017 - The Australian Greens congratulate multicultural Australia for uniting and standing strong to defend 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. "It ...

Greens support open letter to the PM calling for national leadership on youth justice

31 March, 2017 - Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert supports the open letter from Change the Record to Malcolm Turnbull, calling on the Government to urge...

Greens welcome report that shows the importance of Indigenous Rangers and Indigenous Protected Areas

30 March, 2017 - Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has welcomed the finding from the Country Needs People report - Protecting Nature For All Of Us, which...

Abuse of people with disability is not going to stop, we need a Royal Commission

29 March, 2017 - Following the Four Corners report that showed more harrowing footage of people with disability living in group care, both the Coalition and the...

Coalition and Labor push on with cashless welfare card

29 March, 2017 - The Coalition and the Labor party have voted down a Greens disallowance motion that would have stopped the cashless welfare card trial extensio...

Senate calls on Government to come good on funding for neurodegenerative disease in East Arnhem Land

27 March, 2017 - The Greens and Labor have secured Senate support calling on the Federal Government to make good on a $10 million grant that they have refused t...

Barnaby Joyce is talking through his hat on Heyfield mill crisis

27 March, 2017 - The Greens have condemned the Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce’s blundering attempt to wade in to Victorian forest issues, saying these type of short-si...

Aboriginal Legal Services should not have been excluded from race-hate inquiry: Greens

24 March, 2017 - It is atrocious that the Government excluded Aboriginal Legal Services from giving evidence at a senate inquiry into race-hate laws, Australian...

The Government should not have Accenture ‘transforming’ Centrelink, recipients have been through enough

23 March, 2017 - Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has expressed concern that the company behind the bungled Tax Office overhaul has been selected to ‘tr...

Greens and Labor secure support for senate inquiry into broken Community Development Program

22 March, 2017 - The Greens and Labor have secured Senate support for a senate inquiry into the failing Community Development Program that is being rolled out i...