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Unanimous Senate report calls for independent taskforce to hold universities to account on sexual violence

14 September, 2023 - The Senate inquiry into sexual consent laws has today tabled a unanimous report that recommends an independent taskforce to hold universiti...
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Parliamentary Workplace Support Services bills pass the Senate

14 September, 2023 - The Greens welcome the passage of the Parliamentary Workplace Support Services bills in the Senate today.  These bills are an impor...
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Government has five months to act on climate or risk Great Barrier Reef in danger listing

14 September, 2023 - The Albanese Government has until February 2024 to demonstrate drastically stronger climate ambition, or else risk the Great Barrier Reef b...
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Exported greyhounds sacrificed at the altar of profits and gambling revenues, yet again. Just ban it.

14 September, 2023 - After yet another expose from ABC of the brutal and cruel greyhound export trade, Deputy Leader and Animal Welfare spokesperson f...
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Greens move to axe public school funding cap in direct challenge to Labor

14 September, 2023 - The Greens will today move to replace the 20% ceiling on the Commonwealth share of public school funding with a 25% floor, in a direct chal...
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Labor, Services Australia prove disdain for poor people with Centrelink office closure

13 September, 2023 - Following the announcement of the imminent closure of the South Melbourne Centrelink office in late October, the Greens are alarmed that th...
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Government Should Drop Flawed & Friendless Nature Market Scheme: Greens

13 September, 2023 - Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is Greens Environment Spokesperson & Manager of Business in the Senate: “The Government’s ‘Green Wall Str...
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Greens Call for IRGC to be listed as a Terrorist Organisation 

13 September, 2023 - 16th September 2023 marks one year since the tragic death of Iranian woman Jina ‘Mahsa’ Amini.   The Greens are pleased to see...
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Greens introduce bill to finally end native forest logging in Australia

12 September, 2023 - Today Senator Janet Rice, Greens spokesperson for forests, will introduce the Ending Native Forest Logging Bill 2023 into the Parliament. T...
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Poor conduct shows parliamentary standards body needed urgently

12 September, 2023 - Following new revelations by female MPs Karen Andrews and Kylea Tink about poor parliamentary behaviour, the Greens say progress on enforce...
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Transphobia has no place in our Parliament

11 September, 2023 - Greens MPs today joined the trans community and their allies on Parliament’s lawn condemning growing transphobia, homophobia and misogyny. ...
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Greens pressure extracts $3 billion spent directly on housing, HAFF will pass senate, fight for rent freeze and rent caps continues

11 September, 2023 - In exchange for the Greens’ support of the Housing Australia Future Fund Bill, the government has today agreed to spend a further $1 billio...
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Chilean Coup 50 years on. Greens Call for an Apology & Transparency.

11 September, 2023 - September 11th 2023 is the 50th anniversary of the military coup that brought dictator Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile.  In reco...
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Wentworth Report a Red Alert for River Murray: Greens

8 September, 2023 - The Greens say today’s comprehensive 40-year study by the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists is a red alert for the health of...
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Transparency Denied; Defence Exports to Sudan

7 September, 2023 - AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT REFUSES TO BE TRANSPARENT ABOUT DEFENCE RELATIONS WITH SUDAN IN A TIME OF HUMANITARIAN CRISIS Since April, Sudan ha...
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