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Morrison Government abandons people on income support

20 July, 2021 -    The Australian Greens said today the Morrison Government has abandoned people on income support payments during the middle of the pandemic.  ...

Government inaction leads to Aboriginal people dying from preventable deaths

20 July, 2021 - “Aboriginal people are dying from preventable deaths in police custody because the Morrison government is continuing Liberal and Labors’ legacie...

JobKeeper 2.0 and JobSeeker lift needed: Greens

20 July, 2021 - The Morrison Lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne are taking a political toll on the Prime Minister, but the Greens say the long-term damage of the...

Anti-Muslim racism revealed in AHRC report

20 July, 2021 - Australian Greens Anti-racism spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that a new report by the Australian Human Rights Commission has found...

JobKeeper 2.0 & lifted JobSeeker needed as PM's failures bite

19 July, 2021 - The Morrison Lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne are taking a political toll on the Prime Minister, but the Greens say the long-term damage of the...

We will keep up the pressure; disability community responds to Independent Assessments Win

16 July, 2021 - Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John said that the outcome of today’s meeting of State and Territory Disability Ministers demonstrates the power of...

Australia must implement carbon price to avoid EU tariffs: Greens

16 July, 2021 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP has called for the urgent return of the Greens/Labor/Independent carbon price and the lifting of 2...

Reintroduce carbon price, lift 2030 targets to protect exporters from EU tariffs

15 July, 2021 - With the European Union finally laying out their timetable for implementing carbon tariffs, the Greens have said that the Liberals’ repeal of th...

Covid assistance package cruelly ignores people on income support

14 July, 2021 - The Greens have called on the Government to include income support recipients in COVID assistance packages. “This package fails to acknowledge t...

Greens slam minor tweaks of NSW supports as woefully insufficient

13 July, 2021 - The Australian Greens have slammed the government’s changes to support measures for the NSW lockdown, saying that the paltry concessions are a w...

Housing build would support those fleeing family violence

12 July, 2021 - The Greens have welcomed the release today of the Nowhere To Go report by Equity Economics, which finds that a significant build of social housi...

Government’s Great Barrier Reef lobbying exposes climate denialism

12 July, 2021 - The Greens have slammed the Morrison Government for the desperate measures it has taken to avoid UNESCO listing the Great Barrier Reef as "In Da...

Government's Beetaloo grants gift public money to party donor

7 July, 2021 - The Greens say today’s awarding of $21 million of public money to a private corporation to frack the Northern Territory will turbocharge climate ...

Greens call on Government to commit to pay increase for aged care workers

7 July, 2021 - The Greens are calling on the Federal Government to commit to funding a pay increase for aged care workers saying the Government should have done...

Government still not getting vaccines rollout right

1 July, 2021 - The Greens say the Government need to address continuing uncertainty over the vaccine roll out. There are supply, delivery and hesitancy issues p...