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Uni Rallies Essential To Fight Cuts And Autocracy

23 September, 2020 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said she was proud to speak at and attend heavily-policed student ralli...

Western Sydney Airport Audit Report Reveals A Rotten Mess

22 September, 2020 - The Greens have said that a report of the Australian National Audit Office on a land purchase for Western Sydney Airport is damning and dem...

Energy roadmap steers us off a cliff

22 September, 2020 - Following reports of the government’s energy roadmap, Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP has slammed the plan, declaring it as a...

Without green hydrogen and stronger 2030 targets, gov Energy Roadmap puts climate at risk

21 September, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt MP, has warned that without meaningful short-term targets, a plan to phase out coal & gas and a...

Early Childhood Package Provides No Long-term Certainty

20 September, 2020 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the latest Child Care Recovery Package, announced today, is y...

Greens welcome funding announcement for AAP

18 September, 2020 - Greens Spokesperson for Communications and Media Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has welcomed the Government’s announcement of $5 million in fun...

NDIS watchdog failing to protect disabled people

17 September, 2020 - Australian Greens Disability Rights and Services spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John has labelled reports that the NDIS Quality and Saf...

ARENA/CEFC success continues to infuriate the fossils - Greens plan to block Liberals latest plan of attack

17 September, 2020 - The Australian Greens have vowed to block any moves to turn the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and Clean Energy Finance Corporation int...

Labor split on nuclear waste dump

15 September, 2020 - The Greens are calling on the Labor Leader in the Senate, Penny Wong to declare where her party stands on the proposed Nuclear Waste Dump i...

Unis Inquiry Reveals Widespread Dissatisfaction With Bill

15 September, 2020 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said the first day of the Senate Inquiry into the Job-ready Graduates l...

Targets out and gas in: Liberals and Labor play with matches while our world burns

15 September, 2020 - Australian Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says today is a grim day for the climate, with the Prime Minister revealing plans to gas-fire Austral...

Don’t dump on SA: major flaws in bill for proposed nuclear waste dump

15 September, 2020 - The Greens strongly oppose the bill to establish a nuclear waste dump at Kimba. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens Senator for South Austra...

Gas industry wishlist a fracking nightmare: Bandt

14 September, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP has today slammed a proposed wishlist from Australia's peak gas body that would see the metha...

Greens condemn Adani for silencing climate activist

11 September, 2020 - Responding to the Supreme Court’s decision to grant Adani a temporary injunction to silence anti-Adani activist Ben Pennings, Senator for Q...

Cost of fast-tracking tax cuts could fund $225b of recovery investment instead, new PBO costings reveal

10 September, 2020 - As calls grow for a $220b infrastructure spend to tackle the recession, new costings completed by the Parliamentary Budget Office, at the r...