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Greens Say Parliament Must End Support of State of Israel’s Brutal Invasion of Gaza

26 February, 2024 - In the shadow of the State of Israel’s impending all out siege of Rafah, the Australian Greens have given the Albanese government the opport...

Dr Andrew Forrest backs Climate Trigger while Labor backs gas

26 February, 2024 - Monday 26 Feb 2024 The Greens have called on Labor to listen to business leaders like Dr Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest who today called for a c...

Greens welcome National Student Ombudsman, but it must have teeth

23 February, 2024 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, and Greens Senate leader Larissa Waters welcome the announcement today that educati...

Greens will move amendment to retain s11 of RBA Act

22 February, 2024 - The Greens will move an amendment in Parliament to retain s11 of the RBA Act which gives the Treasurer the power to override Reserve Bank de...

Greens call on Labor to act on campus sexual violence with urgency

22 February, 2024 - Six years on from the AHRC’s Change the Course report recommendation to set up specialised bodies that tackle sexual violence on campuses, a...

CEOs come and go, grocery market dominance remains

21 February, 2024 - The upcoming departure of Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci will change nothing while the supermarket duopoly retains its market dominance and cu...

Reinforcing Failure, Labor refuses to make the hard call to cancel the disastrous $45 billion Hunter Frigates

20 February, 2024 - The Albanese Government is reinforcing and rewarding failure with its review of the Australian Navy’s surface fleet, released today.  ...

Reinforcing Failure, Labor refuses to make the hard call to cancel the disastrous $45 billion Hunter Frigates

20 February, 2024 - The Albanese Government is reinforcing and rewarding failure with its review of the Australian Navy’s surface fleet, released today. More...

End live sheep export: Labor government must legislate the date in this term

20 February, 2024 - Greens Deputy Leader and Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi joined animal advocates in Perth where National Cabinet  me...

The real immigration crisis is offshore detention

19 February, 2024 - Media and political panic about the arrival of people seeking asylum is disgraceful and undermines community harmony, the Greens say. “Se...

Labor’s sneaky scheme would bypass environment laws for new offshore gas projects

15 February, 2024 - Labor’s last-minute attempt today to allow the Minister to bypass environmental law when approving new offshore gas projects has been slamme...

Labor refuses to ditch dodgy Morrison-era loophole from public school funding agreements

15 February, 2024 - In Senate Estimates this morning Labor refused to rule out dropping the dodgy accounting trick from bilateral funding agreements which allow...

RBA Belatedly Acknowledges Corporate Price Gouging

15 February, 2024 - The RBA’s belated acknowledgement of corporate price gouging under the cover of inflation should prompt the Labor Government to introduce a ...