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Australia needs to raise the minimum wage for women's economic security

5 August, 2020 - The Greens have welcomed the updated Economic Security for Women’s White Paper, and called on the government raise the minimum wage to address ...

Prohibited Items Bill

5 August, 2020 - The Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2020 is irredeemable and must be rejected by the Senate, t...

No More Band-Aids: Reinstate Free Childcare and Fund ECEC Properly

5 August, 2020 - The Greens have responded to the government’s package for childcare in Victoria, saying that it is unnecessarily complicated and austere. The g...

Australia Post and Christine Holgate Settlement

4 August, 2020 - Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, chair of the Senate Inquiry into Australia Post and Greens spokesperson for communications, responded to the statem...

New seismic testing research has damning results

4 August, 2020 - Greens Healthy Oceans spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, says damning new research into the harmful impacts of seismic testing will be r...

Federal Gov Must Support Early Learning In Victoria

3 August, 2020 - The Greens have said that the federal government must urgently support early learning and immediately provide relief for early childhood educat...

Racing Cruelty Continues In Lockdown

3 August, 2020 - Australian Greens Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to the announcement that greyhound and horse racing will con...

Morrison Government can grant COVID sick leave without Parliament

3 August, 2020 - The Morrison government can use the extensive coronavirus crisis powers already granted to it by Parliament to immediately grant paid COVID-19 ...

Paid pandemic ‘leave’ not enough & won’t properly support health effort

3 August, 2020 - Scott Morrison’s pandemic payment announcement is a poor substitute for sick leave and doesn’t properly support the public health push to conta...

Gov must pass Greens COVID leave bill, Labor must firm up on JobKeeper 2.0

2 August, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt MP, said with the situation in Victoria changing by the hour, people deserved clarity from the Gove...

Latest government rort must be investigated by the Senate

31 July, 2020 - Senator Larissa Waters will call the Senate to vote on an inquiry into the Coalition’s rorting of government grants, which will include the Shin...

Protected species in shark nets, NSW data reveals

31 July, 2020 - Greens Healthy Oceans spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, comments on data released today revealing high numbers of threatened and protect...

Zero carbon grid possible by 2040

30 July, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt has today said the release of the final system plan for Australia's energy grid showed that a transit...

Greens seek PM's support for COVID leave bill

29 July, 2020 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, has written to the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, seeking time when Parliament resumes in August to pass a Greens’ b...

Wildlife toll shows environment needs stronger protections

29 July, 2020 - With a revised tally of killed or displaced wildlife from the summer’s bushfires coming in at three times initial estimates, it’s clear now is n...