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Plastics hearing reveals decades of flawed recycling policy

29 July, 2020 - Witnesses today outlined their frustration with decades-long recycling policy failure in today’s hearing into the Packaging and Plastics Bill 20...

COVID Committee gas report shows fossil fuel sector letting manufacturing

29 July, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP said reporting of a National COVID Commission presentation on natural gas showed a growing disconn...

No Modelling, No Worries: Liberals

29 July, 2020 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the government’s plan to hike up university fees should be scrappe...

Unions, welfare groups & Greens all back jobs over tax cuts

28 July, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt, has commended peak worker and social services groups for coming out hard against the proposed accel...

Government continues attack on Reef science

28 July, 2020 - The Coalition and One Nation have cemented their position as science denialists, having spent Monday badgering some of Australia’s peak scientif...

Shadow Minister puts Labor in lockstep with Liberals on climate

28 July, 2020 - Australian Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says statements today from Labor’s Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Resources, Joel Fitzgibbon, put the...

Costings show bringing forward tax cuts would cost an extra $28 billion

27 July, 2020 - The Australian Greens have released costings from the Parliamentary Budget Office on the cost of bringing forward income tax cuts. The costings ...

Greens welcome Liberal Minister’s comments and call on Labor to join the fight.

25 July, 2020 - The Greens have welcomed the intervention from NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean who has broken ranks today with the Federal Government over pl...

PM bells the cat on plans to weaken environmental protections

24 July, 2020 - Greens Spokesperson for the Environment Senator Hanson-Young responded to the PM's comments today on changes environmental laws: “The Prime Mins...

Behrouz Boochani

24 July, 2020 - Comments from Greens Immigration spokesperson Senator Nick McKim on New Zealand's decision to grant asylum to Behrouz Boochani: "New Zealand gra...

States and territories should tell PM today they won't stand for weakening of environment laws

24 July, 2020 - State and Territory leaders should tell the Prime Minister today they won’t stand for a further weakening of environmental laws to green light m...

Government chooses to lock in high unemployment future

23 July, 2020 - The Greens have described today’s Economic and Fiscal Update as a plan based on austerity and fantasy projections that will lead to ongoing high...

Millions more for Murdoch while ABC funding gets cut

22 July, 2020 - The Greens have slammed the Morrison Government‘s decision today to give another $10million of public money to Fox Sports, taking the total amou...

Greens will oppose Liberal & Labor agreed cuts to low-income JobKeeper and JobSeeker

21 July, 2020 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt and spokesperson on Family and Community Services Senator Rachel Siewert have responded to today's announcement that th...

Environment in crisis and stronger laws with a cop on the beat needed, report to government shows

20 July, 2020 - The Prime Minister must drop his plans to green light major developments and new mines at the expense of the environment, after the devastating ...