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$25 a week is a cruel joke

23 February, 2021 - Today is an extremely distressing day for the 1.5 million people on the JobSeeker and Youth Allowance payments who have now had confirmation...

Greens say Government needs to step up support for local mRNA facilities 

22 February, 2021 - The Greens say that the Government will miss out on opportunities to expand and diversify Australia’s vaccine portfolio if they don’t invest...

New data shows Youth Allowance is a "poverty sentence" for young, disabled Australians

22 February, 2021 - Australian Greens Disability Rights spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John has called for an urgent intervention to lift young, disabled pe...

Save the Koala laws debated in Senate

22 February, 2021 - The Senate has today debated new laws introduced by the Australian Greens to save our koalas. Greens Environment Spokesperson Senator Sarah ...

Another internal review just continues the cover-up

19 February, 2021 - The Prime Minister has asked his former chief of staff, now head of his own department, to investigate what Prime Minister’s office knew abo...

All sides of politics, both houses of parliament call for national discussion to criminalise coercive control

18 February, 2021 - Today the House echoed the Senate to call on the government to take action on coercive control, supporting a cross-party motion coordinated ...

Independent investigation and review critical to protect staff in political offices

17 February, 2021 - Response to PM’s letter  "The Greens welcome the apparent acknowledgement by the PM that the review of the complaints and support process sh...

Mr Morrison must stop playing games with Jobseeker’s lives and announce a permanent increase to Jobseeker

17 February, 2021 - The Greens say a so-called employment insurance scheme is an appalling idea and that Mr Morrison is being cruel to people on the Jobseeker p...

Crossbench comes together to call for review of Parliament House culture

17 February, 2021 - Every member of the Lower House Crossbench has come together to demand an urgent review of workplace procedures at Australian Parliament Hou...

We need a new approach to quarantine

17 February, 2021 - The Greens say quarantine facilities need to be established out of cities and that facilities must be publicly funded and run.  “Our hotel q...

No clear evidence in Cashless Debit Card Evaluation 

17 February, 2021 - The Government’s long overdue Evaluation of the CDC in Ceduna, East Kimberley and the Goldfields Region: Consolidated Report has been public...

BOOT backdown no distraction, IR laws are extreme attack on job security

17 February, 2021 - Australian Greens Leader and former industrial relations lawyer, Adam Bandt, has outlined how the radical overhaul at the heart of the IR om...

Parliament culture won't change without independent inquiry

16 February, 2021 - The Australian Greens have slammed the Prime Minister’s continued failures to address a toxic parliamentary culture today, calling for an in...

Greens welcome Federal Court decision on Tamil Family

16 February, 2021 - The Greens have welcomed the decision of the Federal Court that Biloela's Tamil family was denied procedural fairness, calling for them to b...

Greens welcome AstraZeneca approval but say further diversity is needed. 

16 February, 2021 - The Greens welcome the news that AstraZeneca has been provisionally approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration for use in Australia. “...