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Greens push to fix JobKeeper and ensure arts and entertainment workers not left in the cold

24 May, 2020 - The Greens are calling on Treasurer Frydenberg to stop being Team ‘Some’ Australians, and immediately expand the JobKeeper program to businesses ...

Greens to push for ICAC debate and vote when Parliament resumes

22 May, 2020 - Responding to today's reported deferral of legislation to enable a federal integrity commission, the Greens will push to bring on for debate and ...

Save Education And Jobs

22 May, 2020 - Given that the government now has $60 billion unspent in the JobKeeper program, Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi h...

Statement from Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt on news that JobKeeper estimates are $60 billion off

22 May, 2020 - "Wow." "Now Scott Morrison has no excuse not to extend JobKeeper to all who need it, retain the new JobSeeker rate, give a Jobs and Income Guaran...

Australian Greens condemn attempts to ratchet up repression in Hong Kong

22 May, 2020 - The Australian Greens condemn the Chinese Government’s plans to enact sweeping new national security laws in Hong Kong, with Leader of the Austra...

No Excuse: Govt must fund casuals, arts and entertainment, after JobKeeper revised down

22 May, 2020 - Greens Spokesperson for the Arts Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is calling on Treasurer Frydenberg to immediately extend JobKeeper to workers who hav...

Green Manufacturing, Not Fossil Fuels, The Way Out Of COVID-19

21 May, 2020 - Australian Greens Industry spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to a leaked report of the COVID Commission’s Manufacturing Taskforce...

Morrison Government continues attack on environment

21 May, 2020 - The Covid Commission being riddled with self-interested fossil fuel industry executives touting their own sector as the economic saviour from the...

Greens will fight government gas pipe dream in Tech Roadmap

21 May, 2020 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt has pledged to fight the government’s gas push laid out in the Technology Road Map Discussion Paper released by the gove...

Uni Jobs On The Line As Greens Back N.D.A.

21 May, 2020 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that up to 30,000 university jobs will be lost if the federal government...

He deserves a medal not a fine: My letter to MP Mark Furner

20 May, 2020 - Greens Healthy Oceans spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson and Queensland Senator Larissa Waters have written to Mark Furner, Queensland Mini...

Head of taskforce into Ann Marie Smith's death must be replaced due to conflict of interest

20 May, 2020 - Wednesday, 20th May, 2020 Australian Greens Disability Rights Spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John has called on the South Australian Premier ...

Childcare Must Remain Free

20 May, 2020 - The Greens have backed a community call to retain free childcare in light of the Education Minister’s strongest indications yet that the governme...

Abbotsford Centrelink closure is savagery and incompetence

20 May, 2020 - Local Greens MP and Leader, Adam Bandt, has slammed Minister Stuart Robert’s decision to close the Abbotsford Centrelink this Friday. “The decisi...

Greens release Economic Recovery Plan creating 76,000 WA jobs

19 May, 2020 - Young people will be guaranteed a job, secure income, and free education under a new Greens recovery plan to build ‘a better normal’ and restart ...