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Electoral Act amendments would undermine democracy and stifle dissent

16 August, 2021 - The Greens are calling on Labor and the crossbench to oppose government amendments to the Commonwealth Electoral Act that would limit democrat...

Australia must respond to Afghanistan crisis

16 August, 2021 - The Australian Government should provide immediate assistance to Afghan people both on the ground in Afghanistan and by providing protection h...

Delta variant increases urgency for children and teenagers to be vaccine priority

16 August, 2021 - The Greens say children and teenagers must be urgently included in the government's national vaccine targets and without children and teenager...

Kids must be part of national vaccine target

13 August, 2021 - Kids and teenagers must be included in the government's national vaccine targets, Greens leader, Adam Bandt, said today. Young people deserve ...

The New South Wales Department of Justice is Failing First Nations Communities, say Greens

13 August, 2021 - This week, an imprisoned First Nations man was tested for COVID-19 at Bathurst Correctional Centre and was released before the prison received...

Senate Committee tables fourth interim report into robodebt

13 August, 2021 - The Senate Community Affairs References Committee has tabled its fourth interim report into the Government’s robodebt scheme. “The Committee d...

ParentsNext has done enough damage 

12 August, 2021 -   The Greens say they are extremely disappointed that the disallowance to make ParentsNext voluntary did not succeed. The Greens are now calli...

No whale should suffer for false sense of security

11 August, 2021 - Another whale is separated from its pod and suffering after being entangled in a deadly shark net which it was forced to drag for kilometres b...

Greens announce move to legislate Live Performance Federal Insurance Guarantee

11 August, 2021 - The Greens will move in the Senate for the Morrison Government to establish a Federal Insurance Guarantee for the live performance and events ...

Tomago and world call time on coal as Morrison keeps selling it to China

11 August, 2021 - Australia’s biggest electricity consumer, stationed right next to a major coal field, is getting out of coal. The announcement comes as nation...

Early educators report shows a sector in crisis

10 August, 2021 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed the release today of the Big Steps/United Workers Union report Ex...

Government must waive JobKeeper/JobSeeker debts

10 August, 2021 - The Greens say it is unconscionable for the Government to be chasing income support recipients for JobKeeper debts when billionaires collected...

Government ordered to produce documents relating to dodgy fracking grant

10 August, 2021 - The government must release documents relating to the awarding of a $21 million grant to Liberal Party-aligned fracking company Empire Energy,...

Morrison 2030 climate targets a death sentence

9 August, 2021 - The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report makes it clear the government’s current 2030 climate targets amount to a death sent...

Greens slam Government’s feeble response to devastating 1.5 degrees report

6 August, 2021 - The Greens have slammed the Government’s response to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Report, which reveals temperatur...