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Greens call on National Cabinet to include kids and teenagers in vaccination targets

6 August, 2021 - The Greens have called on National Cabinet, who have so far agreed in principle to the Prime Minister’s latest vaccination plan, to demand it i...

Greens move for independent inquiry into Christian Porter

4 August, 2021 - The Greens today will move for an independent inquiry into Christian Porter’s fitness to be a Minister after the PM this week promoted the form...

Government must include children in vaccine targets: Greens

4 August, 2021 - The Greens say the absence of children under 16 in the latest vaccine rollout plans shifts baselines and according to recent studies risks thou...

Prime Minister must release Doherty vaccine target modelling: Greens

3 August, 2021 - The Australian Greens have joined calls for the Prime Minister to release Doherty Institute modelling used to justify national vaccine targets ...

Childcare debts must be waived

3 August, 2021 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has expressed alarm at reports that the Commonwealth is chasing Child Care Subs...

Taylor tries dodgy ARENA move again, Greens table disallowance again

3 August, 2021 - The Government’s latest attempt to turn the Australian Renewable Energy Agency into a fossil fuel bank will be met once again by the Greens who...

Senate Inquiry to call Sky, YouTube, ACMA

2 August, 2021 - Chair of the Senate Inquiry into Media Diversity Senator Sarah Hanson-Young will move for YouTube’s seven-day ban on Sky News to be investigate...

The Greens label ADF deployment to Western Sydney as absurd

2 August, 2021 - “Mobilising the police and Australian Defence Force to treat a public health crisis is absurd,” said The Greens spokesperson for Justice and Fi...

Housing policy failure sets up intergenerational theft

30 July, 2021 - Australian Greens Housing spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to the latest data on median property prices in this week’s Domain H...

Income support recipients continue to be an afterthought

28 July, 2021 - The Greens say that the additional $200 for people on income support who have lost 8 hours of work a week is a step in the right direction but o...

How to compound the gender pay gap: Women get half as much as men from stage 3 tax cuts

28 July, 2021 - Costings by the independent Parliamentary Budget Office reveal an incredible gender and income bias in the benefit of proposed stage 3 tax cuts....

Greens call for Government to mandate vaccines for home care workers 

28 July, 2021 -  The Greens say that older Australians are at significant risk without mandatory COVID -19 vaccines for all aged care workers, including those w...

New PBO costing reveals extreme inequality of tax cuts for the rich

27 July, 2021 - New costings by the Parliamentary Budget Office reveal the extreme inequality of stage 3 tax cuts, which give as much to the top 1% of income ea...

Why wait? The Green's anti-corruption bill could be voted on next week

27 July, 2021 - The Greens say Australia can have a robust and effective federal anti-corruption framework in place within weeks if the government brings the Gr...