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Greens grand slam plan to honour Margaret Court

22 January, 2021 - The Greens have slammed reports that one of Australia’s most high profile racists and bigots will receive an Australia Day honour, calling it...

Morrison has no power on gas prices - but he could help Australians with energy bills

22 January, 2021 - The Greens have attacked the Prime Minister’s attempted spin on domestic gas reservation, pointing out that it will have no impact on Austral...

History-denying Prime Minister unfit to lead: Greens

21 January, 2021 - A Prime Minister that denies this country’s true history is a Prime Minister unfit to lead.  Prime Minister Scott Morrison has today refused ...

Arrow shooting wrong way with CSG near contaminated land

21 January, 2021 - The Greens call on the Queensland and federal governments to reject Arrow Energy’s massive expansion proposal to drill hundreds of new coal s...

Release of refugees from hotel detention a belated humanitarian step

20 January, 2021 -   The overdue release of dozens of refugees from immigration detention is a very welcome glimmer of humanity in Australia’s refugee policy, ...

Government abandons Banking Royal Commission recommendations

19 January, 2021 - The government’s delay or abandonment of most of the recommendations from the Banking Royal Commission is a commitment to the hands off appro...

Failure of Chevron's Gorgon Project shows carbon capture is an expensive myth

16 January, 2021 - The failure of Chevron’s Gorgon carbon capture and storage project is a symbol of the total failure of the CCS industry, the Greens have said...

Auditor-General asked to investigate dodgy Yeelirrie uranium mine approval

15 January, 2021 - The Greens have asked the Auditor-General to investigate the approval of the Yeelirrie uranium mine in Western Australia by former federal en...

Coalition and Labor light the fuse on Beetaloo gas bomb

14 January, 2021 - The Greens have slammed the Liberals and Labor for today throwing $217 million in road funding to enable the Beetaloo Basin gas project, sayi...

Decades of manufacturing decline limits vaccine options, publicly-owned vaccine manufacturer could save lives

13 January, 2021 - The Greens say that decades of decline in Australian manufacturing puts the nation at risk of having fewer options when it comes to Covid-19 ...

Craig Kelly should be booted off his cushy $23k committee role

13 January, 2021 - The Greens have called upon the Prime Minister to boot Craig Kelly from his role chairing a parliamentary committee, following weeks of disin...

Statement on Michael McCormack

12 January, 2021 - “McCormack's actions over the last two days are an attempt to take Australia down the dangerous path of post-truth politics.  “The facts are ...

Grave fears for Julian Assange's wellbeing. Morrison must act: Greens

7 January, 2021 - With the news overnight that Julian Assange has been denied bail, Greens Foreign Affairs spokesperson Senator Janet Rice has called on Prime M...

Assange must be given safe passage home

6 January, 2021 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says there is no excuse for the Morrison government to do anything other than provide an Australian citizen safe pa...

Greens call for JobKeeper & JobSeeker extension after NSW COVID outbreak

21 December, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP has today called on the government to defer the looming cuts to JobKeeper and JobSeeker in lig...