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Greens reject government JobKeeper/IR blackmail

12 August, 2020 - Following reports that the government cynically intends to link extended JobKeeper support in some businesses to a removal of the industrial r...

Government laziness is impeding the important work of the Disability Royal Commission

12 August, 2020 - Wednesday 12 August The second progress report of the Royal Commission into the Violence, Abuse, Exploitation and Neglect of People with Disab...

Labor shouldn't be warming to a Liberal gas plan that's seriously fracking bad: Greens

12 August, 2020 - The Greens have responded to Labor’s official endorsement (through its Shadow Resources Minister, Joel Fitzgibbon) of the Liberals’ plan to su...

Gov Is Hopelessly Divided On Uni Fee Hikes

11 August, 2020 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the government is hopelessly divided on the Job-ready Graduates ...

Failure to protect DjabWurrung birthing trees an act of cultural desecration: Greens

11 August, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP and DjabWurrung traditional owner Lidia Thorpe have today slammed the Environment Minister’s fai...

Arts and entertainment industry funds won’t flow till restrictions lifted

11 August, 2020 - The Secretary to the Prime Minister has today told the Senate’s Covid Committee that money previously promised to help the arts & entertainmen...

Prime Minister and Cabinet must show leadership and urgently ensure that aged care around Australia is prepared

11 August, 2020 - Questions to Prime Minster and Cabinet today at the COVID hearing have shown that despite the aged care crisis the Government is not doing eno...

Big businesses that receive JobKeeper and pay out dividends should be cut loose and made to repay funds

11 August, 2020 - Greens Treasury spokesperson Senator Peter Whish-Wilson has called for big companies that are paying out dividends from their profits or buyin...

Grattan Report Shows Early Learning Investment Key To Gender Equity

10 August, 2020 - The Greens have welcomed a new report from the Grattan Institute today, Cheaper childcare: A practical plan to boost female workforce particip...

Aged care Royal Commission must examine impact of profit making: Greens

10 August, 2020 - The Greens have written to the Prime Minister requesting that he urgently update the terms of reference for the Royal Commission into Aged Car...

SA Govt must rule out cut to River Murray water allocation

7 August, 2020 - The Greens are calling on the South Australian Government to guarantee the state won’t lose a single gigalitre of water allocated to it under t...

JobKeeper expansion still leaves millions of workers missing out

7 August, 2020 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt says today's announcement that the government will expand JobKeeper suggests lessons have not been learned from the fi...

Morrison & Andrews are failing to protect disabled people

7 August, 2020 - Friday 7th August 2020 Australian Greens Disability Rights and Services spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John said a failure to learn from th...

Pandemic Leave desperately needed with a quarter of South Aussie workers having no leave entitlement

6 August, 2020 - Greens Senator for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Young has called for South Australia to be included in the Federal Government’s Paid Pandemic L...

JobKeeper cuts will force up to 83,000 Victorians out of jobs

6 August, 2020 - The Australian Greens have released analysis of ABS data which shows 83,100 workers on JobKeeper in Victoria are casuals in industries now subj...