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Gov must pass Greens COVID leave bill, Labor must firm up on JobKeeper 2.0

2 August, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt MP, said with the situation in Victoria changing by the hour, people deserved clarity from the Gove...

Latest government rort must be investigated by the Senate

31 July, 2020 - Senator Larissa Waters will call the Senate to vote on an inquiry into the Coalition’s rorting of government grants, which will include the Shin...

Protected species in shark nets, NSW data reveals

31 July, 2020 - Greens Healthy Oceans spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, comments on data released today revealing high numbers of threatened and protect...

Zero carbon grid possible by 2040

30 July, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt has today said the release of the final system plan for Australia's energy grid showed that a transit...

Wildlife toll shows environment needs stronger protections

29 July, 2020 - With a revised tally of killed or displaced wildlife from the summer’s bushfires coming in at three times initial estimates, it’s clear now is n...

Plastics hearing reveals decades of flawed recycling policy

29 July, 2020 - Witnesses today outlined their frustration with decades-long recycling policy failure in today’s hearing into the Packaging and Plastics Bill 20...

COVID Committee gas report shows fossil fuel sector letting manufacturing

29 July, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP said reporting of a National COVID Commission presentation on natural gas showed a growing disconn...

No Modelling, No Worries: Liberals

29 July, 2020 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the government’s plan to hike up university fees should be scrappe...

Greens seek PM's support for COVID leave bill

29 July, 2020 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, has written to the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, seeking time when Parliament resumes in August to pass a Greens’ b...

Unions, welfare groups & Greens all back jobs over tax cuts

28 July, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt, has commended peak worker and social services groups for coming out hard against the proposed accel...

Government continues attack on Reef science

28 July, 2020 - The Coalition and One Nation have cemented their position as science denialists, having spent Monday badgering some of Australia’s peak scientif...

Shadow Minister puts Labor in lockstep with Liberals on climate

28 July, 2020 - Australian Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says statements today from Labor’s Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Resources, Joel Fitzgibbon, put the...

Costings show bringing forward tax cuts would cost an extra $28 billion

27 July, 2020 - The Australian Greens have released costings from the Parliamentary Budget Office on the cost of bringing forward income tax cuts. The costings ...

Greens welcome Liberal Minister’s comments and call on Labor to join the fight.

25 July, 2020 - The Greens have welcomed the intervention from NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean who has broken ranks today with the Federal Government over pl...

Behrouz Boochani

24 July, 2020 - Comments from Greens Immigration spokesperson Senator Nick McKim on New Zealand's decision to grant asylum to Behrouz Boochani: "New Zealand gra...