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PM fails as National Cabinet dodges deaths in custody

12 June, 2020 - Scott Morrison’s refusal to make First Nations deaths in custody a standing agenda item at National Cabinet shows his words to be hollow, the Gr...

Two thirds of Australians support local content laws for streaming services, new poll shows

12 June, 2020 - Two thirds of Australians support laws requiring streaming services like Netflix and Amazon to show and fund locally made shows and films, new r...

South Australian Labor members have dumped on their home state

11 June, 2020 - South Australian Labor members have dumped on their home state today, backing the legislation to build a nuclear waste dump at Kimba on SA’s Eyr...

Greens Push To Support Unis Defeated By One Vote

10 June, 2020 - The Australian Senate has narrowly voted down a Greens motion to disallow parts of the Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benef...

Government says a woman’s place is barefoot and pregnant in a renovated kitchen

9 June, 2020 - Responding to the government’s decision to axe JobKeeper early in childcare, end free childcare and ignore the high rates of women losing work in...

Greens will fight looming Labor/Liberal JobKeeper cuts

5 June, 2020 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt has responded to reports the government is considering Labor’s proposal to cut JobKeeper payments for people previously ...

New foreign investment rules a beat-up

5 June, 2020 - Today's big announcement by the Treasurer on tightening our foreign investment laws is more politics than policy, says Greens Treasury spokespers...

Greens welcome injecting facility announcement but call for changes

5 June, 2020 - Local Greens MPs for Melbourne, Adam Bandt and Ellen Sandell, have welcomed the government’s decision to expand the number of supervised injectin...

Rio Tinto must sack boss and front Environment Committee: Greens

5 June, 2020 - The Australian Greens have called on the chief executive of Rio Tinto Iron Ore, Chris Salisbury, to resign or be sacked over the growing scandal ...

Granite Benchtop Grants will worsen the homelessness crisis

4 June, 2020 - The Greens have responded to the Morrison government’s ‘granite benchtop grant’ announcement today, saying its HomeBuilder scheme will use public...

Morrison must call out Trump’s moves towards fascism

3 June, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt MP, has today called on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to stop being subservient to Donald Trump and i...

Morrison has no pathway out of recession

3 June, 2020 - Responding to today’s alarming economic figures, Greens Leader Adam Bandt said Scott Morrison has no plan to get the country out of recession and...

Public Housing, Not 'Granite Benchtop Grants', Should Drive Construction Stimulus

2 June, 2020 - The Greens have said that the construction of public and community housing should drive construction stimulus, not ill-conceived and unnecessary ...

Govt’s spotlight on arts and entertainment welcome

2 June, 2020 - The foreshadowing of a package for the arts and entertainment industry by the PM is welcome, but the devil will be in the detail, the Greens say....

Attack on media in America to be examined by Senate Press Freedom Inquiry

2 June, 2020 - Chair of the Senate Inquiry into Press Freedoms, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, has vowed to look at the treatment of the press covering the ...