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Statement on Parliament sittings

6 August, 2020 - I am pleased the Parliament will sit again. In a crisis we need more democracy, not less, and the Greens opposed the initial agreement between ...

Govt claims $10m for Fox Sports is a Covid Response Measure but no extra funding for ABC

6 August, 2020 - The Morrison Government’s $10million for Fox Sports to broadcast women’s and niche sports is part of its Covid Response Package, yet no extra f...

Federal Government must lift VIC childcare support & move to free childcare

6 August, 2020 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says a return to free childcare is needed in Victoria immediately and that the success of the initial COVID-19 child...

Paid pandemic leave desperately needed with 59,000 Tasmanians without leave entitlements

6 August, 2020 - Tasmanian Senator Peter Whish-Wilson has called for Tasmania to be included in the Federal Government's Paid Pandemic Leave scheme, with ABS da...

75th Anniversary of Hiroshima: Australia must sign UN Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

6 August, 2020 - Thursday 6th August 2020 Australian Greens Peace and Nuclear Disarmament spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John has called for Australian to s...

Australia needs to raise the minimum wage for women's economic security

5 August, 2020 - The Greens have welcomed the updated Economic Security for Women’s White Paper, and called on the government raise the minimum wage to address ...

Prohibited Items Bill

5 August, 2020 - The Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2020 is irredeemable and must be rejected by the Senate, t...

No More Band-Aids: Reinstate Free Childcare and Fund ECEC Properly

5 August, 2020 - The Greens have responded to the government’s package for childcare in Victoria, saying that it is unnecessarily complicated and austere. The g...

Australia Post and Christine Holgate Settlement

4 August, 2020 - Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, chair of the Senate Inquiry into Australia Post and Greens spokesperson for communications, responded to the statem...

New seismic testing research has damning results

4 August, 2020 - Greens Healthy Oceans spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, says damning new research into the harmful impacts of seismic testing will be r...

'I just don’t see why politics needs to be involved': Calls for compensation at Sports Rorts hearing

3 August, 2020 - In testimony today at the Senate Inquiry into the Administration of Sports Grants, affected sports clubs and local governments have called on t...

Morrison Government can grant COVID sick leave without Parliament

3 August, 2020 - The Morrison government can use the extensive coronavirus crisis powers already granted to it by Parliament to immediately grant paid COVID-19 ...

Racing Cruelty Continues In Lockdown

3 August, 2020 - Australian Greens Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to the announcement that greyhound and horse racing will con...

Federal Gov Must Support Early Learning In Victoria

3 August, 2020 - The Greens have said that the federal government must urgently support early learning and immediately provide relief for early childhood educat...

Paid pandemic ‘leave’ not enough & won’t properly support health effort

3 August, 2020 - Scott Morrison’s pandemic payment announcement is a poor substitute for sick leave and doesn’t properly support the public health push to conta...