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Student Safety Ombudsman Must Have Teeth

17 November, 2023 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, and Senator Larissa Waters welcome reports today that a national ombudsman on stude...

Albanese's Tampa Moment

16 November, 2023 - Labor’s panicked and craven decision to collude with Peter Dutton to jam through draconian, anti-refugee laws will be Anthony Albanese’s Tam...

Labor’s ridicule of student protesters a new low

15 November, 2023 - The Greens say Labor is hopelessly out of touch with Australia’s young people, after the government today mocked students preparing to walk ...

Wages data shows rent crisis is out of control

15 November, 2023 - The most recent data on wage growth and rent increases in Australia presents a stark picture of the escalating rental crisis, exacerbated by...

Memo Labor: Don’t let Peter Dutton write immigration detention laws again

15 November, 2023 - Labor must not let Peter Dutton dictate its response to the High Court ruling that indefinite immigration detention is unconstitutional, the...

Greens win changes to Respect at Work costs protection

15 November, 2023 - The Greens welcome the introduction of the Australian Human Rights Commission Amendment (Costs Protection) Bill 2023 today, which would impl...

Greens move minute's silence in Senate

15 November, 2023 - MOTION – I give notice that on the next day of sitting, I shall move—That, at the conclusion of formal motions today, the Senate observe a m...

Tasmania’s rental crisis continues to worsen

14 November, 2023 - The 2023 Rental Affordability Index shows Tasmania is in a deepening rental crisis, the Greens say. “This is the system acting exactly as...

Greens write to Education Minister urging him to retract comments on school strikes

14 November, 2023 - Greens Education (Primary and Secondary) spokesperson Senator Penny Allman-Payne, a 30-year public school teacher, today wrote to Education ...

Controversial military exports Bill must not be rushed

14 November, 2023 - Late last Friday night the Albanese Government snuck out an exposure draft for the Defence Trade Controls Amendment Bill 2023 with submissio...

Greens call on the South Australian Government to urgently subsidise proven shark deterrent devices

13 November, 2023 - The Greens call on all levels of government, especially the South Australian Government, to do more to help ocean goers reduce the risk of r...

Guarantees needed in Murray-Darling Basin Plan

10 November, 2023 - Responding to the release of the Senate inquiry report into the Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023, Senator Hanson-Young, Gree...

Report for the Inquiry of Disability Services and Inclusion Bill tabled. 

9 November, 2023 - The Community Affairs References Committee has today tabled a report on the inquiry into the Disability Services and Inclusion Bill. Th...

Senator Mehreen Faruqi’s statement on Senator Pauline Hanson

9 November, 2023 - “The Senate has rightly forced Senator Hanson to withdraw her unacceptable racist comments and held her to account for once. “This should ...

Greens win Optus Inquiry with public hearings, Senate powers

9 November, 2023 - The Greens have secured a public-facing Senate Inquiry into the significant Optus outage that affected millions on November 8. The Inquiry wi...