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Pigs will fly before heroic MYEFO wage growth forecasts come true

17 December, 2018 - Pigs will fly before heroic MYEFO wage growth forecasts come true Greens employment spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today noted MYEFO joins 8 yea...

Labor’s Investor Subsidy Tinkering Around the Edges of Housing Problem

17 December, 2018 - Australian Greens Housing Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has described Labor’s housing announcement as tinkering around the edges. Se...

Labor locks in cruelty to refugees

17 December, 2018 - Labor’s commitment to the cruelty of offshore detention and boat turnbacks is disappointing, but not surprising, Greens immigration spokespe...

It’s Adani or our environment, Labor, time to choose

17 December, 2018 - Labor must decide whether it will stand by environmental protections or roll over to Adani and big oil wanting to drill in the Bight, the Gr...

Australia inhibiting real climate action at home and abroad: Bandt

17 December, 2018 - Australia inhibiting real climate action at home and abroad: Bandt Greens climate change and energy spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today noted t...

University of Wollongong Should Return Cultural Supremacist Ramsay Centre’s Money

17 December, 2018 - Senator Mehreen Faruqi, the Australian Greens spokesperson for Education and a former academic, reacted to this morning’s news that the Univ...

Greens in Senate will hold Labor to environment protections

16 December, 2018 - The strong environmental protections announced by Labor today will fail without proper investment, and a commitment to no new coal, oil and ...

Greens slam ‘Trumpesque’ decision to recognise West Jerusalem as Israeli capital

15 December, 2018 - Leader of the Australian Greens Dr Richard Di Natale has slammed the Prime Minister’s decision to formally recognise West Jerusalem as the I...

South Australia must fight for 450GL delivery

14 December, 2018 - The Australian Greens are calling on the South Australian Water Minister to come home from Friday’s Ministerial Council meeting with a commi...

Urgent action needed to save Tassie’s East Coast reefs

14 December, 2018 - The federal and state governments must take action to save Tasmania’s East Coast reefs. “Our reefs are far too important to lose, but right ...

A sham ICAC from a sham government

13 December, 2018 - Greens spokesperson for democracy Senator Larissa Waters said 10 years after the Greens first called for a federal anti-corruption body to o...

Morrison’s new laws must not undermine anti-discrimination protections

13 December, 2018 - A Religious Discrimination Act should not be used to undermine or override state based anti-discrimination laws, the Australian Greens say, ...

Greens will leave no stone unturned to block government spending money on coal: Bandt

13 December, 2018 - Greens will leave no stone unturned to block government spending money on coal: Bandt Referring to Energy Minister Angus Taylor's call for p...

Morrison’s new laws must not undermine anti-discrimination protections

13 December, 2018 - A Religious Discrimination Act should not be used to undermine or override state based anti-discrimination laws, the Australian Greens say, ...

Exporting rare Australian birds must be halted and investigated: Greens

12 December, 2018 - The Australian Greens are calling for an immediate halt to the export of native animals, and an independent inquiry into how hundreds of end...