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SA on a road to nowhere under Liberals

3 April, 2019 - South Australians have been left high and dry under Scott Morrison’s pre-election budget.   “With no marginal seats to throw cash at, South Aust...

$245.7m for school chaplains puts LGBTIQ+ students in danger, say Greens

3 April, 2019 - The Morrison government putting $245.7 million into religious chaplains in secular, public schools over the next four years puts LGBTIQ+ student...

Christmas Island reopening a cynical waste

3 April, 2019 - The Liberals spending $185m to reopen and then close Christmas Island is rank cynicism and deeply wasteful, Greens Immigration spokesperson Nick...

Greens Give Morrison Budget an 'F' on School Funding

3 April, 2019 - Australian Greens Senator for NSW and Spokesperson for Education, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has given the Federal Budget an F on school funding and has...

$400k in Budget for national EV strategy a joke, say Greens

3 April, 2019 - The Morrison government’s $400,000 allocation for a national electric vehicle strategy in the Budget is an absolute joke, especially when they h...

Budget infrastructure spending shows a complete lack of vision and porkbarrelling, say Greens

3 April, 2019 -  The Morrison’s government’s infrastructure spending demonstrates a complete lack of vision and pre-election porkbarrelling to save the skin of ...

Federal Budget a cynical mess: Greens

2 April, 2019 - This budget is a cynical attempt to buy votes instead of planning for the nation’s looming challenges. What we needed was a plan to tackle the c...

Lethal shark culling to end in Great Barrier Reef

2 April, 2019 - Healthy Oceans spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, today praised the order from the Administrative Appeals Tribunal which will see an end ...

Labor dishes up dog's breakfast of Liberal leftovers on climate

1 April, 2019 - Labor dishes up dog's breakfast of Liberal leftovers on climate Greens’ climate change spokesperson and Co-Deputy Leader, Adam Bandt, said that ...

$324 billion reasons the PRRT is a joke

1 April, 2019 - Treasury spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, today commented on new tax statistics released by the ATO revealing tax credits to oil and ga...

Compensation for Australia's thalidomide survivors must be allocated in tomorrow's federal budget

1 April, 2019 - Monday, 1 April 2019 Australian Greens Disability Rights spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John has supported calls by Thalidomide Group Austra...

Greens urge Labor to go further on waste plan

31 March, 2019 - Waste & Recycling spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, today welcomed Labor’s new commitment to tackling Australia’s waste crisis but urge...