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Australian Greens dissent from committee report into Government plans to drug test income support recipients

10 May, 2018 - The Australian Greens have dissented from the Community Affairs Legislation Committee report into the Government’s bill that would drug test Aust...

Government makes broken CDP worse despite promising overhaul

10 May, 2018 -  Changes by the Turnbull Government to the Community Development Program (CDP) in remote and regional Australia are tinkering around the edges, d...

Government and Labor vote down Greens push to reduce truck pollution, greenhouse gases and fuel consumption

10 May, 2018 - The Coalition and Labor have voted against a Greens amendment to a heavy vehicle regulation bill in the senate today that would have lead to redu...

Vulnerable Australians continue to get left behind by Turnbull Government

10 May, 2018 - The Australian Greens said today people on lowest level of income have been completely ignored in this budget with no increase to the appallingly...

Budget ignores climate change despite rising pollution: Bandt

9 May, 2018 - Budget ignores climate change despite rising pollution: Bandt Greens climate change and energy spokesperson Adam Bandt MP said that despite the im...

Greens say Turnbull’s high earner tax cuts are a handout to men, leaving women’s equality further behind

9 May, 2018 - The Greens have used ATO income statistics to highlight that the Turnbull Government’s tax cuts for high income earners will disproportionately be...

Labor teams up with Turnbull to sell out environment, river and South Australia

8 May, 2018 - This is worse than a shocking deal from the Labor Party and the Turnbull Government. It’s a heartbreaking one. They have teamed up together to put...

Malcolm Turnbull’s Trump-style budget a dead end for Australia

8 May, 2018 - “Rarely do budgets give us such stark choices about what kind of future we want for our country, but this one surely does. We have a clear choice ...

Greens to introduce bill to remove tampon tax

8 May, 2018 - The Australian Greens will today give notice to introduce a bill to the Senate to repeal the tampon tax. “After 18 years, it’s time to finally axe...

Call for Labor to back Greens bill to end live sheep exports

7 May, 2018 - The end to live sheep exports within two years is now within reach if Labor and the cross bench back the Greens bill to transition out of live ani...

Bill Shorten should stop walking both sides of the fence and support an increase to Newstart

4 May, 2018 - Bill Shorten and the Labor Party should dump their commitment to ‘review’ the woefully low rate of Newstart and instead commit to increasing it in...

MPs who think they can survive off $40 a day should try living off it for a week

3 May, 2018 - Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has called on Federal MPs who think they could live off the $40 a day Newstart rate to give it a go.  “I ...

Greens welcome plan to 'Repower Australia'

3 May, 2018 - Greens welcome plan to 'Repower Australia' Greens climate change and energy spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today welcomed the release of a plan to ‘Re...

Greens support broad alliance calling for increase to Newstart

2 May, 2018 - The Australian Greens support the chorus of economists and social services groups calling for an increase to the woefully low Newstart payment. “T...