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Commonwealth must take more responsibility if we are going to address youth detention

9 February, 2018 - The Commonwealth must take more responsibility for justice issues in Australia if we are going to genuinely fix our youth justice system and ...
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Australian Greens condemn alleged ‘victory day’ party that used Nazi flags

9 February, 2018 - The Australian Greens condemn an alleged white supremacist themed Australia Day party in Kalgoorlie WA that purportedly used Nazi flags whils...
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Damning report on Close the Gap progress should drive rethink on refresh process: Greens

9 February, 2018 - The ten year review for the Closing the Gap strategy should prompt an urgent reset by the Government, Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewer...
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Media Release: Frydenberg proved wrong by world’s first shark population survey and still calls for culls

9 February, 2018 - Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, says that the Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg has been proven wrong ...
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Australian Greens welcome ALP & NXT opposition to cashless welfare card expansions

9 February, 2018 - "I welcome the ALP and NXT in opposing the cashless welfare card legislation in the House of Representatives and look forward to the vote bei...
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Disappointing that Senate voted down disallowance to stop cashless welfare card trials: Greens

9 February, 2018 - It is disappointing that the Senate has voted down the Greens disallowance motion to immediately stop the cashless welfare card trials in the...
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Don’t go to water over threats from greedy upstream states

9 February, 2018 - Australian Greens Murray-Darling Basin spokesperson and Senator for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Young is urging her SA colleagues to hold fi...
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Harrowing report into abuse of people with disability in prison should be the final straw, we need a Royal Commission: Greens

9 February, 2018 - The Human Rights Watch report that details harrowing systemic abuse of people with disability in prisons should trigger a Royal Commission in...
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Allegations of lies and corruption risk South Australia’s vital water source

8 February, 2018 - Today’s revelations that South Australia has been sold down the river about how much water it would lose if the Government’s change to the Mu...
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Greens to close Government’s gambling advertising loopholes for broadcasters

8 February, 2018 - The Australian Greens have slammed the Turnbull Government for allowing loopholes that gets Foxtel out of a blanket ban on playing gambling a...
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Greens motion calling for Turnbull Government action on abortion passes Senate

7 February, 2018 - The Senate has today passed a Greens motion calling on the government to ensure safe, surgical abortions are available in public hospitals ac...
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Labor deceived Queenslanders about Adani jobs claim to win the state election

7 February, 2018 - Queensland Greens Senator Andrew Bartlett says Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s complaints about non-existent Adani jobs shows their pre-elect...
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Government must reconsider response to gaming inquiry in the name of innovation: Greens

6 February, 2018 - This Government’s repeated attacks on Australia’s video games industry, climaxing last week in the tabling of a totally inadequate government...
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Political denial over the Murray Darling Basin Plan will kill the river: Greens

5 February, 2018 - Today’s intervention by prominent scientists and economists warning that the roll-out of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is failing should be a...
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Power to the people

2 February, 2018 - Power to the people: towards a publicly owned electricity grid   The Greens will seek to return the national electricity grid into public han...
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