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Investing in our children helps families, and the community

2 February, 2018 - The Australian Greens will move to legislate raising the guaranteed minimum hours of subsidised early childhood education in an effort to hel...

Transurban’s donations to old parties put mega toll roads into question, say the Greens

2 February, 2018 - Political donations data released this week shows that private toll road giant Transurban has made significant donations to both the Labor an...

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...

Dutton's contempt for judicial independence and the rule of law

1 February, 2018 - Peter Dutton's latest potshot at the judiciary shows an alarming contempt for the rule of law, Greens Justice spokesperson Senator Nick McKim...

Shift in support for changing the date cannot be ignored: Greens

1 February, 2018 - Polling in Fairfax media today that reveals more Australians have gotten onboard with changing the date of Australia Day in the last year sho...

State and Federal Labor must stop the games and face the music on TAFE crisis

31 January, 2018 - Greens education spokespeople Senator Sarah Hanson-Young and Tammy Franks MLC are calling out both the state and federal Labor parties for tr...

Liberals game laws to deliberately harm people owed protection

30 January, 2018 - Leaked cabinet documents show the extent to which the Liberals have undermined the law to deliberately cause harm to people they know are owe...

Government must protect people with psychosocial disabilities irrespective of their eligibility for the NDIS

30 January, 2018 - The gaps in services for people with psychosocial disability in the NDIS are deeply concerning and need to be urgently addressed, Australian ...

Innovation and Science statement dead in the water under an anti-science government: Bandt

30 January, 2018 - Innovation and Science statement dead in the water under an anti-science government: Bandt Greens spokesperson for Science, Research & Innova...

Former Abbott Government’s plan to stop supports for anyone under 30 shows true callousness: Greens

29 January, 2018 - News that in 2014 Tony Abbott considered banning income support for all Australians under 30 shows just how callous and out of touch his Gove...

Foreign interference laws

24 January, 2018 - The Greens share the deep concerns of civil liberties groups and media organisations about the scale and scope of the Government's foreign in...

TPP revival is all devil, no detail

24 January, 2018 - Hold the champagne – this ‘zombie TPP’ may be new, but it’s anything but improved, Greens trade and finance spokesperson Senator Sarah-Hanson...

Australia must follow Germany’s lead and ban arms sales to Saudi Arabia over Yemen conflict

23 January, 2018 - Greens Defence spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, welcomes the leadership of Angela Merkel in announcing a ban on all arms sales from ...

Japan’s plan for new whaling mother-ship a deliberate provocation against Australia

22 January, 2018 - Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, says that Japan announcing plans for a new whaling mother-ship is a slap-...

Malcolm Turnbull’s $60 million pledge a wasteful publicity stunt that’s doomed to fail

22 January, 2018 - Greens Senator for Queensland Andrew Bartlett says Malcolm Turnbull’s pledge of millions of dollars to protect the Great Barrier Reef is a wa...