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Dutton's illegal detention of Australians

5 July, 2017 - Peter Dutton must accept responsibility and come clean about his illegal detention of at least two Australian citizens, Greens Immigration spokes...

Funding new coal power morally criminal use of public money: Bandt

5 July, 2017 - In response to reports today that the Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund (NAIF) is a step closer to funding a coal-fired power station, Green...

UN joins growing calls for a Royal Commission into the abuse, violence and neglect of people with disability

4 July, 2017 - Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has welcomed the United Nations International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Committee...

A collective effort from Government with our First Peoples is needed to protect languages: Greens

4 July, 2017 - As NAIDOC week continues, Australian Greens spokesperson on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues Senator Rachel Siewert is calling on Aus...

Retail jobs deal for young people opens up questions about churn and exploitation: Greens

3 July, 2017 -  The Australian Greens have reservations about job internships being negotiated between the Government and the Australian Retailers Association f...

Government must act on retirement village exploitation and consider national regulation

27 June, 2017 - The Four Corner’s story on Monday night that revealed distressing exploitation of older Australians in retirement villages should trigger quick ...

Australian couples left waiting for marriage equality - Greens urge Turnbull to get on with it

26 June, 2017 - Christopher Pyne’s comments about marriage equality over the weekend show just how impatient many members of the Coalition are for marriage equa...

Senator Hanson, please stop your damaging remarks towards kids with autism in schools

23 June, 2017 - Senator Pauline Hanson doubling down on her comments that children with autism should be segregated in schools shows sheer stubbornness and an i...

Labor and Liberal vote down Senate motion on Okehampton Bay

22 June, 2017 - Greens spokesperson for Health Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson expresses his disappointment that both Labor and Liberal voted in the Senate t...

10 years today since the NT intervention started, the Government must concede it has not worked

21 June, 2017 - It has been a decade today since the Howard Government started the Northern Territory Intervention, the Government should finally concede is it ...

No plan for how to grow aged care workforce to meet demand as the population ages, senate committee finds

21 June, 2017 - A Senate Committee report that investigated the issues facing the aged care sector in developing its workforce in the face of an ageing populati...

Senate committee recommends robo-debt be put on hold and drastically overhauled

21 June, 2017 - A Senate Committee report into the Government’s Centrelink Online Compliance Intervention (robo-debt) program has called for it to be put on hol...

Victorians issued over 33,000 robo-debt notices in less than a year

21 June, 2017 - A breakdown provided by the Department of Human Services to the Centrelink senate inquiry shows that over 33,000 Victorians have been issued wit...

GREENS READY TO BACK GOVERNMENT REINING IN ELECTRICITY NETWORKS

20 June, 2017 - Greens ready to back government reining in electricity networks The Australian Greens have said they are ready to back moves to start reining in...