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Concerns drug testing may be imposed on Bunbury income support recipients: Greens

12 May, 2017 - Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has said today that she is worried her home state of Western Australia may become a target for drug test...

One Nation and NXT quash timely medical cannabis for terminally ill patients

11 May, 2017 - The Nick Xenophon Team and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation have slammed the door on terminally ill patients fighting for faster access to the medical...

Buffett Tax, deficit levy and undoing top-end tax cuts a fairer way to raise revenue

11 May, 2017 - Greens Treasury spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, is calling on the Parliament to implement a Buffett Rule to make sure that executive fa...

Extraordinary Labor split puts Great Australian Bight Marine Park at risk

11 May, 2017 - A Senate inquiry into the plans of companies like BP and Chevron to drill for oil in South Australia’s Great Australian Bight Marine Park has pro...

Australian Greens welcome children’s television creators to #SaveKidsTV campaign

11 May, 2017 - The Australian Greens are proud to stand with children’s television producers from around the country in fighting to maintain, and strengthen, lo...

Show support to Whyalla by committing to buy Australian steel

10 May, 2017 - The Australian Greens want the government to use Australian steel in the national infrastructure projects announced in the 2017 Budget and will m...

Single biggest cut in the budget is a brutal attack on young people

10 May, 2017 - Malcolm Turnbull has proven he has his priorities wrong if he thinks he can foster a clever country by cutting $3.8 billion from universities, wh...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues in the budget largely unaddressed: Greens

10 May, 2017 - The Treasurer might have vaguely mentioned Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues in his budget speech, but the detail doesn’t back up the ...

Back to the Future on Health Care

10 May, 2017 - This budget fails Australian patients, has zero vision for the future of the system and is a political fix, pure and simple. The Government’s pla...

Government trying to raise money from most vulnerable again

9 May, 2017 - It appears that once again the Government will be picking on the most vulnerable members of our community in the Budget, the Australian Greens sai...

Comments on Budget 2017

9 May, 2017 - “If you’re under the age of 35, you’ve been screwed over in this budget - whether it’s the gouging of higher education, the lack of action on clim...

Funding for the NDIS cannot come from our most vulnerable: Greens

9 May, 2017 - “The Greens support a fully funded NDIS, but it cannot come from our most vulnerable through cuts to the social safety net and the social security...

Greens to refer Government education plan to inquiry

5 May, 2017 - The Australian Greens will refer the Government’s education legislation to a senate inquiry when parliament returns next week, to ensure the propo...

Back off Barnaby, and take your cruel games with you

4 May, 2017 - Greens Senator for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Young has slammed Barnaby Joyce and Matt Canavan for spruiking a cruel deal to Whyalla steelworker...

ACOSS snapshot blasts hole in Government argument that there is ‘welfare blowout’

3 May, 2017 - A snapshot by ACOSS released today that debunks claims by the Government that we have a ‘welfare blowout’ blasts a hole in attempts by the Governm...