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Government’s workplace changes may not help exploited 7-Eleven workers: Greens

25 May, 2016 - Greens Employment & Industrial Relations spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today said the government’s proposal for changes to workplace laws may not he...

Bandt releases penalty rates ad after Greens focus national attention on weekend pay rates

25 May, 2016 - Following the second week of the campaign beginning by focussing on the parties' differences on penalty rates, Greens Industrial Relations spokes...

PEFO confirms need for more active fiscal policy: Greens

25 May, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today said the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook released today confirms there are bleak econom...

Greg Hunt's wind stunt won't fool Tasmania

25 May, 2016 - Senator Whish-Wilson provides the following comments on Greg Hunt’s visit to Robbins Island to talk up wind farm prospects. “There have been ver...

Greens release plan for giant boost to science and research

25 May, 2016 - The Australian Greens want to put Australia on a path to spending 4% of GDP on science and research by 2030. Announcing the policy at the Walter ...

Greens announce national plan for legal, accessible and affordable abortion

24 May, 2016 - The Australian Greens today announced a $15 million plan to improve the accessibility and affordability of abortion nationally.  Queensland Senat...

Greens unveil plans for an Innovation Nation

23 May, 2016 - The Australian Greens have today released a comprehensive Innovation Policy to back startup enterprises, support STEM education and boost innovat...

Manus and Nauru torturous by design: Greens

22 May, 2016 - The Manus Island and Nauru detention camps are not only torturous, but are intentionally design to be so, the Australian Greens have said. "Tim C...

Malcolm Turnbull disappoints in Tasmania yet again

20 May, 2016 - Launceston-based Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson makes the following comment on the Malcolm Turnbull visit to Launceston today. Senator Whish-W...

Government needs to come clean on talks about redrafting of TPP

19 May, 2016 - The Australian Greens’ spokesperson on trade, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, called on the federal government to ‘come clean’ about what was discuss...

Greens to power up Sunshine Coast solar with battery-storage plan

19 May, 2016 - The Greens have announced a costed plan to support the tens of thousands of Sunshine Coast solar households to install battery storage and to enc...

Old parties want to gut agency funding ground-breaking UNSW solar research

18 May, 2016 - UNSW's world-leading research, announced today, which breaks a world record for solar efficiency, is funded through the Australian Renewable Ener...

Traders’ antics are no joke: we need a Royal Commission to get to the heart of the problem

18 May, 2016 - The Australian Greens finance spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, said today that the “ugly spectacle” of Westpac and ANZ traders joking ab...

Media Release: Greens to fund feasibility study into Tasmanian women’s football team

17 May, 2016 - The Australian Greens have committed to funding a comprehensive study into the feasibility of a Tasmanian women’s football side competing in the ...