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Wine grape growers call for ACCC enforced Code

7 February, 2025 - The Senate Rural and Regional Affairs Committee will hear evidence today from the ACCC and Department of Agriculture in the second hearing of...

Greens slam major parties for delaying childcare reforms in Senate

6 February, 2025 - Greens early childhood education spokesperson Senator Steph Hodgins-May has slammed the Labor and Liberal parties for teaming up to defer the...

Labor have officially abandoned the environment in stunning capitulation to mining, logging lobby

5 February, 2025 - The Albanese Government has taken the extraordinary step of moving to discharge their own bill from the Senate Notice Paper, sounding the dea...

Labor must rule out Bass Strait Development 

5 February, 2025 - The Greens have today raised concerns about NOPSEMA’s regulation of the offshore fossil fuel industry following the government agency’s appro...

Albanese Government must condemn Trump’s latest attack on UNRWA & human rights

5 February, 2025 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader Senator Mehreen Faruqi has demanded that the Australian government unequivocally condemn President Trump’s de...

Greens offer pathway to pass gambling ad laws this fortnight

4 February, 2025 - The Greens have offered the Albanese Government a pragmatic pathway to tackle the harms of gambling advertising with new laws this fortnight....

AEC donations data drop shows the same big corporations pull the strings

3 February, 2025 - 03 February 2025 Political donations data published today by the Australian Electoral Commission shows corporate control over the major pa...

Greens will support Hate Crimes Bill to strengthen protections for vulnerable communities

3 February, 2025 - The Australian Greens have confirmed their support for the Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill, recognising it as a step in strengthen...

Greens welcome FDSV crisis accommodation funding, but the sector needs more

1 February, 2025 - Responding to the announcement of $100 million in FDSV crisis housing, Senator Waters said: “Any additional money for crisis accommodation...

Gambling is unfinished business, Greens to push Murphy's ban on Wednesday

31 January, 2025 - Both Peter Dutton and the Federal Government have so far failed to tackle the serious harms of gambling advertising, but the Greens...

Greens call for seismic blasting moratorium as Woodside acknowledges risks to whales and turtles

31 January, 2025 - The Australian Greens and The Greens (WA) have today issued a joint call for a seismic blasting moratorium in Western Australian and Commonwe...

Greens launch election pitch for 50 cent public transport fares, say it would save households thousands every year

31 January, 2025 - The Australian Greens have launched a plan to deliver 50 cent public transport fares across the country, taking the Queensland experience nat...

Greens announce War Crimes Investigation Unit

30 January, 2025 - Talking big on community cohesion while letting war criminals live freely among the people they have harmed is a farce. Australia shouldn’t b...

Greens announce Great Southern Forest National Park on the NSW South Coast

30 January, 2025 - Momentum is gathering for an end to native forest logging. A 2024 survey showed that 70% of people in NSW support an end to native forest log...

Greens support a desperately needed university governance overhaul

29 January, 2025 -  Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and higher education spokesperson, supports and welcomes a senate inquir...