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Unprecedented engagement on draft Cannabis report delivers a gold standard scheme

4 August, 2023 - Today the Greens are delivering the results of the extensive public consultation on the first ever bill to legalise adult use of recreational c...

Government’s Sea Dumping Bill is a con job that facilitates fossil fuels 

3 August, 2023 - MEDIA RELEASE: Government’s Sea Dumping Bill is a con job that facilitates fossil fuels  The Greens have condemned the Albanese Governm...

Greens Welcome Saved ABC Local News Bulletins

2 August, 2023 - The Greens have welcomed the announcement today that the ABC will stop its plan to scrap 7pm local news bulletins on Sunday nights. Senator ...

Labor’s Safety Net Bill is a parachute with holes

2 August, 2023 - Greens’ Social Services spokesperson, Senator Janet Rice, has slammed Labor’s paltry increase to Centrelink payments that will leave millions o...

Albanese must address AAD uncertainty

2 August, 2023 - The Albanese Government must set the record straight and address rising fears about what science programs will be axed as a result of a $2...

Full funding for public schools now

2 August, 2023 - The Greens have welcomed the AEU’s new campaign for fully funded public schools and are calling on governments to stop gifting money to elite p...

Greens Say Yes to Transparency but Where’s the Data Protection?

1 August, 2023 - The Greens welcome the Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media’s recommendations for a minimum set of enforceable transpa...

Great Barrier Reef decision no cause for celebration

1 August, 2023 - The Greens warn that despite the Great Barrier Reef’s one year reprieve from being declared “in danger”, the iconic marine ecosystem remains un...

Government can secure passage of their gas tax changes through the Senate Crossbench

31 July, 2023 - The Greens have offered to pass the Government’s gas tax changes through the Senate if the revenue from the changes is doubled by lowering the d...

Greens to introduce suite of amendments to improve Safety Net Bill, including raising Jobseeker to $88 a day

31 July, 2023 - Greens’ Social Services spokesperson, Senator Janet Rice, has slammed Peter Dutton’s policy of ripping money from the poorest Australians, and L...

Australian Antarctic Division cuts an attack on science

28 July, 2023 - The Greens have slammed the Albanese Government’s decision to cut $25 million from the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) as an attack on ...

Labor must heed UN climate warning

28 July, 2023 - As the extreme climate crisis cooks the planet, Greens Acting Leader Mehreen Faruqi has called on the Prime Minister and the Labor government to...

Bully-Boy Woodside using its massive resources to intimidate and bankrupt peaceful protestors

27 July, 2023 - Australia’s biggest gas polluter, Woodside Energy is deploying its war fuelled profits to hound and intimidate peaceful Disrupt Burrup Hub prote...

Greens back calls for independent body to hold universities to account on sexual violence

26 July, 2023 - Despite the tireless efforts of advocates like End Rape on Campus and Fair Agenda to hold universities accountable, far too many students, parti...

Dutton allegations reinforce need for Royal Commission

25 July, 2023 - Further revelations in the Nine papers today about corruption allegations and Pacific offshore detention reinforce the need for a Royal Commissi...