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Childcare fee hikes show the need for universal & free early learning

5 July, 2023 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that reports of early childhood education and care pro...

Labor must come clean about the Biak Massacre 25 years on during President Widodo’s visit

5 July, 2023 - Indonesia’s President Widodo’s visit to Australia has ignited a pressing demand for an open and honest conversation about the ongoing West Papua ...

Plibersek's 450GL broken promise risks breaking river Murray

5 July, 2023 - Environment Minister Plibersek is preparing the ground to break the Government's election promise of delivering 450 gigalitres to the river Murra...

Plibersek approves 3 coal mines in 2 months

4 July, 2023 - Minister Plibersek has approved 3 coal mines in the last 2 months. Greens spokesperson for the Environment Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said: ...

Federal Government must stop Tasmania’s assault on environment

4 July, 2023 - The Greens have condemned Forestry Tasmania’s move to expand its environmental vandalism to a further 1000 hectares of native forest for logging,...

Labor needs to ensure the RBA stays paused on interest rates

4 July, 2023 - Greens’ Economic Justice spokesperson Senator Nick McKim has responded to the RBA’s decision to keep rates on hold today. “The RBA’s decision ...

Polling shows highest ever support for free uni and TAFE

30 June, 2023 - Independent polling commissioned by the office of Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi shows that m...

Senate hearings show 'Green Wall Street' won't protect nature & should be binned

30 June, 2023 - Responding to evidence presented at the hearing into the Government’s Nature Repair Market Bill held today in Canberra, Greens spokesp...

Nature Repair Market should be scrapped in light of Plibersek’s offsets audit

29 June, 2023 - Responding to Environment Minister Plibersek’s announcement of an environmental offsets audit, Greens spokesperson for the Environment Senator S...

Is Labor up to the task of its Zero Extinction pledge?

29 June, 2023 - Minister Plibersek must show the strong political leadership necessary to uphold her own Zero Extinctions pledge and save the Tasmanian Maugean ...

Senate Inquiry into ADHD Care to hold historic first public hearing today.

29 June, 2023 - The Senate inquiry into attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Assessment and support services in Australia will this week convene for ...

Mining billionaires silence First Nations voices on WA cultural heritage

28 June, 2023 - Western Australia’s new Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act comes into effect on July 1. A one-year delay, until July 2024, has been rushed thro...

Another day, another coal mine given Plibersek stamp

28 June, 2023 - Yesterday Minister Plibersek waved through another coal mine in Queensland, Star Coal, deeming that it would not have significant impact on the ...

Government must commit to gambling ad reforms immediately

28 June, 2023 - In response to the gambling inquiry report out today, Greens spokesperson for Gambling Reform, Senator Janet Rice said: “Today’s gambli...