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Plastic export ban backflip exposes government failure to hold big polluters to account

18 May, 2023 - The Greens again call on the Albanese Government to hold the big polluters to account and regulate Australia’s plastic packaging industry.&n...

Senate inquiry exposes Labor’s plan to expand compulsory income management

15 May, 2023 - Today, the Community Affairs Legislative Committee held a hearing into Labor’s proposed Income Management Reform Bill, which essentially reintrod...

Broken environment laws are not a free pass to approve new fossil fuel projects

15 May, 2023 - Responding to the Minister for the Environment’s excuse for approving the Isaac River coal mine, Greens spokesperson for Environment Senator Sara...

Greens sharpen focus on racism in sport

13 May, 2023 - The Australian Greens have announced WA Senator Dorinda Cox as the party spokesperson for Sport. Racism and corporate sponsorship by fossil fu...

Greens support Voice Referendum report

12 May, 2023 - Today the Joint Select Committee on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice Referendum presented its final report. The Committee has reco...

Environment Minister's approval of new coal mine in koala habitat is a betrayal

12 May, 2023 - The Minister for the Environment has indicated her decision to approve the Isaac River coal mine in Queensland, giving the green light for destru...

Budget offers next to nothing on Education

11 May, 2023 - Responding to this week’s budget, Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Education Spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi said: “It's beyo...

Public schools still left behind as Labor tips billions more into private system

10 May, 2023 - Federal Labor has again proven it has no plan to end education inequality with last night’s budget pouring even more money into the private schoo...

Government report confirms abject failures in live export regulation

10 May, 2023 - Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Spokesperson for Animal Welfare has responded to a new government repo...

Budget shows the environment is not a priority under the Albanese Government

10 May, 2023 - Responding to the Federal budget, Greens spokesperson for Environment Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said: “No matter how they try and spin it, th...

A budget that breaks promises and the bank for migrants

10 May, 2023 - Labor’s second budget lacks humanity and compassion for migrants and abjectly fails to respond to the urgent challenges in Australia’s immigratio...

Women’s safety left behind, again

10 May, 2023 - With every budget the government ignores the women’s safety sector’s sustained calls for $1 billion in funding, leaving frontline family and dome...

Coalition and Labor team up to gamble our environment’s future

9 May, 2023 - Greens Spokesperson for Environment Senator Sarah Hanson-Young responds to reports the Coalition is backing Labor’s Nature Repair Market Bill: ...

Labor’s budget keeps people in poverty, while the wealthy and big corporations win big

9 May, 2023 - Labor’s second Budget is a betrayal of the people promised that no one would be left behind. It makes bad choices that put a surplus ahead of supp...