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Budget must make abortion and contraception free

28 April, 2023 - Today is the fifth and final public hearing of the Greens initiated Universal access to reproductive healthcare inquiry. The inquiry has hea...

Rent freeze must be on Friday's National Cabinet agenda: Greens

27 April, 2023 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt and housing spokesperson Max Chandler-Mather have called for a national rent freeze to be implemented by the National ...

Single Parenting doesn’t stop at 13

27 April, 2023 - The Greens are urging Labor to use the upcoming Budget to remove the Parenting Payment Single cut off and fully reinstate the eligibility age t...

Premier’s visit to Burrup Peninsula is premature

26 April, 2023 - WA Premier Mark McGowan symbolically marked the beginning of construction of the Perdaman fertiliser plant on the Burrup Peninsula today. Th...

Millions of Australians face “debt avalanche”- A whopping 7.1% rise in their student debt on 1 June

26 April, 2023 - CPI figures released this morning confirm that millions of Australians will be slugged with a 7.1% increase in their student debts on 1 June. ...

BANDT’S NPC ADDRESS WILL LASH LABOR AS THE PARTY OF PROPERTY MOGULS, OUTLINE COSTED PLAN FOR RENT FREEZE

26 April, 2023 - At the National Press Club today, Greens Leader Adam Bandt will accuse Labor of making the country’s rental crisis worse, saying the upcoming B...

Gas industry boasts about trivial tax payments to avoid $94.5bn tax slug

21 April, 2023 - The gas industry’s public relations campaign to avoid tax reform just highlights the extent to which Australians are getting rorted by the gas ...

Greens to fight to keep government interest rate power

21 April, 2023 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt and Treasury spokesperson Senator Nick McKim have said the Greens will fight the proposal to remove the Treasurer’s po...

Woodside must scrap its RAP

20 April, 2023 - Yesterday Woodside CEO, Meg O’Neill, addressed the National Press Club in an attempt to scare the federal government from ‘overreaching’ when i...

APCO finally comes clean on waste reduction targets

20 April, 2023 - The Greens are calling for the Albanese Government to immediately mandate waste reduction targets following a report out today revealing Austra...

The activity test must go and early childhood education and care workers deserve a pay rise now

19 April, 2023 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed the Women's Economic Equality Taskforce’s recomm...

Government must heed the advice of its Women's Economic Equality Taskforce

19 April, 2023 - The Greens are calling on the Government to accept all recommendations of the Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce (WEET) in the May Budget, and...

Labor making the wrong choices, again, on JobSeeker

19 April, 2023 - The Greens have slammed the Labor Government’s refusal to substantially increase job seeker and rent assistance, despite the recommendations of...

EV strategy needs a target and strong fuel efficiency standards: Greens

19 April, 2023 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt says the government’s Electric Vehicle strategy is still stuck in the slow lane and needs to accelerate. Mr Bandt s...

Greens launch Parliamentary Survey to get Dental into Medicare. 

18 April, 2023 - A survey to hear about the community's dental experiences has been launched as part of the Greens-led, Senate Inquiry into the Provision of and...