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TRANSCRIPT: Bandt and Faruqi respond to Palestine vote and Senator Payman

25 June, 2024 - Attributable to Greens Leader Adam Bandt: Despicably, Labor and Liberal joined together to vote against recognising the state of Palestine. Thi...

Greens secure amendments to corporate climate disclosures

25 June, 2024 - After securing amendments to the government’s Financial Market Infrastructure Bill to require large Australian companies to report against both ...

Media release: Julian Assange to return home after plea deal

25 June, 2024 - In breaking news this morning, Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department of Justice which means he can walk from h...

Great Barrier Reef decision a triumph of spin over science

25 June, 2024 - A Unesco recommendation not to declare the Great Barrier Reef be placed on a list of World Heritage sites “in danger” is a triumph of lobbying a...

Greens secure amendments to vaping legislation and will support passage through Senate

24 June, 2024 - The Greens have negotiated amendments to the Therapeutic Goods and Other Legislation Amendment (Vaping Reforms) Bill 2024 and will support the l...

Labor’s supermarket response leaves shoppers high and dry

24 June, 2024 - Labor’s code of conduct will do nothing to bring down food and grocery prices, and if the Prime Minister truly wants to help Australian shoppers...

Dutton's nuclear 'plan' the latest sign both major parties are in lock-step to destroy the climate

20 June, 2024 - The Australian Greens have said Peter Dutton’s nuclear ‘plan’ is nothing more than a distraction from both major parties’ support for opening up...

Queensland rejects Dutton’s nuclear fantasy

19 June, 2024 - Greens Energy Transition spokesperson and Gladstone local, Senator Penny Allman-Payne, has slammed Peter Dutton’s nuclear fantasy, saying it’s a...

Dutton is in nuclear fantasy land, while Labor remains addicted to coal and gas

19 June, 2024 - The Australian Greens have said any plan by Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to invest in nuclear power is ‘pure fantasy’, and a ‘dead cat’ distra...

Greens call on Government to listen to growing calls to dump disastrous international student cap policy

18 June, 2024 - Deputy Greens Leader and Higher Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to the Group of Eight’s scathing criticism of the Go...

Australian Greens call on Labor to finally condemn State of Israel and Hamas’ war crimes in parliament

13 June, 2024 - The Australian Greens have lashed Labor for their refusal to condemn the war crimes committed by the State of Israel and Hamas, after the govern...

Additional aid funding for Gaza is necessary but Government needs to do far more

12 June, 2024 - Greens Deputy Leader and International Aid and Global Justice Spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has stated that while the Albanese Government’...

Labor Stalling on Disability Royal Commission Response

12 June, 2024 - It’s time the Government implemented the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of People with ...

Dutton’s climate threats nothing more than hot air, with climate laws already Dutton-proof

12 June, 2024 - The Australian Greens have called Peter Dutton’s climate target comments ‘a waste of breath’, given the Liberals have zero chance of winning gov...

Statement on the two-way arms trade with the State of Israel

9 June, 2024 - As the Albanese Government last week teamed up with Peter Dutton’s Coalition to try and make the genocide in Gaza about themselves, there were st...