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It’s time to care for those who work and care

16 September, 2022 - Today Parliament will begin hearing evidence from industry and community groups about juggling work and care responsibilities. The Select C...

Destructive ‘Burrup Hub’ finally under investigation

15 September, 2022 - Save Our Songlines, a grassroots campaign led by Murujuga Traditional Custodians, remains vigilant in its fight to protect their sacred roc...

Animal welfare documents reveal sickening cruelty

15 September, 2022 - Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Greens Deputy Leader and spokesperson for animal welfare, has reacted to the release of all 8015 pages of the 2020 ...

ARC documents reveal CEO meddling in hundreds of research applications

14 September, 2022 - Senator Faruqi’s order for the production of documents required the Government to provide data on the ARC CEO’s requested revisions to the ...

Gomeroi Nation's fight for survival

14 September, 2022 - In a legal first, the Gomeroi Nation is using the public interest test, commonly used by fossil fuel companies to fight native title cases,...

School funding inequity still the elephant in the room

14 September, 2022 - The Greens say an interim report by the Productivity Commission into the National Schools Reform Agreement (NSRA) obscures the fact that pe...

Greens call on Labor to shut down seismic blasting off WA coast

13 September, 2022 - The Greens call on the Labor Government to immediately shut down plans for seismic blasting that could impact the Mermaid Reef and Rowley S...

Greens call for National Cabinet to extend Pandemic Leave Payments

13 September, 2022 - Greens social services spokesperson, Senator Janet Rice, has urged the Federal Government to extend Pandemic Leave Payments beyond Septembe...

Chevron favours Asian markets over everyday Australians

9 September, 2022 - California-based energy company, Chevron, wants Western Australia to be excluded from the Australian Domestic Gas Security Mechanism, so as ...

RBA again fails to acknowledge record high corporate profits

8 September, 2022 - Greens Treasury spokesperson, Senator Nick McKim, has responded to the RBA Governor, Philip Lowe’s, speech today in which he again failed to...

It’s ‘unparliamentary’ to call out racism, but not unparliamentary to be racist

7 September, 2022 - Today, Liberal Senator Alex Antic used his two minute statement to complain about the “threat” of critical race theory and “victimhood.” Sen...

Greens Support Veterans Calls for More Health and Mental Health Supports

7 September, 2022 - Vietnam-era Nasho Geoff Parkes to deliver his petition to GreensChange.org/NashoFairGo Geoff Parkes, a Vietnam-era national servicemen who w...

Greens establish Senate inquiry into poverty and cost of living

7 September, 2022 - Almost 50 years to the day (29 August, 1972) after the historic Henderson Commission of Inquiry into poverty, and after years of inaction by...

Greens back early childhood workers’ shutdown

7 September, 2022 - Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Australian Greens Deputy Leader and spokesperson for education, has backed the early childhood educators action to S...

Scottish government freezes rents - time for the Federal Labor government to do the same

7 September, 2022 - Today the Scottish government has announced they are freezing rents for all public and private rental properties until March 2023 and bannin...