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Greens call for acceleration of gas code of conduct

19 January, 2023 - The Greens have called for the rapid introduction of an interim Mandatory Code of Conduct with teeth for gas companies, to lay bare the excus...

Funding fix needed to sustain national cultural institutions

18 January, 2023 - The Greens are calling for a long-term funding fix to sustain cultural institutions as part of the Albanese Government’s National Cultural Po...

Political sponsorship of Iranian actress, Katayoun Riahi

17 January, 2023 - Australian Greens Senator for South Australia Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is acting as a political sponsor for Iranian actress, Katayoun Riahi...

Greens urge Labor to act on calls to raise Jobseeker in May’s budget

17 January, 2023 - Australian Greens spokesperson for social services, Senator Janet Rice, is again urging Minister Jim Chalmers to heed calls from the Greens, ...

Mental health support could curb police attrition rate

16 January, 2023 - A record number of WA police left the force, and retired, last year according to a dossier compiled by the WA Police Union. The Union clai...

Minister Ignores Reality of Intermediate Nuclear Waste

16 January, 2023 - Last week on Thursday, Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King visited the Kimba community to discuss her plan - mirroring the LNP's previo...

Senator Sponsors Two Iranians On Death Row

13 January, 2023 - Australian Greens Senator Barbara Pocock has announced her sponsorship of two Iranian prisoners recently sentenced to death after they partic...

Santos’ sponsorship of Tour Down Under is unwelcome

13 January, 2023 - One of South Australia’s biggest tourism and sporting events, the Tour Down Under, begins today. Santos, a major fossil fuel company and c...

The Kimberley needs all funding supports to build back stronger

11 January, 2023 - This week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese toured the flood ravaged Kimberley region with the Minister for Emergency Management, Senator Murr...

Safeguard rules released today must go further to curb coal and gas: Greens

10 January, 2023 - The draft Safeguard Mechanism rules released by the Federal Labor government today don’t go far enough and risk continuing to be captured by ...

Australian Greens call on Government to do more to put an end to Iran’s executions of protestors

10 January, 2023 - Australian Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John has today written to the Iranian Ambassador stating his political sponsorship of Majid Kazemi fo...

Australian weapons fuelling wars amid secretive defence export deals

6 January, 2023 - Fresh evidence exposed through Senate Estimates by Greens Senator David Shoebridge has found Australia's defence exports being funneled to reg...

First Nations deaths taking toll on community

29 December, 2022 - A First Nations man collapsed and died at Greenough Regional Prison on Tuesday afternoon, the second death of an Aboriginal person in custod...

Greens push back with plan for National laws to protect the right to protest

20 December, 2022 - Tuesday 20 December 2022 Following attacks on the right to protest in jurisdictions around the country, the Greens will bring a national ...