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Greens call on government to back Vanuatu’s climate change initiative

4 July, 2022 - Deputy Greens Leader and International Aid & Global Justice spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has today written to Prime Minister Anthony Alban...

How many more apologies will our Governments need to give First Nations people?

23 June, 2022 - Yesterday, the Western Australian Governement pardoned and apologised to the Yamatji family of a baby who was brutally murdered in 2013. After d...

Sexual harassment against women in the FIFO mining industry must end now

23 June, 2022 - The Greens today today vowed to push the mining sector to undertake systemic reform to prevent violence against women on mining sites, as a land...

Scarborough court bid highlights need for climate trigger

22 June, 2022 - The Federal Court bid by the Australian Conservation Foundation to stop Woodside Energy’s Scarborough gas project until its impact on the Great ...

Windfall tax on gas profiteering as easy as PRRT

22 June, 2022 - The Greens Leader Adam Bandt says a windfall tax on gas corporations profiteering from the current crisis could be imposed simply by closing loo...

Uni wage theft investigation a welcome sign

22 June, 2022 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed the Fair Work Ombudsman’s priority investigation ...

Free Julian Assange

18 June, 2022 - Statement from Australian Greens Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, Senator Jordon Steele-John.  “Following The UK...

Labor signs Reef’s death warrant as National Cabinet ducks energy privatisation

17 June, 2022 - After the first National Cabinet meeting under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today, Greens Leader Adam Bandt said National Cabinet failed to a...

Australian Greens announce portfolios for 47th Parliament

17 June, 2022 - The Australian Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, has announced the party’s updated portfolio allocation for the upcoming 47th Parliament, ahead o...

Universal preschool must be national and free

16 June, 2022 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that NSW and Victoria’s announcement of universal pre...

Whish-Wilson gains highest Greens Senate result across Australia

16 June, 2022 - Today it is finally official: lutruwita/Tasmania’s federal election preferences have been formally distributed and Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wi...

Cash for coal clunkers will only prolong energy problems

8 June, 2022 - The Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says the ‘coalkeeper’ subsidy to ageing coal power plants will slow the overdue modernisation of the Australian en...

It’s Time for A Charter of Human Rights, say Greens

2 June, 2022 - “Australia is the only Western democracy that doesn’t have a national Charter of Human Rights, but we have an opportunity to change that,” said t...

Greens warn Labor not to adopt ‘take it or leave it’ approach

1 June, 2022 - Responding to ‘hairy chested’ comments today from Labor’s climate Minister that the government would not alter its weak climate position, Greens ...

The Greens Renew Call for National Compensation Scheme for Stolen Generation Survivors

26 May, 2022 - The Bringing them Home Report was released 25 years ago today. The Greens are renewing calls for a national compensation scheme: a $200 000 payme...