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Live export betrayal will harm animals

31 March, 2022 - Australian Greens Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the reported winding back of the ban on live sheep export to...

Historic Win for First Nations Land Rights and Human Rights

31 March, 2022 - Last night, the Greens Senator for Victoria Lidia Thorpe successfully introduced a Private Senators Bill that will ensure this Country complies...

Scott Morrison’s final budget makes housing more expensive, funds more coal & gas

30 March, 2022 - The Australian Greens have slammed the government’s final budget for making housing more expensive, locking in tax cuts for the wealthy and fun...

Tasmania left out in the cold by Federal Budget

30 March, 2022 - The Greens have slammed the Morrison Government for using the budget for cynical electioneering purposes, while simultaneously destroying what ...

Public education hit hard in hostile budget

30 March, 2022 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that education has been smashed by a budget hostile to public schools,...

Budget of spin and half-measures leaves Australian women underwhelmed

30 March, 2022 - The Greens say the Morrison Government has bungled its last chance to show it takes women’s safety and economic security seriously with an unde...

Greens to move for Senate inquiry into biodiversity offsets market and call on Labor to stand up to Barnaby Joyce

28 March, 2022 - The Morrison Government’s new Agriculture Biodiversity Stewardship Market Bill looks set to fail Australia’s environment despite promises to he...

Fuel excise Budget cut may vanish but housing crisis and student debt will remain

28 March, 2022 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt MP, says temporary Federal Budget cuts to fuel excise may not even make it to people’s pockets, and that rather than ...

Greens to trial new models of participatory democracy with Public Interest Democracy Fund

27 March, 2022 - On the eve of the 2022 Budget, and in the wake of successive pork-barrelling scandals, the Greens have announced that they will establish a $2 ...

Green boost for budding hemp industry

25 March, 2022 - Hemp has to be one of the most misunderstood plants on this planet. Despite it having multiple uses over thousands of years - including food, c...

Mass coral bleaching event confirms Morrison is killing the Reef

25 March, 2022 - The Greens say shocking new data from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority confirming mass coral bleaching shows the Reef in startling ...

Griffith housing crisis has voters knocking on Greens’ door

25 March, 2022 - Media Release The failure of the major parties to address skyrocketing housing prices will see inner-city electorates move to the Greens, Le...

Greens refer alleged carbon credits fraud to Auditor General

24 March, 2022 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt MP, has referred allegations of a $1 billion taxpayer funded climate fraud through the government’s carbon credits sc...

Greens plan to wipe student debt instead of Stage 3 Tax Cuts

24 March, 2022 - Media Release Women and lower-income earners would benefit more from wiping student debt than Stage 3 tax cuts, according to Parliamentary B...

GREENS ANNOUNCE PLAN TO WIPE STUDENT DEBT AND MAKE TAFE AND UNI FREE

24 March, 2022 - The Greens have today announced that in the balance of power after the next election they will push the next government to abolish all student ...