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Australia must respond to Afghanistan crisis

16 August, 2021 - The Australian Government should provide immediate assistance to Afghan people both on the ground in Afghanistan and by providing protection h...

Kids must be part of national vaccine target

13 August, 2021 - Kids and teenagers must be included in the government's national vaccine targets, Greens leader, Adam Bandt, said today. Young people deserve ...

Greens announce move to legislate Live Performance Federal Insurance Guarantee

11 August, 2021 - The Greens will move in the Senate for the Morrison Government to establish a Federal Insurance Guarantee for the live performance and events ...

Tomago and world call time on coal as Morrison keeps selling it to China

11 August, 2021 - Australia’s biggest electricity consumer, stationed right next to a major coal field, is getting out of coal. The announcement comes as nation...

No whale should suffer for false sense of security

11 August, 2021 - Another whale is separated from its pod and suffering after being entangled in a deadly shark net which it was forced to drag for kilometres b...

Early educators report shows a sector in crisis

10 August, 2021 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed the release today of the Big Steps/United Workers Union report Ex...

Government ordered to produce documents relating to dodgy fracking grant

10 August, 2021 - The government must release documents relating to the awarding of a $21 million grant to Liberal Party-aligned fracking company Empire Energy,...

Morrison 2030 climate targets a death sentence

9 August, 2021 - The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report makes it clear the government’s current 2030 climate targets amount to a death sent...

Greens slam Government’s feeble response to devastating 1.5 degrees report

6 August, 2021 - The Greens have slammed the Government’s response to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Report, which reveals temperatur...

Greens move for independent inquiry into Christian Porter

4 August, 2021 - The Greens today will move for an independent inquiry into Christian Porter’s fitness to be a Minister after the PM this week promoted the form...

Childcare debts must be waived

3 August, 2021 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has expressed alarm at reports that the Commonwealth is chasing Child Care Subs...

Taylor tries dodgy ARENA move again, Greens table disallowance again

3 August, 2021 - The Government’s latest attempt to turn the Australian Renewable Energy Agency into a fossil fuel bank will be met once again by the Greens who...

Senate Inquiry to call Sky, YouTube, ACMA

2 August, 2021 - Chair of the Senate Inquiry into Media Diversity Senator Sarah Hanson-Young will move for YouTube’s seven-day ban on Sky News to be investigate...

Housing policy failure sets up intergenerational theft

30 July, 2021 - Australian Greens Housing spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to the latest data on median property prices in this week’s Domain H...