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Labor backflip would only benefit the rich

15 February, 2021 - Australian Greens Housing spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said reports that Labor may scrap commitments to wind back negative gearin...

Dutton Grants Rort Renews ICAC Calls

14 February, 2021 - The Greens condemn Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton for using his ministerial powers to slash millions in grant funding for community proj...

Morrison Govt’s leaked standards condemn environment to more destruction

11 February, 2021 - The Morrison Government’s leaked environmental standards make a mockery of the yearlong review into environment laws by Professor Graeme Sam...

Greens introduce new laws to save our koalas

11 February, 2021 - The Greens have today introduced new laws to stop land clearing of critical habitat and save our koalas. The legislative move would prevent ...

PM must boot Nats from water portfolio

11 February, 2021 - The Prime Minister must take the water portfolio out of the hands of the climate-denying National Party, the Greens say, after a Productivit...

Greens Royal Commission privacy bill to be debated

9 February, 2021 - The Senate will next week debate legislation introduced by the Australian Greens last year aimed at fixing the lack of confidentiality protec...

Government misleads on NZ & costs farmers $12 billion

9 February, 2021 - The Morrison/McCormack government isn’t just lying about New Zealand’s climate plan, it has cost farmers over $12 billion by repealing the ca...

McCormack's climate wrecking threatens Australia's children and agriculture

8 February, 2021 - Responding to the Deputy Prime Minister’s statement about the climate crisis that "We are not worried, or I’m certainly not worried, about wh...

EV strategy runs flat

5 February, 2021 - Today’s release of the Future Fuels Strategy Discussion Paper confirms that the government has no plan whatsoever to drive the uptake of elec...

Greens welcome Labor’s rejection of PEP11

5 February, 2021 - The Australian Greens have welcomed Labor’s confirmation today that the party opposes the renewal of the Petroleum Exploration Permit 11 (PEP...

Racism in Australia not going away: Scanlon report

4 February, 2021 - Australian Greens Anti-Racism spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the Scanlon Foundation’s Mapping Social Cohesion report for 2...

Greens call for Government to investigate establishing publicly owned search engine

3 February, 2021 - Following threats from Google to withdraw services from Australia, the Greens have called on the Morrison Government to investigate the estab...

Greens and Labor together can defeat IR Bill

3 February, 2021 - The Greens’ moves to outlaw insecure work and protect gig economy workers have received a boost, with the Labor party backing those positions...

Uni Job Carnage Devastating But Predictable

3 February, 2021 - New figures released by Universities Australia today that more than 17,000 university jobs have been lost in the past year are devastating bu...

Minister Roberts' comments a smokescreen for NDIS 'power grab'

3 February, 2021 - Australian Greens Disability spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John has labelled comments made this morning by Minister Robert about the NDI...