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Royal Commission Confidentiality & Whistleblower Protections Pass the Senate

25 August, 2021 - The Greens and the disability community have achieved another huge win! After years of raising the alarm that the confidentiality provisions i...

Labor joins the Liberals to lock in climate bomb fracking rort

25 August, 2021 - The Australian Greens have savaged Labor’s decision to vote with the Liberals today in the Senate to spend public money opening up massive gas...

Labor to allow Government's gas-fired rorts scheme

24 August, 2021 - The Australian Greens have slammed Labor for joining the Liberals in allowing $21 million of public money to be handed to a company deeply con...

Labor joins government in undemocratic attack on minor parties

24 August, 2021 - The Greens say Labor’s decision today to wave through changes to the Electoral Act that will increase membership minimums and give existing pa...

Morrison's plan takes us from the 'cave' to the hospital

24 August, 2021 - The Greens have reiterated their calls for at least 80% of the whole population, including kids, to be vaccinated before we can start lifting ...

First Nations People Need to Lead COVID-19 Response in Western NSW

24 August, 2021 - “First Nations people have been a priority group for the COVID-19 vaccine since December 2020, yet our vaccination rates in Western NSW are am...

Far-right military infiltration shocking but not surprising

23 August, 2021 - The Greens say that reports of far-right extremists and neo-Nazis in the Australian military should not come as a surprise, but do further spu...

Greens announce candidate in most winnable Liberal seat

20 August, 2021 - The Greens are thrilled to announce educator, NGO consultant and local mum Sonya Semmens as the candidate for the federal seat of Higgins in t...

Australian Government needs to expedite bridging visas for Afghans

20 August, 2021 -   The Australian Government should immediately issue bridging visas to Afghan people in Afghanistan who have made substantive visa applicatio...

Greens urge Labor to announce 2030 targets to pressure Morrison before Glasgow

20 August, 2021 - Labor’s belated recognition that Scott Morrison’s 2030 climate targets aren’t good enough is a move in the right direction, said Greens Leader...

Greens slam Morrison’s fudging of vaccination numbers

20 August, 2021 - Greens leader Adam Bandt said Scott Morrison’s announcement today that children would not be included in vaccination targets was a political d...

Women falling behind as gender pay gap widens

19 August, 2021 - The Greens have renewed their calls for action on closing the gender pay gap after the Workplace Gender Equality Agency today revealed that th...

Government must provide immediate aid to support women and girls in Afghanistan

19 August, 2021 - Greens senators Larissa Waters, Mehreen Faruqi and Janet Rice have written to the Minister for Women and Foreign Affairs Marise Payne to urge ...

Morrison's Afghan Refugee Offer an Insult

18 August, 2021 - Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s refusal to increase Australia’s humanitarian intake to respond to the Afghanistan crisis is an insult and a fa...

Prospective Marriage Visa holders

18 August, 2021 - The Greens welcome the news that holders of Prospective Marriage Visas, who applied more than 12 months ago, will be exempt from the travel ba...