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Larissa Waters
Senator for Qld & Greens Leader in the Senate

Attitude adjustment needed on gendered violence

29 March, 2023 - Today’s release of the latest National Community Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women Survey (NCAS) shows that serious cultural change is n...

Greens welcome family law reforms that put kids first

29 March, 2023 - The Greens welcome the introduction of family law amendments aimed at putting children’s welfare first in family law matters. After years of...

Urgent cost-of-living response needed for women and children in poverty

28 March, 2023 - Recent reports from ACOSS and analysis by Anti-Poverty Week have confirmed that poverty and homelessness are disproportionately impacting women...

Status of Women Report Card: failing with flying colours

8 March, 2023 - The Greens note today’s announcement of Status of Women Report Card, but a mere distillation of existing data is inadequate, we need actions and...

Labor must return dirty donations before safeguard negotiations

13 February, 2023 - The Greens have called on Labor to return $896,000 in donations from corporations covered by its proposed Safeguard mechanism to give the pu...

Dodgy donation laws a safe bet for gambling industry

9 February, 2023 - News that the Communications Minister, who oversees the Interactive Gambling Act and was previously the shadow minister in charge of online b...

Coal and gas donations wrote the Safeguard legislation, new AEC donations data reveals

1 February, 2023 - Political donations data published today by the Australian Electoral Commission shows that the Liberals, Nationals and Labor raked in a combi...

One more sleep til AEC’s #DonationDataDrop

31 January, 2023 - Annual political donations data will be revealed tomorrow and is likely to confirm that our democracy is still for sale to the highest bidder...

Family law reforms welcome, but inadequate funding leaves women and children at risk

30 January, 2023 - The Greens welcome the announcement of family law amendments aimed at putting children’s welfare first in family law matters. After years ...

Political sponsorship of Shaghayegh Khademi and Mahya Vahedi

24 January, 2023 - Australian Greens Senator Larissa Waters has today written to the Iranian Ambassador stating her political sponsorship of Shaghayegh Khademi ...

OK Google, let’s talk about your abortion ad ban

16 December, 2022 - The Greens will demand an explanation from Google over its decision to ban medical abortion ads in Australia, and push to have the appear at...

Statement: Brittany Higgins

1 December, 2022 - Many victim-survivors of sexual, family and domestic violence describe the court process as horrific and retraumatising. The Greens suppor...