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Mehreen Faruqi
Deputy Leader & Senator for NSW

Interim Report on Study into Racism in Universities reveals the need for anti-racist campuses

19 December, 2024 - Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and spokesperson for Anti-Racism and Higher Education, has reacted to the int...

Ministerial Direction 111 removes the worst of MD 107 but implements international student caps by stealth

19 December, 2024 - Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and spokesperson for Higher Education, has reacted to Labor’s replacement of ...

Greens preselect award-winning poet Omar Sakr in Blaxland

10 December, 2024 - Dr Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Greens Leader and Senator for New South Wales, is excited to announce the preselection of Omar Sakr as the Greens ...

Senate Committee report fails to tackle the racism and white supremacy at the core of far-right extremism

6 December, 2024 - Greens Deputy Leader and spokesperson for Anti-Racism, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, sat on the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committ...

Government must fully commit to and fund the National Anti-Racism Framework

27 November, 2024 - Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Greens Leader and Anti-Racism Spokesperson, wants federal government commitment and full funding to implement...

Senators Mehreen Faruqi and Lidia Thorpe call for inquiry into racism in parliament

25 November, 2024 - Senators Mehreen Faruqi and Lidia Thorpe have today moved a motion in the Senate calling for the Standing Committee on Procedures to conduct...

NTEU report lays bare the ‘corporate university’

21 November, 2024 -   Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and Spokesperson for Tertiary Education, has responded to NTEU’s re...

Labor’s $50 million pledge to the Loss & Damage Fund is a start, but new coal and gas must end

20 November, 2024 - Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and Spokesperson for International Aid and Global Justice, has responded to L...

Labor’s disastrous student caps dead in the water

18 November, 2024 - Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and spokesperson for Higher Education, has responded to the defeat of the Lab...

Greens amendments challenge Labor to legislate their student debt pledges immediately

17 November, 2024 - Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Leader of the Greens and Higher Education spokesperson, will move the following amendments to the Universitie...