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Mehreen Faruqi
Deputy Leader & Senator for NSW

Greens announce Great Southern Forest National Park on the NSW South Coast

30 January, 2025 - Momentum is gathering for an end to native forest logging. A 2024 survey showed that 70% of people in NSW support an end to native forest log...

Greens launch candidates in Barton and Watson to champion real change in Western Sydney

29 January, 2025 - Dr Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Greens Leader and Senator for New South Wales, is excited to announce the preselection of Manal Bahsa as the candid...

Greens support a desperately needed university governance overhaul

29 January, 2025 -  Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and higher education spokesperson, supports and welcomes a senate inquir...

Greens will raise PhD stipend to national minimum wage

17 January, 2025 - The Australian Greens will raise PhD stipends to the national minimum wage as part of their higher education policy launching in February.&nb...

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...