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Record high prison numbers hiding crisis in remand services

14 May, 2026 - The latest figures from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) released today have revealed twin records of both the number of ...

Greens say Labor is on notice to reinstate $2.4 billion for public schools after damning inquiry report

14 May, 2026 - The Victorian Greens have said Labor is on notice to reinstate the $2.4 billion for public schools that was quietly cut last year by Jacinta Alla...

Coles misleading price verdict shows divestiture powers needed

14 May, 2026 - Coles being found to have deliberately misled customers with fake discounts shows again that Australia needs powers to break up the supermarket d...

Police Commissioner confirms Town Hall protest charges under unlawful Minns laws will be dropped

13 May, 2026 - The NSW Police Commissioner has confirmed on ABC Radio this morning that prosecutors are reviewing charges arising from the 9 February Town Hall ...

Greens secure parliamentary inquiry into AI data centres

13 May, 2026 - The Senate has today established an inquiry into artificial intelligence data centres in Australia, amid growing community concern about the rapi...

Waiting to die: aged care wait times blow out under Labor’s rationing regime

13 May, 2026 - Labor’s brutal aged care regime has seen average wait times for home support and residential care blow out, as the effects of rationing begin to ...

Small steps forward, but not the funding needed to meet FDSV demand

13 May, 2026 - Despite clear calls from the family, sexual and domestic violence sector that current funding is failing to meet demand, there were no significan...

Budget bakes in housing inequality

13 May, 2026 - Labor promised to deliver a budget that would tackle intergenerational housing inequity but failed to deliver. The Greens say Labor’s budget b...

Budget fails communities of colour and students: No changes to JRG, nothing for the National Anti-Racism Framework

13 May, 2026 - Greens Deputy Leader and spokesperson for Higher Education and Anti-Racism, Senator Faruqi, has responded to last night’s federal budget, which f...

PM’s childcare “legacy” built on empty promises and pay cut 

13 May, 2026 - PM’s childcare “legacy” built on empty promises and pay cut  The Greens spokesperson for Early Childhood Education and Care, Senator Step...

‘Good’ character removed as a consideration in sentencing for sexual offences

12 May, 2026 - A person’s ‘good’ character will no longer be considered in sentencing for sexual crimes after the NSW Parliament passed laws today, including sa...

Labor’s budget backs corporate profits & the 1% over people

12 May, 2026 - In their first budget of the term, Labor has chosen corporate profits over people, by delivering real cuts to services while allowing corporate p...

Three more NSW hospitals flailing under a public-private partnership, Inquiry hears

12 May, 2026 - Staff at Bathurst, Orange and Bloomfield hospitals told an inquiry today about the failures of their profit-driven management model, including a ...

Greens say “Cohealth needs long term funding and long term security” not just just band-aids and crumbs

8 May, 2026 - The Greens say Cohealth clinics need long term funding to stay open - not just the band-aids and crumbs offered by Labor today. The Federal gov...

Labor finally adopts Greens-driven early childhood commission proposal but stalls on real reform

8 May, 2026 - The Greens have welcomed the government finally moving to “consult” on a national early childhood education and care commission, but say families ...