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Labor Bows to Community Pressure Promising to Deliver Affordable Housing on Parramatta Road

10 February, 2025 - Labor has bowed to pressure from community advocates and The Greens, committing to deliver affordable housing at the former WestConnex site ...

Greens announce amendments to cap “obscene” NBN Executive salaries & improve access, affordability for consumers

10 February, 2025 - The Greens will move amendments to the Government’s NBN legislation this week to cap NBN Co executive salaries, and require the NBN to be re...

Labor’s women’s health announcement shows Greens pressure works

9 February, 2025 - Responding to the government's women's health announcement on Sunday morning, Greens leader in the Senate and spokesperson on Women, Larissa ...

Beach Energy's fossil fuel expansion off Victoria & Tasmania's coasts must be scrapped

7 February, 2025 - The Greens are calling for the Albanese Government to reject Beach Energy’s grossly unpopular plans for new fossil fuel extraction ...

80% of young people refused bail is a poor test for reducing crime

7 February, 2025 - The Minns Labor Government has announced that temporary youth bail law changes will be extended from 12 months to 4 years, with data showing ...

‘Don’t Punish Those on the Lowest Incomes Just to Balance the Books’: Rattenbury

7 February, 2025 - Lines attributable to Shane Rattenbury, Leader of the ACT Greens: “As the ACT Government signals looming ‘tough decisions’ and possible se...

Forestry Corporation caught out changing sustainability report

7 February, 2025 - The NSW Forestry Corporation has been discovered amending three years of sustainability reports, dramatically reducing the reported yield fro...

People’s Inquiry into Campus Free Speech on Palestine launches today

7 February, 2025 - Senator Mehreen Faruqi,  Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Higher Education Spokesperson, is pleased to join students, academics, the ...

Wine grape growers call for ACCC enforced Code

7 February, 2025 - The Senate Rural and Regional Affairs Committee will hear evidence today from the ACCC and Department of Agriculture in the second hearing of...

LABOR DRAGGING THEIR FEET ON GROUP VOTING, LIKELY PUSHING TO AFTER ELECTION

6 February, 2025 - Labor has given the clearest signal yet that they will force Victorians to use group voting at the next state election in their response to t...

Greens call for free public transport for everyone, all the time: 'WA can afford it'

6 February, 2025 - Choosing to take public transport should be every Western Australian’s first choice to get around, particularly in Perth and regional urban c...

Greens slam major parties for delaying childcare reforms in Senate

6 February, 2025 - Greens early childhood education spokesperson Senator Steph Hodgins-May has slammed the Labor and Liberal parties for teaming up to defer the...

GREENS THE ONLY PARTY TO COMMIT TO SOCIAL AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING TARGETS BACKED BY EVIDENCE

5 February, 2025 - The WA Greens have committed to ambitious social and affordable housing targets in the next term of Parliament, including building,...

Labor have officially abandoned the environment in stunning capitulation to mining, logging lobby

5 February, 2025 - The Albanese Government has taken the extraordinary step of moving to discharge their own bill from the Senate Notice Paper, sounding the dea...

Labor must rule out Bass Strait Development 

5 February, 2025 - The Greens have today raised concerns about NOPSEMA’s regulation of the offshore fossil fuel industry following the government agency’s appro...