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Greens Eye Public Retirement Village as part of Housing Crisis Plan

10 September, 2024 - Today, the ACT Greens have announced an election initiative to establish a dedicated fund to fill gaps in housing options for people facing...

$29.7 billion per year by 2030: Confusion, overlaps and gaps in NSW invasive species plan

9 September, 2024 - The cost of failing to effectively manage invasive species in NSW could be blown out by 15 times in the next 6 years unless major reforms ar...

New electric vehicles join City Services fleet in time for World EV Day

9 September, 2024 - Today is World EV Day, and you will see more ACT Government electric vehicles out and about. Five new electric vehicles including a ute, ...

GREENS SLAM LABOR FOR BACKFLIPPING ON GAS AND SUPPORTING MORE CLIMATE-DESTROYING FOSSIL FUELS

9 September, 2024 - The Greens have slammed the Victorian Labor government for encouraging more fossil fuels in the middle of a climate crisis as Labor plots mo...

New minimum energy efficiency standards delivering comfortable homes for renters

9 September, 2024 - Today the ACT Government has released a report showing that changes to energy efficiency standards made in April last year have improved liv...

CARE ABOUT COST OF LIVING? FREEZE RENTS

8 September, 2024 - Today ACT Greens MLA Jo Clay has introduced a bill to help defend Canberra’s renters against the housing crisis, by putting a two-year freez...

ACT Government releases new plan to protect the Grey-headed Flying Fox

7 September, 2024 - The ACT Government has today released the Native Species Conservation Plan for the Grey-headed Flying-fox, which outlines strategic actions ...

Labor's reverse Robin Hood: Public schools bleeding money to private schools

6 September, 2024 - The Greens say Labor’s school funding plan is a ‘reverse Robin Hood’, bleeding public schools dry to give to wealthy private schools. New...

Irrational and illogical international student caps must go

6 September, 2024 - After the third hearing on the ESOS bill Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Greens Leader and spokesperson for Higher Education, has said that t...

Greens Statement on COP29

6 September, 2024 - The 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 29) will convene in November 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Australia Greens do not supp...

Statement on Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes and Genocide in Tigray

6 September, 2024 - The Australian Greens are deeply concerned about the situation in Tigray and the findings of human rights abuses that are detailed in the Ne...

Frontline services funding is welcome, but one in four women still not getting the help they need

6 September, 2024 - Today’s National Cabinet announcement brings total funding for the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children to $3.7 billion ...

Labor Letting the RBA Crash the Economy

6 September, 2024 - Treasurer Jim Chalmers is sitting on his hands while the RBA is causing massive pain to young people and mortgage holders and deliberately r...

Staged implementation for electronic monitoring

6 September, 2024 - The ACT Government is preparing to introduce electronic monitoring for existing community-based orders in a staged approach to implementing ...