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Historic Win for First Nations Land Rights and Human Rights

31 March, 2022 - Last night, the Greens Senator for Victoria Lidia Thorpe successfully introduced a Private Senators Bill that will ensure this Country complies...

Live export betrayal will harm animals

31 March, 2022 - Australian Greens Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the reported winding back of the ban on live sheep export to...

Have your say on the ACT Disability Strategy

31 March, 2022 - The ACT Government has launched the ACT Disability Strategy consultation to hear from the community on how Canberrans with disability can ...

Greens to Introduce Bill for Nurse to Patient Ratios

31 March, 2022 - As nurses and midwives go on strike for a second time in a decade, Greens MP and health spokesperson Cate Faehrmann has given notice in the NSW...

Home Energy Support Program to provide solar rebates for low-income households

31 March, 2022 - To ensure a just transition, the ACT Government has today launched the first stage of its Home Energy Support Program, which will assist low-in...

Budget of spin and half-measures leaves Australian women underwhelmed

30 March, 2022 - The Greens say the Morrison Government has bungled its last chance to show it takes women’s safety and economic security seriously with an unde...

Scott Morrison’s final budget makes housing more expensive, funds more coal & gas

30 March, 2022 - The Australian Greens have slammed the government’s final budget for making housing more expensive, locking in tax cuts for the wealthy and fun...

Tasmania left out in the cold by Federal Budget

30 March, 2022 - The Greens have slammed the Morrison Government for using the budget for cynical electioneering purposes, while simultaneously destroying what ...

Public education hit hard in hostile budget

30 March, 2022 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that education has been smashed by a budget hostile to public schools,...

Bad for the climate; no integrity; deeply unfair: A backwards budget full of dodgy deals

30 March, 2022 - The ACT Greens Federal Election candidates Tim Hollo and Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng have today condemned the Morrison government’s backwards budg...

Fuel excise Budget cut may vanish but housing crisis and student debt will remain

28 March, 2022 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt MP, says temporary Federal Budget cuts to fuel excise may not even make it to people’s pockets, and that rather than ...

Greens to move for Senate inquiry into biodiversity offsets market and call on Labor to stand up to Barnaby Joyce

28 March, 2022 - The Morrison Government’s new Agriculture Biodiversity Stewardship Market Bill looks set to fail Australia’s environment despite promises to he...

Greens to trial new models of participatory democracy with Public Interest Democracy Fund

27 March, 2022 - On the eve of the 2022 Budget, and in the wake of successive pork-barrelling scandals, the Greens have announced that they will establish a $2 ...

$38 million to boost mental health services in the ACT

27 March, 2022 - More than $38 million will be invested into mental health and suicide prevention support and services across the Australian Capital Territory o...

50th anniversary of the Greens in lutruwita Tasmania

27 March, 2022 - Last week we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Green movement in lutruwita Tasmania, marking half a century since local protests against t...