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1 September, 2022 - CARAD provides critical services and for many is the service of last resort for asylum seekers, refugees and detainees in WA, part...

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1 September, 2022 - No one wants to be a refugee. But why are they so demonized in Australia, at least the non-white ones? It traces back to colonialism and cap...

Greens lay the boot into weakening worker protections

31 August, 2022 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt has expressed deep reservations about any weakening of the Better Off Overall Test, in light of demands by the Busine...

Barbara Pocock to fight for SA women at Jobs Summit

31 August, 2022 - Senator for South Australia and Employment spokesperson Barbara Pocock will be attending the Jobs and Skills summit alongside Greens Party Lea...

Youth Justice reveals cost of imprisoning children $713 940 per child per year

31 August, 2022 - Youth Justice yesterday revealed in Budget Estimates hearings that the cost of holding youth in detention in NSW has risen to $1956 per child ...

Dorinda Cox’s August Update

31 August, 2022 - Balance of Power in action and a landmark on-Country court case By Senator Dorinda Cox It has been a busy few months! The 47th parlia...

Canberra Electric Bike Library expanded

31 August, 2022 - Due to the overwhelming popularity of the Canberra Electric Bike Library, the ACT Government has extended the program for a further two years,...

Greens announce further upgrades to South Yarra station upgrade

31 August, 2022 - Victorian Greens MP for Prahran, Sam Hibbins, has announced a local initiative for further upgrades to South Yarra station. Further upgrade...

Labor's Stage 3 Tax Cuts give richest 1% as much as the bottom 65%

30 August, 2022 - New independent research from the Parliamentary Budget Office shows that Labor’s Stage 3 Tax cuts will give Australia’s richest 1% as much as ...

Newsflash to Minister Rishworth: There’s room in the budget to raise the rate of Jobseeker

30 August, 2022 - Australian Greens spokesperson for social services, Senator Janet Rice, has scoffed at Minister Rishworth’s assertion this morning that there ...

ARC review welcome but NIT and veto have to go

30 August, 2022 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed today’s announced review of the Australian Rese...

Scathing report by the Auditor General lays bare the failures of the NSW Biodiversity Offsets Scheme

30 August, 2022 - The Department for Planning and Environment has fundamentally failed to design or implement an effective scheme for biodiversity offsets accor...

Governments must act to curb growing threat of far-right extremism

30 August, 2022 - A parliamentary inquiry has found that far-right extremism is a growing threat in Victoria, particularly to multicultural communities. The ...

Aid package needed for Pakistan floods

29 August, 2022 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader and International Aid spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that Australia must immediately provide aid...

Less talk, more action on equal pay

29 August, 2022 - On Equal Pay Day the Greens have called on the new government to redress 9 years of inaction on gender equality, and act immediately to close ...