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Victorian Parliament must continue to sit, should adopt Federal model

26 August, 2021 - The Victorian Greens have said it is vital that Victorian Parliament continue to sit in some form during current and future COVID outbreaks, a...

Greens move to re-start NSW Parliament with online sittings

26 August, 2021 - The Greens NSW have drafted fresh laws that will allow the NSW Parliament to hold the first ever wholly on-line sittings of any Parliament in ...

Royal Commission Confidentiality & Whistleblower Protections Pass the Senate

25 August, 2021 - The Greens and the disability community have achieved another huge win! After years of raising the alarm that the confidentiality provisions i...

Labor joins the Liberals to lock in climate bomb fracking rort

25 August, 2021 - The Australian Greens have savaged Labor’s decision to vote with the Liberals today in the Senate to spend public money opening up massive gas...

Ley must act to protect Tasmanian devils

25 August, 2021 - The Greens have called on Environment Minister Sussan Ley to protect Tasmanian devils from becoming mining-industry roadkill by rejecting Vent...

ACT Greens condemn Labor’s support for public subsidies to new gas mine

25 August, 2021 - The ACT Greens have today called on Canberra’s Federal Labor MPs to actually represent the ACT community’s clear desire for strong climate act...

Labor to allow Government's gas-fired rorts scheme

24 August, 2021 - The Australian Greens have slammed Labor for joining the Liberals in allowing $21 million of public money to be handed to a company deeply con...

Labor joins government in undemocratic attack on minor parties

24 August, 2021 - The Greens say Labor’s decision today to wave through changes to the Electoral Act that will increase membership minimums and give existing pa...

Morrison's plan takes us from the 'cave' to the hospital

24 August, 2021 - The Greens have reiterated their calls for at least 80% of the whole population, including kids, to be vaccinated before we can start lifting ...

First Nations People Need to Lead COVID-19 Response in Western NSW

24 August, 2021 - “First Nations people have been a priority group for the COVID-19 vaccine since December 2020, yet our vaccination rates in Western NSW are am...

Hazzard must immediately act on ICU nurse shortage

24 August, 2021 - Greens MP and Health spokesperson Cate Faehrmann has written to the Health Minister today calling on him to take urgent action to stem the gro...

Far-right military infiltration shocking but not surprising

23 August, 2021 - The Greens say that reports of far-right extremists and neo-Nazis in the Australian military should not come as a surprise, but do further spu...

Australian Government needs to expedite bridging visas for Afghans

20 August, 2021 -   The Australian Government should immediately issue bridging visas to Afghan people in Afghanistan who have made substantive visa applicatio...

Greens urge Labor to announce 2030 targets to pressure Morrison before Glasgow

20 August, 2021 - Labor’s belated recognition that Scott Morrison’s 2030 climate targets aren’t good enough is a move in the right direction, said Greens Leader...

Greens slam Morrison’s fudging of vaccination numbers

20 August, 2021 - Greens leader Adam Bandt said Scott Morrison’s announcement today that children would not be included in vaccination targets was a political d...