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JobKeeper 2.0 calls catching on, Morrison reluctance putting nation at risk

21 July, 2021 - As the need to reestablish a large-scale JobKeeper becomes increasingly obvious, the Greens say the same coalition that dragged the Prime Minist...

Private Buildings Cladding Scheme launched

21 July, 2021 - The ACT Government has today opened the Private Buildings Cladding Scheme, which will assist eligible building owners to test whether their buil...

Anti-Muslim racism revealed in AHRC report

20 July, 2021 - Australian Greens Anti-racism spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that a new report by the Australian Human Rights Commission has found...

Morrison Government abandons people on income support

20 July, 2021 -    The Australian Greens said today the Morrison Government has abandoned people on income support payments during the middle of the pandemic.  ...

Government inaction leads to Aboriginal people dying from preventable deaths

20 July, 2021 - “Aboriginal people are dying from preventable deaths in police custody because the Morrison government is continuing Liberal and Labors’ legacie...

JobKeeper 2.0 and JobSeeker lift needed: Greens

20 July, 2021 - The Morrison Lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne are taking a political toll on the Prime Minister, but the Greens say the long-term damage of the...

Government's relationship with Crown has aged like milk

20 July, 2021 - The Victorian Greens have said the relationship between successive Labor and Liberal state governments and Crown is well past its expiry date, a...

JobKeeper 2.0 & lifted JobSeeker needed as PM's failures bite

19 July, 2021 - The Morrison Lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne are taking a political toll on the Prime Minister, but the Greens say the long-term damage of the...

Australia must implement carbon price to avoid EU tariffs: Greens

16 July, 2021 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP has called for the urgent return of the Greens/Labor/Independent carbon price and the lifting of 2...

We will keep up the pressure; disability community responds to Independent Assessments Win

16 July, 2021 - Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John said that the outcome of today’s meeting of State and Territory Disability Ministers demonstrates the power of...

The right to repair. Speech by Shane Rattenbury MLA

16 July, 2021 - I gave a version of this speech to the Inaugural Australian Repair Summit last week and I’d like to share the important issue of the Right To Repair to the online audience now.

Destroying Parramatta’s heritage is not ‘essential’ work: Willow Grove decision goes against community

16 July, 2021 - The Supreme Court of NSW today upheld the decision to allow the NSW Government to demolish the 140-year-old locally heritage listed ‘Willow Grov...

Reintroduce carbon price, lift 2030 targets to protect exporters from EU tariffs

15 July, 2021 - With the European Union finally laying out their timetable for implementing carbon tariffs, the Greens have said that the Liberals’ repeal of th...

Covid assistance package cruelly ignores people on income support

14 July, 2021 - The Greens have called on the Government to include income support recipients in COVID assistance packages. “This package fails to acknowledge t...

Susan Salthouse leadership fund announced

14 July, 2021 - The ACT Government has established a fund to assist people with disability pursue leadership roles and honour the legacy of the late Susan (Sue)...