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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...

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)...

Greens slam minor tweaks of NSW supports as woefully insufficient

13 July, 2021 - The Australian Greens have slammed the government’s changes to support measures for the NSW lockdown, saying that the paltry concessions are a w...

Increase Fines for Big Irrigators who haven’t installed Pump Meters: Greens    

13 July, 2021 - Revelations that nearly half of New South Wales’ biggest irrigators have made no effort to install compliant meters six months after the deadlin...

Government’s Great Barrier Reef lobbying exposes climate denialism

12 July, 2021 - The Greens have slammed the Morrison Government for the desperate measures it has taken to avoid UNESCO listing the Great Barrier Reef as "In Da...

Housing build would support those fleeing family violence

12 July, 2021 - The Greens have welcomed the release today of the Nowhere To Go report by Equity Economics, which finds that a significant build of social housi...

Statement on behalf of the Australian Greens Victoria, 12 July 2021

12 July, 2021 - Statement on behalf of the Australian Greens Victoria 12 July 2021 We are glad to confirm that Cr Mohamud will be returning to her duties as...