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Greens today will seek to progress Porter inquiry bill on anniversary of his accuser’s tragic death

24 June, 2021 - On the one-year anniversary of the suicide of Christian Porter’s accuser the Greens have called on the government, One Nation and Senator Jacqui...

Labor's new national parks shouldn't be logged: Greens

24 June, 2021 - The Victorian Greens have welcomed news that the state government will create three new national parks, but say they’re disappointed some of tho...

Victorian Government fails First Nations children and women

24 June, 2021 - The Victorian Greens have said the state government must urgently act to address alarming new statistics on the rates of Aboriginal children bei...

New laws to strengthen sentencing of family violence offenders

24 June, 2021 - ACT courts will be required to give specific consideration when sentencing a person convicted of a crime in a family violence context under prop...

Greens slam changes to Private Health Act that will only give coverage to disabled people on NDIS

23 June, 2021 - The Greens have criticised changes to the Private Health Insurance Act 2007 which passed the Senate last night saying they set a dangerous prece...

Libs and Labor join forces to crush Senate transparency and democracy

23 June, 2021 - The move by the Coalition and Labor to permanently axe Senate motions is an attack on transparency and democracy that entrenches the big parties...

Greens force release of draft standards phasing out battery cages

23 June, 2021 - Australian Greens Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has forced the release of draft animal welfare standards for poultry throug...

Morrison must strip Nationals of water portfolio

23 June, 2021 - Greens Senator for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Young has today called for the Nationals to be stripped of the water portfolio following the ret...

Overfunded private schools sucking up public funding

23 June, 2021 - Today's budget allocates $1.5 billion of public funding to private schools in NSW, which will reinforce their overfunding beyond the Nation...

Greens secure cross-party Inquiry into Floodplain Harvesting

23 June, 2021 - A NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into floodplain harvesting has just been established after a successful motion this morning in the NSW Upper House b...

Defamation laws strengthen right to freedom of expression in the Territory

23 June, 2021 - New laws have been passed in the ACT Legislative Assembly today as part of a national effort to modernise Australia’s defamation laws. Attor...

COVID safety at risk to protect the Liberal Party’s property developer council candidates

23 June, 2021 - The Greens successfully amended the NSW Coalition’s Local Government Elections Bill last night to put in place a long-needed ban on property dev...

Raising the Age discussion paper released

23 June, 2021 - As Australia’s first jurisdiction committed to raising the age of criminal responsibility, the ACT Government has today released a discussion pa...

NDIS age cap both arbitrary and discriminatory

22 June, 2021 - Australian Greens Disability spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John has backed calls for the NDIS to scrap its age cap and allow disabled peopl...