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Greens second-read 'raise the age' bill one year after global BLM protests

26 May, 2021 - The Victorian Greens will second-read their ‘raise the age’ bill in Parliament today, which would raise the age of criminal responsibility in Vic...

Sorry Day 2021: Greens plan for a national compensation scheme for Stolen Generation survivors

25 May, 2021 - Ahead of National Sorry Day, the Greens today called on the Federal Coalition Government to establish a national compensation scheme for the surv...

Release the Foster report, PM

25 May, 2021 - The Greens have called on the PM to drop the veil of secrecy and release the review by Stephanie Foster into processes for responding to serious ...

Greens Welcome Affirmative Consent Reform

25 May, 2021 - Responding to the NSW Attorney General’s announcement to reform consent laws in NSW, including a model of affirmative consent, the Greens Women’s...

Greens to continue the fight against Labor's anti-climate EV tax

25 May, 2021 - The Greens have slammed the Victorian Labor’s electric vehicle tax, following its passage in Parliament's upper house tonight, saying it will und...

Government establishes advisory council for ACT community clubs

25 May, 2021 - The ACT Government has established a new advisory council to help reduce the harm from gambling while building a long-term and sustainable clubs ...

Gas and coal are dead says IEA, Long live coal says the Morrison government

24 May, 2021 - The Greens have rebuked the Morrison government’s plan to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on a gas plant announced the very same d...

Morrison and Hunt undermining their own vaccine rollout

24 May, 2021 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt says the Prime Minister must instruct his Health Minister to stop giving mixed messages on vaccines that could delay the...

Greens Committed to Enthusiastic Consent Reform in NSW

24 May, 2021 - With reports that Cabinet is meeting today to consider consent law reforms in NSW, Member for Newtown and Greens Women’s Rights spokesperson, Jen...

Two years of free registration for zero emissions vehicles

24 May, 2021 - From today, newly purchased zero emissions vehicles (ZEVs) will receive two years of free registration in the ACT. Quotes attributable to Andr...

Concern for family, another death, ripple of pain

21 May, 2021 - First Nations Death in Custody is a brutal outcome of the underservicing and overpolicing of rural First Nations communities.  If the ans...

Australia must speak out against Israeli apartheid

21 May, 2021 - In a statement to the parliament earlier this month, senator Janet Rice expresses the Australian Greens’ solidarity with Palestinian people, and ...

Call it by its true name

21 May, 2021 - we need to call a spade a spade. what’s going on between Palestinians and Israelis is not a ‘conflict’ – it is an occupation. By Hiba Farra ...

Weapons manufacturers are making a killing in our name

21 May, 2021 - Weapons corporations are literally making a killing by exporting terror around the world. Ahead of one of Australia’s biggest military weapons ex...

Champagne for the billionaires, real pain for everyone else

21 May, 2021 - Earlier this month, the Morrison government delivered its third federal budget, and it was mostly as expected: favours for the ultra rich and scr...