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Greens renew call for publicly funded abortion after private clinic closures

18 June, 2021 - The Greens have renewed their call for publicly funded abortions after private service Marie Stopes announced yesterday it was shutting down fou...

Fresh documents show scale of bushfire fraud under Coalition Grants scheme

18 June, 2021 - A series of new internal documents show the scale of the fraud on the bushfire grants scheme run by the NSW Coalition Government. Because of a c...

Porter inquiry Bill blocked in embarrassing and cynical display

17 June, 2021 - Lines attributable to Greens leader in the Senate and spokesperson on women Larissa Waters: “The government and One Nation have again conspired ...

State energy emergency spells writing on the wall for coal in Victoria

17 June, 2021 - The Victorian Greens have said the state government’s decision to announce a state energy emergency is yet more evidence that coal is unreliable...

Government ducks scrutiny in shameful anti-democratic display

16 June, 2021 - Lines attributable to Senator Larissa Waters: This is a shameful day for this government and the Australian Parliament. There are unresolved rap...

Housing crisis can no longer be ignored

16 June, 2021 - Australian Greens Housing spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the national housing crisis can no longer be ignored, as new data re...

Statement from the Australian Greens on the broken ceasefire in Israel and Palestine

16 June, 2021 - The Australian Greens are deeply concerned to see the ceasefire broken with risks of further deaths in Israel and Palestine, a mere three days i...

Shameful Robodebt chapter is not over

15 June, 2021 - The Greens welcome the Federal Court judgement on the robodebt class action that found the Commonwealth "unlawfully"  raised $1.7 billion in deb...

Plan to open up more fossil fuels is the Pitts

15 June, 2021 - While Scott Morrison attends G7 and the world plans to transition away from fossil fuels the Australian Government has made a mockery of itself ...

Seismic Inquiry report released

11 June, 2021 - The Senate Inquiry into seismic testing has tabled its final report today.  For the first time ever, the Federal Parliament heard evidence that ...

Energy Ministers Meeting

11 June, 2021 - Comments attributable to Shane Rattenbury, ACT Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction. “Energy Ministers meetings are an important natio...

Has COVID-19 made women more insecure at home? Emma Davidson Op-Ed

10 June, 2021 - In early 2020 I got stuck in New York as the world came to grips with the COVID pandemic. I had been supporting a group of Aboriginal and Pacifi...

Morrison's China sabre rattling an attempt to hide from G7 climate embarassment

9 June, 2021 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt has described Morrison’s calls for a new cold war as a craven attempt to distract from Australia’s rogue climate stance...

KABUL EMBASSY CLOSURE WILL DISADVANTAGE WAR CRIME VICTIMS

9 June, 2021 - Wednesday 9 Jun, 2021 Australian Greens Peace and Disarmament spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John has called on the Morrison Government to co...

State government running out of excuses to delay action on 'raising the age'

9 June, 2021 - The Victorian Greens have welcomed the Commission for Children and Young People’s call to raise the age of criminal responsibility in Victoria fr...