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Greens announce commitment to extend telehealth

16 November, 2021 - Media Release  The Australian Greens have today announced their plan to make Telehealth a permanent part of our healthcare system, i...

We stand by our COVID law changes that protect essential workers

16 November, 2021 - In May 2020 Greens amendments secured a presumptive right to workers compensation for frontline workers who contracted COVID when they were ...

New guidance to improve mental health services for trans and gender diverse Canberrans

16 November, 2021 - The ACT Government has today released nation leading guidance to help practitioners provide more supportive mental health services for trans...

Crossbenchers' transparency triumph cuts Premier's pandemic powers

16 November, 2021 - The parliamentary leaders of the Greens, the Reason Party and the Animal Justice Party have secured key improvements to the pandemic bill.&n...

Attorneys-General need to lift their game and raise the age to 14, say Greens

15 November, 2021 - The Australian Greens condemn the move by the Meeting of Attorneys General (MAG) towards raising the age of legal responsibility from 10 to ...

Greens say 43 is less than 45

15 November, 2021 - Following Labor Leader Anthony Albanese saying "Well, he's just making up numbers, of course" on Tasmania Talks with Mike O'Loughlin today, ...

Heat on Labor and Liberal as 1.5 alive but coal & gas on death row

15 November, 2021 - The Greens have said the next election will be a climate fight with the heat now on Liberal and Labor, after the Glasgow Climate Pact put co...

Funding Announced - 2021 Community Building Partnership Program

15 November, 2021 - Tamara Smith MP, Member for Ballina has today announced the electorate of Ballina has secured $400,000 in funding for a total of 18 projects...

Supporting social recovery for tenants

15 November, 2021 - A grant pool of $70,000 opens today for to support participation, skill development and social connection for Canberra’s social housing tena...

Greens to move to stop ABC inquiry in Senate

14 November, 2021 - Greens Spokesperson for Media and Deputy Chair of the Environment and Communications Legislation Committee Senator Sarah Hanson-Young commen...

Glasgow sabotaged by Scott Morrison

14 November, 2021 - With the final Glasgow pact resolving that coal and gas were on the way out but the world was not on track to limit global warming to 1.5 de...

Greens plan to clamp down on multinational tax avoidance estimated to net $4.5 billion

13 November, 2021 - Today Greens leader Adam Bandt will address the final Greens National Conference of the year announcing a major pillar of the Greens’ Tax th...

Greens plan to clamp down on multinational tax avoidance estimated to net $4.5 billion

13 November, 2021 - Media Release Today Greens leader Adam Bandt will address the final Greens National Conference of the year announcing a major pillar of t...

Morrison sabotaging Glasgow success

12 November, 2021 - Far from being a small player with minimal impact on global climate action, Australia under Scott Morrison is actively blocking plans for an...

Morrison's ‘not zero’ modelling a sham

12 November, 2021 - Quotes attributable to Greens Leader, Adam Bandt MP, on the government’s ‘net zero modelling’: "This is a plan for ‘not zero’.  "The Prime M...