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Government further reduces Coronavirus supplement for Jobseekers, condemns millions to poverty

10 December, 2020 - The Government has used the last sitting day of the year to condemn millions of Australians to live even further below the poverty line by c...

Greens will oppose IR Omnibus bill

10 December, 2020 - Australian Greens Leader, Adam Bandt says the party’s 9 votes in the Senate will oppose the Government’s industrial relations omnibus Bill. ...

Campaign to scrap racist card will continue

10 December, 2020 - The Greens have vowed to continue the community campaign to stop income management and the Cashless Debit Card for good. “The campaign to st...

PM must not use Pacific bullying to cover for his climate isolation and misleading of Parliament

10 December, 2020 - Scott Morrison has confirmed Australia’s diplomatic isolation on climate with his answers in Question Time today.  It now appears absolutely...

Port Kennedy Planning

10 December, 2020 - This week the WAPC will consider a major residential development south of the river at Port Kennedy in the Rockingham region, a coastal subu...

Gas and transport emissions on the rise, coal still a huge problem: report

10 December, 2020 - Greenhouse gas emissions from gas and transport are on the rise in Victoria while coal continues to account for nearly half of our total emi...

A Tale of Two Cities

10 December, 2020 - Urban renewal and growth are critical issues for Metropolitan Perth. Whether change is met by controversy and conflict or creativity and com...

New Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary strategy

10 December, 2020 - Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary will continue protecting native species and providing opportunities to interact with nature under a new dr...

Government wastes $7.5 million this year logging our native forests

10 December, 2020 - The Victorian Greens have urged the Andrews Labor Government to immediately cease native forest logging across the state in a bid to protect...

Senate COVID Committee tables interim report into Government's response to pandemic and recession

9 December, 2020 - The Australian Greens support the recommendations and the interim findings of the Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 majority report and hav...

Voices of grassroots people must be heard as Treaty back on the national agenda: Greens

9 December, 2020 - After urging Treaty be put back on the national agenda as recently as her first speech to the Senate last week, Australian Greens First Natio...

Centre Alliance capitulate to Government on Cashless Debit Card and don’t even bother to turn up to vote 

9 December, 2020 - Centre Alliance have hoodwinked and mislead the people of South Australia and those on the Cashless Debit Card. They’ve assured voters for we...

Juukan Gorge Committee releases multiparty majority report 

9 December, 2020 -  The Joint Standing Committee on the Northern Australia Inquiry into Juukan Gorge have today released a multiparty majority interim report wi...

Cutting Coronavirus Supplement will hurt at-risk Canberrans

9 December, 2020 - Tens of thousands of Canberrans are set to be impacted by the Federal Government’s New Year’s Day cut to the Coronavirus Supplement, putting ...

Greens demand answers: did the PM mislead Parliament on Climate Summit invitation?

8 December, 2020 - There is now a serious question as to whether the Prime Minister has led Parliament, said Greens Leader, Adam Bandt.  Mr Bandt was today gagg...