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COVID-19 Mental Health Grant winners announced

2 September, 2020 - Minister for Mental Health Shane Rattenbury has announced the recipients of the COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing Innovation Grants Progr...

ACT Government announces first all-electric public hospital in Australia (if not the world)

2 September, 2020 - The ACT Government has today announced that the Canberra Hospital Expansion will run on the ACT’s 100% renewable electricity - a world-leadi...

Rental Snapshot Shows Gov Must Invest In Social Housing, Retain JobSeeker Rate

1 September, 2020 - The Greens have said that Anglicare Australia’s latest Rental Affordability Snapshot update, released today, has shown that only a tiny perc...

Greens will campaign to defeat gaslighting of Australia’s Green Bank

1 September, 2020 - Australian Greens Leader Adam Bandt says his party will fight to defeat the government's attempt to amend the Clean Energy Finance Corporati...

Senate Sends Strong Message To Gov On Unis Bill

1 September, 2020 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the Senate has fired a warning shot at the Morrison Government...

Victorian Greens support six-month state of emergency bill

1 September, 2020 - Throughout the pandemic, the Greens have always supported an evidence-based and health-led response to the crisis, which includes listening ...

Be kind and respectful to our nurses and midwives

1 September, 2020 - The ACT Government has launched a new campaign to increase community awareness and understanding about acceptable behaviour towards nurses a...

Anglicare figures reinforce the needs to address the housing crisis: ACT Greens

1 September, 2020 - The Greens have today echoed Anglicare’s call for major investments in social and affordable housing, to ensure everyone can afford a decent...

New Report Highlights Gov Failures On PFAS

31 August, 2020 - Australian Greens Senator for NSW, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has said that the latest progress report of the parliamentary PFAS Sub-committee, t...

Green recovery needed to lock in emissions reductions

31 August, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP has said figures showing an 18% drop in emissions as a result of the coronavirus are doomed to b...

ACT Government outlines expanded plan for nation-leading Justice Reinvestment efforts

31 August, 2020 - The ACT Government has today released its latest ‘Reducing Recidivism 2020-2023’ Plan, that will accelerate the ACT’s nation-leading Justice R...

Nuclear Issues and Greens

31 August, 2020 - The issue of nuclear disarmament drew together various environmentalist groups in the 1980s, resulting in formation of The Greens (WA); and th...

Stop digging it up

31 August, 2020 - The global nuclear trade begins in Australia with uranium mining By Kerrie-Ann (K-A) Garlick, CCWA’s Nuclear Free Community Campaigner ...

Banning the Bomb

31 August, 2020 - The nuclear weapon ban treaty nears entry-into-force By Gem Romuld, Australian Director, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ...

Born with the Bomb

31 August, 2020 - Born just before nuclear weapons, haunted by them through life, but dream to see them dismantled in my lifetime By Chris Johansen, Green I...