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Aged care Royal Commission must examine impact of profit making: Greens

10 August, 2020 - The Greens have written to the Prime Minister requesting that he urgently update the terms of reference for the Royal Commission into Aged Car...

Greens welcome ACT Labor’s pre-committed plan on food waste, call for hospitality sector support

10 August, 2020 - The ACT Greens today welcomed ACT Labor’s recycled (!) announcement on food waste collection, while reinforcing the necessity of dealing with ...

JobKeeper expansion still leaves millions of workers missing out

7 August, 2020 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt says today's announcement that the government will expand JobKeeper suggests lessons have not been learned from the fi...

Morrison & Andrews are failing to protect disabled people

7 August, 2020 - Friday 7th August 2020 Australian Greens Disability Rights and Services spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John said a failure to learn from th...

SA Govt must rule out cut to River Murray water allocation

7 August, 2020 - The Greens are calling on the South Australian Government to guarantee the state won’t lose a single gigalitre of water allocated to it under t...

Planning Minister rams through planning decision despite years of community consultation: ACT Greens

7 August, 2020 - The ACT Greens have today expressed outrage and dismay at the ACT Planning Minister’s decision to again use his call-in powers to ram through a...

Mental health funding boost helping Canberra’s workers

7 August, 2020 - Local workplace mental health and wellbeing program provider OzHelp has received $100,000 as part of the ACT Government’s COVID-19 mental healt...

JobKeeper cuts will force up to 83,000 Victorians out of jobs

6 August, 2020 - The Australian Greens have released analysis of ABS data which shows 83,100 workers on JobKeeper in Victoria are casuals in industries now subj...

Statement on Parliament sittings

6 August, 2020 - I am pleased the Parliament will sit again. In a crisis we need more democracy, not less, and the Greens opposed the initial agreement between ...

Govt claims $10m for Fox Sports is a Covid Response Measure but no extra funding for ABC

6 August, 2020 - The Morrison Government’s $10million for Fox Sports to broadcast women’s and niche sports is part of its Covid Response Package, yet no extra f...

Federal Government must lift VIC childcare support & move to free childcare

6 August, 2020 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says a return to free childcare is needed in Victoria immediately and that the success of the initial COVID-19 child...

Paid pandemic leave desperately needed with 59,000 Tasmanians without leave entitlements

6 August, 2020 - Tasmanian Senator Peter Whish-Wilson has called for Tasmania to be included in the Federal Government's Paid Pandemic Leave scheme, with ABS da...

75th Anniversary of Hiroshima: Australia must sign UN Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

6 August, 2020 - Thursday 6th August 2020 Australian Greens Peace and Nuclear Disarmament spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John has called for Australian to s...

Pandemic Leave desperately needed with a quarter of South Aussie workers having no leave entitlement

6 August, 2020 - Greens Senator for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Young has called for South Australia to be included in the Federal Government’s Paid Pandemic L...

Leadership needed to protect most vulnerable from gaming harm: ACT Greens

6 August, 2020 - As the COVID pandemic continues to impact our community, the Greens have today again called on the ACT Government to deliver a series of modest...