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Rio Tinto must sack boss and front Environment Committee: Greens

5 June, 2020 - The Australian Greens have called on the chief executive of Rio Tinto Iron Ore, Chris Salisbury, to resign or be sacked over the growing scandal ...

Greens will fight looming Labor/Liberal JobKeeper cuts

5 June, 2020 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt has responded to reports the government is considering Labor’s proposal to cut JobKeeper payments for people previously ...

Greens welcome injecting facility announcement but call for changes

5 June, 2020 - Local Greens MPs for Melbourne, Ellen Sandell and Adam Bandt, have welcomed the government’s decision to expand the number of supervised injectin...

ACT electricity prices set to drop

5 June, 2020 - ACT residents will soon see cheaper electricity costs on their bills thanks to the ACT Government’s investment in renewable energy. The Indepe...

Granite Benchtop Grants will worsen the homelessness crisis

4 June, 2020 - The Greens have responded to the Morrison government’s ‘granite benchtop grant’ announcement today, saying its HomeBuilder scheme will use public...

Gladys: Tell Barilaro to Pull his Head in on Horses

4 June, 2020 - The Premier needs to tell the Member for Monaro and Deputy Premier John Barilaro to pull his head in and stop risking the World Heritage status o...

Morrison must call out Trump’s moves towards fascism

3 June, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt MP, has today called on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to stop being subservient to Donald Trump and i...

Morrison has no pathway out of recession

3 June, 2020 - Responding to today’s alarming economic figures, Greens Leader Adam Bandt said Scott Morrison has no plan to get the country out of recession and...

Greens NSW introduce Bill to end travel concessions discrimination

3 June, 2020 - Jenny Leong MP, Greens Member for Newtown and spokesperson for Multiculturalism today gave notice of a Private Member's Bill in the NSW Legislati...

Greens call for investment in pop-up bike lanes on World Bicycle Day

3 June, 2020 - The Victorian Greens have called on the state government to immediately invest in pop-up bike lanes around greater Melbourne to help people pract...

Govt’s spotlight on arts and entertainment welcome

2 June, 2020 - The foreshadowing of a package for the arts and entertainment industry by the PM is welcome, but the devil will be in the detail, the Greens say....

Attack on media in America to be examined by Senate Press Freedom Inquiry

2 June, 2020 - Chair of the Senate Inquiry into Press Freedoms, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, has vowed to look at the treatment of the press covering the ...

Public Housing, Not 'Granite Benchtop Grants', Should Drive Construction Stimulus

2 June, 2020 - The Greens have said that the construction of public and community housing should drive construction stimulus, not ill-conceived and unnecessary ...

Opening up Victoria to gas drilling would be a climate disaster

2 June, 2020 - The Victorian Greens will vote against the state government’s Petroleum Legislation Amendment Bill 2020 when it passes through the lower house th...

Public housing residents in Victoria need dedicated ombudsman

2 June, 2020 - The Victorian Greens will introduce a bill that would establish a public housing ombudsman when parliament resumes this week. After decades of...