News

Morrison must take responsibility for Aged Care debacle: Greens

14 August, 2020 - The Greens say evidence given to the Royal Commission into Aged Care and statements of the Prime Minister have become utterly contradictory.  ...

Comment on School Chaplains in Canberra Schools

14 August, 2020 - Disappointed, but unsurprised. Today a Canberra Liberals dominated Committee report pushed for school chaplains to be mandated in Canberra ...

Punitive Approach For Struggling Students Will Cause Harm

13 August, 2020 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said the federal government’s move to punish students who struggle to find...

Labor must stop JobKeeper double games

13 August, 2020 - With the Liberals needing Senate support for their plans to slash JobKeeper payments to low-income earners, the Australian Greens have describ...

With over 1 million out of work the Government should not be cutting JobSeeker payments

13 August, 2020 - The Greens say that the Government is failing the growing number of people out of work by cutting the Jobseeker payment at the end of Septembe...

Exemptions for essential frontline workers is a matter of life and death

13 August, 2020 - Tamara Smith MP Member for Ballina is calling for border exemptions for essential frontline workers traveling between NSW and the QLD border. ...

Endangered ecosystems and Indigenous heritage need better protection

13 August, 2020 - The ACT Greens today welcomed a commitment from Chief Minister Barr that the ACT Government will now act to protect a local site of possible I...

Protecting Canberrans from harmful sexuality and gender identity conversion practices

13 August, 2020 - Following a commitment from the ACT Government in 2018, new legislation to ban sexuality and gender identity conversion practices has been int...

Save the Coolo trees battle ramps up: ACT Greens

13 August, 2020 - The ACT Greens have today called on the ACT Government to be transparent with the community about its plans to replace green space with a car ...

Government laziness is impeding the important work of the Disability Royal Commission

12 August, 2020 - Wednesday 12 August The second progress report of the Royal Commission into the Violence, Abuse, Exploitation and Neglect of People with Disab...

Labor shouldn't be warming to a Liberal gas plan that's seriously fracking bad: Greens

12 August, 2020 - The Greens have responded to Labor’s official endorsement (through its Shadow Resources Minister, Joel Fitzgibbon) of the Liberals’ plan to su...

International Youth Day: 2020 is the year to listen to young people

12 August, 2020 - Australian Greens Youth spokesperson, and Australia's youngest Senator, Jordon Steele-John has called for greater engagement with young p...

Major parties reject the need for parliamentary standards

12 August, 2020 - Despite the conduct of politicians having declined year on year and public confidence in democracy bottoming out, both major parties have reje...

Fishing industry sidelined while seismic testing continues unabated

12 August, 2020 - Greens Healthy Oceans spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, today comments on an inquiry hearing in which Tasmanian and Victorian fisherme...

Greens reject government JobKeeper/IR blackmail

12 August, 2020 - Following reports that the government cynically intends to link extended JobKeeper support in some businesses to a removal of the industrial r...