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South Kensington Station upgrades are a hard-earned win for the community

4 August, 2020 - The Victorian Greens have welcomed the announcement of funding for much-needed upgrade work to South Kensington Station and say it follows year...

Inquiry reveals public housing as top priority in tackling homelessness

4 August, 2020 - The Victorian Greens have said a ‘big build’ of public housing will be critical if the government wants to end the state’s homelessness crisis,...

Greens call on Premier Andrews to extend protections for renters

4 August, 2020 - The Victorian Greens have called on the Andrews Government to extend protections in place for Victorian renters that are currently due to expir...

Racing Cruelty Continues In Lockdown

3 August, 2020 - Australian Greens Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to the announcement that greyhound and horse racing will con...

Federal Gov Must Support Early Learning In Victoria

3 August, 2020 - The Greens have said that the federal government must urgently support early learning and immediately provide relief for early childhood educat...

Paid pandemic ‘leave’ not enough & won’t properly support health effort

3 August, 2020 - Scott Morrison’s pandemic payment announcement is a poor substitute for sick leave and doesn’t properly support the public health push to conta...

'I just don’t see why politics needs to be involved': Calls for compensation at Sports Rorts hearing

3 August, 2020 - In testimony today at the Senate Inquiry into the Administration of Sports Grants, affected sports clubs and local governments have called on t...

Morrison Government can grant COVID sick leave without Parliament

3 August, 2020 - The Morrison government can use the extensive coronavirus crisis powers already granted to it by Parliament to immediately grant paid COVID-19 ...

New training courses to help learner drivers

3 August, 2020 - In an Australian-first, the ACT Government will now deliver new courses for learner drivers that are designed to keep young drivers, cyclists, ...

National Homelessness Week: Greens call again on ACT Government to end homelessness in the ACT

3 August, 2020 - With Canberra’s winter well underway and the ongoing COVID pandemic increasing the risk of homelessness in our community, the ACT Greens have a...

Gov must pass Greens COVID leave bill, Labor must firm up on JobKeeper 2.0

2 August, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt MP, said with the situation in Victoria changing by the hour, people deserved clarity from the Gove...

Latest government rort must be investigated by the Senate

31 July, 2020 - Senator Larissa Waters will call the Senate to vote on an inquiry into the Coalition’s rorting of government grants, which will include the Shin...

Protected species in shark nets, NSW data reveals

31 July, 2020 - Greens Healthy Oceans spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, comments on data released today revealing high numbers of threatened and protect...

Victorian Government delays emissions reduction targets again

31 July, 2020 - The Andrews Government has delivered yet another blow to the environment under the cover of COVID-19 with the announcement it will delay setting...

Zero carbon grid possible by 2040

30 July, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt has today said the release of the final system plan for Australia's energy grid showed that a transit...