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Ngunnawal language to open ACT Legislative Assembly a landmark moment in nation’s fight for First Nations’ voice

30 July, 2020 - Canberra’s local Indigenous Ngunnawal language has been formally introduced into the proceedings of the ACT’s parliament, following a successful...

Aboriginal Victorians now 16 times more likely to be imprisoned than the general population

30 July, 2020 - Aboriginal people in Victoria are now imprisoned at a rate of more than 16 times the general population according to 2019 data from the Australi...

Plastics hearing reveals decades of flawed recycling policy

29 July, 2020 - Witnesses today outlined their frustration with decades-long recycling policy failure in today’s hearing into the Packaging and Plastics Bill 20...

COVID Committee gas report shows fossil fuel sector letting manufacturing

29 July, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP said reporting of a National COVID Commission presentation on natural gas showed a growing disconn...

No Modelling, No Worries: Liberals

29 July, 2020 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the government’s plan to hike up university fees should be scrappe...

Greens seek PM's support for COVID leave bill

29 July, 2020 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, has written to the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, seeking time when Parliament resumes in August to pass a Greens’ b...

Wildlife toll shows environment needs stronger protections

29 July, 2020 - With a revised tally of killed or displaced wildlife from the summer’s bushfires coming in at three times initial estimates, it’s clear now is n...

Helping renters cut down on their energy bills

29 July, 2020 - The ACT Government has today expanded the ACT Home Energy Assessment Scheme to help lower power bills for renters by providing free in-home ener...

Bike superhighway needs to be fast-tracked in Melbourne

29 July, 2020 - The Victorian Greens have renewed their call on the state government to fast-track the construction of a 21-kilometre bike superhighway that run...

Shadow Minister puts Labor in lockstep with Liberals on climate

28 July, 2020 - Australian Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says statements today from Labor’s Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Resources, Joel Fitzgibbon, put the...

Unions, welfare groups & Greens all back jobs over tax cuts

28 July, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt, has commended peak worker and social services groups for coming out hard against the proposed accel...

Government continues attack on Reef science

28 July, 2020 - The Coalition and One Nation have cemented their position as science denialists, having spent Monday badgering some of Australia’s peak scientif...

Costings show bringing forward tax cuts would cost an extra $28 billion

27 July, 2020 - The Australian Greens have released costings from the Parliamentary Budget Office on the cost of bringing forward income tax cuts. The costings ...