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Senate Backs Greens Call for Rent Assistance Review

15 October, 2019 - Greens Senator for NSW and Housing Spokesperson, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has welcomed the Senate supporting her call for the Commonwealth to revie...

Future is Female: Girls take over Federal Parliament today

15 October, 2019 - The Greens are proud to support the more than 60 young women who have taken over parliament today, acting as Senators for the day. Greens Co-...

Greens Senator Calls for University Research Human Rights Review

15 October, 2019 - Greens Senator for NSW and Education Spokesperson, Dr Mehreen Faruqi has called for universities in Australia to undertake a human rights rev...

Ministerial Statement - Suicide Prevention in the ACT

15 October, 2019 - Madam Speaker, I rise to make the following statement on suicide in the ACT, in accordance with the motion moved by Ms Bresnan and passed ...

Tamara Smith MP Commissions artwork for community birthday cards

15 October, 2019 - Tamara Smith MP commissions stunning representation of local landscape for community birthday cards in 2020. Elena Larkin is an artist bas...

Thousands of manufactured stone workers have health scans that miss 40% of silicosis cases

15 October, 2019 - Over 6500 workers, mainly from the the manufactured stone industry, have had their lungs tested for silicosis using technology that fails to ...

ACT Greens call for static pill testing site as NSW Coroner recommendations released

15 October, 2019 - Responding to a draft recommendation of the NSW coroner that pill testing be provided at music festivals, the ACT Greens have today called fo...

Future is Female: Girls take over Federal Parliament

14 October, 2019 - The Greens are proud to support the more than 60 young women who have taken over parliament today, acting as Senators for the day. Greens ...

Greens move to dissolve toxic family law court inquiry

14 October, 2019 - The Greens will introduce a motion in the Senate today to dissolve the damaging Joint Select Committee Inquiry into Australia’s Family Law Sy...

Govt’s native fish plan akin to shuffling deck chairs on Titanic

14 October, 2019 - The Government’s “native fish plan” is akin to shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic, the Greens say. Greens Spokesperson for Water Senato...

Greens move pill testing, decriminalisation and legalising cannabis bills to save lives

14 October, 2019 - Recommendations regarding pill testing and police harassment in the draft Coroner’s Report into Music Festivals Deaths are not surprising and...

Native trees best for beating urban heat

14 October, 2019 - Yellow box and kurrajongs were some of the top ranked trees to beat the heat in a report which assessed 211 tree species used in Canberra’s u...

Greens move to regulate coal like asbestos as IMF says carbon price insufficient

11 October, 2019 - As the IMF warns that even a $111 carbon price in Australia will be insufficient to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, Greens’ climate an...

Victorian Greens strengthen support for trans and gender diverse members at State Conference

10 October, 2019 - Australian Greens Victoria (AGV) has overwhelmingly endorsed changes to its constitution that will include greater support for transgender an...