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Victorians with mental illness deserve the security of a home

28 November, 2019 - The Victorian Greens have welcomed the interim report released by the Royal Commission into Mental Health today, but are disappointed that i...

Speech - Daily acknowledgment in Ngunnawal language

28 November, 2019 - Madam Speaker it is with great pleasure that I rise today to speak to this item of Assembly business. Firstly, I’d like to acknowledge th...

History in the making as Ngunnawal language motion advances reconciliation

28 November, 2019 - The ACT Greens will today table a motion to advance reconciliation in the ACT that will see Canberra’s local Indigenous Ngunnawal language f...

Greens Welcome Horse Traceability Scheme Report

27 November, 2019 - Australian Greens Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has welcomed the Senate Inquiry report calling on the Federal Governm...

Market-led proposals for transport infrastructure should be scrapped

27 November, 2019 - The Victorian Greens have called on the Government to scrap market led proposals for transport infrastructure and instead focus on developin...

Victoria's waste management system needs a complete overhaul

27 November, 2019 - The Victorian Greens have echoed the state waste inquiry report’s calls for broad scale reform of Victoria’s waste management system but say...

Defence of Taylor shows integrity has been thrown overboard: Greens

26 November, 2019 - The Australian Greens have responded to Scott Morrison’s appalling decision to allow Minister Angus Taylor to continue serving in his role w...

Alan Jones to stay on Canberra’s public buses

26 November, 2019 - The Greens think Alan Jones’ sexist, misogynistic views are appalling and harmful. The ACT Greens were proud to support a recent communi...

Government refuses to take down Alan Jones from back of Canberra buses

26 November, 2019 - The ACT Greens have today expressed disappointment that the ACT Government will maintain Alan Jones advertising on Transport Canberra buses ...

Victorian Greens call for Royal Commission into planning system

26 November, 2019 - Today the Victorian Greens will introduce a motion calling on the Government to establish a Royal Commission into the state’s planning syste...

Separate bin could save over 100,000 tonnes of glass waste from landfill each year

26 November, 2019 - The Victorian Greens have called on the Government to introduce separate glass bins in a bid to save the 107,500 tonnes of glass being sent ...

Australian Greens to move amendments to FTA implementing legislation

25 November, 2019 - The Australian Greens will move amendments to the Customs Amendment (Growing Australian Export Opportunities Across the Asia-Pacif...

Greens secure cross-party agreement on greater safeguards for women giving evidence at family law inquiry

25 November, 2019 - On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the Greens have secured senate support for the family law system inq...

Greens move to depoliticise research funding

25 November, 2019 - The Greens will move in the House and the Senate to reverse the Liberal government’s recent politicisation of Australian Research Council gr...

Drug use has no age limit and neither should harm reduction

25 November, 2019 - The Victorian Greens have called on the Government to remove restrictions on who can use the Medically Supervised Injecting Room (MSIR) in R...