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Rental scheme failing newly unemployed Victorians

2 September, 2020 - The Victorian Greens have released damning figures that show the state government’s rental relief scheme is failing newly unemployed renters...

COVID-19 Mental Health Grant winners announced

2 September, 2020 - Minister for Mental Health Shane Rattenbury has announced the recipients of the COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing Innovation Grants Progr...

ACT Government announces first all-electric public hospital in Australia (if not the world)

2 September, 2020 - The ACT Government has today announced that the Canberra Hospital Expansion will run on the ACT’s 100% renewable electricity - a world-leadi...

Senate Sends Strong Message To Gov On Unis Bill

1 September, 2020 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the Senate has fired a warning shot at the Morrison Government...

Rental Snapshot Shows Gov Must Invest In Social Housing, Retain JobSeeker Rate

1 September, 2020 - The Greens have said that Anglicare Australia’s latest Rental Affordability Snapshot update, released today, has shown that only a tiny perc...

Greens will campaign to defeat gaslighting of Australia’s Green Bank

1 September, 2020 - Australian Greens Leader Adam Bandt says his party will fight to defeat the government's attempt to amend the Clean Energy Finance Corporati...

Victorian Greens support six-month state of emergency bill

1 September, 2020 - Throughout the pandemic, the Greens have always supported an evidence-based and health-led response to the crisis, which includes listening ...

Be kind and respectful to our nurses and midwives

1 September, 2020 - The ACT Government has launched a new campaign to increase community awareness and understanding about acceptable behaviour towards nurses a...

Anglicare figures reinforce the needs to address the housing crisis: ACT Greens

1 September, 2020 - The Greens have today echoed Anglicare’s call for major investments in social and affordable housing, to ensure everyone can afford a decent...

Green recovery needed to lock in emissions reductions

31 August, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP has said figures showing an 18% drop in emissions as a result of the coronavirus are doomed to b...

New Report Highlights Gov Failures On PFAS

31 August, 2020 - Australian Greens Senator for NSW, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has said that the latest progress report of the parliamentary PFAS Sub-committee, t...

ACT Government outlines expanded plan for nation-leading Justice Reinvestment efforts

31 August, 2020 - The ACT Government has today released its latest ‘Reducing Recidivism 2020-2023’ Plan, that will accelerate the ACT’s nation-leading Justice R...

Nuclear Issues and Greens

31 August, 2020 - The issue of nuclear disarmament drew together various environmentalist groups in the 1980s, resulting in formation of The Greens (WA); and th...

Stop digging it up

31 August, 2020 - The global nuclear trade begins in Australia with uranium mining By Kerrie-Ann (K-A) Garlick, CCWA’s Nuclear Free Community Campaigner ...

Banning the Bomb

31 August, 2020 - The nuclear weapon ban treaty nears entry-into-force By Gem Romuld, Australian Director, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ...