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Press freedom under threat as French journalists arrested reporting on Adani

22 July, 2019 - Further police crackdown on journalists highlights importance of Senate inquiry into press freedom, Greens say.   “The arrest of journalists in ...

Prohibition of live export trade over summer months must be extended: Greens

22 July, 2019 - Greens spokesperson for Animal Welfare Hon Alison Xamon MLC has today called on the Federal Department of Agriculture to extend the prohibition ...

SKM’s closure could cost councils millions unless Government acts now

22 July, 2019 - The Victorian Greens have called on the Government to guarantee kerbside recycling collection in light of SKM’s imminent closure. When four o...

Desperate Government stifling dissent with more anti-protest laws

22 July, 2019 - Today's threats from the Coalition Government against protesters are now the third time the Liberal National Government have sought to target pr...

New TAFE Decline Data shows Morrison Government Needs to Reverse Course and Invest in VET

20 July, 2019 - Australian Greens Senator and Spokesperson for Education, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has said that new TAFE data released today shows the continued decl...

Manus Island

19 July, 2019 - Australian Greens Immigration Spokesperson Nick McKim has been ordered to leave Manus Island on the sixth anniversary of the commencement of ind...

Time to wave chequered flag on the Grand Prix

19 July, 2019 - The Victorian Greens have slammed the state government’s decision to extend the Albert Park Grand Prix to 2025. It will now cost Victorians o...

Media Release: Climate Justice Must Be Central to Foreign Aid Program

18 July, 2019 - Australian Greens Senator and Spokesperson for International Development, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has said that climate justice must be central to Au...

Federal Government must Intervene to Reverse the Decline in Public Housing

18 July, 2019 - Australian Greens Senator and Spokesperson for Housing, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has responded to today’s Australian Institute of Health and Research ...

Secret budget documents show Berejiklian’s election promise poses risk of injury and death

18 July, 2019 - The NSW Coalition’s last-minute privatized loan scheme to install solar cells and batteries on homes poses risks of injury and death because of ...

Great Australian Bight must be protected

17 July, 2019 - The government must rule out drilling in the Great Australian Bight rather than passing the buck to the regulator, Greens say.   “Pressure from ...

Greens call for urgent Australian Government action in the face of cultural genocide of Uighur people

16 July, 2019 - Following Four Corners last night, which showed families being torn apart by the Chinese Government’s mass incarceration of Uighurs and other Mu...

Greens call for urgent Australian Government action in the face of cultural genocide of Uighur people

16 July, 2019 - Following Four Corners last night, which showed families being torn apart by the Chinese Government’s mass incarceration of Uighurs and other Mu...

Government must work with residents as they undertake cladding crisis rectification works

16 July, 2019 - Leader of the Victorian Greens, Samantha Ratnam MLC, and Greens Member for Melbourne Adam Bandt MP have welcomed news that the Government will f...

TAYLOR WILL TRY AND AVOID CLIMATE ACTION FOREVER: GREENS

11 July, 2019 - Greens climate change and energy spokesperson and Acting Leader, Adam Bandt MP, today said that Angus Taylor’s apparent refusal to convene the C...