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Joint committee of animal extinction inquiry recommends new environment laws and a new EPA

4 April, 2019 - The interim report from the Senate inquiry into Australia’s animal extinction crisis recommends new environment laws to limit the drivers of ext...

Greens urge Foreign Minister to act on Brunei’s new laws targeting LGBTQ+ people

4 April, 2019 - The Australian Greens have written to the Foreign Minister Marise Payne to express deep concern over Brunei’s new laws that punish homosexual se...

Culture, not wars: Old parties turn blind eye to weapons manufacturers funding our national institutions

4 April, 2019 - The major parties today voiced no opposition to major weapons manufacturers funding our national institutions. “Today the Greens spoke agains...

Government has little grasp on extent of hate crime in WA: Greens

4 April, 2019 -  Media Release: 4 April 2019   Greens spokesperson for Multicultural Affairs, Sexuality and Gender Diversity Hon Alison Xamon ML...

Reduction in reoffending impossible without youth justice reform: Greens

4 April, 2019 -  Media Release: Thursday 4 April 2019   Hon Alison Xamon MLC, Greens spokesperson for Corrective Services, has last in Parliamen...

$245.7m for school chaplains puts LGBTIQ+ students in danger, say Greens

3 April, 2019 - The Morrison government putting $245.7 million into religious chaplains in secular, public schools over the next four years puts LGBTIQ+ student...

Christmas Island reopening a cynical waste

3 April, 2019 - The Liberals spending $185m to reopen and then close Christmas Island is rank cynicism and deeply wasteful, Greens Immigration spokesperson Nick...

Greens Give Morrison Budget an 'F' on School Funding

3 April, 2019 - Australian Greens Senator for NSW and Spokesperson for Education, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has given the Federal Budget an F on school funding and has...

$400k in Budget for national EV strategy a joke, say Greens

3 April, 2019 - The Morrison government’s $400,000 allocation for a national electric vehicle strategy in the Budget is an absolute joke, especially when they h...

Budget infrastructure spending shows a complete lack of vision and porkbarrelling, say Greens

3 April, 2019 -  The Morrison’s government’s infrastructure spending demonstrates a complete lack of vision and pre-election porkbarrelling to save the skin of ...

ABC will continue to lose out under Liberals

3 April, 2019 - Scott Morrison’s pre-election budget has confirmed cuts to the ABC will continue under the Liberals, the Greens say.   “This is a government tha...

SA on a road to nowhere under Liberals

3 April, 2019 - South Australians have been left high and dry under Scott Morrison’s pre-election budget.   “With no marginal seats to throw cash at, South Aust...

Greens: Election Budget Won't Impress Canberrans

3 April, 2019 - The Election Budget delivered by the Morrison Government last night will do nothing to impress Canberrans crying out for action on climate chang...

It's official - Environment & Local Government Ministers stripped of all power

3 April, 2019 - The Berejiklian government has official stripped Ministers for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government of all their responsibilities to m...

Inspector characterises Hakea prison as “overcrowded, over-stretched and over-stressed

3 April, 2019 -  Media Release: Tuesday 2 April 2019   Greens spokesperson for Corrective Services Hon Alison Xamon MLC has today called on the ...