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Free Higher Education Essential for Jobs of the Future

24 January, 2019 - Australian Greens Senator for NSW and Education Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has said free higher education is the key to ensuring e...

Greens: Waterloo redevelopment plans need a radical rethink

23 January, 2019 - Today’s announcement by the NSW Minister for Social Housing, Pru Goward on the plans for the redevelopment of the Waterloo housing estate rep...

David Littleproud has missed the boat on the MDB crisis

22 January, 2019 - The Liberal National Government must stand up to greedy corporate irrigators and the cotton industry by stopping them from taking more than t...

Hands off our environmental laws, Greens tell Mining lobby

22 January, 2019 - The Liberal National Government must reject the advice of the self-serving Mining Lobby pushing for changes to the Environmental Protection a...

Procuring a Better Environment

22 January, 2019 - The Greens have urged the new SA Productivity Commission to recommend that the State Government uses its multi-billion dollar spending budget...

Labor’s failure on public housing

22 January, 2019 - The Productivity Commission figures on housing released today should be a wake-up call for the Andrews government.   The Victorian Gr...

Greens call on Shorten to commit to scrapping the cashless debit card

21 January, 2019 - The Greens are calling on opposition leader Bill Shorten to commit to abolishing the cashless debit card, should they win Government this yea...

Why the status quo is incompatible with progressive economics

19 January, 2019 - The Greens have faced criticism over the years for not being ‘economically credible’. But as NSW MLC candidate Abigail Boyd explains in this ...

Senator & Water Engineer Faruqi Visited Menindee Lakes & Broken Hill

18 January, 2019 - Australian Greens Senator for NSW and water engineer, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has visited the Menindee Lakes and Broken Hill to meet with locals a...

This is a climate emergency, and Canberra can lead emergency action

18 January, 2019 - The record-breaking heatwave that Canberrans struggled through this week is only the latest sign that we are headed into a climate emergency,...

Greens Committed to Funding Injection for Roads in Northern Rivers

18 January, 2019 - Greens State Member for Ballina Tamara Smith and Greens Candidate for Lismore Sue Higginson are committing to needs-based funding for roads a...

A year of hope and change

18 January, 2019 - 2019 is shaping up to be a huge year – and we’re going to need all the energy we can gather and more if we‘re going to make it the turning po...

The good, the bad and the ugly of climate change in 2018

18 January, 2019 - As the planet relentlessly warms, action to address it is also heating up.  But while other parties are quickly adopting the cause, the ...