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JobKeeper expansion still leaves millions of workers missing out

7 August, 2020 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt says today's announcement that the government will expand JobKeeper suggests lessons have not been learned from the fi...

Morrison & Andrews are failing to protect disabled people

7 August, 2020 - Friday 7th August 2020 Australian Greens Disability Rights and Services spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John said a failure to learn from th...

Planning Minister rams through planning decision despite years of community consultation: ACT Greens

7 August, 2020 - The ACT Greens have today expressed outrage and dismay at the ACT Planning Minister’s decision to again use his call-in powers to ram through a...

Mental health funding boost helping Canberra’s workers

7 August, 2020 - Local workplace mental health and wellbeing program provider OzHelp has received $100,000 as part of the ACT Government’s COVID-19 mental healt...

Pandemic Leave desperately needed with a quarter of South Aussie workers having no leave entitlement

6 August, 2020 - Greens Senator for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Young has called for South Australia to be included in the Federal Government’s Paid Pandemic L...

JobKeeper cuts will force up to 83,000 Victorians out of jobs

6 August, 2020 - The Australian Greens have released analysis of ABS data which shows 83,100 workers on JobKeeper in Victoria are casuals in industries now subj...

Statement on Parliament sittings

6 August, 2020 - I am pleased the Parliament will sit again. In a crisis we need more democracy, not less, and the Greens opposed the initial agreement between ...

Govt claims $10m for Fox Sports is a Covid Response Measure but no extra funding for ABC

6 August, 2020 - The Morrison Government’s $10million for Fox Sports to broadcast women’s and niche sports is part of its Covid Response Package, yet no extra f...

Federal Government must lift VIC childcare support & move to free childcare

6 August, 2020 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says a return to free childcare is needed in Victoria immediately and that the success of the initial COVID-19 child...

Paid pandemic leave desperately needed with 59,000 Tasmanians without leave entitlements

6 August, 2020 - Tasmanian Senator Peter Whish-Wilson has called for Tasmania to be included in the Federal Government's Paid Pandemic Leave scheme, with ABS da...

75th Anniversary of Hiroshima: Australia must sign UN Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

6 August, 2020 - Thursday 6th August 2020 Australian Greens Peace and Nuclear Disarmament spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John has called for Australian to s...

Leadership needed to protect most vulnerable from gaming harm: ACT Greens

6 August, 2020 - As the COVID pandemic continues to impact our community, the Greens have today again called on the ACT Government to deliver a series of modest...

2020 Election: ACT Greens release major Drug Law Reform package to help end war on drugs

6 August, 2020 - The ACT Greens will today unveil a commitment to substantially reform the way drug use and dependency is dealt with in the Territory. This e...

Australia needs to raise the minimum wage for women's economic security

5 August, 2020 - The Greens have welcomed the updated Economic Security for Women’s White Paper, and called on the government raise the minimum wage to address ...

Prohibited Items Bill

5 August, 2020 - The Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2020 is irredeemable and must be rejected by the Senate, t...