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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...

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...

$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 ...

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 ...

Mental Health Code of Practice falls short of meaningful change for FIFO workers

3 April, 2019 - Greens spokesperson for Mental Health Hon Alison Xamon MLC has said that the Code of Practice for the mental health of FIFO workers released tod...

Federal Budget a cynical mess: Greens

2 April, 2019 - This budget is a cynical attempt to buy votes instead of planning for the nation’s looming challenges. What we needed was a plan to tackle the c...

Lethal shark culling to end in Great Barrier Reef

2 April, 2019 - Healthy Oceans spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, today praised the order from the Administrative Appeals Tribunal which will see an end ...

Independence lost and this state's natural, cultural and built heritage will suffer

2 April, 2019 - The Liberal government has today indicated they intend to dissolve crucial independent offices including the Office of Environment and Heritage ...