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Report shows the harm of income management, Government must listen and dump income management

8 December, 2017 - A new report by the University of Sydney that shows a link between income management and lower birthweights and school attendance must be car...

Driving change: seven projects funded to improve road safety

8 December, 2017 - Shane Rattenbury, MLA Seven community road safety projects will be funded this year by the ACT Road Safety Fund—among them, a community-desig...

It's time for a new kind of politics

7 December, 2017 - "It’s time for a new kind of politics," said Queensland Greens Senator Andrew Bartlett in his Maiden Speech yesterday.  "People have asked me...

Greens-backed petition for compensation for farmers affected by GM contamination pays off

7 December, 2017 - Greens Agriculture Spokesperson Diane Evers MLC has welcomed the agreement by a WA Parliamentary committee to conduct an inquiry into compens...

Bail support program provides more support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander detainees

7 December, 2017 - Shane Rattenbury, MLA The Government has partnered with the Aboriginal Legal Service to develop a two-year bail support program to address th...

Fact-checking fake news: ACT Greens call for Canberra ‘fact checking unit’ to inform public debate

7 December, 2017 - Caroline Le Couteur, MLA The ACT Greens today called on the Government to investigate establishing an ACT-specific fact-checking unit to supp...

Queensland Greens Claim Victory in Maiwar

7 December, 2017 - The Queensland Greens and Michael Berkman have declared victory in the seat of Maiwar marking the first time a Green has been elected to the ...

Have your say on the new Office for Mental Health

7 December, 2017 - Shane Rattenbury, MLA The Canberra community is invited to have its say on the establishment of the new Office for Mental Health. Minister fo...

Plans to forcibly take income support payments to cover rent flawed policy: Greens

6 December, 2017 - The Australian Greens will not support schedules in the Social Services Housing Affordability Bill that seek to give the Secretary of the Dep...

Turnbull rewards Barnaby Joyce’s bad behaviour

6 December, 2017 - Barnaby Joyce returning to the water ministry is devastating for Murray Darling Basin communities, downstream states, and the future of the M...

Greens oppose cashless welfare card expansion entirely, Labor should do the same 

6 December, 2017 - The Australian Greens oppose the Government’s bill to expand the cashless welfare card trials in its entirety, and have dissented from the Co...

Senate Inquiry reports that warming oceans are putting the Australian way of life at risk

6 December, 2017 - Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, provides the following comments on the release of the Senate inquiry repo...

Government will table games inquiry response, 586 days late, after pressure from the Greens

6 December, 2017 - The government has signalled today they will table their response to the future of Australian video games development industry inquiry by the...