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Governments must do more to end harmful LGBT+ conversion attempts: Greens

15 October, 2018 - Following the release of the report into LGBT+ conversion attempts by La Trobe University, the Human Rights Law Centre and Gay and Lesbian He...

Greens put fresh roadblock in way of Adani

15 October, 2018 - Today a Greens motion passed the Senate demanding that the Government stop Adani’s pipeline application from being assessed until the federal...

Senate must work together to clear the air on ABC interference

15 October, 2018 - The cloud that hangs over the independence of the ABC has come no closer to being cleared following the release of the Government’s departmen...

NSW Coalition agreement with pokies clubs shows gambling vested interests in control in NSW

14 October, 2018 - The Greens NSW have slammed today's announcement that the NSW Coalition have signed a new pre-election agreement with Clubs NSW that will loc...

More turn up and go services for trains and trams under Greens' plan

13 October, 2018 - The Victorian Greens have announced a plan to deliver turn up and go services every 10 minutes between 6am and 9pm, seven days a week, on Mel...

Greens express deep concern over Baha'i persecution in Yemen

12 October, 2018 - Greens Leader Senator Richard Di Natale expressed his deep concern at news that 24 Yemenis of the Baha’i faith, including a child, continue t...

IPCC Report shows it's time to get real and drop magical thinking about 'clean' coal

12 October, 2018 - The IPCC special report released this week noted that solar and wind energy and electricity storage technologies had advanced "dramatically",...

Leigh Creek UCG project must be stopped

11 October, 2018 - The Australian Greens are calling on urgent Federal Government intervention into the Leigh Creek Energy underground coal gasification project...

Humanitarian crisis on Nauru

11 October, 2018 - Medecins Sans Frontiers' revelations about the conditions of the people Australia is detaining on Nauru have laid bare the truly despearte si...

ROYAL COMMISSION: Priority should be to get young people OUT of aged care, not build new facilities

10 October, 2018 - Wednesday, 10 October 2018 The Australian Greens have branded an announcement the WA Government will spend $90 million on a new aged care pre...

Ruddock review recommendations disastrous for LGBTIQ+ Australians: Greens

10 October, 2018 - The Ruddock review recommendations to allow religious schools to expel LGBTIQ+ students and fire LGBTIQ+ teachers would be disastrous, say th...

One way or the other, this Government is lying about Ruddock Review: Greens

10 October, 2018 - Following the leak of the Ruddock Review into Religious Freedom, Prime Minister Scott Morrison told journalists this morning that "this has n...

Schools that Discriminate Don’t Deserve A Cent of Public Money

10 October, 2018 - Australian Greens Spokesperson for Education, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has said that the Ruddock Review into Religious Freedom’s recommendatio...