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Renters take to street to demand greater protection from rent hikes

11 November, 2023 - Victorian renters fed up with Labor turning their backs on their rights will gather today at a rally organised by the Greens, the Renters an...

Wide Support for Cannabis Legalisation in Senate Submissions

10 November, 2023 - There is strong support from more than a dozen key stakeholders across the country for the Greens plan to legalise cannabis. The support com...

Guarantees needed in Murray-Darling Basin Plan

10 November, 2023 - Responding to the release of the Senate inquiry report into the Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023, Senator Hanson-Young, Gree...

Greens to stand up for workers against Labor's harsh WorkCover changes

10 November, 2023 - The Victorian Greens will vote against Labor’s WorkCover changes that will see injured workers denied support or kicked off the scheme. V...

Report for the Inquiry of Disability Services and Inclusion Bill tabled. 

9 November, 2023 - The Community Affairs References Committee has today tabled a report on the inquiry into the Disability Services and Inclusion Bill. Th...

Senator Mehreen Faruqi’s statement on Senator Pauline Hanson

9 November, 2023 - “The Senate has rightly forced Senator Hanson to withdraw her unacceptable racist comments and held her to account for once. “This should ...

Greens win Optus Inquiry with public hearings, Senate powers

9 November, 2023 - The Greens have secured a public-facing Senate Inquiry into the significant Optus outage that affected millions on November 8. The Inquiry wi...

Greens welcome High Court’s rejection of indefinite detention

9 November, 2023 - The Greens celebrate the High Court's landmark ruling against indefinite immigration detention, dismantling a two-decade-long bipartisan regi...

Click Bait Bites Back - Correctional Centre Chaos as Inmate Crimes Revealed through access to Daily Telegraph

9 November, 2023 - Budget Estimates hearings have yesterday revealed that for a two-week period inmates in NSW prisons were provided access to the Daily Telegra...

Latest sniffer dogs data more proof the program must be scrapped

9 November, 2023 - NSW Greens MP and drug law reform spokesperson Cate Faehrmann has renewed calls to scrap the expensive drug detection dog program after uncov...

MEDIA RELEASE: Unlawful use of private security harming sleeping homeless people in Darwin

8 November, 2023 - MEDIA RELEASE: Unlawful use of private security harming sleeping homeless people in Darwin Over the last week we have seen devastating foo...

School refusal affects two in five families: survey

8 November, 2023 - The Greens say new polling showing that two in five families are experiencing school refusal/school can’t reinforces the need for urgent acti...

Kathleen Folbigg Inquiry Final Report Handed Down

8 November, 2023 - The final report from the Inquiry into the Convictions of Kathleen Folbigg has today been handed down, almost six months after she was pardon...

Greens move for Optus outage Senate Inquiry with CEO “phoning it in”

8 November, 2023 - The Greens have moved for an urgent Senate Inquiry into the Optus outage affecting millions of Australians, saying the company has failed to ...

Labor abandons environmental agenda in favour for Sea Dumping Bill

8 November, 2023 - The Greens condemn Labor for abandoning its environmental agenda and prioritising the Sea Dumping Amendment Bill – legislation specifically d...