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Senator Hanson, please stop your damaging remarks towards kids with autism in schools

23 June, 2017 - Senator Pauline Hanson doubling down on her comments that children with autism should be segregated in schools shows sheer stubbornness and an i...

Labor and Liberal vote down Senate motion on Okehampton Bay

22 June, 2017 - Greens spokesperson for Health Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson expresses his disappointment that both Labor and Liberal voted in the Senate t...

Labor’s Mark Butler says Adani is a bad idea, why won’t Palaszczuk listen?

22 June, 2017 - Federal Labor support for Adani’s deadly mega-coal mine is crumbling, so why aren’t Bill Shorten and Queensland Labor listening?, say the Austra...

Media diversity not media moguls

22 June, 2017 - The government is once again waving their hands and vaguely citing “the internet” as the both the cause of current Australian media woes, and th...

Media diversity not media moguls

22 June, 2017 - The government is once again waving their hands and vaguely citing “the internet” as the both the cause of current Australian media woes, and th...

Labor’s Mark Butler says Adani is a bad idea, why won’t Palaszczuk listen?

22 June, 2017 - Federal Labor support for Adani’s deadly mega-coal mine is crumbling, so why aren’t Bill Shorten and Queensland Labor listening?, say the Austra...

Labor and Liberal vote down Senate motion on Okehampton Bay

22 June, 2017 - Greens spokesperson for Health Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson expresses his disappointment that both Labor and Liberal voted in the Senate t...

10 years today since the NT intervention started, the Government must concede it has not worked

21 June, 2017 - It has been a decade today since the Howard Government started the Northern Territory Intervention, the Government should finally concede is it ...

No plan for how to grow aged care workforce to meet demand as the population ages, senate committee finds

21 June, 2017 - A Senate Committee report that investigated the issues facing the aged care sector in developing its workforce in the face of an ageing populati...

Senate committee recommends robo-debt be put on hold and drastically overhauled

21 June, 2017 - A Senate Committee report into the Government’s Centrelink Online Compliance Intervention (robo-debt) program has called for it to be put on hol...

Victorians issued over 33,000 robo-debt notices in less than a year

21 June, 2017 - A breakdown provided by the Department of Human Services to the Centrelink senate inquiry shows that over 33,000 Victorians have been issued wit...

Statement on sexual assault

21 June, 2017 - I re-emphasise the Greens Federal Party Room’s great concern about allegations of sexual assault involving a NSW Greens member, which has had fu...

Arms deals with Saudi Arabia, war and famine in Yemen

21 June, 2017 - Earlier today I brought to the Senate a resolution on Australian government sponsored arms deals to Saudi Arabia and on the war in Yemen, and I ...