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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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Senator Rice to Australian Muslims: "I am, you are, we are all Australian"

21 June, 2017 - We are one, but we are many And from all the lands on earth we come. We share a dream and sing with one voice, "I am, you are, we are Australian...

GREENS READY TO BACK GOVERNMENT REINING IN ELECTRICITY NETWORKS

20 June, 2017 - Greens ready to back government reining in electricity networks The Australian Greens have said they are ready to back moves to start reining in...

An obscene global suicide pact

20 June, 2017 - The question is one of fundamental importance. I am not surprised that the Minister for Defence has been so slow to respond, because the answer ...

An obscene global suicide pact

20 June, 2017 - The question is one of fundamental importance. I am not surprised that the Minister for Defence has been so slow to respond, because the answer ...

Government and ALP vote down senate motion calling on cashless welfare card extension to be abandoned

19 June, 2017 - The Government, ALP and crossbench have voted down an Australian Greens senate motion calling for the cashless welfare card expansion to be aban...

Labor and the Coalition keep on taxing women for existing

19 June, 2017 - The GST on sanitary products is sexist and opportunistic and it’s shameful that today both Labor and the Coalition refused to abolish it,” says ...