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ACT Greens launch People Before Pokies and move to introduce immediate measures to curb pokies harm

11 May, 2017 - In launching the People Before Pokies campaign, ACT Greens leader Shane Rattenbury will today move a motion in the Legislative Assembly that will...

Barnett Government's privatisation agenda must be reversed

11 May, 2017 - Thursday, 11 May 2017 Last night, the WA Greens gave notice during the opening of the 40th Parliament they would introduce a bill to rescind the ...

Greens applaud long overdue apology

11 May, 2017 - The Queensland Greens have applauded the state government's apology to those convicted under unjust laws criminalising homosexual activity, along...

Education Department not able to properly plan for new schools and maintenance: Greens

11 May, 2017 - Victorian Greens education spokesperson Sue Pennicuik MP said today that a new Auditor General report has found that the Department for Education...

Wreckers move in on Greyhound Hotel after Planning Minister fails to deliver on heritage protection

11 May, 2017 - Southern Metropolitan Greens MP Sue Pennicuik said Mr Wynne “deserved to go down as the Minister for the Wrecking Ball” for refusing to protect t...

Buffett Tax, deficit levy and undoing top-end tax cuts a fairer way to raise revenue

11 May, 2017 - Greens Treasury spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, is calling on the Parliament to implement a Buffett Rule to make sure that executive fa...

Show support to Whyalla by committing to buy Australian steel

10 May, 2017 - The Australian Greens want the government to use Australian steel in the national infrastructure projects announced in the 2017 Budget and will m...

Single biggest cut in the budget is a brutal attack on young people

10 May, 2017 - Malcolm Turnbull has proven he has his priorities wrong if he thinks he can foster a clever country by cutting $3.8 billion from universities, wh...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues in the budget largely unaddressed: Greens

10 May, 2017 - The Treasurer might have vaguely mentioned Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues in his budget speech, but the detail doesn’t back up the ...

Back to the Future on Health Care

10 May, 2017 - This budget fails Australian patients, has zero vision for the future of the system and is a political fix, pure and simple. The Government’s pla...

Back to the Future on Health Care

10 May, 2017 - This budget fails Australian patients, has zero vision for the future of the system and is a political fix, pure and simple. The Government’s pla...

A Trumpian foreign policy budget

10 May, 2017 - The 2017 Turnbull budget betrays this government’s deeply cynical and clumsy approach to our region and the rest of the world, the Australian Gre...

Budget more proof the Liberals don’t care about women

10 May, 2017 - The Budget is another reminder that the Liberal party doesn’t care about women, says Australian Greens Deputy Leader and spokesperson for women, ...

Show support to Whyalla by committing to buy Australian steel

10 May, 2017 - The Australian Greens want the government to use Australian steel in the national infrastructure projects announced in the 2017 Budget and will m...

Collie families miss out on Federal cash

10 May, 2017 - The Liberals have screwed over the next generation of Collie by leaving out any funding for a transition plan towards clean energy in last night’...