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Omnicuts short change ARENA and Australia’s most vulnerable

13 September, 2016 - Australian Greens Leader Senator Di Natale, Spokesperson for Community Services Senator Siewert and Spokesperson for Energy and Climate Cha...

South Australia hit hard as Labor/Liberal gut ARENA

13 September, 2016 - Ripping half a billion dollars from funding for renewable energy project will hit South Australian jobs and the state's renewables sector h...

Senate tells Joyce to think again on cost-benefit analysis for pesticides agency move

13 September, 2016 - Senate tells Joyce to think again on cost-benefit analysis for pesticides agency move A Greens motion has passed the Senate that gives Agri...

Queensland hit hard as Labor/Liberal gut ARENA clean energy grants

13 September, 2016 - Ripping more than half a billion dollars from funding for clean energy projects will hit Queensland  jobs and the state’s renewables sector...

Statement on the marriage plebiscite

13 September, 2016 - "I said I would wait to see the government's proposal and, now that I have, I won't be supporting it," Senator Hanson-Young said. "This isn...

Greens support Triple J moving date of Hottest 100

13 September, 2016 - With calls becoming louder every year to respect those for whom January 26 represents a tragedy, not a celebration, the Greens strongly sup...

Census

13 September, 2016 - Senator LUDLAM I, and also on behalf of Senators Lambie and Xenophon, move: That the Senate— (a) notes:    (i) the technical failures of th...

Omnicuts short change ARENA and Australia’s most vulnerable

13 September, 2016 - Australian Greens Leader Senator Di Natale, Spokesperson for Community Services Senator Siewert and Spokesperson for Energy and Climate Cha...

We need assisted dying as well as proper advance care directive laws

13 September, 2016 - Victorian Greens health spokesperson Colleen Hartland welcomes the Government’s critical improvements to advance care planning but says the...

Changing what's possible

13 September, 2016 - Tim Hollo In many years working at Parliament, I used to get immensely frustrated when people told me “politics is the art of the possible”...

Yet again Liberals keep Roe 8 details hidden: Greens

12 September, 2016 - WA taxpayers may not know the true cost of cancelling contracts into Roe 8 until it's too late, after the Turnbull government again refused...

Potential faulty equipment should delay Bight drilling approval

12 September, 2016 - South Australian Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is calling for a delay in the approval process for BP drilling in the Great Australian B...

Media Release: Senate Inquiry established into abuse in Australia’s detention centres

12 September, 2016 - The Greens and Labor have co-sponsored a motion to establish a Senate inquiry into the allegations of abuse and self-harm on Manus Island a...

Cuts to Newstart, renewables the first test for Labor's new Tasmanian MPs

12 September, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, is calling on Labor’s new Tasmanian MPs Ross Hart, Brian Mitchell and Justine Kea...

Crossbench unite with the Greens against Government’s cruel cuts

12 September, 2016 - Australian Greens Leader Senator Di Natale and Spokesperson for Community Services Senator Siewert have spoken out against the cruel cuts i...