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Australian couples left waiting for marriage equality - Greens urge Turnbull to get on with it

26 June, 2017 - Christopher Pyne’s comments about marriage equality over the weekend show just how impatient many members of the Coalition are for marriage equa...

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...

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...

Ban welcomed in greyhound racing industry transition

23 June, 2017 - In welcoming the government’s decision to ban greyhound racing in the ACT, the ACT Greens today call the government to focus on the welfare of d...

Greens attack Safe Schools funding cut

23 June, 2017 - The Queensland Greens say the state Labor Government has hog-tied schools into compromising children’s safety by refusing to maintain funding fo...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...