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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...

Australian Greens welcome children’s television creators to #SaveKidsTV campaign

11 May, 2017 - The Australian Greens are proud to stand with children’s television producers from around the country in fighting to maintain, and strengthen, lo...

Extraordinary Labor split puts Great Australian Bight Marine Park at risk

11 May, 2017 - A Senate inquiry into the plans of companies like BP and Chevron to drill for oil in South Australia’s Great Australian Bight Marine Park has pro...

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...

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...

The Greens have a plan to stop Adani from getting a billion dollar handout

10 May, 2017 - In this sitting week of Parliament the Greens will introduce a bill to stop $1 billion in public money going to Adani to prop up their dirty mega...

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...