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Government must heed think tank’s calls for more public transport: Greens

30 November, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Transport Lynn MacLaren MLC has today welcomed the City of Perth’s Get a Move On report, which calls for greater inv...

Parliamentary Inquiry dissenting report rejects TPP

30 November, 2016 - The Australian Greens’ dissenting report to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties inquiry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (T...

A plan to save the Reef that ignores global warming is meaningless

30 November, 2016 - The Australian Greens say any plan to save the Great Barrier Reef that ignores global warming is meaningless “The government’s draft respons...

Dutton's push for White Australia Policy Mark II

30 November, 2016 - Immigration Minister Peter Dutton's proposed visa changes are deeply xenophobic and a continuation of his attack on multiculturalism in Aust...

People are sick, time to put patients first - Senate committee offers recommendations for next steps

30 November, 2016 - The Community Affairs References Committee has completed its national senate inquiry into Lyme-like illness in Australia, and has tabled rec...

Greens pressure helps deliver much needed inquiry into tax and royalty evasion in fossil fuel Industry

30 November, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson welcomes the announcement of a government review into potential rorting of the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax and ...

Brandis to face Senate inquiry over WA deal

29 November, 2016 - The Senate has voted to establish an inquiry that will investigate the deal between the Western Australian government and the Commonwealth r...

Senate committee tables report on the indefinite detention of people with cognitive impairment in Australia

29 November, 2016 - The Community Affairs References Committee has tabled its report into the indefinite detention of people with cognitive and psychiatric impa...

ABCC won't improve productivity, just attack working Australians

29 November, 2016 - I rise to speak on the Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Bill 2013. I comment first on the name of the bill—'impro...

Senate to look into marriage equality bill

29 November, 2016 - The Greens will join Labor and the crossbench to create a Senate inquiry on marriage equality and the Coalition government’s draft bill to a...

Xenophon sells SA short in water negotiations

29 November, 2016 - The Nick Xenophon Team cannot be trusted to stand up for South Australia, the Australian Greens have said, after it was revealed that Senato...

Time to give fracking the boot

29 November, 2016 - Today’s report from the Parliamentary Natural Resources Committee into fracking for gas in the South East confirms what the Greens have know...

Greens stand with 30,000 who oppose proposed levy for Uber users

29 November, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Transport Lynn MacLaren MLC has today urged the Government to scrap a levy it plans to impose upon all point to poin...