6 December, 2016 - Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has welcomed reaffirmed calls by KPMG for a significant increase to Newstart of $50 a week in its re...
5 December, 2016 - Targeting university students and increasing their debt is not the answer to the long term sustainability of Australia’s higher education sec...
5 December, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, will be attending the white-collar crime Senate Inquiry hearing tomorrow in Melbour...
5 December, 2016 - The Senate has given recognition to the importance of the Australian arts industry and community by supporting greater representation to arti...
5 December, 2016 - Labor’s refusal to reduce the amount of money going to overfunded private schools and reinvest it into the public schools that need it most ...
5 December, 2016 - The Greens have called on the federal government to scrap the proposal to move the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, ...
4 December, 2016 - Emma Davidson
The rising tide of Australians impacted by housing affordability issues has become impossible to ignore. Everyone has heard abo...
3 December, 2016 - The Turnbull government has reportedly given "conditional approval" for a $1 billion loan of public money to build the railway for the Reef-d...
3 December, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson today met with the Sea Shepherd crew in Hobart before they leave to search...
3 December, 2016 - Interfering with a decision by the City of Fremantle to move Australia Day celebrations is significant overreach by the Turnbull Government a...
3 December, 2016 - Today Greens Senators for Tasmania Peter Whish-Wilson and Nick McKim were thanked by representatives of the Tasmanian agricultural community ...
2 December, 2016 - This political grandstanding from Labor tonight is sour grapes because we have been able to deliver an outcome that they are jealous of and t...
2 December, 2016 - Senator RICE: I move:
(a) notes that:
(i) Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) have been in place as 20-year agreements, designed to manage t...
2 December, 2016 - As the Australian Greens Whip I give a regular insight into what’s happening in Parliament with the top pieces of legislation, amendments, mo...
2 December, 2016 - I rise today to speak to the Register of Foreign Ownership of Agricultural Land Amendment (Water) Bill 2016. The bill before us today would ...
