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Greens welcome Mao concerts cancellation

2 September, 2016 - The Australian Greens have congratulated activists in Sydney and Melbourne for their successful campaign to cancel concerts celebrating the ...

Debate on the Omnicuts Bill

2 September, 2016 - I think it is really important to understand what is going on here. What is going on here is that we have a piece of legislation that is goi...

Greens push to cut $2+ ATM fees now excessive credit card surcharges dead

2 September, 2016 - Following the death of excessive credit card surcharges from today onwards, Greens MP Adam Bandt today said the Greens will push to cut exce...

Greens Call for Caution and Scrutiny on War Crimes Changes

1 September, 2016 - The Labor and Liberal parties have yet again sidelined the parliament and the Australian people by quietly agreeing to changes to war crimes...

No #censusfail fines

1 September, 2016 - NOTICE OF MOTION                                                                                               1 September 2016 I give notic...

Senate tells Turnbull to rule out public funding for Adani

1 September, 2016 -   The Australian Senate today supported a Greens motion calling on the government to rule out any public funding for the Adani coal mine or ...

Order for Production of documents related to Perth Freight Link

1 September, 2016 - NOTICE OF MOTION                                                                          31 August 2016                                    ...

Perth Freight Link contract cancellation costs to be revealed

1 September, 2016 - The Turnbull Government has been ordered to reveal the financial penalties the Barnett Government has exposed WA taxpayers to, should the co...

Speech in Reply on Immigration and Section 18C

1 September, 2016 - Before I concluded my previous contribution on this, I was speaking about the fact that the government's so-called border protection regime ...

Our future, your say

1 September, 2016 - Susan Griffiths-Sussems Thank you to everyone who responded to our survey — we had responses from every state, with 486 coming from overseas...

Media Release: Labor and Liberals vote down immigration detention Royal Commission

31 August, 2016 - Labor and the Coalition have voted together to reject a Royal Commission into Australia's detention centres including Manus Island and Nauru. ...

Record whale numbers show why we must ‘Fight for the Bight’

31 August, 2016 - Astounding results from a Curtin University study, showing 172 southern right whales using the Great Australian Bight calving sanctuary in jus...

High Court delivers government body blow with oil & gas project decision

31 August, 2016 - Greens Employment & Industrial Relations spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today welcomed the High Court’s decision to rule against the government’s ...

We are falling behind the world on marriage equality

31 August, 2016 - Madam Deputy President, I also want to add my congratulations to your appointment. I think it is a wonderful thing to have another woman there...

Nuclear Weapons: Make Sure Australia is on the Right Side of History

31 August, 2016 - On 18 September 1985, just shy of 31 years ago, Senator Jo Vallentine stood and addressed the parliament for the first time. It is quite instr...