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We need assisted dying as well as proper advance care directive laws

13 September, 2016 - Victorian Greens health spokesperson Colleen Hartland welcomes the Government’s critical improvements to advance care planning but says the...

The government has fallen in line with industry spin on Regional Forest Agreements

13 September, 2016 - I also rise to speak to the motion that the Senate take note of the Australian and Tasmanian Government Response to the Review of the Imple...

Greens to protect renewable energy jobs in WA

13 September, 2016 - Renewable energy projects in Western Australia will cease to exist without continued funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (A...

The staggering financial cost of Australia’s inhumanity

13 September, 2016 - A report from the Australian National Audit Office has revealed that it costs $573,000 per person per year to keep people in offshore deten...

Greens support Triple J moving date of Hottest 100

13 September, 2016 - With calls becoming louder every year to respect those for whom January 26 represents a tragedy, not a celebration, the Greens strongly sup...

Turnbull caves in on plebiscite funding

13 September, 2016 - Turnbull caves in on plebiscite funding The Greens have urged Labor to fully commit to block any marriage equality plebiscite, after Cabine...

Omnicuts short change ARENA and Australia’s most vulnerable

13 September, 2016 - Australian Greens Leader Senator Di Natale, Spokesperson for Community Services Senator Siewert and Spokesperson for Energy and Climate Cha...

Transparency, accountability and responsibilities of our rural research and development corporations

13 September, 2016 - I rise today to speak to the Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Amendment Bill 2016. I am pleased to say that this is the fir...

Abrupt announcement of Macquarie Island station closure is worrying

13 September, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson says that the last-minute-to-midnight decision to close of the Macquarie...

Labor joins Government to squash ACFI referral

13 September, 2016 -   “It is disappointing that Labor has voted with Government to stop cuts to the Aged Care Funding Instrument being referred to the Communit...

Donations to Political Parties

13 September, 2016 - Senator DI NATALE I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Special Minister of State (Senator Ryan) to a question witho...

Changing what's possible

13 September, 2016 - Tim Hollo In many years working at Parliament, I used to get immensely frustrated when people told me “politics is the art of the possible”...

Greens condemn Government’s response to Tasmanian RFA Review

12 September, 2016 - The Government’s response to the Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement is an endorsement of the industry’s unsustainability and unviability, ...

Crossbench unite with the Greens against Government’s cruel cuts

12 September, 2016 - Australian Greens Leader Senator Di Natale and Spokesperson for Community Services Senator Siewert have spoken out against the cruel cuts i...

Correspondence relating to the Perth Freight Link

12 September, 2016 - Senator Ludlam To move That there be laid on the table no later than 10 am on Thursday 15th September 2016 by the Minister for Finance, the...