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Albanese must address AAD uncertainty

2 August, 2023 - The Albanese Government must set the record straight and address rising fears about what science programs will be axed as a result of a $2...

Full funding for public schools now

2 August, 2023 - The Greens have welcomed the AEU’s new campaign for fully funded public schools and are calling on governments to stop gifting money to elite p...

ACT Gov invites input on same-day alcohol delivery laws

2 August, 2023 - ACT Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury has invited Canberrans to have their say on proposed reforms to the regulation of same day alcohol delive...

Greens introduce bill to expand presumptive cancer scheme for Victorian firefighters

2 August, 2023 - The Victorian Greens will today introduce a bill to expand the number of cancers covered by the state’s firefighters presumptive cancer scheme....

Greens Say Yes to Transparency but Where’s the Data Protection?

1 August, 2023 - The Greens welcome the Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media’s recommendations for a minimum set of enforceable transpa...

Shaping the electrification of Canberra

1 August, 2023 - The ACT Government is consulting on the Territory’s first Integrated Energy Plan, our pathway to electrification. Once completed, this plan ...

Great Barrier Reef decision no cause for celebration

1 August, 2023 - The Greens warn that despite the Great Barrier Reef’s one year reprieve from being declared “in danger”, the iconic marine ecosystem remains un...

Forest conflict - Newry State Forest logging under martial law

31 July, 2023 - The NSW Government’s Forestry Corporation has today started logging in Newry State Forest on the Mid-North Coast with a heavy police presence in...

Government can secure passage of their gas tax changes through the Senate Crossbench

31 July, 2023 - The Greens have offered to pass the Government’s gas tax changes through the Senate if the revenue from the changes is doubled by lowering the d...

Anti-corruption watchdog given more teeth under Greens' bill

31 July, 2023 - The Victorian Greens will tomorrow introduce a bill that would expand IBAC’s jurisdiction to investigate corruption, bringing it in line with ot...

Greens to introduce suite of amendments to improve Safety Net Bill, including raising Jobseeker to $88 a day

31 July, 2023 - Greens’ Social Services spokesperson, Senator Janet Rice, has slammed Peter Dutton’s policy of ripping money from the poorest Australians, and L...

ACT ranked second in Australia for tree protection and restoration

31 July, 2023 - Today, Minister for the Environment Rebecca Vassarotti has welcomed a report by the World Wildlife Fund showing that the ACT ranks second in Aus...

Victoria needs meaningful bail reform now, not in twelve months

31 July, 2023 - The Victorian Greens have said the Victorian Labor Government must implement meaningful bail reform now and not in twelve months’ time, as repor...

'Gambling ruining lives and ruining sport' says Senator Hanson-Young | ABC

29 July, 2023 - Responding to the latest gambling reform recommendations to ban advertising in three years, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is calling for the government to act faster. 

The climate crisis reaches boiling point the Premier of the Coal State’s silence is deafening

28 July, 2023 - The era of global boiling is here. Communities in the Northern Hemisphere are sweltering under unprecedented temperatures, sea surface temperatu...