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Future looks less bleak for VET sector

2 December, 2015 - The Greens joined with the Government, Labor and crossbenchers to support a raft of changes through the Senate that will help arrest the wors...

Senate puts ice on government’s ideological super attack

2 December, 2015 - Greens Treasury spokesperson Adam Bandt MP welcomed the crossbench Senators putting the ice on the government’s ideological attack on super t...

Refugee Rights Action Network Picnic

2 December, 2015 - RRAN (Refugee Rights Action Network) are hosting a picnic. Here is your chance to meet asylum seekers/refugees living in our community and a...

Family payment cuts are still poor policy

2 December, 2015 - Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has said today that it is extremely disappointing that the Government will attempt to ram through th...

The auto components industry is in crisis and we need to move fast

2 December, 2015 - The Australian Greens recognise that there are significant challenges facing the industries and the workforces of Australia's automotive manu...

Government must consider Change the Record report and Close the Gap on incarceration and violence

2 December, 2015 - Questions without Notice today have revealed the Government is still not planning to introduce Justice Targets despite evidence it could redu...

Senate supports inquiry into the indefinite detention of people with cognitive impairment

2 December, 2015 - Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has secured senate support for an inquiry that will investigate the indefinite detention and impriso...

Keep Radio Adelaide on air

2 December, 2015 - South Australian Senator Robert Simms calls on Adelaide University to secure the future of Radio Adelaide. Adelaide University are citing fin...

Australian Greens Senator responds to $1.8m in funding for NSW Custody Notification Service

2 December, 2015 - “Today I withdrew a motion in the Senate I have had on the notice paper for some weeks calling for the Government to provide full funding for...

Malcolm Turnbull's last chance to get kids out by Christmas

2 December, 2015 - Malcolm Turnbull has one last chance to get children out of detention by Christmas. Will he do the right thing and let them live, learn and p...

Election in Myanmar

2 December, 2015 - I travelled to Myanmar to observe the election

Anti-Uranium Mine Submission.

2 December, 2015 - There are two uranium mine proposals in the Goldfields open for public comment - Yeelirrie and the Wiluna extension. There's an online actio...

Government condemns patients to another Christmas as criminals

2 December, 2015 - The Greens say the Turnbull Government has failed to deliver legal access to medicinal cannabis to Australians who've been expecting it by th...

The community campaign to fight Roe 8

2 December, 2015 - The community campaign to fight the Roe 8 freeway has brought together an extraordinary coalition of residents, councils, aboriginal custodia...

Senate supports inquiry into aged care workforce as Australian population ages

1 December, 2015 - Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has secured senate support for an inquiry that will investigate the future of Australia’s aged care ...