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Senate rebukes broken Centrelink with motion support

3 February, 2016 - The Senate has today rebuked the Government and supported a Greens initiated motion, calling on them to address mounting frustrations over ac...

Planned burns not the answer

3 February, 2016 - In supporting this motion we express our sympathies to everyone who has lost lives, homes, property and livestock to fires this summer. We al...

Book launch 'From Hell to Hell' by S. Nagaveeran.

3 February, 2016 -  This February the Refugee Rights Action Network WA (RRAN) and  Writing Through Fences will be co-hosting the Perth book launch of Ravi's fir...

The Auditor General should investigate the Commonwealth funding approvals for the Perth Freight Link

3 February, 2016 -   NOTICE OF MOTION                                                                          2 February 2016                                  ...

Qld Labor approves Southern Hemisphere’s largest coal mine to cook the Reef and the planet

3 February, 2016 - The Queensland Labor Government's approval of the Adani Carmichael mine is a climate pollution disaster, which threatens our Great Barrier Re...

Centrelink concerns read into the Senate after hundreds of complaints

3 February, 2016 - Awful Centrelink accounts have been read into the Senate after 88 pages of complaints were posted to Senator Rachel Siewert’s Facebook page l...

Questions on Notice about the Perth Freight Link

3 February, 2016 - Senator LUDLAM:  I move: That the Senate take note of the minister's response. I acknowledge the minister's response, sketchy though it might...

PBO report shows Treasurer’s pigheadedness will blow out deficit by $45 billion

3 February, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson Adam Bandt MP said that a Parliamentary Budget Office report released today on the government’s unlegislated Bud...

Sending children to Nauru would be child abuse on the PM’s watch

3 February, 2016 - Following today's High Court's decision on offshore detention on Nauru, the Australian Greens have called on the Prime Minister to rule out s...

Trucks Off all Local Streets, Premier

3 February, 2016 - The Inner West community has launched its list of demands of the Andrews Government, in response to the Western Distributor Business Case rel...

Auditor General report into DSP eligibility must be taken seriously: Greens

2 February, 2016 -  A report by the Auditor General that raises concerns about sharpening the eligibility for the Disability Support Pension (DSP) should be tak...

Liberal Govt’s global warming policy ineffective and unfunded

2 February, 2016 - 02/02/2016 Reports today confirm the Liberal Government’s global warming policy is a sham and that there’s no long-term funding budgeted...

Greens to Turnbull: End this plebiscite farce

2 February, 2016 - The Australian Greens are calling on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to abandon his predecessor's costly marriage equality plebiscite and gra...

Greens reject government’s ridiculous TURC secret volume offer

2 February, 2016 - Greens Industrial Relations spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today said the Greens Party Room has rejected the government’s last minute offer for o...

Data Breach Legislation - where is it George?

2 February, 2016 - In the midst of the shambolic mandatory data retention debate, the government assured everyone that they would legislate a mandatory data bre...