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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 ...

Synergy plan to make solar less viable

1 December, 2015 - Wednesday, 13 August Plans by Synergy to charge solar panel customers more to connect to the grid than others is unfair and unrealistic, acco...

Malcolm Turnbull: Pretender in Paris, but clean energy slasher at home

1 December, 2015 - Greens Energy spokesperson Adam Bandt MP said today that while Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has committed to double clean energy research ...

Senate motion to acknowledge World AIDS Day

1 December, 2015 - Notice of MotionMr PresidentWe give notice that, on the next day of sitting, we shall move - That the Senate-(1) Notes that:(a) 1 December 20...

Minister knew heritage committee reversed its Roe 8 decision

1 December, 2015 - Questions by Greens Member for South Metropolitan Lynn MacLaren MLC have confirmed that the Aboriginal Affairs Minister knew a committee that...

Marking the 54th Anniverary of the raising of the Morning Star flag

1 December, 2015 - The Australian Greens have moved a Senate motion marking the 54th Anniverary of the raising of the Morning Star flag - a day celebrated as th...

PM Turnbull must ditch attacks on ARENA & CEFC, double their budgets instead: Greens

1 December, 2015 - Responding to news that the Turnbull government has committed to double research & development investment on clean energy over the next five ...

Senator Simms details the rorts of the private for-profit VET sector

1 December, 2015 - The VET FEE-HELP system is broken. What was originally designed as a model to expand access to training for Australians has now become an unt...

Government denies justice to East Timor

1 December, 2015 - The government has blocked a proposed Senate vote on alleged Australian spying on Timor Leste, but the Greens have warned that the messy trut...

Australia's coal obsession threatens Australian workers and global climate efforts

1 December, 2015 - The Turnbull Government's obsession with coal undermines the global momentum in Paris, and threatens the health of Australian workers. "It wa...

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 ...

The ABC of #estimates

1 December, 2015 - The ABC is developing industry leading multimedia platforms. how are they attracting skilled staff to maintain that edge? And why isn't the g...

PM Turnbull must ditch attacks on ARENA & CEFC, double their budgets instead: Greens

1 December, 2015 - Responding to news that the Turnbull government has committed to double research & development investment on clean energy over the next five ...

Greens Slam Labor/ Liberal University Cuts

1 December, 2015 - The Greens have slammed the Government and Labor for banding together and exhuming Labor's 2013 higher education cuts, leaving students in t...

Citizenship changes will not make Australians safer

1 December, 2015 - The imminent passage of the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Allegiance to Australia) Bill 2015 will do nothing to protect Australians from ...