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Greens move for House to decline ABCC bill in favour for broad-based anti-corruption watchdog

3 February, 2016 - Greens Industrial Relations spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today moved for the House of Representatives to decline the ABCC bill and instead supp...

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...

Senate backs Greens efforts to shed some light on Perth Freight Link

3 February, 2016 - On the same day the Senate voted to request the Auditor-General investigate the Perth Freight Link, the clock ran out on yet another delaying...

Government must order archaeological dig for artefacts in Beeliar Wetlands

3 February, 2016 - Greens South Metropolitan MLC Lynn MacLaren MLC says the Government should use the opportunity of delay arising from the court decision to in...

Greens push for 21st century vision for Australia's native forests

3 February, 2016 - Greens push for 21st century vision for Australia's native forests A year to the day that the first Regional Forest Agreement is due to expir...

Hodgman Bushfire “Review” Thought Bubble Not Good Enough

3 February, 2016 - Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman’s vague commitment to a review of his government’s response to the fires still burning in Tasmania is a totall...

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...

Greens Senate Inquiry into the exposure of Australians’ investments to the carbon bubble

2 February, 2016 - The Australian Greens have today established a Senate Inquiry into how transparently companies report their investments in fossil fuels and t...

Progress on implementing recommendations from the Senate Housing Inquiry

2 February, 2016 - The findings of the Senate Economics Committee Inquiry into Housing Affordability tabled in May 2015 contained 40 recommendations. The govern...

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...