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Company logos don’t belong on our Great Barrier Reef

16 December, 2015 - The Australian Greens condemn the Liberal Government's plan to allow companies to brand the Great Barrier Reef. Senator Larissa Waters, Aust...

Ad-hoc aged care cuts hurt older Australians

16 December, 2015 - The Coalition's latest cuts to aged care programs are large, ad-hoc cuts, like the earlier Abbott budget cuts to social services. Aged care ...

Company logos don’t belong on our Great Barrier Reef

16 December, 2015 - 16/12/2015 The Australian Greens condemn the Liberal Government’s plan to allow companies to brand the Great Barrier Reef. Senator Lari...

Big Win for Community, Big Problems at EPA

16 December, 2015 - The huge win for the community campaign to stop the Roe 8 destruction of the Beeliar wetlands has highlighted dangerous inadequacies with th...

Ad-hoc aged care cuts hurt older Australians

16 December, 2015 - The Coalition's latest cuts to aged care programs are large, ad-hoc cuts, like the earlier Abbott budget cuts to social services. Aged care ...

Minister Meetings - Department of Communications and the Arts

15 December, 2015 - Senator LUDLAM: Senator Fifield; thank you. Who have you had time to meet with thus far since the portfolio changeover? Senator Fifield: I w...

Rhetoric about clean energy in Townsville needs to be backed up

15 December, 2015 - 15/12/2015 The Palaszczuk Government needs to back up its rhetoric about the merged Energex and Ergon business using clean energy techn...

Domestic violence and MYEFO

15 December, 2015 - Senator Larissa Waters, Australian Greens spokesperson for women, comments on domestic violence and the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook...

Qld budget review ignores economic reality to predict increase in coal royalties

15 December, 2015 - The Palaszczuk Government's budget review is deluded in predicting coal royalties will return to levels only seen at height of the mining bo...

MYEFO is the canary in the coal mine

15 December, 2015 - Greens Treasury spokesperson Adam Bandt MP says Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook is the canary in the coal mine, reinforcing the need to...

Most vulnerable still paying for budget repair

15 December, 2015 - It is very disappointing to see that the cruel and unfair budget measures are still on the Government's agenda.  Punitive measures that hurt...

Funding Support for the Australia Council

15 December, 2015 - Senator LUDLAM: Do you have a sense of the additional money that those companies are then able to generate throughout that investment? For e...

Environment, climate change and the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook

15 December, 2015 - Senator Larissa Waters, Australian Greens climate change and environment spokesperson, comments on the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook:...

Imported prawn slavery scandal shows Australia needs mandatory seafood labelling

15 December, 2015 - “Reports of slave labour sourced prawns being sold in Australian supermarkets is deeply disturbing and reinforces the need for better seafoo...

Further Delays in Gonski Disability Funding Not Good Enough

15 December, 2015 - More delays in disability support funding for schools are deeply disappointing, Greens Schools spokesperson Nick McKim says. “The Liberal Go...