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Funding fix needed to sustain national cultural institutions

18 January, 2023 - The Greens are calling for a long-term funding fix to sustain cultural institutions as part of the Albanese Government’s National Cultural Po...

Remembering the Canberra bushfires of 2003

18 January, 2023 - When four lives were lost in the Canberra bushfires of 18 January 2003, and almost 500 homes destroyed, our city changed forever. Almost 500 ...

Political sponsorship of Iranian actress, Katayoun Riahi

17 January, 2023 - Australian Greens Senator for South Australia Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is acting as a political sponsor for Iranian actress, Katayoun Riahi...

Matt Kean betrays NSW landowners with Hunter Gas Pipeline

17 January, 2023 - Late last week, NSW Treasurer and Minister for Energy Matt Kean signed an Authority to Survey (ATS) that gives enormous power to Santos’ Hunt...

Greens urge Labor to act on calls to raise Jobseeker in May’s budget

17 January, 2023 - Australian Greens spokesperson for social services, Senator Janet Rice, is again urging Minister Jim Chalmers to heed calls from the Greens, ...

Labor’s Pokies Plan Sets up Cashless Gambling Card for Failure: Greens

16 January, 2023 - By limiting a trial of a cashless gambling card to just 500 poker machines out of 86,000 machines in pubs and clubs across NSW, Labor has set...

Mental health support could curb police attrition rate

16 January, 2023 - A record number of WA police left the force, and retired, last year according to a dossier compiled by the WA Police Union. The Union clai...

Minister Ignores Reality of Intermediate Nuclear Waste

16 January, 2023 - Last week on Thursday, Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King visited the Kimba community to discuss her plan - mirroring the LNP's previo...

Demands for fresh coronial inquiry into the death of Mark Anthony Haines on the 35th anniversary of his passing

16 January, 2023 - The Greens have joined calls from family and community for a fresh coronial inquest into the mysterious death of 17-year-old Aboriginal boy M...

Senator Sponsors Two Iranians On Death Row

13 January, 2023 - Australian Greens Senator Barbara Pocock has announced her sponsorship of two Iranian prisoners recently sentenced to death after they partic...

Santos’ sponsorship of Tour Down Under is unwelcome

13 January, 2023 - One of South Australia’s biggest tourism and sporting events, the Tour Down Under, begins today. Santos, a major fossil fuel company and c...

Greens NSW statement regarding the NSW Liberal Premier wearing a Nazi uniform

13 January, 2023 - Jenny Leong MP, Member for Newtown and Greens anti-racism spokesperson and lead Upper House candidate Cate Faehrmann MLC have issued the foll...

The Kimberley needs all funding supports to build back stronger

11 January, 2023 - This week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese toured the flood ravaged Kimberley region with the Minister for Emergency Management, Senator Murr...

Next Gen Energy Storage reaches program target

11 January, 2023 - The ACT Government’s Next Generation Energy Storage (Next Gen) program will draw to a close, having reached its target of 5,000 batteries in ...

Greens candidate for Heathcote: ‘We need urgent action now on our climate crisis’

11 January, 2023 - Launching his campaign for the 2023 NSW election, Greens Candidate for Heathcote Cooper Riach, has called for urgent action on climate change...