Qld News & Media Releases

Employment services “punishment without trial” is back

5 August, 2026 - The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) has quietly announced they will resume some payment cancellations and suspensions f...

Australian Greens thank outgoing ACTU leaders for their service to working people

28 July, 2026 - The Australian Greens thank Sally McManus and Michele O’Neil for their years of leadership and unwavering commitment to improving the lives of w...

New NT child safety laws ignore expert warnings, fail vulnerable children

22 July, 2026 - The Australian Greens say the Northern Territory Government pushed through child protection reforms that will do nothing to keep children safer....

Labor’s failed aged care reforms cop another whack from the Senate

2 July, 2026 - The Senate this morning passed a bill to reinstate human override in aged care assessments, handing Labor another humiliation over its disastrous...

Reckless Labor risks lives as aged care reforms unravel

24 June, 2026 - A Greens-chaired Senate inquiry has slammed the government’s plan to terminate a critical feature of Australia’s aged care system, in yet anothe...

The Greens reject Hanson's tired islamophobia, racism, transphobia and protection racket for fossil fuel

17 June, 2026 - Responding to Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club address, Leader of the Australian Greens Larissa Waters said: “Pauline Hanson’s incoheren...

Small steps forward, but not the funding needed to meet FDSV demand

13 May, 2026 - Despite clear calls from the family, sexual and domestic violence sector that current funding is failing to meet demand, there were no significan...

Waiting to die: aged care wait times blow out under Labor’s rationing regime

13 May, 2026 - Labor’s brutal aged care regime has seen average wait times for home support and residential care blow out, as the effects of rationing begin to ...

Labor’s budget backs corporate profits & the 1% over people

12 May, 2026 - In their first budget of the term, Labor has chosen corporate profits over people, by delivering real cuts to services while allowing corporate p...

Australian Greens statement on Kumanjayi Little Baby

1 May, 2026 - Our hearts ache for the family of Kumanjayi Little Baby and their community. The pain and grief being felt in Mparntwe Alice Springs and across th...