Qld News & Media Releases

Dunce-cap Dutton’s plan ripped straight from Trump’s Project 2025

2 April, 2025 - The Greens say Peter Dutton’s threats to withhold money from public education if teachers don’t deliver his fantasy right-wing curriculum is an ...

Greens slam Dutton’s Trump-style program of curriculum interference and education cuts

1 April, 2025 - The Greens have slammed Peter Dutton’s plan to withhold public school funding and cut ‘thousands’ of jobs in the Commonwealth Department of Educ...

POLICY LAUNCH: Greens continue support for Yellow Crazy Ant Eradication Program

31 March, 2025 - The Greens today unveil an election commitment to continue the Yellow Crazy Ant Eradication Program ensuring the long-term protection of the We...

Passage of Labor’s workplace gender equality targets bill is a small win for working women

27 March, 2025 - The Greens welcome the passage of the Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Setting Gender Equality Targets) Bill 2024, but it could have done m...

Dutton Government risks Trump-style gutting of public schools

27 March, 2025 - The Greens say a Dutton Government would result in cuts to public schools, a wound back Department of Education, and a Minister fixated on moul...

Cowardly Labor leaves more than 3 million in poverty

26 March, 2025 - More than 3 million Australians are still in poverty today, after Labor’s do-nothing budget left income support below the poverty line for the ...

Frontline services still not fully funded in last night’s budget

26 March, 2025 - Despite 9 women already killed by violence in Australia this year according to the Counting Dead Women Australia researchers of Destroy The Joi...

Brisbane locals say no to a major stadium at Victoria Park/Barrambin

25 March, 2025 - Media leaks today reveal that the Queensland LNP Government has ignored many of the recommendations of their supposedly independent venues revi...

Greens offer full support for workers and unions with the introduction of paid reproductive health leave bill

25 March, 2025 - As Dutton declares his intention to make life harder for workers the Greens are doubling down on supporting workers rights with a groundbreakin...

Queensland public school deal locks in underfunding for another decade

24 March, 2025 - Federal Labor’s school funding agreement today with the Queensland Government guarantees that another generation of public school kids will nev...

Murray Watt missing in action on mutual obligations disaster

21 March, 2025 - The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations’ extraordinary admission today that more elements of mutual obligations have been pau...

Labor’s welfare payment claims are a cruel joke

20 March, 2025 - The Greens say Labor’s claim that today’s 22 cents a day indexation of JobSeeker will help with cost-of-living pressures is an insult to the hu...

Greens welcome national conversation on disadvantage in schools

5 March, 2025 - The Greens have welcomed comments by former secretary of the federal Department of Education, Dr Michele Bruniges, examining disadvantage in Aus...

Act now to close the gender pay gap

4 March, 2025 - Today, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s (WGEA) latest data reveals that Australian women earn an average of $28,425 less per year than men...

Minister must suspend broken Targeted Compliance Framework immediately

28 February, 2025 - The Greens have called on Employment Relations Minister Murray Watt to immediately suspend the Targeted Compliance Framework (TCF) after Gre...