Qld News & Media Releases

Labor’s aged care deal with Dutton deserves scrutiny

13 September, 2024 - The Greens say older people must be given the chance to properly scrutinise Labor’s aged care deal with the Coalition, and that they are co...

Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission established, with less transparency than hoped

12 September, 2024 - Today legislation to establish an Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission has finally passed the Senate, and will now commence on 1 ...

Labor dancing to Dutton’s tune on aged care

10 September, 2024 - The Greens say Labor is dancing to the Opposition’s tune on aged care with reports that the Coalition is putting the brakes on a deal for a...

Frontline services funding is welcome, but one in four women still not getting the help they need

6 September, 2024 - Today’s National Cabinet announcement brings total funding for the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children to $3.7 billion ...

Labor's reverse Robin Hood: Public schools bleeding money to private schools

6 September, 2024 - The Greens say Labor’s school funding plan is a ‘reverse Robin Hood’, bleeding public schools dry to give to wealthy private schools. New...

National Cabinet a test of government’s funding priorities

5 September, 2024 - Ahead of National Cabinet, the Greens are calling for full funding for frontline family and domestic violence services. Comments attribut...

Report should spell the end of compulsory income management

3 September, 2024 - The report from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights into compulsory income management has recommended the complete a...

Greens to force vote on LGBTIQA+ census inclusion unless PM commits to trans, intersex questions

30 August, 2024 - The Australian Greens have said they will force a vote on including LGBTIQA+ Australians in the 2026 census when Parliament returns if the Pri...

Pollution rises again under Labor, government report shows

30 August, 2024 - The latest quarterly emissions data shows that pollution has risen 2.5% from December to March, and is even higher than it was in the final da...

Labor betrays LGBTIQA+ people again over Census decision

25 August, 2024 - After years of promises and working groups, the Albanese Labor Government has quietly killed off the inclusion of questions on sexual orientat...

Parliamentary enforcement body will help Set the Standard

21 August, 2024 - The Greens welcome the belated introduction today of legislation to establish an Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission was introduced...

50 days of free labour, a bad deal for women

19 August, 2024 - On Equal Pay Day this year, women will have worked an extra 50 days, on average, to earn the same as men.  The current national gender...

Labor leaving older Australians in the dark on new Aged Care Act

16 August, 2024 - The Greens say Labor is keeping older Australians in the dark on its new Aged Care Act, with the community growing increasingly anxious about ...

It’s the underfunding, stupid

14 August, 2024 - The Greens say Labor’s new schools agreement would do nothing to reverse the decline in school performance, and would actually lock in underfu...

Another broken promise as Labor abandons LGBTIQA+ workers

13 August, 2024 - On Friday, the Prime Minister announced at a press conference that he was going to abandon religious discrimination reform after the Oppositio...