Qld News & Media Releases

Albanese caves to gambling lobby to cut dirty deal with Liberals

18 August, 2026 - The Australian Greens have called Labor captured and the Liberals weak for their dirty deal on cowardly and careless gambling reform.The Green...

Labor humiliation: Senate votes to scrap automated aged care assessments

18 August, 2026 - In another embarrassing defeat for Labor’s unravelling aged care reforms, the Senate has this afternoon backed a Greens motion demanding that ...

Greens Call on Labor to scrap broken aged care assessment tool following damning Four Corners report

17 August, 2026 - The Australian Greens have demanded that Labor go back to the drawing board on aged care assessments after a damning Four Corners investigatio...

No public funds without a public stake: Greens demand that Australians get a share of Tomago Aluminium

13 August, 2026 - The Australian Greens are demanding that Australians get a stake in the country’s largest aluminium smelter after the Labor federal and state ...

Greens call on Women’s Safety Ministers to commit $4.6B to tackle housing crisis

7 August, 2026 - Ahead of the Women’s Safety Ministers Council meeting, the federal government must commit an additional $4.6B to address the shortfall in socia...

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...