Qld News & Media Releases

National Reconstruction Fund could become slush fund for coal and gas, Estimates confirms

18 February, 2023 - Questions in Senate Estimates asked by Australian Greens Industry spokesperson Senator Penny Allman-Payne revealed that the Government could...

Federal Labor washing its hands of Gabba rebuild

13 February, 2023 - Questions in Senate Estimates asked by Queensland Greens Senator Penny Allman-Payne revealed that the federal government is outsourcing Inte...

Dodgy donation laws a safe bet for gambling industry

9 February, 2023 - News that the Communications Minister, who oversees the Interactive Gambling Act and was previously the shadow minister in charge of online b...

Gonski’s a goner

7 February, 2023 - The Greens say new data from the Productivity Commission shows that Australian governments have abandoned the Gonski reforms, with funding gr...

Coal and gas donations wrote the Safeguard legislation, new AEC donations data reveals

1 February, 2023 - Political donations data published today by the Australian Electoral Commission shows that the Liberals, Nationals and Labor raked in a combi...

One more sleep til AEC’s #DonationDataDrop

31 January, 2023 - Annual political donations data will be revealed tomorrow and is likely to confirm that our democracy is still for sale to the highest bidder...

Withdraw government funding from Opus Dei-linked schools

31 January, 2023 - The Greens have called on the Australian and NSW governments to withdraw funding from four elite Sydney schools linked with the extremist sec...

Family law reforms welcome, but inadequate funding leaves women and children at risk

30 January, 2023 - The Greens welcome the announcement of family law amendments aimed at putting children’s welfare first in family law matters. After years ...

Political sponsorship of Shaghayegh Khademi and Mahya Vahedi

24 January, 2023 - Australian Greens Senator Larissa Waters has today written to the Iranian Ambassador stating her political sponsorship of Shaghayegh Khademi ...

Underfunding to blame for inequality crisis in schools

20 January, 2023 - The Greens say the findings in today’s Productivity Commission report into the National School Reform Agreement (NSRA) are irrefutable eviden...

Labor’s Christmas gift for underfunded public schools: a kick in the teeth

18 December, 2022 - The Greens will explore options to remove the legislated 20% cap on the Commonwealth’s contribution to public school funding, after Labor an...

OK Google, let’s talk about your abortion ad ban

16 December, 2022 - The Greens will demand an explanation from Google over its decision to ban medical abortion ads in Australia, and push to have the appear at...

Unprepared teachers no solution to shortage crisis

7 December, 2022 - The Greens say the Federal Government’s plan to fast-track interns into classrooms would further entrench education inequality while doing ve...

Greens rent freeze plan could’ve saved renters almost $5,000 each last year

6 December, 2022 - Updated analysis by the Parliamentary Library estimates that renters across Australia would be $10.7 billion better off if rents had been fro...