Qld News & Media Releases

Raising the rate crucial to tackling violence against women

4 June, 2025 - The Australian Greens have urged the Albanese Government to urgently lift income support recipients out of poverty and put an end to the punitive...

Emissions remain higher under Albanese than Morrison, on the same week Labor approves ‘carbon bomb’

30 May, 2025 - The latest quarterly emissions update has revealed emissions are still going up and remain higher under Anthony Albanese than when Scott Morrison...

Major parties’ climate apathy will leave our reef ‘in danger’

30 May, 2025 - The Australian Greens echo the calls from the UNESCO World Heritage Committee for the Queensland and Australian governments to take drastic measu...

Environment Minister fails first test, approves climate-wrecking North West Shelf extension to 2070

28 May, 2025 - The Australian Greens have said the new Environment Minister has spectacularly failed his first test in the job, after approving the climate-wrec...

Albanese Government must reject Queensland Shark Control Program expansion

27 May, 2025 - The Greens call on the Albanese Government to reject a major expansion of shark nets used in the Queensland Shark Control Program, after the Quee...

Greens slam Labor for secretly preparing to approve Woodside’s North West Gas Shelf

22 May, 2025 - The Greens have slammed Labor for secretly preparing to approve Australia’s biggest coal and gas development for the next 45 years, saying the de...

Greens retain Ryan, will hold sole balance of power in the Senate

13 May, 2025 - The Greens have retained the Queensland seat of Ryan, after voters kept Dutton out by re-electing Elizabeth Watson-Brown MP as their strong, inde...

Labor's public school plan rips $18 billion out of public schools, opens door for Dutton's cuts

28 April, 2025 - New analysis shows that public schools will have $18 billion ripped away due to Labor’s plan to push full public school funding back to 2034.&n...

Greens announce plan to lower retirement age and lift pension above poverty line

26 April, 2025 - The Greens have today announced a plan to lower the retirement age and lift the age pension above the poverty line, allowing Australians to ret...

LNP desperate to pretend they care about women

24 April, 2025 - Responding to reports the LNP has committed $90m toward a domestic violence strategy Greens leader in the Senate and spokesperson on Women, Lar...

The Greens will finish the job of making IVF accessible to all who need it

17 April, 2025 - The Greens would make IVF more affordable for all by doubling the Medicare rebates, and removing the remaining discrimination against gay male ...

First Australian politician launches OnlyFans to announce The Greens’ plan to make PrEP free

16 April, 2025 - In an Australian first, Greens LGBTIQA+ spokesperson and Member for Brisbane Stephen Bates has launched an OnlyFans. In 2022, Bates made a s...

Greens plan to boost paid parental leave

16 April, 2025 - The Greens have announced an election plan to double paid parental leave paid at replacement wage to invest in women’s equality and give famili...

Unfit to govern: Member for Flynn caught on camera hoping for blackouts

16 April, 2025 - The Greens say today’s report that the Member for Flynn had called blackouts a “political opportunity” proves that the LNP is unfit to govern. ...

Greens only party with plan for Queensland coal and gas workers

15 April, 2025 - The Greens are the only party with a plan to protect the futures of Queensland’s coal and gas communities, with the announcement of a financial...