Qld News & Media Releases

Senate vote to force PM’s hand on Greens’ National Integrity Commission Bill

18 October, 2021 - On Thursday the Senate will vote on a motion that could force the PM to bring the Greens’ National Integrity Commission Bill on for debate in...

Gambling donations a stain on our democracy, but Liberals, Nationals and Labor happy to keep cashing in

14 October, 2021 - Forensic research by the ABC has shed new light on just how important a ban on political donations from the gambiling industry is. The ABC’s ...

Another day, another rort: Greens to push for vote on their National Integrity Commission bill

13 October, 2021 - The Green says revelations that community grants from the Building Better Regions Fund were disproportionately awarded to Coalition seats onc...

Greens’ integrity body scores top marks; PM’s model “weakest in country”

6 October, 2021 - The Greens’ model for a National Integrity Commission, which passed the Senate two years ago, has been given top marks by The Centre for Publi...

Greens to force debate on National Integrity Commission Bill

5 October, 2021 - In the wake of the NSW ICAC investigating former Premier Gladys Berejiklian, the Greens will move a concurrence motion in the next parliamenta...

PM’s COAG bill a slippery slope to increased executive power

27 September, 2021 - The Greens say evidence presented at today’s inquiry into the government’s COAG Legislation Amendment Bill shows just how far the PM has st...

Porter's got to go

16 September, 2021 - The Greens say the Prime Minister should dump Christian Porter from his Ministry, and that the so-called "investigation" into whether the s...

Secret Porter donor makes a mockery of donations laws

14 September, 2021 - The Greens say Christian Porter’s refusal to reveal who partially funded his defamation case against the ABC is the latest chapter in a sor...

1000 days waiting for a federal ICAC

8 September, 2021 - The Greens have slammed the government for its thousand day failure to introduce a federal corruption watchdog, saying that the four-digit d...

PM’s Women’s Safety Summit just more political theatre

6 September, 2021 - The Greens say day one of the Women’s Safety Summit was yet another exercise in political theatre for a government that remains completely o...

PM dodging accountability with new national cabinet secrecy laws

2 September, 2021 - The PM continues to do all he can to duck transparency and accountability with new laws that would overturn a recent court decision by shiel...

Government and One Nation leave women unsafe by blocking amendments

1 September, 2021 - The government and One Nation have blocked crucial amendments from the Greens and Labor that would have implemented the centrepiece of the R...

Nothing but the sound of silence on Equal Pay Day

31 August, 2021 - On Equal Pay Day the Greens have called on the PM to act immediately to close the gender pay gap, with the gulf between men’s and women’s earn...

Labor joins government in undemocratic attack on minor parties

24 August, 2021 - The Greens say Labor’s decision today to wave through changes to the Electoral Act that will increase membership minimums and give existing pa...

Government must provide immediate aid to support women and girls in Afghanistan

19 August, 2021 - Greens senators Larissa Waters, Mehreen Faruqi and Janet Rice have written to the Minister for Women and Foreign Affairs Marise Payne to urge ...