Qld News & Media Releases

Greens Call for Parliamentary Standards

12 November, 2020 - Greens Senator Larissa Waters moved to bring on her Parliamentary Standards Bill this morning to address Parliament's appalling ineffectual ...

Mates investigating mates shows ICAC needed

21 October, 2020 - Revelations that the Finance Department inquiry into Assistant Minister Michael Sukkar was outsourced to the law firm he used to work for is ...

Gender lens on Budget shows up government

19 October, 2020 - The Greens condemn the Morrison Government for failing to include a gender lens in the Budget, instead leaving it to a non-profit women's org...

Morrison uses Budget to silence Government accountability bodies

8 October, 2020 - The Coalition is using the Federal Budget to silence public accountability and transparency bodies that have called out this Government’s corr...

Women stuck in the 1950s with this Government’s Budget

7 October, 2020 - This year’s Budget has failed women by failing to address the key drivers of women’s economic insecurity, tackle the domestic violence crisis,...

DV Funding Leaves a Third of Women at Risk

29 September, 2020 - The long overdue announcement of the Safe Places Emergency Accommodation grants is welcome, but falls critically short of national demand a...

Greens condemn Adani for silencing climate activist

11 September, 2020 - Responding to the Supreme Court’s decision to grant Adani a temporary injunction to silence anti-Adani activist Ben Pennings, Senator for Q...

Time for vote on ICAC bill one year on

9 September, 2020 - The Morrison government still refuses to call the Greens bill to establish a federal corruption watchdog on for a vote, one year after it pa...

Major parties leave backdoor open for dirty donations

3 September, 2020 - The Greens condemn the major parties for voting to create a backdoor for dirty donors to bypass state donations laws. Greens Leader in the S...

Adani bullies community leader as it loses another court case

28 August, 2020 - The Greens condemn Adani’s attempts to silence Galilee Blockade leader, Ben Pennings, by seeking to  bankrupt his family with legal action and...

Greens call on PM to stand down Sukkar

25 August, 2020 - The Greens are calling on the Prime Minister to stand down Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar while the Department of Finance investigates the...

Major parties reject the need for parliamentary standards

12 August, 2020 - Despite the conduct of politicians having declined year on year and public confidence in democracy bottoming out, both major parties have reje...

Australia needs to raise the minimum wage for women's economic security

5 August, 2020 - The Greens have welcomed the updated Economic Security for Women’s White Paper, and called on the government raise the minimum wage to address ...

Latest government rort must be investigated by the Senate

31 July, 2020 - Senator Larissa Waters will call the Senate to vote on an inquiry into the Coalition’s rorting of government grants, which will include the Shin...

Government continues attack on Reef science

28 July, 2020 - The Coalition and One Nation have cemented their position as science denialists, having spent Monday badgering some of Australia’s peak scientif...