Qld News & Media Releases

Report should spell the end of compulsory income management

3 September, 2024 - The report from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights into compulsory income management has recommended the complete a...

Greens to force vote on LGBTIQA+ census inclusion unless PM commits to trans, intersex questions

30 August, 2024 - The Australian Greens have said they will force a vote on including LGBTIQA+ Australians in the 2026 census when Parliament returns if the Pri...

Pollution rises again under Labor, government report shows

30 August, 2024 - The latest quarterly emissions data shows that pollution has risen 2.5% from December to March, and is even higher than it was in the final da...

Labor betrays LGBTIQA+ people again over Census decision

25 August, 2024 - After years of promises and working groups, the Albanese Labor Government has quietly killed off the inclusion of questions on sexual orientat...

Parliamentary enforcement body will help Set the Standard

21 August, 2024 - The Greens welcome the belated introduction today of legislation to establish an Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission was introduced...

50 days of free labour, a bad deal for women

19 August, 2024 - On Equal Pay Day this year, women will have worked an extra 50 days, on average, to earn the same as men.  The current national gender...

Labor leaving older Australians in the dark on new Aged Care Act

16 August, 2024 - The Greens say Labor is keeping older Australians in the dark on its new Aged Care Act, with the community growing increasingly anxious about ...

It’s the underfunding, stupid

14 August, 2024 - The Greens say Labor’s new schools agreement would do nothing to reverse the decline in school performance, and would actually lock in underfu...

Another broken promise as Labor abandons LGBTIQA+ workers

13 August, 2024 - On Friday, the Prime Minister announced at a press conference that he was going to abandon religious discrimination reform after the Oppositio...

Labor’s school funding promise gets an F for fake

31 July, 2024 - The Greens say Labor’s Better and Fairer Schools Agreement (BFSA) locks in public school underfunding for a decade and fails to provide a cohere...

Google ads policy yet another barrier for people seeking abortion and contraception

19 July, 2024 - Google’s updated health and medicines policy threatens to limit or stop Australian healthcare providers from advertising their abortion and cont...

720 safe places for women a drop in a very large ocean of need

9 July, 2024 - Labor is once again announcing something that isn’t new or adequate funding for frontline services. Meanwhile, Destroy the Joint report that at l...

New schools deal must deliver capital funding for public system

1 July, 2024 - The Greens say a new report from the Australian Education Union showing a growing number of public schools with insufficient space to m...

Queensland rejects Dutton’s nuclear fantasy

19 June, 2024 - Greens Energy Transition spokesperson and Gladstone local, Senator Penny Allman-Payne, has slammed Peter Dutton’s nuclear fantasy, saying it’s a...

No changes planned for barriers to Escaping Violence Payment

5 June, 2024 - The Department of Social Services confirmed in estimates last night that there were no plans to reconsider eligibility criteria for the Escaping ...