Qld News & Media Releases

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 ...

Nets out of Queensland now

4 June, 2024 - The Greens are again calling on the Queensland government for an urgent review of the state’s system of shark nets and drum lines, after a humpba...

Surge in government spending on private schools fails millions of public school kids

29 May, 2024 - The Greens say Australian governments are continuing to fail millions of public school students with new data showing that government funding to ...

Just fund frontline services already

28 May, 2024 - The Greens welcome the government’s review to improve prevention of violence against women, but frontline services remain underfunded and women c...

Labor offers no hope to 2.6 million public school kids

15 May, 2024 - The Greens say Labor’s budget contains barely no new spending for Australia’s woefully underfunded public schools while they pour an additional $...

Labor’s budget betrays LGBTIQA+ community

15 May, 2024 - Labor’s third budget has betrayed the queer community with all funding for the 10 Year National Action Plan on LGBTIQA+ Health and Wellbeing disa...