Qld News & Media Releases

Parliamentary Workplace Support Services bills pass the Senate

14 September, 2023 - The Greens welcome the passage of the Parliamentary Workplace Support Services bills in the Senate today.  These bills are an impor...

Unanimous Senate report calls for independent taskforce to hold universities to account on sexual violence

14 September, 2023 - The Senate inquiry into sexual consent laws has today tabled a unanimous report that recommends an independent taskforce to hold universiti...

Poor conduct shows parliamentary standards body needed urgently

12 September, 2023 - Following new revelations by female MPs Karen Andrews and Kylea Tink about poor parliamentary behaviour, the Greens say progress on enforce...

Transphobia has no place in our Parliament

11 September, 2023 - Greens MPs today joined the trans community and their allies on Parliament’s lawn condemning growing transphobia, homophobia and misogyny. ...

Greens announce bill to impose curfew on late nights flights from Brisbane Airport

6 September, 2023 - With Brisbane Airport set to double its traffic by 2035, Greens MP Elizabeth Watson-Brown today announced plans to bring peace and a good ni...

Women left desperate and dateless for Super on PPL

6 September, 2023 - In Senate Question Time today the Government was unable to give women a date for when they will deliver on their so-called intention to prov...

A change in CEO won’t fix Qantas’s problems - it’s time to consider bringing Qantas back into public hands

5 September, 2023 - Alan Joyce has made Qantas’s name synonymous with price gouging, mismanagement, attacking workers’ pay and conditions, and scandal. I’m sure...

Greens introduce Fairer Grants and Government Contracts Bill

4 September, 2023 - Greens Leader in the Senate, Senator Larissa Waters will introduce the Greens Fairer Grants and Government Contracts Bill to the Senate toda...

Pay for super on PPL with proposed super tax

1 September, 2023 - The Greens will use their Senate balance of power to hold up proposed changes to the tax treatment of large superannuation accounts until th...

Public school funding gap a fraction of government spending on private sector

28 August, 2023 - The Greens say that the funding shortfall to public schools could be met by reducing government spending on the overfunded private system by o...

Greens call on Labor to consider renationalising Qantas if it refuses to pay back Covid subsidies

25 August, 2023 - The Greens are calling on Qantas to pay back the $2.7 billion in public money it received during the Covid pandemic, and requesting that the f...

Incremental change to gender pay gap little comfort as cost of living bites

25 August, 2023 - On Equal Pay Day this year, women will have worked an extra 56 days, on average, to earn the same as men. The current national gender pay gap ...

Disadvantaged students pay price for two-tiered school system

23 August, 2023 - The Greens say today’s NAPLAN results are evidence that Australia’s two-tiered school system is supercharging disadvantage, and have called fo...

Full funding needed to end violence against women and children

17 August, 2023 - The Greens welcome the belated release of the First Action Plan and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Action Plan under the National P...