Victorian News

GREENS CALL FOR INQUIRY INTO POLICE TACTICS AND EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE AT LAND FORCES WEAPONS EXPO

13 September, 2024 - Leader of the Victorian Greens, Ellen Sandell, has demanded an independent inquiry into the police tactics and excessive use of force at th...

HOUSING WAITLIST BALLOONS AS PUBLIC HOUSING RESIDENTS FIGHT BACK AGAINST TOWERS DEMOLITION 

13 September, 2024 - The Victorian Greens will push to stop the Victorian Labor government steamrolling ahead with the demolition and privatisation of all 44 pu...

LAWYER X BILL SETS DANGEROUS PRECEDENT FOR POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY 

13 September, 2024 - The Victorian Greens have opposed the Labor government’s controversial Lawyer X Bill saying that it sets a dangerous precedent for police a...

GREENS SLAM LABOR FOR BACKFLIPPING ON GAS AND SUPPORTING MORE CLIMATE-DESTROYING FOSSIL FUELS

9 September, 2024 - The Greens have slammed the Victorian Labor government for encouraging more fossil fuels in the middle of a climate crisis as Labor plots mo...

CHORUS OF GREENS COUNCILLORS AND CANDIDATES PLEDGE TO REGULATE AIRBNB IN LIGHT OF NEW REFORMS

30 August, 2024 - A group of incumbent Greens councillors and candidates have celebrated the new Airbnb reforms that will now empower local governments to regul...

GREENS CALL ON PREMIER TO CANCEL LAND FORCES EXPO THAT PROMOTES WEAPONS USED TO FUEL GENOCIDE

30 August, 2024 - Victorian Greens MPs, including the Leaders of the Victorian and Australian Greens, Ellen Sandell and Adam Bandt, have written to Premier Jaci...

GREENS INTRODUCE LAWS TO STOP SUPERMARKET PRICE GOUGING AS COLES AND WOOLIES RECORD BILLIONS IN PROFITS

30 August, 2024 - The Victorian Greens will introduce legislation to parliament today that will cap the profits that supermarkets can make on essential items li...

GREENS SAY TOBACCO LICENCING MUST BE MORE THAN JUST A PIPE DREAM

30 August, 2024 - The Victorian Greens welcome today’s ‘Vaping and tobacco controls’ report from the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee, calling on the Vic...

INQUIRY ESTABLISHED INTO LEAKY, POLLUTING GAS WELLS OFF VICTORIA’S COAST 

28 August, 2024 - The Victorian Greens have successfully established a parliamentary inquiry into gas decommissioning that will investigate the hundreds of old ...

Greens secure key AirBNB reforms to free up more homes for renters

27 August, 2024 - The Victorian Greens have secured key reforms that will stop property investors from hoarding homes to use as short stay accommodation, and in...

Greens secure reforms that strengthen children's human rights and safety

16 August, 2024 - The Victorian Greens have supported the passage of the Youth Justice Bill after securing a number of reforms that will strengthen children’s h...

Labor risks delaying group voting until after the next election

16 August, 2024 - The Victorian Greens have slammed the Victorian Labor government for dragging their feet and delaying the abolition of group voting in Victori...

Parliament denies Labor the mandate to force public housing evictions

16 August, 2024 - The Victorian Parliament has denied Labor the support to pursue legal action and force evictions of public housing residents in North Melbourn...

Greens push for moratorium on public housing evictions after Labor secretly signed demolition contracts

14 August, 2024 - The Victorian Greens are calling for a moratorium on evictions for public housing residents following revelations that the Victorian Labor Gov...