Victorian News

Infrastructure Australia releases assessment list, Melbourne Metro goes AWOL

8 February, 2016 - Infrastructure Australia releases assessment list, Melbourne Metro goes AWOL Infrastructure Australia (IA) has named 11 of 14 projects that h...

Justice Legislation Further Amendment Bill 2015

8 February, 2016 - Ms PENNICUIK (Southern Metropolitan) — The Justice Legislation Further Amendment Bill 2015 is indeed an omnibus bill that makes amendments, m...

Auditor-General's report on East West Link

6 February, 2016 - I move: That the Senate take note of the document. I want to respond to the tabling of the Auditor-General's report Audit Report No. 14 of 20...

Greens urge PM to accept Victorian offer to let asylum seekers stay

6 February, 2016 - The Australian Greens have today urged Malcolm Turnbull to accept the Victorian Government's offer to give refuge to the 267 asylum seekers s...

Liberal flat-tax proposal throwback to Joh Bjelke-Petersen

5 February, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson Adam Bandt MP said the flat-tax proposal for income tax floated by Liberals MP Dan Tehan today is a throwback to...

After David Bulmer-Rizzi's death, we must recognise foreign same-sex marriages

4 February, 2016 - In considering this legislation today, what we are calling upon the government to do and all members of parliament to do is this. We are sayi...

Gutting CSIRO climate science is the enemy of innovation

4 February, 2016 - News that the Turnbull Liberal Government is sacking more CSIRO scientists, gutting climate science in Australia, shows what a climate-denial...

Turnbull ‘mum’ on fate of refugee babies & children

4 February, 2016 - In response to his first question since yesterday’s High Court decision concerning the fate of the 37 babies and 90 children living in Austra...

Government hasn't made the case to ditch interstate shipping regulations

3 February, 2016 - I rise today to speak to the Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Amendment (Inter-State Voyages) Bill 2015. The Australian Gr...

Greens move for House to decline ABCC bill in favour for broad-based anti-corruption watchdog

3 February, 2016 - Greens Industrial Relations spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today moved for the House of Representatives to decline the ABCC bill and instead supp...

Greens push for 21st century vision for Australia's native forests

3 February, 2016 - Greens push for 21st century vision for Australia's native forests A year to the day that the first Regional Forest Agreement is due to expir...

PBO report shows Treasurer’s pigheadedness will blow out deficit by $45 billion

3 February, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson Adam Bandt MP said that a Parliamentary Budget Office report released today on the government’s unlegislated Bud...

Planned burns not the answer

3 February, 2016 - In supporting this motion we express our sympathies to everyone who has lost lives, homes, property and livestock to fires this summer. We al...

Trucks Off all Local Streets, Premier

3 February, 2016 - The Inner West community has launched its list of demands of the Andrews Government, in response to the Western Distributor Business Case rel...

Greens reject government’s ridiculous TURC secret volume offer

2 February, 2016 - Greens Industrial Relations spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today said the Greens Party Room has rejected the government’s last minute offer for o...