GREENS PRESSURE WORKS.
The Greens don’t just talk about change — we lead the way on the major issues and deliver it.
We have used our power in the Federal Parliament to secure dental into Medicare for kids, billions for clean energy and public housing, the right to disconnect, and world-leading climate laws.
And, in just the last year, Labor has adopted parts of a number of Greens policies – like wiping 20% off student debt, making it free to visit the GP, 50-cent public transport fares in Queensland, and stopping price gouging by supermarkets.
More Greens in parliament means we force Labor to act, and stop the Liberals and Nationals from dragging us backwards.
The bold vision we are fighting is possible. Countries around the world already have many of the things we’re fighting for right now – we just need the political will to make it happen.
Together, we'll keep pushing the Albanese Labor government to go further than they ever would alone.
Our wins
- Achieved $3 billion of extra funding for public and community housing, and an additional $500 million for critical social housing upgrades.
Source: The New Daily, The Guardian, ACOSS - Secured dental healthcare in Medicare for children under 18, ensuring coverage for 3.4 million kids.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald - Won significant improvements to the Safeguard Mechanism, which will now stop roughly half of coal & gas projects in the pipeline and put a hard cap on pollution.
Source: ABC - Enshrined the right to disconnect from work out of hours in the National Employment Standards, and helped criminalise wage & super theft.
Source: The Age - Secured changes to ensure that the National Reconstruction Fund, Future Made in Australia, and Export Finance Australia cannot fund coal, oil & gas projects.
Source: The Guardian, The Canberra Times - Secured $1.7 billion in total funding to help homes and businesses lower their energy bills and get off gas.
Source: The Guardian - Secured an additional 450 billion litres of environmental water for the Murray Darling Basin, as well as enshrining First Nations rights and $100 million for cultural flows.
Source: ABC - Forced massive private companies to disclose their tax arrangements and cleaned up conflicts of interests of big consulting firms in the wake of the PwC scandal.
Source: The Age - Successfully pressured Labor to scrap dodgy greenwashing in the form of ‘carbon offsets’ from their nature repair laws.
Source: AFR - Delivered a national anti-corruption commission with teeth by ensuring its new independent Inspector can properly oversee and audit the Commission.
Source: ABC - Made it harder for new gas projects to proceed by forcing Labor to shelve their fast-track laws and adding billions in extra costs for big gas corporations.
Source: ABC, news.com.au - Pressured Labor to abolish the childcare subsidy activity test, ensuring better access to early learning for hundreds of thousands of kids.
Source: SBS
