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Mehreen Faruqi
Deputy Leader & Senator for NSW

Greens Call for Inquiry into Horse Traceability Across Australia

8 January, 2019 - Australian Greens Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has launched a campaign for an inquiry into a National Horse Traceabili...

Liberal War on Universities Continues with MYEFO Research Cuts

18 December, 2018 - Australian Greens Education Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has condemned the Liberal Government’s punitive $328.5m cuts to University...

Labor’s Investor Subsidy Tinkering Around the Edges of Housing Problem

17 December, 2018 - Australian Greens Housing Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has described Labor’s housing announcement as tinkering around the edges. Se...

University of Wollongong Should Return Cultural Supremacist Ramsay Centre’s Money

17 December, 2018 - Senator Mehreen Faruqi, the Australian Greens spokesperson for Education and a former academic, reacted to this morning’s news that the Univ...

Fee Free University and TAFE: Greens Launch Transformational 5 Point Plan for Higher Education

11 December, 2018 - The Australian Greens will be taking a transformational higher education package to the Federal Election aimed at breaking successive Labor ...

Proposed Voluntary Live Export Suspension in Northern Summer Too Little, Too Late

4 December, 2018 - Australian Greens Senator for NSW and Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Dr Mehreen Faruqi has called the announcement from live exporters that the...

Speech: Climate Change Action

4 December, 2018 - Right now we are facing a manmade disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change. If w e don' t take act...

Speech: Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018

4 December, 2018 - I rise on behalf of the Greens to speak to the Home Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018. I would like to associa...

Speech: Order for Production of Documents on Moss Review

4 December, 2018 - Senator FARUQI: by leave—I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources to explain why the response to the ...

Greens Welcome Senate Report Into PFAS Contamination - Government Must Act Now

3 December, 2018 - Australian Greens Senator for NSW, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has called on the Federal Government to urgently implement the recommendations  of the ...

Speech: Greyhound Exports

3 December, 2018 - Hundreds of Australian greyhounds were exported to be raced to death in Macau. This is Australia's shame. With the closure of the Canidrome, ...