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Bandt announces new parliamentary line-up to kick the Libs out and negotiate shared power

15 September, 2021 - With the confirmation of new Senator for Western Australia Dorinda Cox today, Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, has put the Greens on election foo...

Hanson-Young in drivers seat on Electric Vehicles

15 September, 2021 - Greens Senator for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Young will drive a plan to manufacture electric vehicles in her home state and encourage a ...

Parliament must vote to deploy ADF troops overseas

14 September, 2021 - New polling released today shows 87% of Australians are supportive of The Greens’ calls to change how Australia goes to war.  The poll of 1...

ABS data shows house prices are out of control

14 September, 2021 - Australian Greens Housing spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has expressed alarm at the figures released today from the Australian Bureau ...

Secret Porter donor makes a mockery of donations laws

14 September, 2021 - The Greens say Christian Porter’s refusal to reveal who partially funded his defamation case against the ABC is the latest chapter in a sor...

Tertiary education job destruction laid bare

13 September, 2021 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that a new report by the Centre for Future Work estimating 40,000 ...

Australia’s TRIPS waiver support takes far too long

9 September, 2021 - Australian Greens International Aid & Development spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to reports that the Australian Governmen...

Safe decarceration now!

9 September, 2021 - “What do the NSW government want? More deaths in custody? Why aren't they applying safe decarceration strategies for non-violent offenders?”...

Two too many: second First Nations person dies from COVID-19

9 September, 2021 -   The second First Nations person to die from COVID-19 has passed away in Dubbo Hospital, this comes after an Aboriginal man in his 50’s die...

Third First Nations person dies from COVID-19

9 September, 2021 - A third First Nations person has died from COVID-19 in less than two-weeks. This comes as infections in western New South Wales have balloon...

UK trade deal shows Australia dragging the world down on climate targets

9 September, 2021 - Greens around the world have lambasted revelations that Australia has vetoed Paris Agreement climate goals being included in a trade agreeme...

1000 days waiting for a federal ICAC

8 September, 2021 - The Greens have slammed the government for its thousand day failure to introduce a federal corruption watchdog, saying that the four-digit d...

A Human Rights Commissioner should care about human rights

8 September, 2021 - Lorraine Finlay had been appointed as the nation's new Human Rights Commissioner. Formerly an upper house candidate for the West Australian ...

Amid record corporate super-profits, Greens announce new Tycoon Tax to raise $338 billion for public good

6 September, 2021 - The Greens have today announced they will push for a new 40% corporate super-profits tax on the excess profits made by big corporations, inc...

UN calls time on coal, while Murdoch shift from denial to delay

6 September, 2021 - With the UN calling for Australia to quit coal by 2030, but Rupert Murdoch officially moving only to ‘net zero by 2050’, the looming divide ...