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Greens push for 700% renewables

27 March, 2021 - Under a Greens shared power parliament Australia will strive to generate 700% of existing electricity demand with renewables, Adam Bandt MP has...

Greens legislate to keep Snowy clean

26 March, 2021 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, will introduce a Bill into the House of Representatives that would prevent the government using the Snowy Hydro grou...

Far-right investigations must spur action on fascist terror

26 March, 2021 - Australian Greens Anti-racism spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that numerous investigations published today by ABC, Nine and Guardi...

New costing shows billions lost from mining super profits tax reversal

26 March, 2021 - If the Resource Super Profits Tax had not been watered down and then repealed, it would have raised $34.6 billion dollars, enough to give free ...

Teetering on the rental cliff

26 March, 2021 - Australian Greens Housing spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that eviction moratoriums are ending today in NSW, and on Sunday in Vict...

The PM’s reshuffle does nothing to make Australian women safer

25 March, 2021 - The Greens say the Prime Minister’s expected Cabinet reshuffle is another cosmetic response to systemic failures and have called on the governm...

Four deaths in a fortnight - Blak deaths in custody a national crisis: Greens

25 March, 2021 - The Greens have again called on the Government to act urgently to end Blak deaths in custody, following reports today of yet another death of a...

NDIS independent assessment process subject to massive conflicts of interest

25 March, 2021 - The Morrison Government is allowing corporations with massive conflicts of interest - including one run by former NDIA CEO Robert De Luca - to ...

Thousands more to be condemned to Cashless Debit Card despite failure of Government to prove it works

24 March, 2021 - The Greens have strongly condemned the lifting of the temporary pause on new income support recipients going on to the Cashless Debit Card prog...

Prime Minister’s sincerity will be judged on actions

23 March, 2021 - Responding to today’s press conference by the Prime Minister on women’s safety and the culture of parliament house, Greens leader in the Senate...

It's closer than you think: new research shows 828 votes away from shared power

22 March, 2021 - A Parliamentary Library Brief, provided to the Greens, reveals that a minority parliament is only 828 votes away, and looms as one of the most ...

Fires one year, floods the next - the grim future of global heating

21 March, 2021 - The Australian Greens have said the disastrous flooding in NSW was a grim look at the future of extreme weather in a climate crisis, warning th...

Living on $44 a day is soul-destroying

18 March, 2021 - Today the Government gagged the Senate and allowed no time to even debate the first so-called real permanent increase in the Jobseeker Payment ...

Unemployed workers and people living in poverty want to see people supporting and campaigning for them

18 March, 2021 - The Greens say that unemployed workers and people living in poverty have been very clear that they want to see their representatives in Parliam...