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Extra support urgently needed for disabled people & carers

14 July, 2020 - Monday, 13 July 2020 The Australian Greens have reiterated their calls for people on the Disability Support Pension (DSP) and Carer Payment to r...

Privatised reef protection plan still ignores climate crisis

14 July, 2020 - The release of the 2020-2021 workplan for the Reef Trust Partnership once again shows the Reef requires comprehensive, science-based protection ...

Extend Free Childcare And Provide JobKeeper For ECEC Workers: Greens

13 July, 2020 - The Greens have said that returning to expensive fee-paying childcare today will harm families, disproportionately impact women and threaten the...

Release refugees from high risk Mantra hotel

13 July, 2020 - Confirmation that an immigration detention guard at the Mantra Hotel in Melbourne has tested positive for Covid-19 reinforces the need for detai...

Backroom Labor boys doing their coal donors’ bidding

13 July, 2020 - The Labor party backroom boys are pressuring Queensland’s Labor Premier to approve stage 3 of the New Acland coal mine, showing fossil fuel dono...

Crown of Thorns funding is bandaid solution while climate crisis is ignored

13 July, 2020 - The Greens welcome any improvements to deal with Crown of Thorns starfish, but it is a bandaid solution while the big threats to the Reef - clim...

Feds' funding for Parks shows jobs in green recovery but much more needed

12 July, 2020 - The announcement by Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley today of funding for tourism and infrastructure at five natural attractions shows th...

Greens condemn US Marine Rotation for putting Northern Territory community at risk

10 July, 2020 - 10 July, 2020 Today, Australian Greens Peace and Disarmament spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John has expressed his frustrations that the Uni...

Arts and entertainment package needs urgent increase

9 July, 2020 - The Morrison Government must significantly increase the arts and entertainment industry recovery package following a return to lockdown measures ...

Tax cuts for the rich, austerity for the poor: PM & Labor embark on stupidest possible tax policy during an outbreak

9 July, 2020 - Australian Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, has described the Morrison Government’s ideological determination to cut taxes for high income earners as i...

Tehan childcare rules risks collapse of childcare centres: Bandt

8 July, 2020 - As Melbourne goes back into stage 3 lockdowns, the Federal government is pulling the major childcare supports which played a positive role in the...

Greens call on Environment Minister to immediately release interim report into environment laws

7 July, 2020 - The Greens are calling on Environment Minister Sussan Ley to immediately release the interim report into Australia's environment laws handed to h...

Recycling plan another waste of an opportunity

6 July, 2020 - Greens Waste and Recycling spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, comments on today's announcement of a 'Recycling Modernisation Plan,' highli...

Morrison Government must rule out killing more jobs by abolishing local content rules

6 July, 2020 - The Greens are calling on the Morrison Government to rule out killing more Australian jobs by permanently abolishing local content rules and to g...

Public Housing health response should be led by care, not force

5 July, 2020 - The Greens have today said the Andrews State Government’s unprecedented lockdown of social housing blocks had created appalling outcomes for tena...