Federal Greens MPs News

Media Releases

No more chances on Live Export: Moss Review shows it is time for a ban.

31 October, 2018 - Australian Greens Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has reiterated her call for a ban on live exports, following the relea...

While the extinction crisis deepens our Environment Minister is in hiding

31 October, 2018 - Australia’s Environment Minister has let the public down yet again with her silence on the WWF’s damning report into human-driven mass extinc...

Australian Greens Education Spokesperson to speak at anti-Ramsay Centre rally at Sydney University today

31 October, 2018 - Australian Greens Education Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, will today speak at 'Stop the Ramsay Centre! Protest at the USYD Senate' an...

Being fired or expelled for being LGBT+ is discrimination, not religious freedom: Greens

31 October, 2018 - The joint letter from Sydney Anglican school principals shows they want to continue to be able to discriminate against LGBT+ people just beca...

Research 'National Interest' Test a Smokescreen for Political Interference

31 October, 2018 - Australian Greens Education Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has rebuked Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan's proposed national intere...

Greens slam Liberals for continuous attacks on research and academic freedom

31 October, 2018 - Greens slam Liberals for continuous attacks on research and academic freedom Greens science and research spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today sla...

Greens back union & ACF call for independent authority to manage transition away from coal

30 October, 2018 - Greens back union & ACF call for independent authority to manage transition away from coal Greens Co-Deputy Leader and climate change and ene...

Scathing Royal Commission evidence puts MDBA on notice

30 October, 2018 - The final submission to the Murray Darling Basin Royal Commission will send shockwaves throughout Basin communities and should be seen as a w...

It's time to move from bank-bashing rhetoric to bank-changing policies

29 October, 2018 - Greens Treasury spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, provides the following comments alongside the release of the Greens submission in r...

Education Minister Interference in Research Grants "An outrageous overreach"

26 October, 2018 - Australian Greens Education Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has called news that the former Education Minister, Senator Simon Birmingha...

Greens refer National Party funding to Auditor-General

26 October, 2018 - Greens environment and water spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young will today write to the Auditor-General to investigate reports of more s...

NDIA eat humble pie, reverse decision forcing Tegan Sharp to pay back more than $100k of funding

25 October, 2018 - Thursday, 25 October Australian Greens disability Rights spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John said he was relieved the NDIA had reversed a...

Greens Senator Slams Lack of Transparency of Private School Slush Fund

25 October, 2018 - Australian Greens Education Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has called the Government's so called 'Choice and Affordability" package a ...