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Labor urged to work with Greens, crossbench on environment rather than Rinehart & Dutton

10 September, 2024 - Labor has been urged to work with the Greens and Senate crossbench to protect the environment instead of caving in to Gina Rinehart by gutt...

Labor's reverse Robin Hood: Public schools bleeding money to private schools

6 September, 2024 - The Greens say Labor’s school funding plan is a ‘reverse Robin Hood’, bleeding public schools dry to give to wealthy private schools. New...

Irrational and illogical international student caps must go

6 September, 2024 - After the third hearing on the ESOS bill Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Greens Leader and spokesperson for Higher Education, has said that t...

Labor Letting the RBA Crash the Economy

6 September, 2024 - Treasurer Jim Chalmers is sitting on his hands while the RBA is causing massive pain to young people and mortgage holders and deliberately r...

National Cabinet a test of government’s funding priorities

5 September, 2024 - Ahead of National Cabinet, the Greens are calling for full funding for frontline family and domestic violence services. Comments attribut...

Report should spell the end of compulsory income management

3 September, 2024 - The report from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights into compulsory income management has recommended the complete a...

MEDIA RELEASE: UK starts the ban on weapons sales to Israel - so why won't Australia?

3 September, 2024 - The UK has suspended 30 arms export licences to the State of Israel including the direct transfer of parts of the F-35 fighter jet. The UK d...

Dental in Medicare would save Adelaide families thousands as minority Parliament likely

3 September, 2024 - New data reveals making dental part of Medicare would save SA families thousands of dollars a year as soon as 2025, with all polling pointin...

Greens Senator says childcare and housing at crisis point

2 September, 2024 - Greens Senator Steph Hodgins-May will visit Mount Alexander Shire on Wednesday to listen to community concerns about the lack of access to e...

Labor caves again on environment, breaking election promise: Greens

2 September, 2024 - The Greens have slammed the Albanese Government for flagging they will cave in and do a deal with Peter Dutton to gut their already weak env...

Pollution rises again under Labor, government report shows

30 August, 2024 - The latest quarterly emissions data shows that pollution has risen 2.5% from December to March, and is even higher than it was in the final da...

Pressure builds for PM to help free Captain Paul Watson

30 August, 2024 - The Prime Minister has been implored to use diplomatic channels in any way possible to help free Captain Paul Watson, in a letter signed by th...

Greens to force vote on LGBTIQA+ census inclusion unless PM commits to trans, intersex questions

30 August, 2024 - The Australian Greens have said they will force a vote on including LGBTIQA+ Australians in the 2026 census when Parliament returns if the Pri...