23 June, 2017 - Senator Pauline Hanson doubling down on her comments that children with autism should be segregated in schools shows sheer stubbornness and an i...
22 June, 2017 - A social services bill introduced into the House of Representatives this morning includes a much broader exemption from the Disability Discrimin...
22 June, 2017 - Greens spokesperson for Health Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson expresses his disappointment that both Labor and Liberal voted in the Senate t...
21 June, 2017 - A breakdown provided by the Department of Human Services to the Centrelink senate inquiry shows that over 33,000 Victorians have been issued wit...
21 June, 2017 - It has been a decade today since the Howard Government started the Northern Territory Intervention, the Government should finally concede is it ...
21 June, 2017 - A Senate Committee report that investigated the issues facing the aged care sector in developing its workforce in the face of an ageing populati...
21 June, 2017 - A Senate Committee report into the Government’s Centrelink Online Compliance Intervention (robo-debt) program has called for it to be put on hol...
20 June, 2017 - Greens ready to back government reining in electricity networks
The Australian Greens have said they are ready to back moves to start reining in...
19 June, 2017 - The Government, ALP and crossbench have voted down an Australian Greens senate motion calling for the cashless welfare card expansion to be aban...
16 June, 2017 - Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, has lashed out at moves in the Japanese Parliament to help Japan resume comm...
15 June, 2017 - Senator Janet Rice, Australian Greens spokesperson for transport, has called on the government to do more to increase the uptake of electric veh...
14 June, 2017 - Settlement in the Manus Island class action is an admission by Peter Dutton that he is responsible for the illegal detention and deliberate harm...
14 June, 2017 - A senate motion calling on the Government to abandon drug testing income support recipients has been voted down by the Coalition with the help o...
13 June, 2017 - “It is unbelievable to think that anyone would want more opportunity to discriminate against people with mental ill health, but that’s apparentl...
13 June, 2017 - The Senate has supported an Australian Greens’ motion calling on the Federal Government to use Whyalla steel in local infrastructure projects an...