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Senator Hanson, please stop your damaging remarks towards kids with autism in schools

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...

Labor and Liberal vote down Senate motion on Okehampton Bay

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...

Victorians issued over 33,000 robo-debt notices in less than a year

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...

10 years today since the NT intervention started, the Government must concede it has not worked

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 ...

No plan for how to grow aged care workforce to meet demand as the population ages, senate committee finds

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...

Senate committee recommends robo-debt be put on hold and drastically overhauled

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...

GREENS READY TO BACK GOVERNMENT REINING IN ELECTRICITY NETWORKS

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...

Government and ALP vote down senate motion calling on cashless welfare card extension to be abandoned

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...

Japan’s moves to resume commercial whaling shows up ‘scientific whaling’ as sham

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...

Electric vehicle targets lagging under Turnbull Government, Greens call for action

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...

Dutton accepts responsibility for Manus Island harm

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...

Labor sides with Government as motion to abandon drug testing income support recipients voted down

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...

Greens respond to Christian Group lobbying for freedom to discriminate against people with mental illness

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...

Senate backs Whyalla steelworks future

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...