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Greens announce Plan for Free Early Childhood Education and Care

6 March, 2022 - The Greens have today announced their plan for free and universal early childhood education and care. Early childhood education is an essential ...

Bandt slams federal flood assistance payments, calls for coal and gas corporations to pay for recovery

4 March, 2022 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt will today announce the Greens’ plan to make coal and gas corporations pay for recovery, including doubling the Disaste...

Greens ready to hold government to account on plastics treaty

3 March, 2022 - The Greens have welcomed the UN agreement to negotiate a global treaty on plastic pollution by 2024, but warned Australia not to take a two-year...

International students left behind again by discriminatory government

3 March, 2022 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has criticised the exclusion of international students and other temporary visa ...

IPCC Report & emissions data: Australia could lose it all

1 March, 2022 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, has responded to the IPCC report on climate impacts and adaptation released overnight as well as the latest Australia...

Greens call for Perth Festival to drop fossil fuel sponsorship

1 March, 2022 - Amidst devastating floods over east and growing calls for climate action, the Greens are urging Perth Festival, WA Youth Orchestra, and WA Symph...

Delay to live export review welcome: Greens

28 February, 2022 - Australian Greens Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed the Department of Agriculture’s decision to extend consult...

Ending violence against women

27 February, 2022 - As women and allies across the country take to the streets again demanding change, the Greens have released a comprehensive plan to fully fu...

Greens plan to subsidise wages of coal workers and support communities through winding down of coal

25 February, 2022 - To stop coal communities collapsing, every coal worker should have a decade of generous financial support, including wage subsidies to assis...

Days before border reopens, Greens back letter urging McGowan Government to protect Perth’s urban homeless

25 February, 2022 - With COVID cases on the rise, The Greens today have back calls from prominent public health experts urging the McGowan Government to both ho...

Billionaires have bought our democracy

23 February, 2022 - The Greens have repeated their calls for root and branch reform of Australia’s political donations and election spending regime with billion...

Statement from the Australian Greens on Ukraine

23 February, 2022 - The Australian Greens condemn Vladimir Putin’s military aggression in the Ukraine, as we condemn all military aggression. We call on all par...