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Labor’s ridicule of student protesters a new low

15 November, 2023 - The Greens say Labor is hopelessly out of touch with Australia’s young people, after the government today mocked students preparing to walk ...

Labor forced to come clean on plan to demolish public housing towers

15 November, 2023 - The Victorian Labor Government has been asked to come clean on its plan to demolish 44 public housing towers and privatise the majority of t...

Wages data shows rent crisis is out of control

15 November, 2023 - The most recent data on wage growth and rent increases in Australia presents a stark picture of the escalating rental crisis, exacerbated by...

Memo Labor: Don’t let Peter Dutton write immigration detention laws again

15 November, 2023 - Labor must not let Peter Dutton dictate its response to the High Court ruling that indefinite immigration detention is unconstitutional, the...

Greens win changes to Respect at Work costs protection

15 November, 2023 - The Greens welcome the introduction of the Australian Human Rights Commission Amendment (Costs Protection) Bill 2023 today, which would impl...

Petition triggers special parliament debate on Labor's disastrous coal-to-hydrogen project

15 November, 2023 - A community petition against Labor’s new coal-to-hydrogen project will trigger a debate in Parliament this afternoon, forcing the Labor stat...

Greens move minute's silence in Senate

15 November, 2023 - MOTION – I give notice that on the next day of sitting, I shall move—That, at the conclusion of formal motions today, the Senate observe a m...

Greens MP suspended from Parliament over pro-climate selfie

15 November, 2023 - Both Labor and the Liberals have today voted to suspend Greens MP Gabrielle de Vietri from the chamber for refusing to apologise for taking ...

Labor must take up offer for free pill testing trial in Victoria this summer

15 November, 2023 - The Greens have urged the Victorian Labor Government to take up an offer being made by public health experts to establish a free pill testin...

Forestry Corporation ordered to stop work at Flat Rock State Forest

14 November, 2023 - The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has today issued a stop work order to NSW Forestry Corporation after it again failed to conduct a...

Tasmania’s rental crisis continues to worsen

14 November, 2023 - The 2023 Rental Affordability Index shows Tasmania is in a deepening rental crisis, the Greens say. “This is the system acting exactly as...

Greens write to Education Minister urging him to retract comments on school strikes

14 November, 2023 - Greens Education (Primary and Secondary) spokesperson Senator Penny Allman-Payne, a 30-year public school teacher, today wrote to Education ...

Controversial military exports Bill must not be rushed

14 November, 2023 - Late last Friday night the Albanese Government snuck out an exposure draft for the Defence Trade Controls Amendment Bill 2023 with submissio...

Construction underway for modernised mental health service facilities for young people

13 November, 2023 - A parents room for families with younger children, a purpose-designed therapeutic arts and play activities space, and more interview rooms a...

The Greens call on Labor to learn the lessons of Robodebt and halt debt recovery

13 November, 2023 - The Greens welcome the Labor government’s in-principle acceptance of the Robodebt Royal Commission’s recommendations, but once again call on...