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Australian Greens will reintroduce bill to increase Newstart and Youth Allowance

10 May, 2018 -   The Australian Greens will reintroduce legislation to increase the single rate of Newstart and Youth Allowance by $75 a week in the second half...

Residential Tenancies Act reforms long overdue: ACT Greens

10 May, 2018 - Caroline Le Couteur, MLA The ACT Greens today urged the Government to deliver on a range of Residential Tenancies Act (RTA) reforms that have yet...

Government and Labor vote down Greens push to reduce truck pollution, greenhouse gases and fuel consumption

10 May, 2018 - The Coalition and Labor have voted against a Greens amendment to a heavy vehicle regulation bill in the senate today that would have lead to redu...

ABC's budget slashed in Turnbull's latest broken promise

10 May, 2018 - Malcolm Turnbull’s 2018 Budget is the latest episode in this Government’s relentless assault on the ABC. "The ABC’s funding has been cut by a qua...

Australian Greens dissent from committee report into Government plans to drug test income support recipients

10 May, 2018 - The Australian Greens have dissented from the Community Affairs Legislation Committee report into the Government’s bill that would drug test Aust...

IDAHOBIT 2018 motion passes Senate

10 May, 2018 - Senator RICE (Victoria) (11:55):  I, and on behalf of Senator Pratt, move: That the Senate: (a) notes that:             (i) 17 May 2018 is Intern...

Government makes broken CDP worse despite promising overhaul

10 May, 2018 -  Changes by the Turnbull Government to the Community Development Program (CDP) in remote and regional Australia are tinkering around the edges, d...

New passenger reforms see light rail on track to deliver

10 May, 2018 - Shane Rattenbury, MLA Canberra’s light rail service is one step closer with the second stage of legislative reforms passed today in the Legislati...

Government and Labor team up to sell out the Murray River and Victorian river communities

10 May, 2018 - “The government and Labor teaming up to cut 605 billion litres of water from the environment, sells out the Murray River and Victorian river comm...

Janet Rice on IDAHOBIT and LGBTIQ equality

10 May, 2018 - Senator RICE:  Next Thursday, 17 May, is IDAHOBIT. IDAHOBIT is not something out of Middle Earth or The Lord of the Rings; it's the International...

Vulnerable Australians continue to get left behind by Turnbull Government

10 May, 2018 - The Australian Greens said today people on lowest level of income have been completely ignored in this budget with no increase to the appallingly...

The Greens are the last line of defence for a healthy river system

10 May, 2018 - Following yesterday’s disallowance vote in the Senate, where Labor and Liberal teamed up to cut 605 billion litres of water from the environment,...

Greens say Turnbull’s high earner tax cuts are a handout to men, leaving women’s equality further behind

9 May, 2018 - The Greens have used ATO income statistics to highlight that the Turnbull Government’s tax cuts for high income earners will disproportionately be...