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Senate calls on Government to come good on funding for neurodegenerative disease in East Arnhem Land

27 March, 2017 - The Greens and Labor have secured Senate support calling on the Federal Government to make good on a $10 million grant that they have refused t...

Barnaby Joyce is talking through his hat on Heyfield mill crisis

27 March, 2017 - The Greens have condemned the Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce’s blundering attempt to wade in to Victorian forest issues, saying these type of short-si...

Power companies and Libs playing South Australians for fools

27 March, 2017 - South Australians don’t need yet another inquiry into the price of power, they need action now to level the playing field for renewables and cr...

Students fight for fair fares

27 March, 2017 - CBD News: Greens MLC for Eastern Metropolitan, Samantha Dunn also attended the rally to continue her party’s support for the Fares Fair campaig...

Media Release: Multicultural Australia says leave 18C alone

27 March, 2017 - The Greens have hosted a roundtable with representatives of a number of multicultural communities who are concerned about the Government wateri...

Barnaby Joyce is talking through his hat on Heyfield mill crisis

27 March, 2017 - The Greens have condemned the Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce’s blundering attempt to wade in to Victorian forest issues, saying these type of short-si...

Government unable to rule out Australian involvement in Mosul airstrike tragedy

27 March, 2017 - The Turnbull Liberal government has failed to rule out Australia's involvement in another bombing tragedy in Iraq, the Australian Greens said t...

Senate calls on Government to come good on funding for neurodegenerative disease in East Arnhem Land

27 March, 2017 - The Greens and Labor have secured Senate support calling on the Federal Government to make good on a $10 million grant that they have refused t...

The disastrous bombing in west Mosul

27 March, 2017 - I move that the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Defence (Senator Payne) in question time today. There is no doubt tha...

Mentally ill crime bill fails in Victorian parliament

27 March, 2017 - Alex White, Herald Sun A MOVE to overhaul how courts handle mentally ill criminals has stalled in the state parliament amid concerns more dange...

Funding cuts to Community Legal Centres must be reversed

27 March, 2017 - The federal government must act immediately to restore funding it has stripped from community legal centres to ensure tens of thousands of peop...

Were Australians involved in the disastrous attack on Mosul?

27 March, 2017 - Senator LUDLAM:  Over the weekend, the United States government took responsibility for air strikes in western Mosul that may have killed more ...

Aboriginal Legal Services should not have been excluded from race-hate inquiry: Greens

24 March, 2017 - It is atrocious that the Government excluded Aboriginal Legal Services from giving evidence at a senate inquiry into race-hate laws, Australian...

International Day of Forests 2017

24 March, 2017 - Forests are Australia's hidden treasure. Entering our forests, it is invigorating to breathe in the fresh air and hear cascades of clear water,...

Aboriginal Legal Services should not have been excluded from race-hate inquiry: Greens

24 March, 2017 - It is atrocious that the Government excluded Aboriginal Legal Services from giving evidence at a senate inquiry into race-hate laws, Australian...