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Government disregards security risks of uranium sales to conflict zone

14 June, 2017 - The Australian Greens have condemned the Government’s plan to disregard warnings from the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties and proceed with ...

Greens back ‘Genuine Gonski’ and public schools in Senate inquiry report

14 June, 2017 - The Australian Greens have highlighted several major concerns with the government’s proposed schools funding model in a Senate inquiry report th...

No more excuses, axe the tampon tax

14 June, 2017 - The Government’s plan to introduce GST on items bought online for under $1000, due to be debated this week, is chance to abolish the tampon tax ...

Playing games for 411 days

14 June, 2017 - I move: That the Senate take note, specifically, I wish to take note of the absence of a response by the Minister for Communications, Senator Fi...

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...

Looking for hope on Manus

14 June, 2017 - What was the mood like amongst the detainees you spoke to on Manus Island? They are scared and uncertain of their future. Some have lost all hop...

Time to welcome Chechen refugees

14 June, 2017 - Adam Pulford Earlier this year, shocking reports started emerging that authorities in the northern Russian republic Chechnya were capturing, tor...

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...

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...

Senator Rice on Native Title amendment and Adani

13 June, 2017 - I rise to speak on this important piece of legislation, the Native Title Amendment (Indigenous Land Use Agreements) Bill 2017. This parliament, ...

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...

Colleen Hartland announces she won't recontest her seat at 2018 election

13 June, 2017 - Statement from Colleen Hartland:  I feel exhausted just thinking about the amount of work that’s gone into the last eleven years since I was ele...

This Budget is just more of the same in the face of growing inequality in QLD

13 June, 2017 - "The top 10% in Queensland earn 8 times more than 90% of Queenslanders. There are 29,000 Queenslanders in need of a home." “This budget is just ...

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...

Game on: more than playing around

13 June, 2017 - To move — That the Senate (a) notes: (i) the unanimous findings of the Environment and Communications References Committee report, Game on: more...