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Legal Aid urgently needs funding boost given high demand for domestic violence family law services

18 April, 2016 - With new analysis showing 79 per cent of Legal-Aid-assisted family law cases include domestic violence, the Greens today renewed their call for...

Senator Di Natale speaks in opposition to the ABCC bill

18 April, 2016 - Senator Richard Di Natale reject's the government's ABCC legislation, which threatens the basic rights of workers and unions.

Scott Ludlam vs the ABCC

18 April, 2016 - Senator LUDLAM (Western Australia-Co-Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens) (17:36):  What is it exactly that we are doing here? A prorogation...

Legal Aid urgently needs funding boost given high demand for domestic violence family law services

18 April, 2016 - 18/04/2016 With new analysis showing 79 per cent of Legal-Aid-assisted family law cases include domestic violence, the Greens today renewed the...

ABCC is an attack on more than a million Australians at work

18 April, 2016 -   I rise to speak on the legislation to bring forward the Australian Building and Construction Commission. The Australian Greens stand strongly...

Richard's address in reply to the Governor-General

18 April, 2016 - Senator Di Natale respond's to the Governor-General's specch to Parliament, as sittings begin to consider the Government's ABCC legislation.

The importance of significant funding proposals being accompanied by detailed business cases

18 April, 2016 - NOTICE OF MOTION 18 April 2016 I give notice that on the next day of sitting I shall move that - 1.       The Senate notes: a.       As Prime M...

Greens call on Prime Minister to stop Treasurer from speaking at ACL conference

17 April, 2016 - Australian Greens sexuality spokesperson Senator Robert Simms says Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull should direct Treasurer Scott Morrison not t...

A Better Way – Greens announce plan to welcome 50,000 refugees a year

16 April, 2016 - The Australian Greens have unveiled a bold yet fiscally responsible vision to harness the nation building capacity that people seeking asylum ...

A Better Way – Greens announce plan to welcome 50,000 refugees a year

16 April, 2016 - The Australian Greens have unveiled a bold yet fiscally responsible vision to harness the nation building capacity that people seeking asylum ...

Greens 18 point plan to combat tax avoidance

15 April, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Finance, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, today has released the most comprehensive policy platform put forward in Australia...

Most Australians agree with the Greens against taxpayer handouts for big fossil fuel companies

15 April, 2016 - 15/04/2016 Most Australians (58.9%) believe the government spends too much on fossil fuel subsidies, according to a national ReachTEL poll out ...

Greens senator calls on local government to show leadership on LGBTI rights

15 April, 2016 - Greens Senator Robert Simms has told the Victorian Local Government Association's Rainbow Working Group that local government should make the m...

Tobacco tax rise should not fund tax cuts: Bandt

15 April, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today said if the government is looking to put up the price of cigarettes, they should use that mone...