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Australian Greens Senator responds to $1.8m in funding for NSW Custody Notification Service

2 December, 2015 - “Today I withdrew a motion in the Senate I have had on the notice paper for some weeks calling for the Government to provide full funding for...

Malcolm Turnbull's last chance to get kids out by Christmas

2 December, 2015 - Malcolm Turnbull has one last chance to get children out of detention by Christmas. Will he do the right thing and let them live, learn and p...

Election in Myanmar

2 December, 2015 - I travelled to Myanmar to observe the election

Anti-Uranium Mine Submission.

2 December, 2015 - There are two uranium mine proposals in the Goldfields open for public comment - Yeelirrie and the Wiluna extension. There's an online actio...

Government condemns patients to another Christmas as criminals

2 December, 2015 - The Greens say the Turnbull Government has failed to deliver legal access to medicinal cannabis to Australians who've been expecting it by th...

The community campaign to fight Roe 8

2 December, 2015 - The community campaign to fight the Roe 8 freeway has brought together an extraordinary coalition of residents, councils, aboriginal custodia...

Minister knew heritage committee reversed its Roe 8 decision

1 December, 2015 - Questions by Greens Member for South Metropolitan Lynn MacLaren MLC have confirmed that the Aboriginal Affairs Minister knew a committee that...

Senate motion to acknowledge World AIDS Day

1 December, 2015 - Notice of MotionMr PresidentWe give notice that, on the next day of sitting, we shall move - That the Senate-(1) Notes that:(a) 1 December 20...

PM Turnbull must ditch attacks on ARENA & CEFC, double their budgets instead: Greens

1 December, 2015 - Responding to news that the Turnbull government has committed to double research & development investment on clean energy over the next five ...

Marking the 54th Anniverary of the raising of the Morning Star flag

1 December, 2015 - The Australian Greens have moved a Senate motion marking the 54th Anniverary of the raising of the Morning Star flag - a day celebrated as th...

Government denies justice to East Timor

1 December, 2015 - The government has blocked a proposed Senate vote on alleged Australian spying on Timor Leste, but the Greens have warned that the messy trut...

Senator Simms details the rorts of the private for-profit VET sector

1 December, 2015 - The VET FEE-HELP system is broken. What was originally designed as a model to expand access to training for Australians has now become an unt...

Australia's coal obsession threatens Australian workers and global climate efforts

1 December, 2015 - The Turnbull Government's obsession with coal undermines the global momentum in Paris, and threatens the health of Australian workers. "It wa...

Senate supports inquiry into aged care workforce as Australian population ages

1 December, 2015 - Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has secured senate support for an inquiry that will investigate the future of Australia’s aged care ...

PM Turnbull must ditch attacks on ARENA & CEFC, double their budgets instead: Greens

1 December, 2015 - Responding to news that the Turnbull government has committed to double research & development investment on clean energy over the next five ...