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Passage of Labor’s workplace gender equality targets bill is a small win for working women

27 March, 2025 - The Greens welcome the passage of the Workplace Gender Equality Amendment (Setting Gender Equality Targets) Bill 2024, but it could have done m...

Frontline services still not fully funded in last night’s budget

26 March, 2025 - Despite 9 women already killed by violence in Australia this year according to the Counting Dead Women Australia researchers of Destroy The Joi...

The Albanese Government abandons refugees in a race to the bottom on immigration

26 March, 2025 - The Albanese Government has abandoned refugees with a budget that breaks their promise to increase Australia’s humanitarian intake and adds hun...

The Albanese Government is forking out billions for nuclear-powered AUKUS submarines

26 March, 2025 - The Albanese Government has cranked up funding for AUKUS to $18 billion over five years, largely as a tribute payment to President Trump. ...

Greens to introduce bill Repealing Mandatory Minimum Sentences

26 March, 2025 - Today in the Senate, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and Spokesperson for Anti-Racism, will introduce a bill to ...

Cowardly Labor leaves more than 3 million in poverty

26 March, 2025 - More than 3 million Australians are still in poverty today, after Labor’s do-nothing budget left income support below the poverty line for the ...

Tiny tax tweak Budget a missed opportunity to get dental into Medicare, tax the big corporations: Greens

25 March, 2025 - The Australian Greens have said today’s budget was a missed opportunity to deliver real cost of living relief by getting dental into Medicare, ...

Greens to send Labor's rushed environmental legislation to inquiry

25 March, 2025 - “The Government’s rushed legislation to gut environment laws must be scrutinised properly. “Murky legal questions about the environmental co...

Brisbane locals say no to a major stadium at Victoria Park/Barrambin

25 March, 2025 - Media leaks today reveal that the Queensland LNP Government has ignored many of the recommendations of their supposedly independent venues revi...

Greens offer full support for workers and unions with the introduction of paid reproductive health leave bill

25 March, 2025 - As Dutton declares his intention to make life harder for workers the Greens are doubling down on supporting workers rights with a groundbreakin...

Environment laws are supposed to protect the environment, not green-light destruction

24 March, 2025 - Comments attributable to Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens Spokesperson for the Environment and Water. “These rushed laws will gut Australi...

Labor’s budget savings on consultants don’t go far enough

24 March, 2025 - Labor has consistently refused to separate the amount spent on consultants from the overall spend on external contractors so it’s impossible to...

Queensland public school deal locks in underfunding for another decade

24 March, 2025 - Federal Labor’s school funding agreement today with the Queensland Government guarantees that another generation of public school kids will nev...

Labor must rule out trashing environment laws if they want to truly protect nature

22 March, 2025 - Senator Sarah Hanson Young, Greens Spokesperson for the Environment and Water has responded to the Albanese Government's environment announceme...

Greens announce new policy to decouple Australia from US military

22 March, 2025 - The Greens will reallocate $4 billion from over $77 billion in savings from cancelling AUKUS and a number of US weapons purchases towards domes...