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Will Labor listen to its own Threatened Species Scientific Committee or toxic salmon companies?

16 August, 2024 - The Albanese government must heed new advice from its own Threatened Species Scientific Committee (TSSC) and remove salmon farming from Macqua...

Railton cement plant

16 August, 2024 - A $53 million grant given to upgrade Cement Australia's Railton kiln will fund the burning of native forest woodchips, documents revealed to t...

Labor leaving older Australians in the dark on new Aged Care Act

16 August, 2024 - The Greens say Labor is keeping older Australians in the dark on its new Aged Care Act, with the community growing increasingly anxious about ...

Labor’s student debt relief bill is a PR stunt

15 August, 2024 - Deputy Greens Leader and spokesperson for Higher Education, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has responded to Labor’s bill that was introduced today cl...

It’s the underfunding, stupid

14 August, 2024 - The Greens say Labor’s new schools agreement would do nothing to reverse the decline in school performance, and would actually lock in underfu...

Gambling ad ban test for Labor in Senate as Greens slam “shifty” excuses

14 August, 2024 - The Greens say Labor’s excuse for caving-in to the gambling lobby is shifty and they will test the Government with a Senate vote to ban gambli...

Another broken promise as Labor abandons LGBTIQA+ workers

13 August, 2024 - On Friday, the Prime Minister announced at a press conference that he was going to abandon religious discrimination reform after the Oppositio...

Maugean skate needs habitat as well as 'hope'

13 August, 2024 - The Greens have welcomed news of the first captively-bred Maugean skate, but reiterated governments must do more to protect the skate in ...

AUKUS 2.0 Agreement all risk no reward

13 August, 2024 - The new AUKUS agreement concerning the acquisition of nuclear submarines is a complete capitulation by the Albanese Labor Government to the in...

Greens call on Labor to rule out SA nuclear waste dump amid secret AUKUS deal

9 August, 2024 - Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is Greens Senator for SA, Spokesperson for Environment: “Reports that the Albanese Government have signed a ...

Albanese’s new AUKUS 2.0 deal with secret "political commitments"

9 August, 2024 - US President Joe Biden announced that a new AUKUS agreement has been signed with Australia that contains secret “political commitments”. Thi...

Rebadged loggers threaten Victoria’s native forest ban

8 August, 2024 - Significant forest industry players are trying to undermine Victoria’s ban on native forest logging on public land by using deceptive language ...

Albanese politicising terror threat levels doesn’t keep us safe

5 August, 2024 - Prime Minister Albanese's choice to use a change in the official terror alert level to air political grievances is both divisive and irresponsi...

Gambling ad ban best odds for kids, families and sports fans

5 August, 2024 - Responding to reports that the Albanese Government are shying away from strong gambling reform, Greens spokesperson for communications Senator ...

Plibersek must reject Woodside gas project, or risk climate vandalism

5 August, 2024 - The Australian Greens have called on the Environment Minister to urgently reject Woodside’s Browse gas project, saying it would amount to envir...