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Arts and festivals sector in crisis requires budget package to thrive, not just survive

9 May, 2024 - Today a Senate inquiry interim report into Australia’s national cultural policy has called for greater support to the Australian festivals sector ...

Cost of Living Inquiry evidence is clear: Labor must raise the rate

9 May, 2024 - The Greens have urged Labor to lift all income support above the poverty line in the upcoming budget, with the weight of evidence given to a Senat...

Political parties work together to deliver Antarctic science outcomes

9 May, 2024 - Axed science programs, distressed scientists, a toxic culture, and plagued icebreaker are just some of the issues stemming from failures in the Au...

Labor offers nice words for active transport, but no real funding

7 May, 2024 - This morning Labor has announced a $100 million Active Transport Fund with a commencement date of 1 July 2025.  This falls far short of th...

Zero support for Labor’s attack on people seeking asylum and diaspora communities

7 May, 2024 - In a historic failure, the Albanese government has been unable to get a single stakeholder to support their shambolic Migration Amendment (Removal...

Senate inquiry calls for price gouging to be made illegal and for supermarket divestiture powers

7 May, 2024 - The Greens-led Senate Select Committee on Supermarket Prices has recommended making price gouging illegal, as well as introducing divestiture laws...

PM mealy-mouthed and evasive in the face of a national crisis

2 May, 2024 - Senator Penny Allman-Payne, Greens social services spokesperson, has slammed the Prime Minister for his pathetic response this morning t...

Labor is entrenching disadvantage

1 May, 2024 - Following calls from leading economists for the Albanese Government to increase Jobseeker and Youth Allowance to 90% of the Age Pension, Labor can...

National Cabinet a disgraceful missed opportunity

1 May, 2024 - Reacting to the National Cabinet communique, Greens spokesperson on Women and Leader in the Senate Larissa Waters said: “What a deeply underwhe...

The nation said NO MORE gendered violence, now we need our government to act

29 April, 2024 - Lines attributable to Greens leader in the Senate and spokesperson on women, Larissa Waters “Thousands of people joined marches around the c...

Labor ignores its own Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee two years running

26 April, 2024 - The Greens have slammed Labor for ignoring the recommendations of its own hand-picked advisory body two years in a row, calling for an immediat...

Labor’s MIA in Perth on Mental Health Supports

26 April, 2024 - The Chair of Mental Health Australia has resigned because the Labor government has failed to take sufficient action on mental health policy. ...

Government can take action on men’s violence without waiting Royal Commission

26 April, 2024 - A Royal Commission could draw further attention to this epidemic, but we already know what needs to be done to reduce and eliminate violence ag...

Australia exported $1.5 million worth of weapons to Israel in February 2024, fresh DFAT data shows

26 April, 2024 - Just published data from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade shows that in February 2024 alone Australia directly exported over $1.5 mi...

Labor is MIA on Mental Health

26 April, 2024 - The Chair of Mental Health Australia has resigned because the labor government has failed to take sufficient action on mental health policy.&nb...