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Media Release: NACC puts out the trash but keeps its Commissioner - for now

1 November, 2025 - The NACC has announced that Commissioner Brereton will no longer participate in consideration of Defence referrals. They did this in a statem...

Minister Rae celebrates Aged Care profits while older Australians pay more

1 November, 2025 - From today, Labor’s new Aged Care Act comes into force, meaning older Australians will pay more for essential care, including up to $50 just ...

On World Teachers Day, $11.5 billion in unpaid teacher workload shows extent of the overwork crisis

31 October, 2025 - On World Teachers Day, new analysis shows that Australian teachers are contributing $11.5 billion in unpaid labour every year, demonstrating ...

Labor’s big business approval laws leave nature for dead

30 October, 2025 - The Senate has today sent the Government's controversial environment legislation to inquiry to report back in March next year, despite the Mi...

Queensland Government’s cruel ban on gender-affirming care

29 October, 2025 - The Greens have responded to Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls reinstating a ban on gender-affirming care for young trans folk, just ho...

Greens welcome audit of Labor’s failed housing fund

29 October, 2025 - The Greens welcome the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO)’s audit of the Albanese Government’s Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF). The...

Tragic consequences of shark net hypocrisy on display

29 October, 2025 - The Greens implore Minister Watt to remove an EPBC exemption that allows state-controlled shark cull programs following the death of a h...

Media Release: Greens secure fresh landmark youth justice inquiry at a Federal level

28 October, 2025 - The Australian Greens have successfully secured a fresh Federal inquiry into youth justice and incarceration, ensuring national scrutiny of y...

Tomago aluminium bailout should come with a public stake, Greens say

28 October, 2025 - The Australian Greens have called on Labor to save Australia’s largest aluminium smelter from closure with a public ownership stake, and unde...

Senate forces Albanese Government to increase penalties on telcos

27 October, 2025 - “Greens pressure in the Senate has forced the Government to increase the penalties for failing to connect customers to Triple 0 to $30 millio...

Greens demand government treat housing crisis as matter of public urgency

27 October, 2025 - The Australian Greens have put forward a motion to parliament today calling on the Senate to recognise Australia’s housing crisis as a matter...

Labor must back ICJ ruling for Israel to allow unimpeded aid and must sanction Israel

23 October, 2025 - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to allow unimpeded aid into Gaza and has confirmed that the restriction...

Government’s proposed environment laws put big business and polluters ahead of nature

22 October, 2025 - “We need environment laws that protect our forests and the climate; these laws do neither, they are not worth the paper they’re printed on. &...

Government’s climate inaction adding fuel to the housing crisis

22 October, 2025 - Homeowners are paying a climate “disaster penalty” as climate-driven floods become more frequent and severe, according to a new report publis...

Senator Hodgins-May Response to Sussan Ley’s Rejection of Universal Childcare

21 October, 2025 - Greens spokesperson for Early Childhood Education and Care, Senator Steph Hodgins-May, has called Liberal Leader Sussan Ley’s comments reject...