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Sarah Hanson-Young
Senator for South Australia

Greens call for Domestic Roaming on the back of ACCC announcement

5 August, 2026 - The Australian Greens call for all Australians mobile phone users to have access to domestic roaming and call on the ACCC to put public safety ...

Greens Move to Expand Voluntary Assisted Dying Access Through Telehealth

26 July, 2026 - Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young will introduce a private senators bill in the August sitting period which will allow Australians to access vol...

Telstra has put profits ahead of service reliability. Greens will move for laws to put customers first.

8 July, 2026 - The Australian Greens have called for laws that will put customers ahead of teleco profits and will call the company to a Senate Inquiry.  ...

Australia Cannot Become a Dumping Ground for Big AI

7 July, 2026 - Responding to reports that AI company Anthropic plans to secure 1.4 gigawatts of Australian data centre capacity, Senator for South Australia and...

Inquiry Secured as Greens Fight for Stronger Gambling Reforms

1 July, 2026 - The Greens have forced the Senate to send the Albanese government’s undercooked proposed gambling legislation off to a Senate Inquiry.  T...

AI is the new extractive industry

25 June, 2026 - AI is the new extractive industry By Senator Sarah Hanson-Young A data centre so big it needs its own gas turbines to not trip the ...

Greens call for a moratorium on the building and approval of data centres in Australia

24 June, 2026 - Quotes attributable to Senator for SA and Chair of the parliamentary inquiry into artificial intelligence and data centres, Sarah Hanson-Young: ...

Greens response to bird flu detected in South Australia

24 June, 2026 - Quotes attributable to Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens Senator for South Australia and spokesperson for the environment: “It’s clear that bird flu...

Labor was Warned: Greens Back $200 Million Bird Flu Response

21 June, 2026 - Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is backing calls from leading conservation organisations, including BirdLife Australia and the Invasive Species Counc...

Australia’s AI regulation to face some much needed scrutiny

10 June, 2026 - Submissions are now open for the Senate inquiry that will look into artificial intelligence data centres in Australia.  The inquiry, to ...

Greens secure parliamentary inquiry into AI data centres

13 May, 2026 - The Senate has today established an inquiry into artificial intelligence data centres in Australia, amid growing community concern about the rapi...