Given Pine Gap's role in US military operations, there is every likelihood it was used to facilitate these strikes — and the Albanese government must answer for that. Australians do not want to be dragged into another US-Israeli war.
There is no denying the people of Iran have been suffering at the hands of a brutal regime. But we cannot bomb our way to peace. These illegal US-Israeli strikes have already killed innocent civilians — and heartbreakingly, at least 53 young girls at an elementary school in Minab.
When your company has been at the centre of the crisis in early learning, you don’t rebuild parents’ trust with media talking points. You rebuild trust by turning up to a Senate inquiry with the data.
And couldn’t confirm whether any Affinity centres were among the 60 identified by the Department of Education for serious enforcement action.
CEO Glen Hurley: Couldn’t confirm whether upcoming management restructures would reduce or increase safeguarding staff, couldn’t provide up-to-date figures on compliance notices, couldn’t provide details of executive salaries, couldn’t say how many executives have backgrounds in ECEC.
Heads up Affinity, if you operate 250+ for-profit early learning centres across Australia, it pays to come to a Senate inquiry prepared.
These latest measly emission reductions are nothing to celebrate. People are doing their bit to reduce emissions, but with every coal and gas approval, Labor is undoing that work.
Labor's approval of the North West Shelf project has undone the work done by the rest of the country to reduce emissions last year - ten times over. It will keep spewing out that toxic climate damage every year until 2070.
Labor's coal and gas approvals do nothing to help people’s power bill pain, they mean we're on track to miss net zero targets, and will smash Australian industry with the impacts of climate change.
We are a wealthy nation. Nobody should be turned away from accessing a safe place to sleep, or nutritious food, while 1 in 3 big corporations pay no tax.
Emergency relief centres like Southern Peninsula Community Support are lifesaving organisations.
To know that they’re not being even close to adequately funded is heartbreaking.
Shame on Chris Minns. Shame on Anthony Albanese. You can’t arrest your way out of a moral crisis.
We stand in solidarity with our communities from all faiths and backgrounds, and their calls to uphold international law.
The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy.
The NSW Labor government and the Prime Minister are responsible for this.
By rolling out the red carpet for a leader accused of war crimes, and then unleashing the police on Australians who dare to protest it, Labor has shown exactly where
its priorities lie.
The NSW Police brutalising peaceful protesters in Sydney is abhorrent.
We saw people being thrown to the ground and pepper-sprayed for the "crime" of standing up against genocide.
This isn't policing. It’s state-sponsored intimidation.
January 26 is not a day for celebration. It is a day of mourning and a day of powerful resistance.
The Greens are proud to stand with Traditional Owners in the fight for Treaty, an end to First Nations deaths in custody, and an end to the destruction of sacred sites.
The Bondi attack was a horrific act of antisemitic violence. My heart goes out to the families of the 15 lives lost. We grieve with you.
Everyone should have the right to live and worship in peace. We must choose solidarity over division and stand together against hate.
Labor is opening up an area 1/3rd the size of Tasmania to big corporations for more gas drilling, threatening critical whale habitat and will locking us into more fossil fuels.
Join us in calling Labor to withdraw the Otway Basin acreage immediately: greens.org.au/otway-submis...
The laws will potentially target groups calling for an end to genocide and human rights abuses. It's clear they aren't about safety - they're about control and punishing dissent.
The Greens will keep standing up to laws that strip rights, divide people, and weaken democracy.
Australians deserve safety and freedom, but not one at the expense of the other. Stronger national gun laws have passed, thanks to support from the Greens.
But at the same time, Labor & the Coalition rushed through draconian "hate speech" laws that will criminalise association.
As of 2024, there are more than 4 million guns legally owned by the civilian population.
This is 25% more than before the Port Arthur shootings in 1996 when there were around 3 million guns.
Gun reform is long overdue.
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The Greens call on the government to drop these Trumpian powers along with any other proposals which scapegoat migrants and create wide-ranging, divisive, one-sided laws.
Labor is still trying to get opposition support for dangerous changes to the Migration Act, giving new powers for the Home Affairs Minister to ignore procedural fairness and ban or criminalise organisations at the discretion of the Minister.
Relieved to see Labor has dropped their highly problematic hate speech laws after The Greens joined human rights orgs and community in opposing the legislation.
History shows that Western-led regime change only brings more hardship and instability for civilians. It was wrong in the 1950's and it is wrong now.
We support justice for the Iranian people, not the dangerous manufacturing of consent for another disastrous war.
We stand in solidarity with the Iranian diaspora here in Australia, who are living in fear for their families while internet and communications are cut off.
The Iranian regime’s brutal oppression of its own people is a horror, but we won't let the Trump administration or the US use legitimate calls for freedom as a justification to another war.
Heartbreaking scenes in Victoria and Australia. Lives upended and communities shattered again by bushfires. A stark reminder of the crisis we’re facing.
Follow VicEmergency warnings and call 000 in emergencies.
My thoughts are with everyone impacted and frontline crews.
Victoria is facing another fire season with increased risk. We can’t afford to be complacent, and we can’t ignore the climate crisis driving these extreme conditions.
Protecting ourselves is an act of community care, & it starts with preparation.
Here are some resources for bushfire preparedness.
Some wins from our office this year, with much more to come! 💚
