Victorian News

Medicare review necessary and long overdue: Greens

28 September, 2015 - Australian Greens health spokesperson and former GP, Dr Richard Di Natale, today welcomed the review of the Medicare Benefits Schedule but ...

Greens call on Turnbull to recall radicalisation booklet

25 September, 2015 - The Greens are calling on Malcolm Turnbull to recall and recycle the Radicalisation Awareness Kit that claims environmentalism is a pathway...

Overcrowding worst on Geelong trains

25 September, 2015 - Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber says new V/line data reveals Geelong’s peak hour trains are full but the government has no plan to incr...

The economic benefits of the Great Forest National Park

24 September, 2015 - A new report released today shows Victoria would see significant economic and social benefits generated by the establishment of the propose...

V/line Grand Final holiday timetable will hurt regions

23 September, 2015 - Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber says the decision to run less V/line trains and buses on the Grand Final public holiday will make it ha...

PM must ditch IR bills that ‘wage war with unions’ and workers

22 September, 2015 - Greens industrial relations spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today called on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to ditch the industrial relations bi...

Child protection – Privatisation of child protection system

21 September, 2015 - NINA SPRINGLE: My question is to the Minister for Families and Children. Last Friday what the minister has called a wide-ranging expert adv...

Green Wedges: Keysborough Golf Club

21 September, 2015 - My constituency question is for the Minister for Planning. On 13 July this year the Dandenong Journal reported that Keysborough Golf Club m...

Kingston Green Wedge – C143 Amendment

21 September, 2015 - My constituency question is for the Minister for Planning, Richard Wynne. In February this year Kingston City Council asked the minister to...

Members Statement: Syrian Refugee Crisis

21 September, 2015 - In the world's response to the Syrian refugee crisis we are seeing the best and worst of humanity. Turkey is hosting half of the 4 million ...

Question without notice: Child protection: Siblings

21 September, 2015 - NINA SPRINGLE:  My question again is for the Minister for Families and Children. I direct her attention to Anglicare Victoria's Children in...

Crimes Amendment (Child Pornography and Other Matters) Bill 2015

18 September, 2015 - I rise this evening to speak in the debate on the Crimes Amendment (Child Pornography and Other Matters) Bill 2015. The Greens will be voti...

Greens support Ombudsman’s call for new approach to criminal justice

18 September, 2015 - The Victorian Ombudsman’s report into the rehabilitation and reintegration of prisoners is a wake-up call that the endless ‘tough on crime’...

New Western Distributor route riases further questions

18 September, 2015 - The Greens say the new Western Distributor plans raises further questions and concerns, and are calling on Transurban and the Andrews Gover...

Adjournment: Grange Rd, Carnegie, Pedestrian Crossing

17 September, 2015 - Ms PENNICUIK (Southern Metropolitan) — My adjournment matter is for the Minister for Roads and Road Safety, Mr Donnellan, and concerns the ...