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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...

Healthy Canberra Grants focus on vaping cessation and reducing alcohol-related harm

7 May, 2024 - The ACT Government will provide more than $2 million over three years to fund community projects to reduce risky health behaviours among Canberran...

No new money for homes, nothing for renters in State Budget

7 May, 2024 - The Victorian Greens have said today’s State Budget will make the housing crisis worse by investing zero dollars in new homes and providing nothin...

Top down planning failing and putting pressure on councils

6 May, 2024 - Data released by the State Government on its key housing policy, the Transport Oriented Development (TOD) State Environment Planning Policy (SEPP)...

New data on firearm complaints and deaths as NSW Police applications fall

6 May, 2024 - New figures reveal that NSW Police firearms in the custody of off-duty police officers have been investigated 27 times since 2018 and that applica...

ACT’s first female Director of Public Prosecutions starts today

6 May, 2024 - Victoria Engel SC has commenced as the new ACT Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Ms Engel was appointed following a competitive recruitme...

Labor’s student debt announcement a step forward, but provides no cost of living relief, say Greens

5 May, 2024 - Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and spokesperson for Education, Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to Labor’s announcement on changes to ...

Brad Pettitt’s April Update

3 May, 2024 - Trying to improve the Government’s marginal reforms for renters, spruiking Climate Positive Perth, calling out increasing attacks on the LGBTQIA+ ...

Kobi Shetty MP Demands Labor Government Action on Disruptive Road Closures

3 May, 2024 - Transport for NSW have released plans for lengthy road closures and the removal of parking spaces in the Inner West areas of Rozelle and Lilyfield...

Unlawful logging by Forestry Corporation in nine State Forests

3 May, 2024 - 78% of pre-logging surveys by the NSW Forestry Corporation have been discovered to be non-compliant with their conditions, including in 27 active ...

Dr Juliet Lucy appointed as new Presidential Member of the ACAT

3 May, 2024 - Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury today announced Dr Juliet Lucy as a new Presidential Member of the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal (ACAT)....

Stronger tax on developers would raise $8.2b over forward estimates

3 May, 2024 - The Victorian Greens have urged the Treasurer to increase the state’s windfall gains tax on property developers, saying it would raise billions ov...

Damning interim-report into out-of-home care says nothing we didn’t already know

2 May, 2024 - A damning interim-report from the Advocate for Children and Young People has laid bare - yet again - the extraordinary failures of the out-of...

JOINT MEDIA STATEMENT: SUPPORT FOR THE GAZA SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

2 May, 2024 - We, the undersigned, represent leading civil society, human rights, political, faith organisations and trade unions in New South Wales. We will a...