Greens
This $8.5b Medicare promise was at the heart of Labor’s election pitch. How’s it working?
Improvements in the bulk-billing rate last month are being overshadowed by a bigger fight over hospital bed block.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
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‘How not to do something really important’: BoM boss grilled over $96m website
The BoM’s new chief said cost blowouts were within the normal range as senators grilled the agency over its $866 million security upgrade.
- Mike Foley
Labor set to cap party war chests in donation law backflip
After fighting to have donation caps protected, the state government has announced it will introduce changes to limit how much money political parties can withdraw during an election period.
- Annika Smethurst
Environment reforms ‘could have been worse’ as WA gets first shot at faster approvals
Premier Roger Cook insists WA will not be disadvantaged under the Greens-backed environment reforms, and confirmed the state would be first to negotiate a fast-tracked approvals agreement with the Commonwealth.
- Carla Hildebrandt and Michael Philipps
- Updated
- Environmental protection
Albanese strikes deal with the Greens to pass environment protection bill
The Albanese government has secured a historic deal with the Greens to pass major reforms to national environment laws.
- Mike Foley
Larissa Waters believes in the goodness of humanity. She lost a little faith after this
The federal Greens leader speaks on what’s changed since she entered politics – and what hasn’t. Plus: the advice she’d give her younger self.
- Benjamin Law
‘Not just garden-variety racism’: Pauline Hanson under fire in court battle
A tweet telling Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi to “piss off back to Pakistan” expressed sentiments that were “on-brand” for the One Nation leader, a court heard.
- Michaela Whitbourn
Not a ‘knitting club’: Hanson’s barrister defends One Nation leader
Pauline Hanson is seeking to overturn a decision that she contravened racial discrimination laws in a tweet telling Mehreen Faruqi to “piss off back to Pakistan”.
- Michaela Whitbourn
Meet the retired tech millionaire who donated $1.9 million to teals and Greens
Pater is one of the biggest single political donors in the country.
- Hamish Hastie
- Exclusive
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Greens send October 7 anniversary email linked to party fundraising page
The email was sent days after Larissa Waters was censured for linking the stabbings of Jews on Yom Kippur in Manchester with Labor’s stance on the conflict in Gaza.
- Paul Sakkal
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