Media Statements

The Greens have responded to the LNP Lord Mayor of Brisbane's announcement that the Council will be evicting homeless campers from parks. The public housing waitlist in Queensland is over 47,000 people long, and...

The Greens have accused Labor of joining Peter Dutton in a race to the bottom on blaming migrants for a housing crisis they didn’t cause. The proposal has been previously widely criticised by economists...

Greens Deputy Leader and Higher Education Spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi and Housing and Homelessness spokesperson Max Chandler-Mather MP have responded to the Albanese Government’s decision to instruct banks to loosen home loan rules for student debts,...

A family with two kids in a public school would be almost $2,500 better off every year under the Greens plan to make public schools truly free, and also provide $800 ‘back to school’...

2024-11-28 After constructive negotiations, Australian Greens have secured life-changing upgrades to 50,000 social homes across the country, who will have their homes electrified and save approximately $1,800 a year on power bills.    The Greens...

25/11/2024 The Greens say Labor has given up on renters and first home buyers by refusing to negotiate on the government’s housing bills, but have decided to wave the legislation through to focus on...

24/11/2024 The Greens have proposed to pass the government’s stalled housing bills, Help to Buy and Build to Rent, in exchange for the government seizing the opportunity to fund viable projects overlooked by the...

The Greens have announced plans for 224 government built affordable apartments they will push for in the balance of power after the next election, releasing graphic renders as a proof of concept. The unveiled...

New analysis from the Parliamentary Library has shown that renters could have saved an average of $4,506 in rent per household, had Labor adopted the Greens proposal for a two-year freeze on rent increases...

18/10/2024 Treasurer Jim Chalmers has refused to rule out changes to negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount while analysis commissioned by the Greens from the Parliamentary Library has found that more than...