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South Australians head to the polls this weekend, and the SA Greens have rolled out their biggest campaign yet! The SA Labor government - like the federal Labor government - is choosing to tinker around the edges on cost-of-living, housing, the climate crisis. But we can do better.

Today is International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, but here in Australia racism isn’t being eliminated, it is rising. Unchallenged hate leads to devastating consequences. There are ways to confront and tackle systemic racism - but so far Labor is ignoring them.

I've written to the PM offering to pass a 25% gas export tax in the next two weeks. Rich gas corps are making billions off this war, get gas for free, and pay almost no tax. That's money better spent helping people. No more free ride for gas corps while people go backwards.

Thinking of everyone in FNQ as Cyclone Narelle tracks toward the coast. Authorities warn it could be the biggest system in living memory. Please keep checking official warnings, prepare your home and kit, and follow any advice from local authorities without delay.

Making public transport free, for as long as this crisis goes on for, must be on the table at National Cabinet today. This would be immediate cost-of-living relief, and take the pressure off fuel supplies. Billionaires took us to war, and the rest of us are paying for it.

Tomorrow the PM is meeting state and territory leaders about the fuel crisis. They should discuss making public transport free for as long as the crisis goes on for. And as the federal government is backing the war, they should pick up the tab.

Victim-survivors of family, domestic and sexual violence must feel safe to seek support. Having their private conversations with 1800 RESPECT handed over to their perpetrators, does not provide that safety. It just adds to the trauma they’ve already experienced.

While Trump and Netanyahu’s chaos in the Middle East unleashes great human suffering, fossil fuel corporations are making massive profits. Australian gas companies profited roughly $100 billion when Russia invaded Ukraine. We can’t allow the same profiting from war again.

Today, on the International Day to Combat Islamophobia, we remind the government that it’s been 16 months since the Race Discrimination Commissioner released the National Anti-Racism Framework, a roadmap to combat racism in Australia, and Labor is letting it gather dust.

My heart is with everyone facing floods up north. In Bundaberg it's the worst in 10 years, in Katherine the worst in decades. And more rain is possible. Rolling disasters will keep devastating Northern Australian communities as governments make the climate crisis worse.

Labor has so many reasons to get Australia out of AUKUS. Canada sees it’s a dud deal and doesn’t want to join any more. There’s another illegal Trump & Netanyahu war in the Middle East that Australia should not be supporting.

We all deserve support when we need it - and we deserve it without having to wait weeks or months for it, especially when that wait could be deadly. Add your name to the call to governments to fund women's safety: www.fairagenda.org/fund_womens_...

Funding for frontline FDSV services is still only 80% of what the sector has spent a decade calling for. That's 1 in 5 women being turned away. If this government can afford to hand $368b to Trump for AUKUS submarines, why can’t they afford to fully fund women and children’s safety?

In war, civilians suffer, while the rich line their pockets. Oil profits are up. Weapons companies are booming. Meanwhile, schools and hospitals get bombed, and thousands die. War makes billionaires and their corporations even richer. It’s just another business model for them.

You cannot bomb your way to peace. Labor must immediately rule out further Australian support for Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal war in Iran.

Israel’s endless war continues with more bombing of Iran and the Iranian people. Whether Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Yemen or Lebanon the region has experienced repeated Israeli and western killings and invasions and it always pushes peace away. The world must act to end the killing, stop the bombing.

Big love to everyone headed to Mardi Gras in Sydney this weekend. Now more than ever, spaces that celebrate queer joy and community must be protected. The Greens are proud to join LGBTQIA+ people in solidarity this weekend, and all year round.

Big news. Negative Gearing changes are back on the table following our campaign to end investor handouts. Unfair tax discounts just make housing more expensive, and give billions to super-wealthy property investors. Ending them will help everyone have a home to call their own.

You can’t afford to put food on the table while Coles & Woolies use fake discount claims to rake in mega profits. Two weeks ago Labor, the Liberals & One Nation all voted against the Greens Bill to make price gouging illegal. Still think they’re fighting for you?

The PM calling Grace Tame, a woman fighting for the safety of children, “difficult” is completely unwarranted.  Labelling women as difficult won’t silence us. It won’t stop us speaking truth to power.  Next time try “unbreakable” or “warrior” or “fierce”, Prime Minister.

Social cohesion doesn’t look like appointing an NT administrator who has mocked First Nations peoples, made sexist & transphobic comments, and “jokes” about family violence. Listening to First Nations communities doesn’t look like ignoring their concerns and emboldening racists.

The Prime Minister being evacuated from his residence in Canberra due to a bomb threat overnight is shocking, I am glad he is safe and well. The recent escalation of threats against parliamentarians must be called out. Violence has no place in our democracy.

Next time you’re told there’s no money for mental health or affordable housing, remember Peter Mandelson — former UK Ambassador to the US, “best friend” of Jeffrey Epstein, and now arrested for misconduct in public office.

I have written to the Ministers ahead of today’s Women’s Safety meeting: stop the murders with funding, not more talk.  We need immediate, funded action on housing, policing, alcohol and gambling, and national data.

All my love and solidarity to the Lakemba Muslim community today after they received another security threat yesterday. Islamophobia has no place in our society, and especially not our political discourse.

Today Pauline Hanson is attacking Muslims while defending tax breaks like the Capital Gains Tax discount: a policy that overwhelmingly benefits the top 1% and does nothing for people struggling with rent or trying to buy their first home.

More funding to Stolen Generations survivors for support, reunification & healing is welcome - and much needed. But the number of First Nations kids in out-of-home care has more than doubled since an Apology that should have meant “never again”.

Today, under the cover of the Liberals tearing each other down, Labor has approved another coal mine extension. Extending Middlemount to 2044 means Labor has now approved 35 fossil fuel projects. In the middle of the climate crisis, they're approving more coal & gas.

Closing the Gap has stalled with only 4 of 19 targets on track. The Greens urge Labor to show ambition and courage to deliver real outcomes for First Nations justice. Incremental change won't close the gap by 2031 like Labor promised.

The footage out of Sydney overnight is abhorrent. Peaceful protesters set upon by an army of police, punches thrown at people with raised hands, people praying ripped from their knees. Is this violence the social cohesion that Labor wanted?

Vale Jon Kudelka - a brilliant artist who knew the power of comedy in holding truth to power, and effecting change.  His work showed a genuine and profound love for people and nature - often funny, often heartbreaking, but always incisive.  Australia has lost a great today.

Finally. This violent act targeting First Nations people on Invasion Day should have been investigated as terrorism and treated with the seriousness it deserved from the day it happened.

The housing crisis is fuelling inflation. And Labor is making the problem worse. The dollars they’ve thrown at first home buyers are a drop in the ocean compared to the $180 billion in tax breaks that flow to wealthy property investors.

The CGT discount is the most unfair tax handout there is. It is exacerbating inequality and locking a generation out of home ownership. Enough is enough. No more tinkering around the edges of the housing crisis. Labor must scrap the CGT discount in the next budget.

The only winners out of today’s interest rate increase are the big banks. And they don’t need the win. They’re already making 200k profit off the average mortgage! This government is choosing to let ordinary people cop the pain, while corporate profits soar.

Politics is about choices. This government is choosing to spend more on tax breaks for landlords than on social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined. While you're getting smashed by unlimited rent increases and massive mortgage repayments.

The Invasion Day rally in Boorloo/Perth was targeted and attacked with an explosive device. The silence from the right has been deafening. The same politicians who have spent the last month politicising violence are now nowhere to be found.

Never again. On Yom Hashoa / Holocaust Remembrance Day, we commemorate the victims and remember the tragedies of the Holocaust, wreaked upon Jewish people under the Nazi regime. We must remember, so that we ensure it never happens again.

Australia is the hottest place on Earth right now. We’re paying the price while big coal, oil & gas corporations make billions destroying our climate and environment. Billions in profit, billions in public subsidies, and yet many of these polluters pay less tax than a nurse or a teacher.

Recognising 26 January as a day of invasion is not about division, but about respect, honesty and connection. It is about acknowledging the truth that sovereignty was never ceded. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

Last night, Labor and the Liberals teamed up to pass new dangerous and overreaching laws limiting speech and political expression. These rushed laws include many things to be concerned about, including deeply worrying implications for people’s ability to protest.

Labor has dropped highly controversial hate speech laws but is still trying to get Coalition support for dangerous changes to the Migration Act and new powers for the Home Affairs Minister. These changes are bad and the Greens stand with the community to oppose them.

The Greens are ready to work with the government to pass gun laws next week. The rest of the omnibus bill however needs too much reworking to meet community concerns. We need to keep all people in the community safe from discrimination and hatred, but good laws don’t come from rushed work.

The Greens have serious concerns about the proposed hate laws legislation, which we have shared with the government, and we will not support it in its current form. We can’t combat hate if we don’t combat it for everyone.

NSW’s firearm reforms should be the impetus for national action on gun control. Falsely conflating those who peacefully march against violence in Gaza with the criminal actions of radicalised individuals is a dangerous path. We will always defend the right to peaceful protest.

In the wake of the Port Arthur tragedy, governments collectively took action. So too should we after Sunday’s horrific antisemitic mass shooting. This is about our common humanity, and it should be above politics.

It’s now clear tonight’s brutal gun violence was targeting the Jewish community, families gathering to celebrate the 1st night of Chanukah. This is reprehensible and intolerable. My heart is with the Jewish community who are grieving loved ones, and feeling rocked and fearful.

This year has seen the largest number of Aboriginal deaths in custody since records began in 1980. This is a national shame and tragedy. How many more First Nations people will die before the federal government acts?

These are diabolical pollution numbers that suggest we are on track for cataclysmic climate change. 48% is a country mile away from the 62% emissions reduction that Labor promised.