This is Teal Brain in action. Yesterday Allegra Spender moved this amendment, which would have allowed people with millions of dollars in superannuation to avoid tax. The Teals spend a lot of time looking after the 1%. Gotta look after your political donors I guess.

Today is World Wildlife Day - a global event for the awareness raising of wildlife conservation and the urgent need to protect endangered species.

Watching the ABC investigation into gay hate crimes last night was horrific. Teens hunted, lured and bashed on film in homophobic attacks in Sydney - this is unforgivable, and it signals real, present danger for queer people in Australia.

The ACCC’s action against Coles confirms what people already know -  when corporations have too much power, they use it to squeeze people. Fake discounts are one symptom of a system where dominant firms can do as they like while people struggle with cost-of-living pressures.

Two months after ANZ was fined $250m for serious misconduct - rigging a bond deal, misleading markets and charging dead customers - the bank has posted a first quarter profit of $1.94 billion. A culture of profiteering and lawlessness is being rewarded with record returns.

Australians are bracing for another interest rate rise because Labor has turbo-charged the housing crisis and refused to tackle corporate price gouging.

The Oxfam report shows exactly what’s broken in our economy.

Pressure is growing on Labor to act, with NSW Treasury now joining a long list of experts calling out the capital gains tax discount as unfair and damaging.

Tasmania once criminalised people for being gay or for cross-dressing. Yesterday Tasmania's Parliament finally passed laws to erase those convictions and offer redress for the harm caused. This is justice decades overdue.

The Greens have secured a Senate inquiry into the capital gains tax (CGT) discount. We will use this to expose one of the most regressive tax breaks in Australia, where 50% of the benefit goes to the top 1% wealthiest Australians.

In an abhorrent turn of events, Queensland's Health Minister - Tim Nicholls - has reinstated a ban on gender-affirming care for young trans folk, just hours after the Supreme Court ruled the LNP’s first ban unlawful.

A Queensland mum just had to take the LNP Government to court so her trans kid could get healthcare. And she won! The Supreme Court ruled the LNP’s ban on gender-affirming care was unlawful.

Police and Forestry Tasmania have scoped out the Styx Forest Sentinel Camp that I visited this week.

2025 has already been the worst on record for the destruction of koala habitat. Almost 4,000 hectares – the size of four Sydney Airports – has been approved to be bulldozed this year.

My privilege to meet today with a delegation of Australia’s Tibetan community. We spoke about the need for self-determination for Tibetan people, and the importance of protecting the future succession of the Dalai Lama from Chinese government interference.

Of course we need more renewable energy projects, but Robbins Island is the wrong project in the wrong place.

The NSW Environment Protection Authority has just laid 29 charges against the Forestry Corporation of NSW for repeatedly failing to protect a threatened species. Again.

Today is Wear it Purple Day 💜 Today and every day, we must advocate for, support, and empower LGBTIQA+ young folk, and create safe and inclusive environments for them to thrive.

For some teals, the problem with negative gearing is that wage earners are using it. You don't fix a rort by only letting rich people use it.

The latest ABS data shows property investors are continuing to squeeze first-home buyers out of the market.

CommBank has just reported a massive $10.25 billion annual profit, the highest in at least a decade and up 4% on last year.

Israeli forces have attacked the Freedom Flotilla Handala – an unarmed aid boat bound for Gaza – and abducted its crew of activists, including two Australian citizens.

Labor has sanctioned Mehreen Faruqi for holding up a sign in the Senate, but won’t sanction Israel for its genocide in Gaza. It’s like peaceful activism is worse than murdering countless Palestinian babies.

What’s happening in Gaza is not a war. Calling it a war is a deliberate attempt to obscure the truth. Let’s name it up. It’s a barbaric slaughter, a genocide, a mass murder. And Labor has made Australia complicit. End the genocide and free Palestine ✊🏼🇵🇸

It is deeply disappointing that the Prime Minister’s outline of his economic agenda today is a love letter to the Liberal party’s economic worldview.

Your eligibility to donate plasma or blood shouldn’t be determined by your sexuality or your gender.

Greens pressure works! While Labor is browsing the Greens' website looking for policy ideas, they should also copy and paste our plan to get dental into Medicare and end native forest logging.

Tasmanian farmed salmon is stinking rotten extinction salmon. Do not eat it.

The ACCC has confirmed Coles and Woolworths have an iron grip on the supermarket sector, and they are using it to rip people off. They confirmed that supermarkets are price gouging, that they lack competition, and that they are among the most profitable supermarkets globally.

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The Greens have a plan to take on the supermarket giants and bring grocery prices down. We’ll make price gouging illegal, introduce divestiture powers to break up Coles and Woolworths, and set up a powerful watchdog to stop their rorts.

I'll accept the challenge Jim. A debate between Angus Taylor MP and Jim Chalmers MP would be an absolute snorefest anyway, as they are in lockstep on the big issues. Mr Taylor has gone quiet so the Treasurer now has a chance to debate someone who will actually disagree with him.

This is the guy who promised not to increase interest rates then went on a record-breaking spree of increases, increasing cost of living pain for millions of Australians. The whole point of interest rate rises is to reduce demand by causing financial pain.

7 Tasmania has just been bought by ADH. ADH lists Advance as one of its partners. Advance are funded by billionaires and fossil fuel interests and have a stated intention to destroy the Greens. Be warned. We are watching the oligarchs take over in the US and it’s happening here.

Greens pressure works! Labor’s extra investment into Medicare will make a huge difference. This announcement is a significant part of the Greens ‘GP for Free’ plan. We have pressured Labor to act, and they finally have - voting Greens forces Labor to do better.

The Reserve Bank has cut rates by 25 basis points. The big banks should now cut their rates by 50. Bank corporations are happy to increase their loan rates by more than the RBA puts them up when it suits them. They should do the same now rates are falling.

Mortgage stress is increasing yet Commbank have just posted a staggering $5.13bn half-yearly profit, up 7% on the preceding 6 months. Last year Commbank CEO defended corporate profiteering when he whinged about the Greens plan to tax excessive corporate profits.

Today we’re launching our plan to tax billionaires to fund essential services. While ordinary people struggle to pay rent and see a doctor, Gina Rinehart has $40.6 billion. That’s the system Labor and the Liberals are defending.

The Greens are introducing legislation to increase superannuation contributions for frontline firefighters and paramedics, bringing them in line with Australian Defence Force personnel.

Yesterday we learned of millions of dollars in corporate donations to the major parties. Now the CEOs come to Parliament to dictate how our country should run. Instead of selling out to them, we should make them pay their fair share of tax so more people can have a better life.

Uncle Jim’s defence of his country against industrial logging has inspired many including me. He should be warmly thanked rather than convicted and fined. The real crimes here are destroying Aboriginal heritage, logging species into extinction and heating the planet.

He hasn’t even left Parliament yet and he’s already landed a plum corporate gig for a major bank that has given his party nearly $800,000 in donations in the past decade. It’s a big club and you’re not in it.