Sending love to the dozens of people who remain in care, and hope for their swift recovery. Australia is with each of you.

The Greens' other stamps say: ➡️Build public & affordable homes ➡️Stop unlimited rent increases ➡️Give loans to owner occupiers rather than property investors ➡️Regulate banks & bring down mortgages

The $100m BoM website update shows exactly why we need to build capacity in the public service and reduce our over reliance on consultants. A robust public service will always provide better value for money and better quality for the taxpayer dollar.

Watch ATO’s Rob Heferen panic & go red in the face as Barbara Pocock questions why they pushed Michael O’Neill into a new role, after he was investigating the PwC scandal. Pocock asks if he’s made any complaints. Heferen “You mean about me?” Geezus take a breath - sounds dodgy🚩 #Estimates

Increadingly a government of gestures. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Labor’s inaction on the housing crisis is forcing women to choose between violence & homelessness. Specialist Homelessness Services are receiving on average 350 requests each day for help that they can’t meet. Women & children are the majority of clients and 40% of cases are DV related.

Early start on @news.sky.com this morning talking the BoM website bungle.

Disasters like the BoM website update exemplify exactly why we need to build capacity in the public service and reduce our over reliance on consultants. A robust public service will always provide better value for money and better quality for the taxpayer dollar.

How to wave off a problem: - Commission a review - Ignore key recommendations - Don’t enshrine anything in legislation - Keep giving jobs to the boys 🤙

Woolworths is exploiting affordable housing development schemes to fast-track new supermarket & luxury apartment complexes while rental vacancy rates are at record lows, 175,000 on social housing waiting lists & 1st home buyers can't compete with wealthy property investors.

Ready to talk to ABC about the new data out on house prices.

Work from Home. Where it works, the boss should not be able to arbitrarily refuse or remove. We can so this. For the 21st century worker and workplace www.news.com.au/finance/work...

We welcome APRA taking action in response to the Greens’ & community concerns for the massive spike in investor lending. However, this alone won’t cool investors’ stampede of the housing market. Jim Chalmers must direct APRA to use their levers to curb runaway investor lending.

Why are we sacking scientists who are so essential to understanding our climate crisis? To understanding the horrific algae bloom assaulting SAs beaches? The changes in our oceans? Madness. www.indailysa.com.au/news/opinion...

The Greens have secured an inquiry to find out why job & program cuts are being rolled out across the CSIRO! It will consider the impacts of the funding cuts, the importance of public funding for science & CSIRO’s future funding & resourcing needs.

Did you know the definition of ‘housing stress’ is when 30% of your household income is taken up by your rent or mortgage? This isn’t normal.

How ludicrous for Labor to cut $5 billion in public services during a cost of living crisis. Every six months the government pays around $5b in Fuel Tax Credits to mining corporations to burn fossil fuels. If Labor is going to cut spending, cut handouts to fossil fuel barons.

Labor has backflipped on its 2022 election promise to rebuild the public sector with its intentions to slash 5% of spending off the public service. If Labor wants to tighten the public purse then rein in overspending on consultancy firms instead of cutting the public service.

A nightmare. Since March 2020, home values have risen by 47.3%, lifting the median dwelling value $280,000 to $872,500. The price-to-income ratio, years to save a deposit, & the share of income needed for rent are all at record highs. And homelessness. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Australia’s rental market remains dire according to the latest data from SGS Economics and Planning’s Rental Affordability Index 2025. Australia is in a national housing crisis that is spiralling out of control and renters are paying the price. 🧵 sgsep.com.au/publications...

Beyond transparency, we need decent management at the BoM. And an end to consultancy rorts. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

This is what our amendment was all about, giving workers back their time. 💚

APRA must intervene to reign in investor lending growth if we're going to get serious about people being able to purchase their own home. www.afr.com/companies/fi...

As we wrap up another Trans Awareness Week filled with celebration and pride, let’s take a moment to observe a more solemn occasion - Trans Day of Remembrance. Today we honour & remember those who have tragically lost their lives to transphobic violence, discrimination and hate.

Trigger warning: Look away if you are trying to buy a house. Labor’s 5% deposit is turbocharging the 🏠 crisis: ‘The median house price across the combined capital cities is expected to rise by $102,500 to $1.3 million’. www.afr.com/property/res...

21-34 year olds 2014-2023: 67% ⬆️ in house prices & just 20% ⬆️ in wages 2014. Solutions? End subsidies for first home buyers eg Labor’s 5% deposit debacle & fix capital gains tax

100's of jobs cut at CSIRO when it has never been more important for govts to invest in science & research. Why can Labor find $$ for AUKUS but not our nation’s premier science, industry & research org? The Greens implore the Albanese government to commit funding & prevent cuts.

The impacts of the algal bloom are still evident along our South Australian shores, dead fish scattered as far as the morning walk. To face the climate change driven causes behind this national disaster Australia needs a firm commitment to stopping the expansion of fossil fuels.

Working just as Labor intended. We need real change. That means building public and affordable homes where people live and work & cutting back on tax perks for rich investors.

Australia needs to get back into the business of giving loans to owner occupiers rather than property investors - and if the government won’t do it, then APRA should.

Bob Brown nails it. ‘In the lobbies of Canberra, corporate power rules. But across the nation there is rising frustration, anger and action engendered by the loss of forests, woodlands, wildlife, wetlands and marine (including coral) wellbeing.’ www.afr.com/politics/fed...

Investors are overwhelming first home buyers and pushing up house prices. Time for the Treasurer to open the prudential toolbox. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

A housing crisis that is on fire. Build public housing. Fix the taxes driving the explosive spike in wealthy property investor activity. Cap investor borrowing. End unlimited rent increases. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

The Greens are calling on APRA to step in & stop the skyrocketing property investor lending that is fueling the housing crisis. New ABS data shows investor lending has jumped by 12.3% while first-home buyer loans have risen by just 0.9%. Who's buying all the houses? Investors. 🧵

Our housing system is broken. There are 175,000+ people on the waiting list for social housing. Housing is a human right. It’s time we acted like it. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

If you’re getting paid twice the amount of the PM, I would expect you to be able to answer questions about money spent in your role.

Lest we forget the horrors and the human and global costs of war. Never again. The white poppy is included in this image to represent our commitment to peace, non-violence, and meaningful justice.

www.afr.com/property/res... I would be very worried if I was leading an organisation with 25 per cent staff turnover, like the HAFF.

Why have the major parties teamed up to delay the right to work from home? Why stand in the way of modest, sensible reform that makes sense for modern day workers? The right to WFH for up to 2 days a week is essential for so many juggling work and caring responsibilities.

The Greens want to restore super to its original purpose of providing a dignified retirement for working Australians. The Liberal's split super bill won’t do that.

⚡️BREAKING💥We Greens have just secured a Senate Select Inquiry into Intergenerational Housing Inequity which I will be delighted to Chair. Starts March 17 2026, reports September 30th 2026. 🏠

The Greens have just secured a Senate inquiry into the capital gains tax (CGT) discount, exposing one of the most regressive tax breaks in Australia’s system which is inflating house prices by incentivising speculative investment in property!

🚨BREAKING🚨 Labor has just voted AGAINST granting super to workers under 18. The Greens amendment would have seen all workers under 18 have the right to superannuation contributions, regardless of how many hours they worked.

The Greens have a plan to extend the superannuation guarantee to all under 18's ensuring they are paid super contributions regardless of how many hours they work, because every worker deserves super on every dollar earned.

Every worker deserves super. Under 18's pay taxes and contribute to our economy, why shouldn't they be paid super?

Labor’s policies are making the housing crisis worse: the fastest pace in over two years as national dwelling values surged 1.1% in October. The strongest monthly gain since June 2023 and pushing the annual growth rate to 6.1%. www.cotality.com/au/insights/...

Find a way to watch the brilliant SOLD! Who Broke the Australian Dream? On Binge. Mark Humphries and Bill Code (Director) give us a funny, sad, powerful argument for housing reform in Australia. Love the Tshirt. Love the doco more. Don’t miss!!! @humphriesmark @bill_code

Anything amiss with our $181 bn incentives for wealthy property investors? Any contribution to overheated housing demand? Any role in driving fastest house price rises in 4 years of vertical house price increases? Asking for an anxious FHBuyer.

I welcome the ANAO’s audit of the Albanese Government’s Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) which has failed to deliver the social and affordable houses that Labor promised Australians.