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🌏 Replace coal & gas with renewables 🦷 Dental & mental health in Medicare 🏡 A home you can afford. Authorised by G. Burden, The Greens, Canberra
Australia
Joined August 2007
BREAKING: We've won Brisbane, taking the Queensland seat from the Liberals. Congratulations Stephen Bates, the new member for Brisbane! 💚
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Good morning to everyone except Scott Morrison who went missing during the bushfires & floods, and won’t have a job on Sunday.
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We’re making a complaint to the Press Council about some completely incorrect reporting in The Australian this morning. This is yet another example of why we need a Murdoch Royal Commission.
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#BREAKING: The Greens will put Labor ahead of the Liberals across the country. If you follow the Greens' how to vote, your preferences will work to kick out the Liberals, & put the Greens in balance of power to push the next government further & faster on climate and inequality.
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Oh no, this sounds terrible.
STEVE PRICE: The Greens’ proposed utopia may provide Australians with good teeth, free childcare and uni but winters will be cold and dark, as billionaire miners, among others, pay the price.
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“My fist was raised as I entered the Senate chamber as an expression of my people’s strength, resilience and survival and a symbol of solidarity with all the families of Aboriginal people who have died in custody.” @lidia__thorpe
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Clive Palmer has adopted the Greens' plan to wipe student debt. We know it's popular. We get it. Though Clive must have missed a key detail: we're going to tax big corporations & billionaires like him to pay for it.
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Good morning to everyone except MPs voting for the Religious Discrimination Bill.
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LIES BUSTED: the Libs are trying to put up fake signs in Higgins. Already reported to AEC & police. Don’t fall for the Libs’ desperate tricks. Our How to Votes say Vote 1 Greens & preference climate indies & Labor ahead of Libs. Our actual how to vote:
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Australian government, are you listening? An entire generation of Greta Thunbergs will be voting next election. #ClimateEmergency
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"Politics should be about reaching for the stars and offering a better society" – @adambandt. The Greens have a vision for our future. Google it.
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We shouldn't have to tell you this, but you can't compare seasickness to genocide.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison on #AustraliaDay: "It's all about acknowledging how far we've come. When those 12 ships turned up in Sydney, all those years ago, it wasn't a particularly flash day for the people on those vessels either.".
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Elections should be a contest of ideas. Here's some of ours — Dental into Medicare. Replacing coal & gas with renewables. Increasing JobSeeker to $88 a day.
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When the conservatives fire up Photoshop, you know you've got them scared. Didn’t take long to spook them, did it?. PS: Hey Bolt, you know the Hulk is the good guy, right?
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I don’t know about you, but we're feeling 22. is the year we kick out the Libs!. Vote 1 Greens.
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Wowsers. What on earth was Scott Morrison’s #NationalPressClub address? If you were hoping he’d change tune - all we got was 60 minutes of rambling. The only thing Scott Morrison made clear is that he’s incapable of dealing with the climate crisis.
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BREAKING: Morrison's hateful religious discrimination bill is dead. This win belongs to all who rallied, shared their stories and called their MPs. Together, we won.
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Healthcare should be universal. You know what's missing from Medicare in Australia? Dental & Mental health. Your teeth and brain are part of your body. Let's fix that.
Every single swing-seat House Democrat who endorsed #MedicareForAll won re-election or is on track to win re-election. Every.👏🏽 Single.👏🏽 One.👏🏽.
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In the coming weeks, Greens MP @AdamBandt will ask our Parliament to declare a #ClimateEmergency. This will be a test for each individual MP – do they accept the science or are they on the wrong side of history? 🤔 Stay tuned!
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In balance of power, the Greens will push the next government to halt plans to open 114 new coal and gas mines. This Saturday. Vote 1 Climate. Vote 1 Greens.
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Congratulations @lidia__thorpe!. Lidia Thorpe, First Nations leader, activist and Gunnai-Kurnai/Gunditjmara woman will be sworn into Parliament in the coming months to fill the casual vacancy soon to be left by Senator Richard Di Natale.
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The system’s rigged, but you didn’t need Reddit shitposters to tell you that.
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In the 38 minutes the Treasurer took to deliver his budget speech, the Liberals handed out $831,744 in subsidies to coal, oil and gas corporations.
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Adam Bandt, Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens. Has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?!. Huge congratulations to @AdamBandt, who begins as leader today and kicks off our campaign for a Green New Deal. So exciting! 🙌. Find out more at
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Bushfires: “Now’s not the time to talk about climate change”. King of Australia declared: “Now’s not the time to talk about a Republic".
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MPs are landing in Canberra right now 🛬 and this is what they’re going to be greeted by! Now is the time for action on the #ClimateEmergency 💪
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Let’s FACT CHECK ✅❌ Scott Morrison’s speech to the UN about Australia’s record on climate change. 🕵️♀️🌏 #factcheck #auspol
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Today Canberra became the first city outside Europe to be powered by 100% renewable, #CleanEnergy! ☀️🌬⚡️An epic achievement in only a few short years thanks to the leadership and ambition of the @GreensACT, working with a cooperative Labor government. Go Canberra! #renewables
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People have a right to protest. NSW's draconian anti-protest laws, passed by Liberal and Labor, are an attempt to crack down on brave people fighting for action on the climate crisis.
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The anger is real. We feel it too. Our house is on fire. The time to act is now. Help us declare a #ClimateEmergency in Australia 👉 #howdareyou #ClimateSummit
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This is simply untrue. This bill passed with Greens support - and this incorrect statement is very disappointing, Amanda.
The opposition and the Greens teamed up to deny 44,000 older Australians access to much-needed cost of living relief by refusing to pass legislation today to expand access to the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card.
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If nuclear submarines are so important Dutton should start a crowdfunder.
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Say it with us: 👏 Morrison 👏 is 👏 unfit 👏 for 👏 office 👏.
Scott Morrison is unfit for office. Not only did he ignore the advice of fire experts in the lead up to this catastrophe, but he instead chose to lobby for the coal industry at a time when he should have been keeping Australians safe.
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Peter Dutton just called @AdamBandt an 'enemy of the state' for standing up to his terrifying surveillance legislation. We know who the real enemies are.
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Across the country Greens how-to-vote cards recommend preferencing Labor ahead of Scott Morrison and the Coalition. People can safely vote Greens knowing if they follow our HTV, they’ll kick Scott Morrison out and their preferences will go to Labor.
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BREAKING: We're one step closer to a Federal Anti-Corruption Watchdog. The Greens bill has just passed the Senate, it will now go to the House. #auspol #federalICAC
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The Liberal & Labor parties take millions of dollars in corporate donations. The Greens don’t. We can’t be bought and we won’t sell you out. Vote 1 to put Greens in balance of power to fight for a fairer future for all of us. ✊.
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Introducing our new federal leadership team: Parliamentary Leader @AdamBandt, Leader in the Senate @LarissaWaters and Deputy Leader in the Senate @NickMcKim. With these three leading our movement and the charge for a #GreenNewDeal, anything is possible! 💚
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Everyone agrees you can’t live on $40 a day, but Morrison and his team of Liberals think people can live on $43.50 a day as we crawl out of a recession. #jobseeker #RaiseTheRate #80aDay.
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This election, vote for the future of our planet and our people. Vote [1] Greens. 💚🌏
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Really Mr Morrison? Then why are documents routinely released by your government heavily ████████? And why would the ABC's managing director say Australia is at risk of becoming "the world's most secretive democracy”? 🕵️♀️ #righttoknow
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We support you. We hear you loud and clear. We are your voice in parliament, and today we’ll be with you on the streets. #ClimateStrike
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@MehdiAli98 Best of luck in the United States Mehdi. This is wonderful news and we will keep fighting until all people have been released from detention.
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No, @SenatorCash. No, @PeterDutton_MP. That’s not how ANY of this works. Civil disobedience and peaceful protest is a right all of us have, no strings attached. When the powerful don't listen, we have no choice but to come together and demand change ✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽
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"It is rort, after rort, after rort in this place." – @AdamBandt. What else is the government trying to hide? #integritymatters. It’s time to stop stalling, it’s time to clean up politics, it's time for a national anti-corruption watchdog. #auspol
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Busted! 🤭.
EXCLUSIVE: We can reveal that a well-organised and powerful group of Federal MPs have been plotting to quit coal and deliver a Green New Deal #auspol
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This vote is just the beginning. We'll redouble our efforts – we only need 3 government MPs to cross the floor. Millions of Australians are behind us. We know that when parliaments have declared a #ClimateEmergency real change begins 💪. #auspol
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🦷🧠 Dental & mental into Medicare.🌏 A safe climate.🏡 A home you can afford.📚 Student debt wiped.🧸 Free childcare. That's what we're fighting for this election.
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As a retail worker, Stephen Bates will be a voice in Parliament for all people who work in precarious employment. He’ll fight for action on job insecurity and to lift the minimum wage.
Brisbane's new Greens MP still has three more shifts at his retail job and his wage is about to quadruple
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How does dental and mental health in Medicare sound?. What about wiping student debt?. Free uni and TAFE?. Affordable housing and rental caps?. If this sounds good. Vote for change. Vote [1] Greens.
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Got 60 seconds? Greens Leader @AdamBandt takes us through what a #GreenNewDeal is, and what it could mean for people across Australia. A GND tackles the big issues – and we need your input to make it a reality: #GreenNewDealAU
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The PM has said the economic fallout from #COVID19 could very well be worse than the #GFC — that's pretty serious. So why was the Rudd government's GFC stimulus 3x larger? . TLDR; Scotty's "stimulus" package is inadequate. #scottyfrommarketing #inadequatestimulus
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"The recent attacks on peaceful protesters by the Hong Kong police and proxy forces are shocking and unacceptable. The government should immediately offer permanent protection for anyone from Hong Kong who currently resides in Australia" – @RichardDiNatale
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Trump & Morrison:.Dinner with a coal baron on Saturday? Yes, please!.UN Climate Summit on Monday? Sorry, we're busy.
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Reckon it has something to do with #SportsRorts? 🤬.This is not the end. We'll be keeping up the pressure on this rotten government.
Right now, gov is gagging debate on establishing a federal anti-corruption commission. The Senate - across party lines - has passed a Greens bill for a federal ICAC. The Senate wants the House to vote on the bill. But Libs won’t even let us have the debate. Disgraceful.
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Guess this makes us the #realopposition in #auspol.
The biggest obstacle to pressuring SmoKo to take real climate action?. The fact that Albanese’s Labor agrees 100% with Morrison/Dutton/Abbott on coal.
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Scott Morrison: nobody expected this. Climate scientists:.
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The truth about Jan 26 is that there is no pride in genocide. #invasionday #survivalday #alwayswasalwayswillbe #noprideingenocide #changethedate
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BREAKING - “Greens leader Richard Di Natale wants his party to develop a Green New Deal for Australia in time for the next federal election to tackle what he describes as the ‘overlapping crises of climate destruction and economic inequality’”
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Scott Morrison can’t figure out Zoom. Who’s going to trust him on cybersecurity?.
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Irony: reading letters from struggling people when as the Treasurer you have the power to raise the rate of JobSeeker to at least #80aDay and pay people to stay at home.
I thought I’d share with you some heartfelt & heartbreaking letters I have received from members of my local community who have been doing it tough during the lockdowns. Their stories are powerful & reflect the hardships being faced my millions of families across Australia.
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Thank you @JulianBurnside for standing up for people seeking asylum! & for handing out for @greensjason in Higgins.
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Trump prematurely saying he won before all votes are counted & accusing his opponents of fraud?.That's not how democracy works! 🤬. This isn't over. #USElection2020 results are still unknown. Tell Morrison to condemn Trump's blatant attack on democracy:
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It's official: the Greens are in crisis.
The Greens had a crisis meeting to deal with all of these attacks from the media!
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If only we had a strong, independent corruption watchdog… oh, that’s right… the PM is stonewalling that too 😠 #ICACnow.
The sports rorts scandal got even worse for Scott Morrison today, with fresh evidence his office was calling the shots. And now the Labor Party has accused the Prime Minister of lying to Parliament. | @vanOnselenP #auspol #sportsrorts
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After 9 years of inaction, a Climate Bill has passed the House. But the work to stop Labor’s new coal & gas continues. Our communities need a safe climate future.
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Every election is a race to the bottom on refugees from the major parties. Both Morrison & Albanese are arguing over who’s got the best credentials on cruelty. Indefinite offshore detention is a stain on our history. You can always trust the Greens to fight for refugees.
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Meet @Dorinda_Cox – the Greens’ next Senator for WA. Dorinda is a proud Noongar Yamatji woman, caring for Country runs deep in her blood, and she’s spent her professional life working with people the system works against.
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When they go low, we go high. #ClimateStrike 👊. Huge turnouts in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.
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Not in our name. #HomeToBilo #auspol.
Emergency: deportation attempt- supporters please go to Melbourne Airport and support this family with peaceful action now. Please share.
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“There is no more time to delude ourselves with fantasies: the climate is in crisis. If we don’t act, vote, write and sing like this is a critical emergency, we are going to look back in absolute horror at what we didn’t do." – @amandapalmer
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#LIVE: @SenatorSiewert has been an absolute force of nature in the Senate for the last 16 years. Watch her live and she delivers her farewell speech in the Senate
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Today we're launching our fully-costed plan to lower the retirement age back to 65 and ensure the pension rate is lifted above the poverty line to $88 a day.
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Mental Health care should be free and people should be able to access as many appointments as they need. We condemn Labor's decision to halve the appointments available under Medicare.
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"Going to be a great summer of cricket, and for our firefighters and fire-impacted communities, I’m sure our boys will give them something to cheer about" - Scott Morrison, November 20. How's that working out SmoKo? 😠. #bushfiresNSW #sydneyfires #ClimateEmergency.
Through the Sydney smoke, Steve O'Keefe wrapped up Queensland's tail with a couple of beauties - and he was PUMPED! #SheffieldShield
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Greens Leader @AdamBandt has called for doubling the number of paid firefighters across the country, paid for through a levy on the coal, oil and gas industry. #doubleTheFiries
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The Greens will fast track a Federal ICAC through the Senate. We’ll use our power to push for Morrison's corrupt government to be included. Australians want accountability. We’ll work to deliver it.
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Over half the country is now in a Morrison lockdown. We need better support.
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Congratulations to the @greensSA on a huge State election result!. We've re-elected @SimmsRobert and await counting to see if Yesha Joshi will be elected too.
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If you oppose them, then rule out passing them.
Labor opposes tax cuts for wealthy but won't rule out passing them in budget package
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A trip to the dentist can be painful. But you know what shouldn’t be painful? Paying for it. The Greens will put dental into Medicare so everyone can afford to go to the dentist. 🦷.
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Just 41 days until we kick the Liberals out, stop new coal and gas mines, get mental and dental health into Medicare, and fix the housing affordability crisis. We can't wait.
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