The Education and Children’s Services Bill currently before the state Parliament has stalled for four months while negotiations between Government and Upper House MPs on amendments continue. The following quotes …
Greens Seeing Red On Code Blue Call
The SA Greens have welcomed today’s announcement of a Code Blue emergency homelessness response but have renewed their calls (made in parliament last week) for a review and reform of …
Sex Worker And Cross-Party Support For Bill
A joint press conference of cross-party MPs (Greens, Labor, and Liberal) and representatives of sex worker organisations – SIN (Kat Morrison, General Manager) and Scarlet Alliance (Jules Kim, CEO) – …
Change the rules on Industrial Manslaughter
Greens MLC Tammy Franks will introduce a Bill designed to create a new offence of “Industrial Manslaughter” in South Australia. Under this Bill, and employer is guilty of an offence, with a maximum fine of $1,000,000 and …
High court throws out case against Safe Access Zones
The High Court has thrown out the case against safe access zone laws in Victoria and Tasmania. Safe access zones in Victoria and Tasmania create a 150-metre protection zone outside abortion clinics and prohibit certain behaviours. The High Court …
Public Health – Not Pelmics – Should guide immunisation debate
The SA Greens are dismayed that the Shadow Minister for Health, Chris Picton, continues to prioritise playing politics over public health and an evidence based approach in the so called ‘No Jab No Play’ debate. The state Upper House …
United front to take the politics out of the Coorong under new Bill
Tomorrow MPs across the political divide will be joining the local community in the Coorong to talk about new legislation proposed by Greens MLC Tammy Franks. The legislation, which has been …
Adelaide to host the sex work ‘Dames of Decrim’
Adelaide will this week host a visit from two sex work advocates who have both recently received Queens’ Honours in recognition of their services to the decriminalisation of sex work in both NSW …
Greens Call for Education Ombudsman
The Education and Children’s Services Bill is currently before the state Parliament’s Upper House. The Greens have moved that the new Act enshrine a specialist Education Ombudsman as part of …
Release the report, extend the Royal Commission
Today the Royal Commissioner will deliver his final report to His Excellency, the Governor of South Australia at 11am. The SA Greens back calls for the report to be released TODAY. …
Greens vow ongoing debate on #changethedate
It is now fifteen months since the SA Liberal party announced a plan to force Local Governments to observe Australia Day and perform citizenship ceremonies on January 26th. Now, in the past few weeks we’ve seen their federal counterparts announce …
Greens renew calls for an Education Ombudsman
In what the Government is touting as the biggest overhaul of education legislation we are still missing an Education Ombudsman – despite the Liberal party having previously supported the creation …