Australian Greens
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The Greens
Policy
Policy initiative: Your charter, your rights
Embedding basic rights and freedoms for all Australians. Australia is the only western democracy that does not protect the basic rights and freedoms of its people in either legislation or the constitution. So many of our freedoms have been hard won, and others are still being fought for. The Greens have a plan to protect...
Policy
Policy initiative: An accessible Australia
Our plan for a more inclusive Australia. Disabled people continue to fall through the cracks, to be locked out of the community and denied the same rights as other Australians. Failings of successive Labor and Coalition governments have perpetuated this discrimination, often denying disabled people access to inclusive education, meaningful employment, adequate services and the...
Fact sheet
Fact Check: Have removal rates of Indigenous children increased 400 per cent since 2008?
Former Victorian Greens MP Lidia Thorpe claims that the rate of removal of Indigenous children has increased five-fold over the decade to 2018.
Policy
Policy initiative: Free TAFE and university
Everyone has a right to education, whether you are leaving school, changing careers, retraining later in life or looking to gain new skills and knowledge. But successive Labor and Liberal governments have treated students as customers and education as a business. As a result, funding has been slashed, student debt has spiralled and the increasing...
Fact sheet
Fact Check: Are drug sniffer dogs incorrect 75 per cent of the time?
A statement on the Victorian Greens' website claims that drug detection dogs are incorrect 75 per cent of the time.