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The Victorian Greens have backed calls from the First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria to raise the age of criminal responsibility in Victoria from 10 to 14. The Greens have been campaigning on the issue for a number of years alongside First Nations communities and human rights groups,

The Victorian Greens have welcomed the Ombudsman’s report into the state’s border permit scheme and say it echoes concerns they had in August around vaccinated Victorians stranded interstate. The Ombudsman found that the significant resources devoted to keeping Victorians out could have been used instead to figure out a safe …

The Victorian Greens have said the recent expose on VicForests has made clear that the outlaw organisation has been allowed to get away with too much for too long by the Victorian Labor Government.

The Victorian Greens have welcomed the findings of an inquiry into air pollution but say they ignore important health concerns raised by communities in the Latrobe Valley and Melbourne’s inner-west. The inquiry tabled its final report today, which made a …

The parliamentary leaders of the Greens, the Reason Party and the Animal Justice Party have secured key improvements to the pandemic bill.  Amendments negotiated by Samantha Ratnam, Fiona Patten and Andy Meddick respond to community concerns and strengthen the bill with further transparency and accountability measures.

The Victorian Greens have said the Federal Liberal Government and Victorian Labor Government’s bogus EV polices are undermining the shift to electric vehicles. The Greens say both parties are actively undermining action on climate change by lagging behind the rest of the world when it comes to supporting an electric …

When it comes to COVID-19 and lockdowns, Melbourne’s CBD and Docklands were some of the hardest hit areas in the whole country, with people working from home for the best part of two years, the loss of international and domestic students,

The Victorian Greens have called today’s North East Link announcement ‘shameless greenwashing’ and say the project will be an environmental and economic disaster. The project will plough a massive tollway through some of our most sensitive urban environment,

The Greens have just negotiated with the Victorian Government to create better laws for managing a pandemic into the future. These laws are a big improvement on the current system and much fairer for the whole Victorian community.

The Victorian Government will tomorrow introduce a Bill to replace the state of emergency with new pandemic-specific laws so that Victorians can stay safe as we continue to live with COVID-19. The Victorians Greens have been central to the development of this new legislation and as part of their constructive …