Website: www.greens.org.au
Statement: “If you’re worried about the cost of living, housing or climate crisis, you’re not alone.
Instead of working for you, Labor and the Liberals have taken millions in donations from supermarket giants, the big banks, and coal corporations.
We can’t keep voting for the same two parties and expecting a different result.
More Greens in parliament will keep Dutton out and get Labor to act.”
Will your party commit to allowing religious schools and other religious institutions to recruit staff and implement policies which reflect…
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The Greens have not provided a response to ACL’s questionnaire. The Green’s stated election policy is to actively seek removal of discrimination law exemptions regarding religious institutions in order to to ‘End LGBTIQA+ Discrimination’. This reveals that Greens believe that Christians who uphold their theological beliefs as it pertains to their belief in male and female, and in heterosexuality- are discriminating. The Greens believe that any protections Christians currently have in their outworking of these beliefs in public organisations should be removed. This would remove protections for faith-based schools. . It is noted that in 2022 Labor and the Greens voted as a party position to remove key protections in s38(3) for Christian schools.
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Will your party commit to protecting free speech in Australia by not introducing laws that will further erode religious freedom…
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The Greens have not provided a response to ACL’s questionnaire. The Greens have supported laws in a number of states that either limits or creates an offence in relation to teaching or counselling according to a biblical sexual ethic. They have also supported amendments to various anti-discrimination laws that limit the freedom of Christian Schools to operate according to a Christian ethos. In NSW, the Greens have introduced a bill that creates challenges for those who conscientiously object to abortion.
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Does your party intend to restore the definition of a woman in the Sex Discrimination Act to be based on…
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The Greens have not provided a response to ACL’s questionnaire. The Greens have committed strongly to the cause of “trans rights”, which makes it extremely unlikely they would consider restoring the sex-based definition of “woman” in the SDA. The Greens support policy that enables people to alter their legal documents to reflect a self-identified gender. The Greens advocated removing “discrimination against transgender and gender diverse athletes” in both competitive and community-level sport. The Victorian branch of the Greens Party has approved a “code of conduct”, which prevents its members advocating for women’s sex-based rights on the grounds that such advocacy constitutes “transphobia”. These policies have divided the party, causing several long-standing feminist Greens members to leave. In 2019 the Greens statements indicated plans to legislate the introduction of all-gender toilets in workplaces.
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Does your party support the continuance of the current chaplaincy program in schools? ACL Analysis: The Greens have not provided…
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The Greens have not provided a response to ACL’s questionnaire. The Greens stated policy is to abolish the National School Chaplaincy Program, or any equivalent programs, and redirect the funding to secular school welfare initiatives.
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Will your party commit to reviewing the ‘Consent and Respectful Relationships Program’ to ensure gender ideology and all references to…
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The Greens have not provided a response to ACL’s questionnaire. The Greens’ education policy expressly states support for “education on consent and respectful relationships and sex, gender and sexuality diversity with comprehensive sex education.”
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What steps will your party take to ensure the national curriculum does not contain matters that are not factual or…
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The Greens have not provided a response to ACL’s questionnaire. Greens policies advocate for inclusion of material in education and/or the curriculum which reflects an overwhelmingly negative representation of Australia’s Christian heritage and values and incorporates many of the issues that have given rise to current concerns about the curriculum including identity politics, radical race theory, and radical green ideology.
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Will your party commit to an audit of all Australian Government departments’ DEI policies, guides, and training to ensure they…
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The Greens have not provided a response to ACL’s questionnaire. The Greens position is strongly supportive of programs to enhance the rights of identified minority groups. Although the Greens have not commented specifically on these proposals, the Party’s policies are not aligned with these suggestions.
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Does your party consider that children and adolescents under 18 years of age should be allowed to take puberty blockers…
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The Greens have not provided a response to ACL’s questionnaire. Stated policy is that transgender and gender diverse ‘young people’ should be able to affirm their gender through ‘medical interventions’, “guided foremost by the young person themselves, with the advice and support of medical specialists.”. The Greens have supported minimising barriers to medical sex trait modification including having these funded through Medicare. Greens Senators voted against the One Nation motion for an inquiry into child gender treatments in Australia.
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Which recommendations of the “Inquiry into online gambling” (the Murphy Inquiry) does your party propose to adopt? ACL Analysis:…
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The Greens have not provided a response to ACL’s questionnaire. The Greens policies clearly recognise the harms of gambling and promote support for implementation of the Murphy Inquiry recommendations as well as a total ban on gambling advertising, plus other reforms to reduce gambling harms.
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Does your party support the introduction of age verification to restrict access to pornography by children under the age of…
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The Greens have not provided a response to ACL’s questionnaire. The Greens have no specific policy on this issue. The Greens publish some policies that broadly acknowledge the harms of sexualising children and advocating that children should not be exposed to sexual content in some contexts.
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What initiatives are your party planning to implement to increase the Australian birth rate and to support parents wishing to…
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The Greens have not provided a response to ACL’s questionnaire. The Greens have no specific policy however there is general policy regarding reproductive health and fertility (in contrast to other policy they have regarding contraceptives and abortion). In previous years the Greens policy included that Australia must contribute to achieving a globally sustainable population and encourage and support other nations to do the same due to environmental and sustainability concerns. Their stated policy is to support the involvement of parents in both paid and unpaid employment and further ‘bold’ paid parental leave (PPL) reform, although other policy also advocates for free universal child care. The Greens also recognise the value of unpaid work performed by parents and advocate for parents to have the opportunity to care for their children and be supported by PPL and superannuation while doing so. The Greens’ policy regarding gender equality and empowerment of women12 states “Women have the right to make informed choices about all aspects of their lives, including … child-rearing, and how they participate in paid work and any caring responsibilities.” However according to the Greens, woman’s rights includes the right to abort their child. Even though the Greens have generous policies, the push for increased access to abortion undermines real support for families.
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What steps does your party propose to take to reduce homelessness in Australia? ACL Analysis: The Greens have not provided…
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The Greens have not provided a response to ACL’s questionnaire. The Greens consider housing is a right and have numerous policies to address homelessness, including addressing the housing shortage, social services funding and older women at risk of homelessness, prioritising renters, first home buyers and stressed mortgage holders and ending tax incentives for property investors.
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Will your party push for an inquiry into the connection between a legalised or decriminalised sex industry and human sex…
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The Greens have not provided a response to ACL’s questionnaire. The Greens’ policy regarding immigration and refugees does not refer to sex trafficking, however states that the Greens are seeking strengthened protections for migrant workers, including increasing civil penalties for organisations that are non-compliant, and imposing criminal charges on organisations that engage in systemic wage underpayment, modern slavery and trafficking”. The Greens also propose that Australia’s anti-slavery framework to be expanded to include labour law reforms. Their policy to decriminalise sex work and that the sex work should be recognised and valued the same as other work weakens their stance against slavery, given that a decriminalised sex industry increases human sex trafficking.
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Will your party support an inquiry into annual spending on “Closing the Gap”, including an audit of privately controlled entities…
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The Greens have not provided a response to ACL’s questionnaire. The Greens Party has an extensive range of policies in relation to First Nations peoples including general policy committing to “hold governments to account for implementing the Closing the Gap targets.” In December 2024, they put forward a motion to establish a Senate Committee to evaluate the ‘Closing the Gap’ targets that are declining or not progressing, including how they are funded, with the goal of ‘Federal accountability’. However, the Greens did not support the motion during The Voice Referendum campaign for an audit of government spending on Indigenous programs. The Greens ideological lean to identity politics weakens real empowerment of Indigenous peoples.
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What is your party’s position on whether federal laws should be changed to permit VAD consultations via Telehealth? ACL Analysis:…
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The Greens have not provided a response to ACL’s questionnaire. The Greens have no specific policy identified regarding allowing Assisted Suicide via Telehealth, however they have a general policy of supporting Assisted Suicide legislation broadly with “appropriate safeguards”. The Green’s Health Policy states “People with a terminal or degenerative illness to have the right to seek assistance from physicians to have a dignified death at a time of their choosing with appropriate safeguards, based on international best practice models.” Some state-based Greens parties have advocated for the removal of “restrictive components” of Assisted Suicide schemes. The Greens have recently introduced a bill in Victoria seeking to significantly expand Assisted Suicide.
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What plans does your party have for the legalisation of cannabis or other illicit drugs? ACL Analysis: The Greens have…
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The Greens have not provided a response to ACL’s questionnaire. The Green’s policy is to decriminalise the individual use of illicit drugs, including legalising the production, sale and use of cannabis and cannabis products for recreational use. The Party recently introduced a Federal Bill seeking to legalise cannabis (which was not ultimately passed) and is also currently running a public campaign to legalise cannabis. The Party also promotes in its election platform other plans regarding drug matters, including the opening of 11 supervised injecting facilities across Australia and to introduce both fixed and mobile drug-checking facilities at places such as music festivals.
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Given that currently, parents cannot access their 14–17-year-old children’s My Health Record unless the child consents, does your party propose…
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The Greens have not provided a response to ACL’s questionnaire. The Greens’ health policy contains several clauses relating to the protection of individual’s own personal health information, which emphasises the importance of prior and express consent regarding access.
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Given the current levels of poverty and humanitarian need around the world, and the concern regarding aid budget being used…
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The Greens have not provided a response to ACL’s questionnaire. The Greens stated policy is to increase the level of Australian overseas development assistance to a minimum of 0.7% of Gross National Income, with provision for increases in the event of natural disasters or conflicts requiring ‘major humanitarian interventions’ and ‘climate reparations’. The Greens’ International Development Assistance policy contains policies which may be controversial, including regarding those regarding climate change, gender equality and feminism, gender, sexuality and diversity, decolonization, reparations and colonialism rather than promoting what countries themselves have indicated that they need or aligning with the country’s values and culture.
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