The Greens will introduce a motion in the Senate\u00a0calling for Federal Parliament to sit in June to strengthen democracy and address ongoing issues of national importance.
\n\u201cThe Covid crisis response and the plan for recovery demand more transparency in government decision-making.\u00a0The Senate Covid\u00a0Committee plays a critical role, but is no substitute for full parliamentary oversight,” said Senator Larissa Waters, Greens Senate Leader and spokesperson on Democracy.
\n\u201cWe need more democracy during this time, not less. We need to ensure that Australia\u2019s recovery is fair, effective, and guided by expert advice.\u00a0We need Parliament to return.
\n\u201cThe Greens are calling for both houses to sit in June to fix gaps in the JobKeeper scheme, introduce rights to pandemic leave, consider banking royal commission legislation, and debate the merits of the government\u2019s proposed gas-led recovery.
\n\u201cWe must ensure we don’t come out the other side having brought this coronavirus under control but finding ourselves with our democracy eroded and hard-fought for rights lost.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Greens will introduce a motion in the Senate\u00a0calling for Federal Parliament to sit in June to strengthen democracy and address ongoing issues of national importance. \u201cThe Covid crisis response and the plan for recovery demand more transparency in government decision-making.\u00a0The Senate Covid\u00a0Committee plays a critical role, but is no substitute for full parliamentary oversight,” … Continue reading “Greens call for Federal Parliament to sit in June”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}