Stephen Bates @stephenbatesmp

@greens MP for Brisbane. Fighting for climate action, universal public services, a cleaner democracy, and equality. 🏳️‍🌈Proud. linktr.ee/stephenbates.g… Brisbane/Meeanjin, Queensland Joined February 2022

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Stephen Bates @stephenbatesmp

2 years ago

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Stephen Bates @stephenbatesmp

2 years ago

Absolutely wild. When the gov and opposition team up to ram a bill through parliament with a 24 hour consultation period, you know something’s up.

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Stephen Bates @stephenbatesmp

2 years ago

In a word? Grim. Tomorrow, the fight for a fairer and more just world continues. It is never going to be easy but it’s a fight we must have. Neoliberalism is incapable of saving us from the far right, fascism, and climate change. Bold, structural change is our only hope.

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Adam Bandt @AdamBandt

2 years ago

People with student debt are hurting. This down payment on wiping all student debt can't be held to ransom until after the next election. The PM says he wants the next government to cut debts, but he could do it now. Today I wrote to the PM, offering to pass the cuts this year.

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Stephen Bates @stephenbatesmp

2 years ago

And so it begins. Nothing liberal left in the 2024 Liberal National party.

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Larissa Waters @larissawaters

2 years ago

I have said it before and I will say it again, the Greens are the only party with a guarantee that every single MP will vote for women’s right to choose, every single time. Queensland Greens #QandA #auspol #abortion

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Larissa Waters @larissawaters

2 years ago

If you want to help people buy a home, then Labor should work with the Greens to phase out negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount, and establish a government owned developer to build quality homes and sell them for cheap to first home buyers.

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Stephen Bates @stephenbatesmp

2 years ago

Voting Greens means you not only elect a representative who doesn’t take corporate money and fights for the community’s interest, you’ll also force a more progressive Labor party. If you want a more progressive politics in QLD, it’s time to vote Greens.

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Stephen Bates @stephenbatesmp

2 years ago

The longer the two party system reigns, the worse outcomes we get, and the realm of what’s possible continues to shrink. The continuing and cementing existence (and political threat) of The Greens in QLD politics has already shifted the Overton window.

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Stephen Bates @stephenbatesmp

2 years ago

The shift of QLD Labor to adopt numerous Greens policies (or float them in the media) shows the power that comes from threatening the two party system. QLD Labor’s announcement of free school meals for children in state primary schools is a prime example of this.

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Nick McKim @NickMcKim

2 years ago

Woolworths and Coles have been caught red-handed price gouging during a cost-of-living crisis, and Labor’s been asleep at the wheel. These corporate villains are profiting off fake discounts and ripping off Australians.

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Max Chandler-Mather @MChandlerMather

2 years ago

Just so we're clear. This project is being in part funded by the $2 billion social housing acceletor - that's part of the $3 billion of direct investment in social housing the Greens secured in return for PASSING Labor's Housing Fund that still hasn't built a single home.

Anthony Albanese @AlboMP

2 years ago

While others are blocking, we're busy building. Work is about to start on this project to deliver 490 new social and affordable homes for Cairns. Housing changes lives, and we’re determined to get more homes built. Because unlike the Liberals and Greens, we know that

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Max Chandler-Mather @MChandlerMather

2 years ago

The Whitlam Gov introduced free university, the precursor to Medicare, and oversaw a mass build of public housing. Why, in the middle of the worst housing crisis in generations, should renters accept worse than scraps from a Labor party that has forgotten they are in gov

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Stephen Bates @stephenbatesmp

2 years ago

The Greens will be seeking a meeting with the Minister about the ABS’ recommendations regarding questions on variations of sex characteristics and to understand how the government plans to work with the intersex community going forward.

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Stephen Bates @stephenbatesmp

2 years ago

I strongly urge the government to keep working with the ABS and the expert LGBTIQ+ advisory panel to ensure that a question on variations of sex characteristics is in the next census.

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Stephen Bates @stephenbatesmp

2 years ago

After weeks of pressure from the LGBTIQA+ community, this shift by the government to include questions on sexual orientation and gender in the census is positive but still leaves the intersex community behind.

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Stephen Bates @stephenbatesmp

2 years ago

How are these questions remotely complicated? I trust the ABS and the expert panel put together for these questions in the census more than I trust the vibes-based approach of the PM.