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Larissa Waters

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Larissa Waters

@larissawaters

✊🏻Tax the 1% 🌱 Leader of the Australian Greens & Senator for Qld Authorised by L Waters, Brisbane

Brisbane, Australia

Joined August 2009

Larissa Waters
@larissawaters
Jun 18
Laws to strip women of abortion rights in SA were defeated last night, due to the tireless work of advocates fighting to protect access to healthcare. But it was shameful to see Labor Premier Malinauskas vote alongside right-wing MPs to trample abortion access.
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Larissa Waters
@larissawaters
Jun 18
Labor should be showing leadership on abortion care, not winding it back. But instead they’re bowing to the conservative playbook. We won't let them drag abortion care back into the dark ages and into the criminal laws.
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Larissa Waters
@larissawaters
Jun 18
Abortion is healthcare. Restricting access to abortion doesn’t stop people seeking care, it just makes it harder, less safe, and less fair. Abortion access must not be a culture war or a postcode lottery.
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Larissa Waters
@larissawaters
Jun 17
I love this multicultural country. Pauline Hanson wants us angry, divided and scared of our neighbours. It’s an ugly, and racist, distraction.
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Larissa Waters
@larissawaters
Jun 17
Attacking multiculturalism and pedalling islamaphobia won’t make anyone’s life easier. It won’t fix the housing or cost of living crisis. One Nation are not here to change the system. Pauline serves the same billionaires and corporate superprofits as the major parties.
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Larissa Waters
@larissawaters
Jun 16
Replying to @larissawaters
The Greens, crossbench and community organisations have launched a campaign for a national vote on a gas export tax. Because it’s time we break the gas lobby’s grip on Canberra and put power back where it belongs: with you. Add your voice
Gas Tax | The Australian Greens
From greens.org.au
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Larissa Waters
@larissawaters
Jun 16
Replying to @larissawaters
Just last week, the Liberals, Labor and One Nation refused to support a gas exports tax in parliament. But, we aren’t backing down. If the politicians in Canberra are too compromised by corporate donations to act, then we need to take the decision out of their hands.
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Larissa Waters
@larissawaters
Jun 16
Right now the Prime Minister is only listening to one group: the gas industry. He’s taking their money, he’s parroting their talking points, he’s writing legislation that benefits them. The one thing he's not doing? Making them pay their fair share.
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Larissa Waters
@larissawaters
Jun 15
Elon Musk is now the first trillionaire, but no one is celebrating this terrifying milestone. With $1 trillion, Musk could give $100 to every single person on Earth, and still be one of the ten richest people in the world. He’d still have $184 billion in the bank!
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Larissa Waters
@larissawaters
Jun 15
Replying to @larissawaters
The billionaires and big corporations out-lobby and out-donate, buying up politicians like yet another asset in their portfolio. And that puts Labor, the Libs, One Nation on a unity ticket. They’re fine with the status quo; wouldn’t want to upset their donors.
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Larissa Waters
@larissawaters
Jun 15
The Greens don’t take corporate donations, we’re not beholden to any billionaires, and the things we’re fighting for are the things that make Australia such a great place to live. We can fight back; but can’t do it alone. Join us taxthe1percent.com.au
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Larissa Waters
@larissawaters
Jun 10
Replying to @larissawaters
With this Budget, Labor could have introduced a 25% gas export tax and raised $17 billion a year. They could have scrapped the CGT discount and negative gearing instead of grandfathering them for existing investors. They could have gotten rid of fossil fuel subsidies.
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Larissa Waters
@larissawaters
Jun 10
Labor could have made the big corporations and ultra-wealthy pay their fair share. Instead they’re choosing to kick 241,000 people off the NDIS. The Greens will fight with everything we have got to stop the government using disabled people to balance the budget.
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Larissa Waters
@larissawaters
Jun 10
We’re on day two of the NDIS inquiry and the evidence is damning. Every single witness so far has said either: this bill must be withdrawn, this bill must not pass in its current form, or that the Senate needs more time to consider the legislation in detail.
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Larissa Waters
@larissawaters
Jun 10
The government has been trying to sell these cuts to the Australian community as an anti-fraud measure, but this bill isn’t anti-fraud, it’s anti-disabled people. And it’s an indictment of Labor’s Budget priorities.
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Larissa Waters
@larissawaters
Jun 8
You would think pulling the strings of a political party would be enough influence for one person, but apparently not. Gina’s getting into the media business. What could possibly go wrong…
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Larissa Waters
@larissawaters
Jun 8
Replying to @larissawaters
The largest stakeholder in Southern Cross Media? Fellow billionaire Kerry Stokes. He’s better known as the guy who bankrolled Ben Roberts-Smith’s unsuccessful defamation case against Fairfax Media.
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Larissa Waters
@larissawaters
Jun 8
Between Gina, Kerry, and of course Rupert Murdoch; our media ownership is concentrated in the hands of the 1%. As life gets harder, they’re using their money to distract us from the real issue - their extreme wealth. It’s time they paid their fair share:
Tax the 1% | Australian Greens
From taxthe1percent.com.au
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