• Australian Greens Senator for NSW
• Became a Senator on 18 August 2018 — unknown
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Adjournment: International Relations: Australia and the United States of America, Social Cohesion (4 Feb 2026)

“We are living in dangerous times. Fascism is building right before our eyes, and it is no accident. In the United States, a country built on violence and exploitation, state violence is moving out of the shadows and becoming normalised as explicit policy. We have seen ICE agents kill with impunity, children forcibly removed from their families, and protests met with escalating police...”

Statements by Senators: Perth: Attack (4 Feb 2026)

“Since the first colonial ships landed on this continent, First Nations people have been sent a very clear message: that their lives are not valued, that their safety doesn't matter and that their fear and trauma are not worth listening to. That message was solidified last week when, in Boorloo, a bomb was thrown into a crowd of First Nations people and their allies on the day of mourning, and...”

Matters of Urgency: Cost of Living (3 Feb 2026)

“I must say it is pretty rich of the Liberals—the party most closely aligned with the one per cent—to talk about the cost of living. I am really sick and tired of the Liberals, the Nationals and Labor lecturing people about a cost-of-living-and-housing crisis that their governments created and their governments continue to perpetuate. It is hypocritical, it is hollow and it is...”

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Mehreen Faruqi's latest interest statementLast updated: 19 Aug 2025