The Australian Greens Shadow Ministry consists of all Greens members of Parliament serving as the party's Shadow Ministry inside Parliament on various issues, each member being assigned shadow ministries for their speaking duties. This allows the Greens to shadow government policies and actions from the party perspective.[1]
The current ministry follows on from the frontbench of Richard Di Natale, former Greens leader. Under the new leadership of Adam Bandt, for the first time ever the party's leader sits in the lower house. Some of the major changes in this ministry included the Foreign Affairs portfolio being reallocated from Di Natale to Bandt, while new portfolios were created for Larissa Waters and Mehreen Faruqi to represent the leader on various issues in the Senate. The NBN was added to the digital rights and IT portfolio held by Nick McKim, and portfolios formerly held by Bandt were assigned to Janet Rice. Tourism and Gambling were reallocated from Waters to Sarah Hanson-Young and Rachel Siewert, respectively.[2] A new portfolio of Dental Health was also added to Hanson-Young's responsibilities, which the Senator welcomed, stating she could not "wait to sink her teeth into it".[3]