From the desk of Andrew Wilkie
Age Pensioners now being targeted by Centrelink’s useless automated systems
Law-abiding Age Pensioners are the vulnerable people now targeted by Centrelink in what I can only describe as a new low. Rather than recouping the billions of dollars in JobKeeper pocketed by profitable businesses, the Federal Government is instead targeting older...
Andrew speaks about the international arms trade
Deputy Speaker, the Government has made no secret of their plan to make military technology one of Australia’s top exports. And this plan is working, with some $5bn worth of sales approved last financial year alone. The problem is the Government has approved military...
PM must end the injustice for TPI veterans
Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, says it’s way beyond time for the Federal Government to stop fiddling around the edges and commit to raising the rate of the TPI payment. “For years I have been arguing the case for a fair deal for TPI veterans and all the...
Andrew speaks about the devastating cost of locking up refugees
It’s costing the Australian tax-payer more than $350,000 per month to hold a single refugee in immigration detention on Nauru. Yes that’s right, $350,000 per month, or nearly $4.3m per year, for just one refugee at a time there’s more than 100 asylum seekers and...
Dark day for Tasmania as flawed pokies reforms pass Legislative Council
Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, says a once-in-a-lifetime chance to reduce the devastating harm caused by poker machines in the community has been squandered by the Tasmanian Government. “This will surely go down in Tasmanian political history as one of...
The Federal Government must ban the use of credit cards in online gambling
Andrew speaks about parliamentary privilege in Federal Parliament
Parliament agrees to my call to defend parliamentary privilege, ensuring parliament remains a safe place for the whistle-blowers I give voice to.
Crossbench leading the integrity charge
Yet again the Government tries to defend its useless integrity agency plan and dodges donation and advertising reform altogether. Contemptuous or clueless, the result is the same. Text of the question: “Prime Minister, the community has had a gutful of the lack...
Age Pensioners now being targeted by Centrelink’s useless automated systems
Law-abiding Age Pensioners are the vulnerable people now targeted by Centrelink in what I can only describe as a new low. Rather than recouping the billions of dollars in JobKeeper pocketed by profitable businesses, the Federal Government is instead targeting older...
Andrew speaks about the international arms trade
Deputy Speaker, the Government has made no secret of their plan to make military technology one of Australia’s top exports. And this plan is working, with some $5bn worth of sales approved last financial year alone. The problem is the Government has approved military...
PM must end the injustice for TPI veterans
Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, says it’s way beyond time for the Federal Government to stop fiddling around the edges and commit to raising the rate of the TPI payment. “For years I have been arguing the case for a fair deal for TPI veterans and all the...
Andrew speaks about the devastating cost of locking up refugees
It’s costing the Australian tax-payer more than $350,000 per month to hold a single refugee in immigration detention on Nauru. Yes that’s right, $350,000 per month, or nearly $4.3m per year, for just one refugee at a time there’s more than 100 asylum seekers and...
Dark day for Tasmania as flawed pokies reforms pass Legislative Council
Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, says a once-in-a-lifetime chance to reduce the devastating harm caused by poker machines in the community has been squandered by the Tasmanian Government. “This will surely go down in Tasmanian political history as one of...
The Federal Government must ban the use of credit cards in online gambling
Andrew speaks about parliamentary privilege in Federal Parliament
Parliament agrees to my call to defend parliamentary privilege, ensuring parliament remains a safe place for the whistle-blowers I give voice to.
Crossbench leading the integrity charge
Yet again the Government tries to defend its useless integrity agency plan and dodges donation and advertising reform altogether. Contemptuous or clueless, the result is the same. Text of the question: “Prime Minister, the community has had a gutful of the lack...
Drop by Andrew’s mobile office on the dates and locations* below:
Tuesday 21 December 1.00pm-2.30pm
Sandy Bay Road near Derwentwater Avenue
Thursday 23 December 11.30am-1.30pm
Glenorchy Main Road opposite Police Station
*weather permitting
Regrettably Andrew is no longer able to attend mobile office dates on 7, 10 and 15 December as he will have been in Canberra for Parliament. Although Andrew is deemed to be an Essential Traveller and exempt from quarantine, he is required to minimise his physical contact with the community and judges that it would be unwise to attend his mobile office on those dates.
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