I was happy to support Adam Bandt MP’s climate emergency motion this morning. Australia is currently on track to heat by 4.4 degrees by 2100 so it’s well beyond time…
Australia is a fabulously wealthy country. We can afford to look after our most disadvantaged. Anything else is poverty by design and we shouldn’t tolerate it.
We need a properly funded National Audit Office, effective national and state integrity bodies with teeth, and we need to end the culture of secrecy and impunity which has become…
Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, will urge the Federal Government to drop all charges against Afghanistan whistleblower and former military lawyer David McBride. Mr Wilkie will seek to introduce…
Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, will introduce the National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Small Amount Credit Contract and Consumer Lease Reforms) Bill 2020. The bill will provide better protections for consumers…
The Australian Government’s cruel and illegal treatment of asylum seekers and refugees must end now. Support the Time for a Home campaign to end indefinite detention and give people a…
All Australians on government pensions and payments need to live with dignity on a living income above the poverty line. So the Federal Government must not cut the Jobseeker rate…
Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, today proposed a Matter of Public Importance in Federal Parliament and called on the Federal Government to better protect our natural environment. “For too…
Australia is wealthy. There’s no doubt that the Federal Government can afford to properly fund Home Care Packages, ensure residential aged care is safe and comfortable, and ensure our wonderful…