Andrew speaks in Parliament on the Critical Infrastructure Bill

Genuine national security needs an holistic response including cyber security, hardened infrastructure to survive increasing climate-related natural disasters, and tighter foreign investment rules.

Australia needs a strong and independent national integrity agency

Australians are sick and tired of dodgy behaviour in Canberra. It’s time for a strong and independent national integrity agency that can hold politicians accountable for their actions.

Andrew in Parliament on Indigenous Land Rights, Closing the Gap & the Uluru Statement from the Heart

If the Federal Government is serious about ‘closing the gap’ then it is essential that First Nations people have a constitutionally-enshrined voice in the Parliament. We must listen to the…

Victoria, the cover-up state: Victorian Government must release the Crown Royal Commission findings immediately

Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, has called on the Victorian Government to release the findings of the Royal Commission into the Casino Operator and License immediately after being provided…

Harm minimisation, not profit maximisation

Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, has joined fellow independents Kristie Johnston and Meg Webb to call for the inclusion of effective harm minimisation measures to the State Government’s poker…

Harm minimisation, not profit maximisation

Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, has joined fellow independents Kristie Johnston and Meg Webb to call for the inclusion of effective harm minimisation measures to the State Government’s poker…

Federal Government grants $3.4m to Hobart Aquatic Centre

Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, has welcomed $3.4m in Federal funding for the Doone Kennedy Hobart Aquatic Centre. The City of Hobart secured the funding from the Building Better…

The Wilkie Report – Net-zero by 2050 is largely political bullshit

Well fair enough there’s so much attention on the international climate change summit in Glasgow. But frankly the obsession on net-zero emissions by 2050 is largely political bullshit and a…

Thank you nurses

It’s a cliché but it’s true, that nurses are some of the real heroes of this pandemic. Twenty-four hours a day, every day, since the start of Covid our nurses…