Free universal early childhood education is important for gender equality. But gender equality also needs to be in our DNA, with everything we say & do, and every policy &…
The Government’s admission in Question Time today that the funding supplement for homelessness services under the Equal Renumeration Order deal will cease in the middle of the year is deeply…
Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, today addressed Federal Parliament to highlight the urgent need to solve the housing crisis in Tasmania. “Rents across Tasmania have risen by an alarming…
The harm caused by the Government’s chronic under-investment in primary health care, and in the GP Medicare rebate in particular, is shameful. Andrew sees this in his electorate of Clark…
If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. This old adage certainly applies to the free-car scheme on offer on the State Government’s Bass Strait ferries. Sadly,…
Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, says the Scrooge-like increase to the JobSeeker payment will do next to nothing to ease the pain for Australians living on struggle street. “Returning…
Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, will today introduce a Private Members Bill to end the unlawful mandatory detention of asylum seekers, refugees and non-citizens. The Ending Indefinite and Arbitrary Immigration…
Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, will today present a petition in Federal Parliament calling on the Government to abandon its dangerous and short-sighted plan for a gas-led recovery from…
Outrageous that a foreign controlled company is storing our defence data until 2025. A broken government promise putting our national security at risk.