Foreign investment is important but we must be sensible about it. Broadacre prime agricultural land, genuinely strategic assets & scarce natural resources should always remain under Australian ownership & Australian…
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 October poker machine figures have been released and they show another big increase in losses compared with the same month last year. Indeed the $16,961,711 is up about $2m…
So what exactly does the Tasmanian Government have to hide? That’s the question confronting the community right now because of the Government’s shocking lack of transparency. Let me give you…
The Commonwealth Ombudsman has agreed to my request to again investigate robodebt because the Federal Government’s announcement that it will repay robodebts does not include people who appealed their debt,…