Derwent ferry trial one small step in stopping traffic snarl

Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, has welcomed a trial ferry service on the River Derwent but says a holistic response is desperately needed to fix the traffic snarl. “While…

Andrew supports a motion to establish a veterans’ Royal Commission

The Government waved through the motion for a veterans’ Royal Commission tonight but refuses to actually establish one. This gives veterans and their loved ones false hope. Not good enough…

Stop the political rot of environmental protection

Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, this morning introduced a Private Members’ Bill to establish a Commonwealth Environment Protection Authority. The Commonwealth Environment Protection Authority Bill 2021 will ensure that all administrative…

Parliamentarians take Julian Assange case to US Embassy

This morning the Co-Chairs of the Bring Julian Assange Home Parliamentary Group, George Christensen MP and Andrew Wilkie MP, met with Michael Goldman, Charge d’Affaires at the US Embassy in…

Andrew speaks in Parliament on early childhood education

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 &…

Andrew’s question to Prime Minister on cutting funding to homelessness services under the ERO deal

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…

Plea to help ease Tasmania’s housing squeeze

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…

Andrew speaks in Parliament about GPs and bulk-billing

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…

Spirit sleight of hand has not fooled consumers

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,…