Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, will join a group of young unemployed Tasmanians in Anti-Poverty Week to hear how the housing crisis negatively impacts their lives, mental health and…
Opinion piece published in the Sunday Tasmanian 11 Oct 2020 It’s getting harder to find a real person to talk to these days at government agencies like Centrelink, Medicare and…
Centrelink is in strife. The staff do their best but under-resourcing, too much reliance on online services, old systems and excessive outsourcing etc often make their job impossible. The Government…
The Federal Government sure has delivered on its promise of a jobs, infrastructure and business budget. And middle-class Australians who still have a job will be delighted with the stage…
This year’s Federal Budget will be one of the most important in our history. So it must be bold and fair, bold in that we need to restore the economy,…
Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, will join a Salvation Army Captain to reveal the Elwick Hotel allowed a woman with an obvious and severe cognitive disability to “put her…
The Federal Government’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Streamlining Environmental Approvals) Bill 2020 is environmental vandalism in the extreme. It completely ignores Professor Graeme Samuel AC’s interim recommendations to accompany changes…
Talking Point published in the Mercury newspaper 3 September 2020. Just as seatbelts and drink driving laws made cars safer, we need measures to make poker machines safer. The tragic…
The Federal Government’s latest asylum seeker bill is an abomination. More deterrence and punishment when integrity and lawfulness is what’s actually called for.