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Greens Senator for lutruwita/Tasmania Authorised by N McKim, Australian Greens, Hobart

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@NickMcKim
Nick McKim
2 years
This is Jasper, my step-son. He’s a fantastic young man, kind, caring, smart and funny. He’s also trans. Trans folk are being thrown under a bus today - casualties in the culture wars. The government just doesn’t care what harm comes to them. Well fuck that. Get ready for a fight
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If the Djokovic decision looks capricious, arbitrary and politically motivated, that’s because it is. The Migration Act allows for this because it was designed so refugees lives could be destroyed for political purposes. It must be amended to provide fairness and natural justice
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2 years
Morrison was secretly Home Affairs Minister for a whole year. This means he administered the ASIO Act, the AFP Act, the ABF Act and the Surveillance Devices Act, among many others. What did he do with this extraordinary power, and when. Full disclosure please, and now.
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I could not be more proud of my home state of Tasmania for drumming those Nazi-supported transphobes right out of town. 🏳️‍⚧️💚
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2 years
The ten richest Australians increased their collective wealth by over $46 BILLION this year alone. If we taxed them properly we could put dental and mental health into Medicare, lift people on benefits out of poverty and take real climate action.
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2 years
The Greens had a crisis meeting to deal with all of these attacks from the media!
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The planet is literally cooking. Australia’s political journalists can put climate change front and centre of the campaign every day if they choose to. Yet they do not, and instead serve us up the gotcha crap. They are just as much of a problem as the fossil fuel corporations.
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2 years
Home Affairs confirms in Senate Estimates that Australia’s security agencies have raised no concerns at all about any of the people imprisoned at Park Hotel. There is no reason at all for their continued detention except for the cruelty, which of course has always been the point
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5 years
This government has spent $30 million to detain just four people - the Biloela family, who built a life here in Australia.
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3 years
Never forget the people who sought asylum in Australia, were denied procedural fairness at sea, and could not access high powered legal teams. They were turned back to face death, persecution or arbitrary imprisonment in a brutal denial of their rights.
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1 year
Just could not be more proud of Tasmania today 🏳️‍⚧️💚
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2 years
Djokovic gets deported to resume his privileged life. Meanwhile people who have been found to be genuine refugees continue to languish in Australian prisons after nine years of exile, murder, abuse and brutal dehumanisation. We must remove the Minister’s god-like powers. Now.
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2 years
A Greens motion to prevent the Religious Discrimination Bills from being rushed through the Senate has just passed. This means they cannot pass this week. Time to mobilise, organise, and fight this terrible law. ✊
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2 years
Every time Labor says it can’t afford to do something please remember that the stage three tax cuts, which overwhelmingly benefit high income earners, will cost over $200 billion in the first eight years.
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Morrison says we’re in the ‘new normal’. He’s lying again. Climate change is a continuum. The more we emit, the more dangerous it will get, the more fires will burn more fiercely and the more people will die. This is not the new normal. Unless we act, this is just the beginning.
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The RBA has just raised interest rates again. It’s the first time in Australia’s history that there have been ten consecutive rate rises. It is responding to a problem it admits it doesn't understand with a solution that it admits is the wrong tool. It is institutional madness.
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4 years
I don’t know how we will ever recover from the Daily Mail’s visceral attack.
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3 years
Mind blowing cognitive dissonance as Australia’s foreign minister marks Human Rights Day by expressing ‘deep concern’ about arbitrary detention after nearly nine years of arbitrarily detaining refugees. What a sanctimonious pile of steaming hypocrisy her statement is.
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No. You and your ilk don’t get to wash your hands of this. Your newspaper and TV station have fanned the flames of Islamaphobia for years. Anning is a Senator because he was elected on the One Nation ticket - after Hanson was given an armchair ride by Channel 7 and News Corp.
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2 years
Big win - the Senate has today prevented public handouts to coal and gas companies by disallowing the controversial ARENA regulations. Hopefully Angus Taylor’s epic failure is his last as Energy Minister.
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2 years
Home Affairs has confirmed that another 25 or so people who were exiled to Manus Island and Nauru and are currently imprisoned in Australia are currently being considered by the Minister for release into the community. This will leave just 6 or so in detention. Free them all now.
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8 months
We need a ceasefire now. We also need the Australian government to stop exporting weapons to Israel.
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8 months
Proud to walk out of Senate Question Time today with @MehreenFaruqi and my Greens colleagues. Labor would not support a ceasefire in Gaza even as Israel commits war crimes against civilians.
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6 years
BREAKING: I have been refused a visa to visit Nauru. The reason? The Australian Government told them not to let me in. Kids are at risk of dying and Morrison doesn't want anyone to see. #KidsOffNauru
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7 years
The Senate has just instructed Malcolm Turnbull to accept New Zealand's offer. He must resolve the humanitarian emergency he has created.
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7 years
We are calling for the government to immediately accept New Zealand’s offer to settle 150 refugees from Australia’s Manus Island and Nauru prisons. We need to end the humanitarian calamity that is Australia’s offshore detention regime now.
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5 years
The four stages of listening to Malcolm Roberts.
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3 years
Good evening everyone. While the Treasurer makes his budget speech, I thought it would be useful to translate what he actually means. Join me below 👇
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2 years
The only thing stopping the repeal of the Stage 3 tax cuts is the ALP. It’s now clear that if Labor would get on board the numbers are there in the Senate to legislate a repeal. We should scrap this $240 billion obscenity and instead build a better, fairer society.
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I’m heading back to Manus Island next week. To mark six long years of humanitarian calamity. To bear witness to one of the darkest chapters in our country’s story. To remind old friends that they are not forgotten. And to try to bring some hope, when all has been lost.
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Translation: we have deliberately harmed every single refugee on Manus and Nauru so profoundly that they all need medical treatment in Australia, and we’ve known it all along. This is a dark and bloody chapter in our country’s story.
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David Speers
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Immigration Minister believes if he were to appoint an independent panel of doctors, they would recommend transfer of ALL refugees & asylum seekers within weeks.
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Allowing the Murugappan family to return to Biloela would be a very welcome decision, but Labor needs to go much further to put humanity back into Australia's immigration system.
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Scott Morrison is lying when he says there no detention centre on Manus Island. He can use all the Orwellian language he likes but they are prisons in which people are detained. Instead of playing semantic games he should concentrate on freeing innocent people from exile.
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4 years
Under cover of a pandemic Dutton quietly tables legislation to allow kids as young as 14 to be detained by ASIO. Australia is becoming even more of a police state and we desperately need a Charter of Rights.
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7 years
It's over! The Senate has rejected Dutton's divisive Citizenship Bill. This is a huge win for multicultural Australia.
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1 year
So the NSW police literally invented an ambulance to get a climate activist a harsher sentence. This has perverted the course of justice. A full review and explanation is required. If it was done deliberately charges should be laid.
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7 years
Overnight I spoke to CNN, Al Jazeera, Washington Post, Radio Canada and other international outlets. The world is watching our Manus shame.
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3 months
Today I took on the Woolworths CEO about their huge profits. Australians have been paying too much for the basics of life and it needs to stop now. Only the Greens will take on the supermarket duopoly.
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Dutton was happy to override departmental advice and let the au pairs stay. That he has not done the same for the Biloela family shows his lack of of compassion and humanity. Get them out of detention now, and let them stay.
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Peter Dutton has refused to grant a young family of asylum seekers a visa, despite a last-ditch bid to block their deportation by residents of the small central Queensland town they have called home for several years #auspol
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Just had a visit from two Immigration Department officials and been instructed to leave PNG. I will accept this deportation and leave #Manus tomorrow. But no matter where I am I will never stop fighting to expose the truth about the humanitarian calamity of offshore detention
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1 year
This is from the UK but perhaps Labor and Liberal Senators in Australia should watch it given their shameful vote this morning.
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2 years
Bye bye two party system 👋
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5 years
Bullshit. Your fake compassion isn’t fooling anyone. If you care so much for the drowned why are you so hell bent on destroying the lives of those who survived? Fascist.
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Peter Dutton
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Richard Di Natale supported decisions that resulted in 1200 people drowning at sea. His comments today are self-indulgent and promote nothing more than his own failed agenda. They are disgusting and should be condemned.
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They wouldn't need hospital care if you hadn't tortured them.
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Home Affairs Minister @PeterDutton_MP on asylum seekers: “We’re seeing people at hospitals missing out on medical services because people are taking it from Nauru and Manus. Australians will be angry about that as well.” #auspol #7News
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2 years
Here I am on Manus Island in 2017 giving my opinion of Peter Dutton. My thoughts have not changed.
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4 years
The Liberals have just quietly cut Australia's refugee intake by 20,000 places over the next four years. They are turning their backs on desperate people to shovel out corporate welfare and tax cuts for the super wealthy.
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2 years
The Greens will make Malcolm shut up and eat the bugs.
@MRobertsQLD
Malcolm Roberts 🇦🇺
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One Nation will protect your right to choose your diet, whether it’s meat, veggies or any combination. We oppose the Food Summit’s recommendations of restricting the world to just one bite of red meat per day. We will not “shut up and eat the bugs”.
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I've resigned as a White Ribbon Ambassador. The statement that "all women should have complete control over their reproductive and sexual health" is not even slightly controversial and should never have been withdrawn.
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1 year
What we need is for the Prime Minister to make it clear to President Biden that freedom for Julian Assange is a non-negotiable in our relationship.
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6 years
Instead of going to the backbench, Dutton should pack his bags for The Hague.
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2 years
This is a disgraceful whitewashing of Dutton's tenure as Home Affairs Minister. On Dutton's watch refugees on Manus and Nauru were dehumanised, tortured, brutalised and denied basic medical care. This needs to be said.
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3 years
Government officials have today confirmed to a Senate Committee that new legislation will exempt the Future Fund's investments from FOI Law, meaning we would no longer be able to find out whether they've invested public money in fossil fuel companies like Adani.
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3 years
“Early and decisive actions saved lives and livelihoods.” Translation: Early and decisive actions by state governments saved lives and livelihoods. Our ministers wanted to pursue the Swedish approach and let the virus rip.
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4 years
So as Treasurer Josh Frydenberg delivers his budget speech, and outlines the Liberals’ plans to make Australia less fair and the climate crisis worse, here’s a helpful translation of his speech.
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5 months
Refusing to stand against a genocide makes you complicit. Labor is complicit in the genocide happening right now in Gaza.
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5 years
Behrouz survived so much, and showed so much courage. He never lost himself despite everything thrown against him, and maintained his independence, kindness and intellectual integrity. What a human.
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The mistreatment and cruelty that has been doled out to the Murugappan family is not some byproduct or some accident. It is a deliberate choice by a government that has built in torture as a cornerstone of its immigration policy.
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The government has just admitted that sick refugees who are transferred to Australia under the medivac leg will be detained on Christmas Island.!This is a clear subversion of the parliament’s intent that people get better medical treatment.
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The government plans to send sick refugees and people seeking asylum to Christmas Island. This is utter bastardry and a denial of the Parliament's intentions.
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Yesterday in parliament Labor and the Liberals united in defence of genocide by launching a co-ordinated hit on the Greens for daring to speak out against the slaughter in Gaza. We will not be lectured to by genocide enablers.
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The RBA has just put up interest rates for the 12th time in 13 months. This is an absolute shocker of a decision that will see renters and mortgage holders getting smashed yet again. The RBA has gone rogue and Labor is culpable because of its refusal to intervene.
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2 years
Hearing that more people - about ten - will be released from Park Hotel this evening. This will leave only around 8 people in that hotel prison after nine years of exile, brutality and arbitrary imprisonment. None have adverse security assessments from ASIO. Free them all now.
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Honestly Albanese should just shut up about his childhood story until he commits to raising income support and a decent response to the rental and housing crisis. His mum would probably be living out of a car or a tent these days.
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The UK is going down the Australian path on refugee policy a decade after we did. As someone who knows it intimately and has fought hard against it, here are some predictions that I’d rate as somewhere between extremely likely and certain to occur.
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Today is nine years since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that anyone who arrived by boat would not be resettled in Australia, marking the effective start of indefinite offshore detention.
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2 years
Labor has confirmed today that wages will be going backwards for the next two years. But billionaires, CEOs and politicians will still get a $9k a year handout from the ALP’s Stage 3 tax cuts. Its impossible to argue that Labor is still the party that looks after working people.
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2 years
He’s googled us, mate. I’m really not sure how we will withstand this withering assault on our policy to increase tax on fossil fuel corporations.
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Breaking from Senate Estimates: Treasury’s internal auditors are … PwC. Of course they are. $985k contract. So a firm embroiled in a governance scandal involving confidential Treasury information is providing advice to Treasury on governance. We are through the looking glass.
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The Greens will today seek to remove $2 billion worth of fossil fuel subsidies from the Federal Budget. We're in a climate crisis and we need to act accordingly.
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4 years
This government has repeatedly leaked people’s private medical information to the media for political gain, and now wants us to install an app to allow it to track our interactions. That’s a big no from me.
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8 months
I have resigned as the co-chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Refugees group over the complete failure of my co-chairs to oppose the Government's anti-refugee legislation last week.
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“In the face of a once-in-a-century pandemic, the Australian spirit has shone through.... Team Australia at its best.” Translation: Team Australia excludes Australian citizens and permanent residents who we have abandoned in India. We’ll send them to jail if they come home.
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“Australia’s fate could have been so much worse.” Translation: Things are better in spite of us, not because of us.
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5 years
I was granted a 12 month multiple entry visa by the PNG government and am here legally. Every Kina spent here on refugees has been authorised by the Australian parliament, and there should be accountability on how it is spent. That accountablilty and truth telling is my job.
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7 years
Peter Dutton is a serial human rights abuser, a proven liar and a fascist. I’ll wear his attack as a badge of honour.
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6 years
There are already two monuments to Operation Sovereign Borders. They are Australia's Manus Island and Nauru detention centres and they are monuments to inhumanity.
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3 years
“And always providing a helping hand to those who need it. This is what the Coalition stands for.” Translation:
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2 years
Today's rate rise should not have happened. The RBA is running cover for big corporations. Rate rises will conquer inflation only by putting people out of work and sending real wages further backwards. This is exactly what big corporates want and what the RBA is delivering.
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4 years
Here is the long and the short of the government's Religious Discrimination Bill, from the Human Rights Commissioner. It will harm women, people with disabilities and LGBTIQ+ people.
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6 years
Why I called Peter Dutton a fascist and a racist.
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7 years
Amid the marriage euphoria, please spare a thought for the 20 gay men on Manus who are being forced by the LNP/ALP coalition of cruelty to live in a country where consenting sex between adult men is a crime.
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“More Australians are in work than ever before.” Translation: Wages are going backwards, insecure work is through the roof and there are far more job applicants than there are jobs available.
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Seen a lot of bizarre political decisions in my time, but Gutwein opening Tasmania up to Covid just as Omicron hit is right up there. The human cost will be incalculable - a mass disabling event with death, sickness and long covid for so many. #covid19tas
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“Australia’s economic engine is roaring back to life.” Translation: We’re letting rip with fossil fuels. Enjoy the planet while it lasts, kids.
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Just two free people in Aotearoa 😊
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Tasmania is burning. Supporters of coal like Scott Morrison have effectively struck the match that started these fires. He is not welcome in our state until he ends his love affair with coal.
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“Mr. Speaker, sexual harassment is unacceptable in any context.” Translation: Except Parliament House, apparently.
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5 years
The Senate has just removed the only glimmer of humanity from Australia's brutal offshore detention regime. Secrecy has allowed lives to be destroyed and now it continues. We will keep fighting for every single person still stranded on Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
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The agreement to resettle 450 of Australia’s exiled refugees in New Zealand is a blessed, belated relief. For many people this will finally bring freedom and safety. But we cannot forget the lives that were needlessly destroyed by the arbitrary brutality of offshore detention.
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7 years
The head of the Immigration Department joking about torture. People have been murdered, assaulted, fired upon and attacked on Manus Island.
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1 year
There’s been some pretty wild takes on this, so for clarity my partner and I have only one tenanted property. Our tenant is a disabled family member who would otherwise likely be homeless because of the abject failure of the major parties to deal with the rental crisis.
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8 months
Today, we Greens walked out of Question Time because of the Labor Government’s cowardly failure to call for a ceasefire, despite the war crimes being committed by the state of Israel.
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4 years
There have been no Greens on for nearly nine months. We are the only party with energy policies in line with climate science. And the only people in parliament with a detailed transition strategy.
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7 months
Breaking: The Greens have secured a Senate Inquiry into supermarket price-gouging. While Coles and Woolworths are making billions in profits in a cost of living crisis, too many people are struggling to afford food and groceries.
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We are witnessing something extraordinary and devastating unfold. The lives of the poorest Australians, those who can least afford to be made worse off, are being deliberately degraded by the RBA’s relentless interest rate rises and the government’s culpable acquiescence to them.
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2 years
Home Affairs confirms that discussions are ongoing with the New Zealand government to resettle refugees from Manus Island and Nauru. It’s nearly a decade since people were first exiled. Time to land the deal and finally give people the freedom and safety they so desperately need
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5 years
Hi Alan, thanks for the plug!
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5 years
Can’t believe the PM has dared show his face in the Huon Valley today. That community has been suffering for weeks in the face of fires made more dangerous by his love affair with coal. He should get down on his knees and apologise to them.
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“Supporting 10,000 single parents to purchase a home with a 2 per cent deposit.” Translation: Remember the subprime mortgage crisis? Neither do we.
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