Prime Minister Scott Morison has given an emphatic no to rolling back a GST deal that has finally delivered Western Australia its fair share of the multi-billion dollar pie. The drums have been beating loudly for change in the Eastern States media and there have also been reports of senior politicians meeting to express their discontent with current arrangements.
The fight to restore democracy in Myanmar will not be in vain. A petition against the military coup, signed by hundreds of affected people, has been given voice in the Australian Parliament. Speaking in the Senate, I assured the people of Myanmar – and Burmese communities here and around the world – that we share…
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The National Redress Scheme is delivering real results for survivors of institutional child sex abuse, but we must never stop improving it. In the Senate, I spoke about the special attention that must be paid to two groups in 2021 – the “Fairbridge kids” and Indigenous survivors. I also shared the important insights picked up…
Locals in Girrawheen and Wanneroo will be among the next 100,000 premises to benefit from access to ultrafast internet speeds, with NBN Co Limited (NBN Co) announcing the second tranche of its $4.5 billion network investment plan. NBN Co will work with its partners to design and construct local fibre networks passing at the street…
Amid news of the storming of the United States Capitol in Washington DC and an even more contagious strain of COVID-19 forcing parts of Australia back into lockdowns behind closed borders, you could be forgiven for missing the positive stories of the new year. Read the full article here >
Juukan Gorge inquiry – It’s harder to make the case for more efficient regulation of the resources sector after the miner so recklessly destroyed public trust. When Reconciliation Australia endorsed RioTinto’s second Reconciliation Action Plan in 2016, few would have imagined that just four years later the miner would be responsible for the destruction of…
Senator Dean Smith, Chair of the Joint Select Committee on Implementation of the National Redress Scheme, has identified two pressing priorities for the Committee in 2021. Senator Smith said he and the Committee, which works to improve the performance of the Scheme and better deliver justice to institutional child sex abuse survivors, needed to focus…