Media & Press Statements

In Canberra, lobbyists outnumber the politicians they seek to influence.  There are 227 members of parliament compared to 705 lobbyists working for specialised firms — plus thousands more who lobby in-house for companies, unions...

A sweeping plan to crack down on lobbyists will be put to federal parliament on Monday in a bid to force firms to reveal meetings with politicians and stop former ministers moving swiftly from...

There is nothing wrong with lobbyists trying to influence the government. But we should know why they’re at Parliament House and who invited them. Parliament House can be a strange place to work. In...

The Albanese government has exhibited a tendency to lump large and complex pieces of work together into omnibus Bills. The complexity of the government’s ‘Closing the Loopholes’ industrial relations Bill is such that it...

The latest attempt to free Julian Assange has united an unlikely band of politicians: members of the Greens, Labor, the Coalition and Independents recently travelled to the US to call for Assange’s release. Today,...

The relationship between Australia and the United States has long been cordial and productive. Founded in the same era, both post-colonial democracies and now partners in a 70-year military alliance, we share both our...

Kooyong independent MP Monique Ryan has defended her stance on the Israel-Hamas war after the principal of a prominent Jewish school in her electorate published a letter calling it “unacceptable” that Israel’s suffering wasn’t...

The dangers posed by the Northern Territory's pursuit of a domestic gas industry havebeen laid out in damning detail in the report released on Tuesday by highly-respectedindependent climate scientists at Climate Analytics.According to the...

Influential crossbench parliamentarians have called on Labor to toughen up the petroleum resource rent tax and redistribute stage-three tax cuts to raise revenue to alleviate the cost of living.The independent senator David Pocock and MPs Monique...

Australia has been urged by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to overhaul its tax system, deregulate state zoning laws and warn home buyers of properties’ climate risks as part of a sweeping...