Media & Press Statements

Independent MP Monique Ryan said last week that an average Australian who was earning $60,000 and had recently finished a degree, with an average-sized HELP debt, would have ended up with a larger debt...

The two modernist towers served Victoria’s road authorities as headquarters for six decades. Now abandoned, they stand on a busy corner in Melbourne’s inner east, waiting to go the way of the train station...

From 1 July the only vapes available in this country should be those prescribed by medical practitioners and dispensed by pharmacies. As a paediatrician who has witnessed the extraordinary increase in childhood vaping addiction...

Education Minister Jason Clare is under mounting pressure to fix the “broken” student loans system, from independent MPs who say indexation is saddling young people with unconscionable levels of debt. “If you are an...

Two Independent MPs will deliver the largest ever public call for changes to HECS/HELP indexation to the Education Minister, after more than 80,000 people signed a petition in just six days.The crossbench has led...

For 17 years from the window of Alley Tunes, his record store and cafe next to Glenferrie railway station, Fabrice Lemoyne has watched Hawthorn slowly ebb and flow. He’s looked on as foot traffic...

Thousands of Australians have rallied behind a petition calling for Federal Education Minister Jason Clare to make Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) debts easier to pay off.Independent member for Kooyong Dr Monique Ryan launched...

The federal government faces growing pressure to boost consumer protections for air travellers as data reveals more than a quarter of Australian airline flights are late. Federal independent MP Monique Ryan said consumer rights...

The Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) should stop spreading misleading information and should apologise to all Australians for polluting an important public discussion about fuel efficiency standards. The FCAI should represent the whole car...

When a floor collapsed in a classroom at Fitzroy North Primary School last year, the Education Department sent a crew to cover access to the room with black plastic. More than a year later,...