Media and Press Statements
Independent MPs Stand United On Need to Legislate Duty Of Care Bill To Protect Future Generations
June 27, 2024
Independent MPs have united in their call for the Albanese Government to urgently legislate a Duty of Care that would force governments to consider the impact of climate harm on young people’s wellbeing when...
Read MoreInside the closed-door meeting in Washington DC to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
June 27, 2024
Inside a meeting room deep inside the Robert F Kennedy Building in Washington DC last September, representatives of the US Department of Justice (DoJ) must've wondered what hit them. A cross-party delegation of jet-lagged...
Read More'It's extraordinary': Monique Ryan on Julian Assange's possible release
June 26, 2024
After years of imprisonment in the UK, could Wikileaks founder Julian Assange finally be on his way home after brokering a deal with US authorities? Guest: Dr Monique Ryan, Independent MP, member of Washington...
Read MoreTeals and Greens take on Peter Dutton in emissions target battle
June 13, 2024
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's announcement this week that he would scrap the 2030 emissions reduction target has reignited debate around climate action - not just with the Government but with the Greens and independent...
Read MoreStop using Trump-like tactics on climate change, independent MPs warn Dutton
June 11, 2024
Teal independents have accused Peter Dutton of putting the country’s economic and environmental future at risk by abandoning the Paris Agreement, while sharpening their pre-election attack lines on the Liberal Party as it seeks...
Read MoreRebuilding the NDIS
June 10, 2024
660 000 Australians are participants in the National Disability Insurance Scheme, and 400 000 work in NDIS-related jobs. Our country needs the NDIS, but it’s expanded too quickly in recent years, as state-based services...
Read MoreNine independent MPs and Greens back UN call for Australia to ban fossil fuel advertising
June 07, 2024
The industry is rapidly strangling our planet,’ says Andrew Wilkie, who joins Allegra Spender, Sophie Scamps, Zali Steggall and Monique Ryan in call for ban. At least nine independent MPs and the Greens have backed...
Read MoreDr Monique Ryan Improves NDIS Bill With Four Successful Changes
June 05, 2024
After working with NDIS Minister Bill Shorten and the NDIA, I’m pleased to say that four of my amendments to the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1)...
Read MoreAustralia missing out on $13 billion in royalty revenue from gas projects, report says
May 30, 2024
An independent senator and crossbench MPs say the money lost from royalties that aren't collected by state or federal governments on Australian gas exports amounts to "daylight robbery" by "leeches" in the gas industry....
Read MoreStatement on recent events in Gaza
May 29, 2024
The scenes coming out of Rafah this week are unthinkable, as has been much of the news coming out of Gaza this year. The airstrike on a Rafah tent camp this week should not...
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