Media & Press Statements

Independent MP Monique Ryan ramps up calls for proposed scheme after Sydney airport CEO accuses airlines of ‘slot hoarding.’

Lobbyists trade on an ability to influence policy and politicians but with no laws governing their conduct, is enough being done to regulate their power?

MP Monique Ryan wants tougher laws around lobbying of politicians, saying current guidelines are ‘toothless and ineffective.’Crossbenchers are calling for an urgent crackdown on political lobbyists as a report emerged that the cabinet minister...

Communications Minister Michelle Rowland’s lavish lunch with gambling lobbyists, reported today in the Australian Financial Review, would not have gone ahead had IndependentMember for Kooyong Dr Monique Ryan’s new #CleanUpPoliticsAct been in place.

Independent Member for Kooyong Dr Monique Ryan has launched a national grassroots campaign to clean up politics by finally regulating lobbying so governments make decisions for us, not for Big Coal or Big Gas.The...

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,...