Media & Press Statements

Independent MP for Kooyong, Dr Monique Ryan, is calling on the Federal Government to increase the support provided via Jobseeker, Parenting Payment Single, rent assistance and related payments, as was recommended this week by...

The community pharmacy lobby has warned that doubling prescription lengths and boosting the amount of medicine available in each script will disrupt supply and may present a risk to patients.

I am delighted to say that the Strength to Give national cheek swab recruitment campaign has gone live this week.

A special committee established to advise the government on welfare policy beforeeach budget is recommending Labor atone for Julia Gillard’s act in 2012 ofstripping single mothers of parenting payments, sources say.

Today, I’m calling on the Government to make medications cheaper for Australians with chronic diseases.

Doubling the number of medicines a person can collect with each prescription from one to two months’ supply could save patients up to $180 a year and reduce the government’s payments to pharmacists for...

Today’s IPCC Synthesis Report confirmed that climate change is pushing us to the brink of irreversible catastrophe, but also noted that if policy effort was consistently applied in every sector of every country, we...

“Every 31 minutes someone in Australia is diagnosed with blood cancer. Almost 6000 Australians lose their lives to blood cancers every year”, said Dr Monique Ryan, Independent MP for Kooyong, today at the Tackling...

STATEMENT FROM THE OFFICE OF DR MONIQUE RYAN As I have addressed elsewhere, on Thursday 9 March, 2023 I was unavoidably absent from Parliament.

Crossbenchers say the treasurer should "absolutely" use some of the cash recouped from proposed super changes to pay superannuation on Commonwealth Paid Parental Leave (PPL), arguing it could rectify the current "glaring gap" in support...