Lest we forget. On November 11, we remember those who sacrificed their lives for our freedoms.

Australia has a long history of dodgy deals around offshore detention. We’ve repeatedly paid hundreds of millions of dollars to companies linked to alleged criminal activities. Again and again the Morrison and Albanese govts have hidden the details of those deals. It’s a disgrace.

The EPBC nature laws the govt wants Parliament to pass today would delegate project approvals to the states. For months the WA govt has been hiding its own report, which shows that its gas industry is driving increased emissions globally.

Today, leading medical researchers from across the nation are stepping into Parliament, joining my call for the government to release the funds being withheld from the Medical Research Future Fund. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The new nature laws are too important to get them wrong. When something really matters, you have to get it right.

Hard to understand a govt that blocks teenagers from social media but has *no* issue with them accessing online gambling platforms at all, or with them being bombarded with ads for online gambling.

Australia's nature laws are the most powerful protection we have against environmental destruction and species extinction. Our new environmental laws are 5 years in the making, and 1,500 pages long.

Australia’s MRFF is sitting on billions of taxpayers’ dollars which was meant to be invested in world-leading, lifesaving health innovations.

Laughing in the face of a climate crisis.

Did you know that when you send a postal vote application to a political party, it can (and does) harvest your personal data, store it, and sell it on to third parties? It’s illegal in Victoria - but fine at a federal level.

Dumping net zero by 2050 ignores Australia’s international commitment to slash climate pollution, sells out young Australians and leaves the regional communities the Nationals claim to represent more vulnerable to fossil-fuelled extreme fires, floods, and storms.

Having a cold one has never been more expensive in Australia. This week I’ll be moving an amendment to freeze beer excise indexation—because a schooner shouldn’t cost $11 in Melbourne when it’s $5 in Tokyo.

A lobbying code of conduct which allows our defence minister to discuss defence business with a global contracting firm in cabinet then take a job with that firm nine days after leaving politics is a lobbying code which is corrosive of public trust.

There's been too little progress on the shockingly high rates of violence against women and children in Australia. The government has failed to act on a series of enquiries and reports. Our responses have been inadequate and fragmented.

The recent repeated oil and gas leaks around Australia highlight the importance of better environmental protections - which we’ll be debating in Parliament next week. I’ll be pushing the government to include clean air protections in the new EPBC act.

Good luck to all the year 12 students starting VCE exams today!

With the US govt making catastrophic cuts to its health and medical research programs, American experts are saying that Australia has to step up. When we debate the CDC legislation in the House tomorrow, I'll be proposing amendments to increase its size and scope.

Another day, another fossil fuel leak in the Northern Territory. This is the third in a month. While we wait to see the govt’s delayed and diluted revisions to the EPBC Act, we’re allowing overseas-based multinationals to poison our environment while paying minimal tax.

Congratulations to the Government for securing a deal to grow Australia's critical minerals industry and put us in the running to become clean tech heavyweight, but it's a shame to see the PM return empty-handed on another critical sector of our economy.

The Albanese govt can find $368 billion for submarines we’ll be lucky to ever see, but can’t provide very modest amounts of funding for our world-leading, Nobel Prize winning researchers. Cutting funding to Lucas Heights and the Melbourne synchrotron is shortsighted and wasteful.

With a new deal signed between the US and Australia dominating today’s news cycle, many might be wondering what critical minerals are and why they matter. Take a look at this excellent explainer by A/Prof. Amir Razmjou in The Conversation.

Last month we learnt that Santos was underreporting a massive methane leak in Darwin. This month it’s cancer-causing benzene emissions from the NT Ichthys facility.

If it wasn’t clear before, it certainly is now: without a credible, coherent climate action plan and clean energy policy, the Federal Opposition is heading into the political wilderness. The LNP’s infighting over net zero exposes its policy poverty and growing irrelevance.

At today’s Thriving Kids inquiry, I was struck by the depth of concern and the resilience of those who shared their experiences. Parents spoke with urgency and emotion about the long and complex journey to get support for their children.

The government slashing HECS debt by 20% was a win - but it doesn't fix the system, and the govt knows that. Students should be supported while they acquire the skillsets our society needs. Education should set you up for life, not for a life of debt.

It’s hard to believe federal politicians think it’s fine to be members of a registered lobbying organisation sponsored by the peak body for gambling. They’re like frogs in hot water. I’ll be reintroducing my Clean Up Politics Act on our first day back.

The environment minister wants to pass a major re-write of federal nature laws this year, encouraging miners to lobby the Coalition to work with Labor to help rush it through parliament 🤯

The Albanese govt has put more than $1bn into urgent care clinics in the last 3 yrs. It must find the money to support much-loved, longstanding community health centres providing care to vulnerable individuals at a fraction of the cost of a UCC visit.

Bridesmaid no more. Congratulations to the Tawny Frogmouth 🏆 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@cathywilcox.bsky.social isn’t wrong. We need to #cleanuppolitics

The return of hostages to their families and the suspension of military operations in Gaza are moments of profound significance and hope. We all watch on, hoping this fragile peace can last and that the rest of the plan can be achieved.

The Grattan Institute's new report shows that electrification can halve households' energy costs while also driving down emissions. By accelerating the shift to renewables we'll provide cost of living relief to all Australians. Australians deserve cheap, clean energy for homes and businesses.

Fun fact: Santos has paid $0 in corporate tax in the last 10y while selling $48bn of Australian gas. Santos buys gas domestically and sells it overseas, increasing the price of Australian gas in our own market. Our govt must reserve gas for our domestic industries and homes.

Every time the government accepts money from the gambling industry, it increases its debts to companies whose business models are based on preying on young and vulnerable people, and doing them harm. The Albanese government does this again and again. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The gambling industry is predatory and insidious. I quit the Parliamentary Sports Club a few weeks ago, when I discovered it had registered as a lobbyist group and was sponsored by the gambling peak body. The industry will do anything to wield influence on pollies, and hates being called out.

My daughter told Alfie that I’m on my way home from Canberra.

Today I’m suggesting an amendment to the government’s proposed legislation for a Cente for Disease Control. I’m pushing the govt to include preventative health care- like considering the mental health impact of gambling harm- from its first day.

It is two years today since the horrific Hamas terrorist attack on the people of Israel. The conflict has brought immeasurable grief to the people of Israel and the innocent civilians of Gaza.

I’m Walking Towards Home to support Servants Housing in Kooyong. Servants provides safe, affordable homes for vulnerable community members. I’m walking 10ks/day for 10 days (my team assures me the treadmill counts!). The link to donate is in my bio — I’d love your support. 💙

Curing a child’s epilepsy is a remarkable, lifechanging achievement. Wonderful to see Australian neurologists using AI for world-leading research. Last year the Medical Research Future Fund turned down at least 1/2 the AI grants it reviewed.

Sharing my statement in response to the peace process proposed this week.

Bushfire season is coming. Australians need to know that if they call 000 their call will always be answered. The govt must give us that certainty by immediately legislating for a 000 custodian. Emergency services are too important to be left to foreign private companies.

Australia has an amazing opportunity to use its Medical Research Future Fund to immediately supercharge healthcare innovation - to develop new medicines, new therapies, new cures. The economic and social potential for our country is huge. The government could release billions of dollars today.

The airlines will stop cancelling and delaying flights only when we enforce penalties for them doing that for commercial reasons. The govt needs to hold the airlines to account with a compensation scheme for avoidable delays and cancellations. It’s worked overseas, it would work here.

Australia’s medical research sector is world-leading. It would be even better if we spent the billion of dollars we’ve put into the Medical Research Futures Fund over the last 10y on the healthcare improvements and innovation it’s earmarked for. The money is there for that purpose. Let’s use it.

Great to see Australian medical researchers leading global efforts at the UN to declare healthy indoor air a human right. Australian schools have lower standards for air quality monitoring than pet shelters.

Young Australians are bearing more and more economic burden because of our failure to index tax brackets. As Ken Henry has put it, this is an act of intergenerational bastardry. We need to index tax brackets, lessen the load on wage earners, and stop giving subsidies to fossil fuel industries.

Chris Bowen says the net zero transition is our best economic opportunity. A climate target of 62-70% is blowing that opportunity.

Overnight Australia supported the UN General Assembly Resolution on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution.

Australia spent billions on vaccines, RATs, and PPE during the pandemic. Last month in Parliament, my motion to draw attention to dubious COVID vaccine procurements was voted down by the ALP and the LNP. Acts of collusion by the major parties continue to corrode trust in government.