November 20, 2024
Making sure the NBN provides for regional Australia
We must deliver here in Australia a high-speed, highly functional, reliable NBN for everybody and most especially that we do not leave a single person in rural and regional Australia behind.
November 20, 2024
To save our alpine areas we must reduce emissions and empower communities
Protect our Winters is a volunteer group passionately fighting to save our fragile alpine system, and everything it represents.
November 19, 2024
Elections should be a contest of ideas, not who has the deepest pockets
We desperately need reform to our donations laws to reduce the impact of big money and remove dark money from politics in Australia.
November 18, 2024
Coles and Woolworths have taken Australians for a ride
While families have been struggling to balance the household budget, both Coles and Woolies made more than $1 billion in after-tax profits in the previous financial year.
November 18, 2024
Lobbyists have too much access to our politicians
Too often, we’re left questioning whether the decisions made by those in power are made for the right reasons.
November 18, 2024
Electoral reform needs scrutiny, not stitch ups
The community that brought me to this parliament brought me here with a very clear mandate to ask for greater scrutiny, to shine a light into dark corners, to turn up the torch and, indeed, to turn up the heat when I see something that isn’t right.
November 18, 2024
The housing crisis continues unabated in Australia
House prices continue to grow, and the average home now costs more than 16x the average annual income.
November 18, 2024
Haines introduces Fair Share for Regional Housing Bill
Regional Australia experiences the housing crisis differently to the cities, but we’re competing for the same pool of funding.
November 15, 2024
Electoral reforms deserve full scrutiny in the national interest
The Government’s proposed electoral reforms represent a fundamental change to the way our democracy functions. It is crucial that these changes are properly scrutinised, and not rushed through in the dying days of this term of Parliament.
November 13, 2024
Haines submission to fix regional internet divide
The federal government needs to do better, because what I hear time and time again is that telecommunications aren’t up to scratch in regional, rural and remote Australia.