We support any additional assistance for farmers and for drought-affected communities. But this package is simply too little, too late. And it's also too ad hoc. I mean we need a plan for drought, and that's got to be a plan that actually involves the Government taking seriously the challenge of climate change.
Read MoreCongestion is getting worse across all of Australia’s cities but particularly in the outer suburbs of our big cities, like Melbourne today. People are spending much longer in their cars and having much more congested experiences on public transport.
Read MoreFrom Gough Whitlam to Anthony Albanese, modern Labor’s mission has had the state of our cities at its core. Because we have long recognised that they matter: to the functioning of our economy, and to how we live. Since 2013 and the election then of the Abbott government there’s been an important debate underway...
Read More"...but what we’re seeing at the moment is the state governments, particularly governments like the Andrews Government in Victoria, are doing heavy lifting while the Morrison Government has been asleep at the wheel."
Read MoreWell in the first instance, I think we need the Prime Minister to uphold his Ministerial standards of conduct. It seems to me that this is a very clear cut breach and the onus is on the Prime Minister to hold his former Minister to account and to set the standard.
Read MoreIt’s my very great pleasure to be here in Adelaide this evening, to make my first speech as a member of the Albanese shadow ministry to the Fabians. I’m proud to be a Fabian, and to make a contribution to the important work of the Australian Fabians in building a stronger culture of progressive ideas in this country.
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