Right to repair – action talks!
Read our plan and our work so far… We are committed to working towards building a repair-friendly Australia. Facilitating a “Right to Repair” in Australia will protect consumers, open up …
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Action on Right to Repair
Our work on Right to Repair is paying off but it’s not over yet! During October the Productivity Commission will deliver its final report to the government on the reforms …
Our work on Right to Repair
We are committed to a repair-friendly Australia that protects consumers, opens up more avenues for repair at a lower cost, and saves local jobs.
Surveillance and secrecy ramps up
The bill rushed through the parliament with Labor support this week is just one of over 70 laws over the last decade or so that increase police powers of surveillance …
Self-serving and undemocratic bill now passed!
Update: The Party Registration Integrity Bill was quietly fast-tracked through Parliament last week with the support of Labor. This means we have just 3 months to comply with the new …
Today is World Humanitarian Day. Think Afghanistan
As they fear for their lives, the people of Afghanistan need to know we will not abandon them. As the Taliban take over governance of Afghanistan they need to know …
On this day…. Janine Haines
On 18 August 1986, Janine Haines became the leader of the Australian Democrats and Australia’s first female party leader. Janine Carter, later Haines, was born in Tanunda, South Australia, on …
Grant Afghan asylum seekers visas now
It is beyond depraved that all this government can do in this humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, is to offer a moratorium on sending Afghan refugees in Australia back to Afghanistan! …
IPCC: PM blames China, spins big time
It’s hard to know where to start on the Morrison response, or lack of it, to the IPCC report. At his press conference he said: Unless we can get the …
IPCC: climate change widespread, rapid and intensifying
The Report of the 6th assessment by the IPCC of global warming and how it affects the world is out and it’s a massive wake-up call. The report says Earth will …