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SENATE INQUIRY HEARS DAMNING EVIDENCE OF WAIT TIMES AND NEED TO RELEASE HOME CARE PACKAGES
September 10, 2025
A full day of hearings in Canberra of the Senate Community Affairs References Committee has heard overwhelming evidence of the dire need for more Home Care packages to be urgently released.
Read MoreNEW VOLUNTARY REGISTER TO PROMOTE TRANSPARENCY IN PARLIAMENT
September 04, 2025
After years of inaction from both major parties, ACT Independent Senator David Pocock is setting up a voluntary register to publish information about lobbyists with privileged access-all-areas passes to Parliament House.
Read MoreNEW LEADERSHIP NEEDED AT ANU
August 12, 2025
The first public hearing of the reconstituted Senate Inquiry into University Governance held today at Parliament House heard extraordinary testimony from staff and students about the impact of Renew ANU.
Read MoreNEW REPORT SHOWS MORE SUPPORT NEEDED TO DELIVER 9 OUT OF 10 BULK BILLING PROMISE IN THE ACT
July 28, 2025
Research released today by healthcare directory Cleanbill analysing the Albanese Government’s expansion of the bulk billing incentive reveals the change will result in only one additional practice bulk billing in the ACT.
Read MoreSENATE INQUIRY PROPOSED INTO HOME CARE PACKAGES FOLLOWING GOVERNMENT REFUSAL TO ACT
July 25, 2025
The Albanese Government has rebuffed calls from Independent Members and Senators to bring forward 20,000 additional Home Care packages on 1 July following a delay in the transition to a new Support at Home...
Read MoreNEARLY 64,000 AUSTRALIANS SIGN PETITION ON GAZA
July 24, 2025
ACT Independent Senator David Pocock will today table a petition from Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders that has now been signed by nearly 64,000 Australians calling on the Australian Government to do...
Read MoreHARD REFORM NEEDED IN HIGHER EDUCATION
July 23, 2025
While welcoming the introduction today of legislation from the Albanese Government to wipe 20% of student debt, ACT Senator David Pocock standing alongside independent parliamentary colleagues, students, educators and their representative bodies is calling...
Read MoreDELAY IN NEW HOME CARE PACKAGES ENDANGERS OLDER AUSTRALIANS
June 10, 2025
Independent Members and Senators are concerned about the impact the Albanese Government’s decision to postpone the commencement of 80,000 new Home Care packages will have on older Australians.
Read MoreRE-ELECTED ALBANESE GOVERNMENT’S FIRST ACT BETRAYS FUTURE GENERATIONS
May 28, 2025
The Albanese Government is abrogating any responsibility to the health and wellbeing of future generations and condemning them to an existence beset by worsened impacts from climate change by approving what will be the...
Read MoreOLD CSIRO SITE MUST BE UNLOCKED URGENTLY FOR MORE HOUSING
May 22, 2025
ACT Independent Senator David Pocock said it was extraordinarily frustrating that in the middle of an acute housing crisis, the Albanese and ACT Governments have failed to progress divestiture of the old CSIRO Ginninderra...
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