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Speeches
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Speeches 10 Mar 2025
TFES is broken – time for action

Is Tasmania’s freight scheme broken?

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Speeches 17 Nov 2024
Is a blanket ban on social media the right answer?

What happens when you try to take away a parent’s right to decide when their child can join social media?

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Speeches 17 Sep 2024
A new path forward

Paying super on carer payments: an investment in Australia’s future.

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Speeches 17 Sep 2024
Breaking the stigma

It’s time to elevate vocational education and promote alternative pathways.

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Speeches 17 Sep 2024
Productivity Commission supports call to relax rural family day care rules

Report highlights need for reform in regional childcare.

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Speeches 15 Sep 2024
A step in the right direction

While not a silver bullet, the Help to Buy Bill 2023 is a crucial part of addressing the housing crisis.

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Media Releases
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Media Releases 13 Mar 2025
Defence Facility a win for transparency

Defence cadet facility: What’s really going on?

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Media Releases 4 Mar 2025
Prices Commission good, but should save more money than it costs

What’s driving high supermarket prices?

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Media Releases 25 Feb 2025
Family & Domestic Leave is leave by wrong name

To access family & domestic leave, you need to tell your boss you’re experiencing
domestic violence. That’s wrong.

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Media Releases 23 Feb 2025
Time for action on TFES

Tasmania’s freight crisis: Will it be fixed?

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Media Releases 12 Feb 2025
Electoral reform is wolf in sheep’s clothing

Electoral reform: Favoring whom?

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Media Releases 6 Feb 2025
Tyrrell opposes hate crimes bill over mandatory minimum sentences

Mandatory minimums: Do they really work?

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Opinion Pieces
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Opinion Pieces 14 Oct 2024
Proven solution can help Tas healthcare crisis

Thousands waiting, empty beds available – what’s going wrong?

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Opinion Pieces 27 Sep 2024
Social media ban splashy headline with no substance

Banning teens from social media: a solution or a recipe for rebellion?

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Opinion Pieces 16 Sep 2024
Aged care shakeup signals housing opportunity

Aged care revolution

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Opinion Pieces 20 Jun 2024
Crying poor not solution to AAD stoush

Tasmania’s $515M Wharf upgrade crisis

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Opinion Pieces 9 Jun 2024
College program could be the first steps to solving childcare woes

Revolutionary childcare solution on the horizon: can a game-changing pilot program fix Australia’s childcare crisis?

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Opinion Pieces 21 May 2024
‘Political agendas’ standing in the way of family court solution

No home for Burnie Family Court: Why?

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