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Children suffer when parents can’t access adequate paid parental leave, affordable high-quality learning, or face social and economic barriers to workplace participation.

Our approach to weaning off JobKeeper must be rational, considered and specific so that the economy at large is best positioned to recover.

Young adults with disability are benefitting from opportunities provided by the Purple Chicken café.

The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine is the single most important policy issue facing us this year. All Australians are willing the Government to succeed. That’s why the Government must publicly refute the spread of dangerous misinformation.

For my last speech of 2020, I highlighted the outstanding work of my constituents on what matters to them in this most difficult year. I am proud to advance their interests in Canberra and never take for granted the trust they’ve placed in me.

I support the passage of the National Emergency Declaration Bill 2020 through the House not because it will solve all the problems in our bushfire response but because it addresses one of the many shortcomings the royal commission identified in our current bushfire response framework.

I call on the government to move quickly to help our grape growers and winemakers to respond to the fast-moving challenges on the climate and trade fronts.

Regional news media is vital to rural Australia. Annual reviews of the news media bargaining code must specifically considers the impacts on small and regional publishers.

La Trobe University’s Nexus program addresses a major challenge in regional and rural areas: that of attracting, preparing and retaining high-quality teachers in often hard-to-staff schools.