Every day we wait is another day that we deny protection to people who put themselves at enormous risk to expose the truth.

And as we approach Christmas, these groups are working extra hard to bring some joy to those doing it tough over the festive season.

Provider shortages and long travel distances mean people are missing out on help showering, eating and taking medication. The situation is dire.

Legal experts have expressed views that the legislation may not resolve the issue of whether the imposition of the curfew and monitoring conditions is punitive or reasonably necessary. I cannot in good faith support a bill unlikely to withstand yet another High Court challenge.

We must deliver here in Australia a high-speed, highly functional, reliable NBN for everybody and most especially that we do not leave a single person in rural and regional Australia behind.

Protect our Winters is a volunteer group passionately fighting to save our fragile alpine system, and everything it represents.

We desperately need reform to our donations laws to reduce the impact of big money and remove dark money from politics in Australia.

While families have been struggling to balance the household budget, both Coles and Woolies made more than $1 billion in after-tax profits in the previous financial year.

Too often, we’re left questioning whether the decisions made by those in power are made for the right reasons.

The community that brought me to this parliament brought me here with a very clear mandate to ask for greater scrutiny, to shine a light into dark corners, to turn up the torch and, indeed, to turn up the heat when I see something that isn’t right.