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Nick McKim
Senator for lutruwita/Tasmania

Labor and Liberals lock in forest destruction before standards are finalised

4 June, 2026 - It's unacceptable that the logging assessment bilateral agreement between the Tasmanian and federal governments will be progressed ahead of the r...

Labor’s subsidy for Tasmanian native forest destruction

1 June, 2026 - The Federal Government’s decision to hand almost $53 million to Cement Australia’s Railton facility is yet another subsidy for native forest dest...

Labor’s tax changes to face Senate inquiry

28 May, 2026 - Labor’s proposed changes to the capital gains tax and negative gearing will be examined at a Senate inquiry, giving the Bill the scrutiny it dese...

Labor’s tax changes to face Senate inquiry

28 May, 2026 - Labor’s proposed changes to the capital gains tax and negative gearing will be examined at a Senate inquiry, giving the Bill the scrutiny it dese...

RBA confirms corporate price gouging fuelled inflation

19 May, 2026 - New research from the Reserve Bank has confirmed what millions of Australians already knew: big corporations used the cost of living crisis to pu...

Coles misleading price verdict shows divestiture powers needed

14 May, 2026 - Coles being found to have deliberately misled customers with fake discounts shows again that Australia needs powers to break up the supermarket d...

Labor’s budget backs corporate profits & the 1% over people

12 May, 2026 - In their first budget of the term, Labor has chosen corporate profits over people, by delivering real cuts to services while allowing corporate p...

Labor’s fuel crisis budget will pick a side: ordinary people or corporate profits

7 May, 2026 - As the illegal war in the Middle East fuels inflation and economic inequality, Labor's budget must choose a side: deliver for people, or deliver f...

Rate rise pain won’t be felt by the top 1%

5 May, 2026 - Today’s interest rate rise will further entrench economic inequality and deliver more money into the pockets of the 1 per cent at the expense of r...

Trump’s war inflation starting to bite

29 April, 2026 - Today’s ABS inflation data confirms that Donald Trump’s war on Iran, fully supported by Anthony Albanese, is increasing pressure on the RBA to ...

AFL Appeal Board’s green light for homophobia

24 April, 2026 - The AFL Appeal Board’s decision to substantially reduce a penalty imposed for a homophobic slur is appalling, and its statement of reasons make...

Economic circumstances demand tax action, not capitulation to the 1%

20 April, 2026 - The Greens say that Labor must not capitulate to the interests of greedy gas corporations and ultra-rich property investors by tinkering on wha...