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Nick McKim
Senator for lutruwita/Tasmania

Greens Introduce Bill to Make Price Gouging Illegal

12 September, 2024 - The Greens will introduce a bill to the Senate to make price gouging illegal, with big penalties for corporations who charge excessive pric...

Labor and Coalition Block Bill to End Native Forest Logging

11 September, 2024 - Labor and the Coalition have today voted together to block Greens' legislation to end logging of Australia’s native forests. The Greens’...

Chalmers must act now to bring down interest rates

10 September, 2024 - The Greens are urging Treasurer Jim Chalmers to use his powers to bring down interest rates, which continue to smash mortgage holders and r...

Labor Letting the RBA Crash the Economy

6 September, 2024 - Treasurer Jim Chalmers is sitting on his hands while the RBA is causing massive pain to young people and mortgage holders and deliberately r...

Coles' Billion Dollar Profits

27 August, 2024 - Coles making $1.1 billion in profits during a cost of living crisis shows the corporate supermarket duopoly needs to be broken up and price go...

Railton cement plant

16 August, 2024 - A $53 million grant given to upgrade Cement Australia's Railton kiln will fund the burning of native forest woodchips, documents revealed to t...

Rebadged loggers threaten Victoria’s native forest ban

8 August, 2024 - Significant forest industry players are trying to undermine Victoria’s ban on native forest logging on public land by using deceptive language ...

No case for RBA to raise rates

31 July, 2024 - The Greens have called for Labor to introduce a national rent freeze and measures to stop price gouging instead of sitting back and watching the...

Rex too important to Tasmania to be allowed to fail

31 July, 2024 - The Greens are calling on the federal government to consider purchasing Rex Airlines to ensure the continued connectivity and economic stability...

New Forestry Minister Julie Collins needs to end native forest logging

29 July, 2024 - The appointment of Julie Collins as Forestry Minister presents an urgent opportunity to end native forest logging across Australia, the Greens s...

Labor now isolated on supermarket divestiture

2 July, 2024 - Labor is now isolated as the only party allowing the big supermarket corporations to continue to misuse their market power and price-gouge Austra...

Greens split buy-to-rent from consumer protection changes

27 June, 2024 - The Greens have split a Government bill to ensure greater scrutiny of Labor’s plan for Build to Rent tax breaks and regulation of Buy Now, Pay L...