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Nick McKim
Senator for lutruwita/Tasmania

New Spy Powers Unjustified

19 June, 2019 - Peter Dutton's plan to allow the Australian Signals Directorate to spy on Australians is a dangerous and unjustified attack on fundamental right...

Christmas Island reopening a cynical waste

3 April, 2019 - The Liberals spending $185m to reopen and then close Christmas Island is rank cynicism and deeply wasteful, Greens Immigration spokesperson Nick...

Pauline Hanson

28 March, 2019 - Greens Senator for Tasmania Nick McKim says words of condemnation for Pauline Hanson’s repugnant comments about Port Arthur are not enough.   “...

Mount Roland Cable Car

18 March, 2019 - The Tasmanian government is continuing to privatise public land through its secretive expressions of interest process, Greens Senator for Tasma...

National Disaster Response Unit

14 March, 2019 - The Australian Greens have today announced a plan to invest half a billion dollars to create a National Disaster Response Unit with the capacit...

Manus and Nauru medical evacuation legislation

4 February, 2019 - The Prime Minister’s proposed change to medical assessment for people in offshore detention is nothing more than a shuffling of administrativ...

Labor locks in cruelty to refugees

17 December, 2018 - Labor’s commitment to the cruelty of offshore detention and boat turnbacks is disappointing, but not surprising, Greens immigration spokespe...

Urgent action needed to save Tassie’s East Coast reefs

14 December, 2018 - The federal and state governments must take action to save Tasmania’s East Coast reefs. “Our reefs are far too important to lose, but right ...

Morrison’s new laws must not undermine anti-discrimination protections

13 December, 2018 - A Religious Discrimination Act should not be used to undermine or override state based anti-discrimination laws, the Australian Greens say, ...

Greens table Senate’s largest ever petition to protect takayna/Tarkine

6 December, 2018 - Tasmanian Greens Senators Nick McKim and Peter Whish-Wilson have tabled the Senate’s largest ever petition, calling for takayna/Tarkine to be...

Senate calls on Environment Minister to call in Lake Malbena development

6 December, 2018 - The Senate has today called on federal Environment Minister Melissa Price to conduct a full assessment of the Lake Malbena development, inclu...

Defence call out laws

27 November, 2018 - The passage of laws to make it easier for Governments to use the army within Australia is a dangerous step for our country, Greens Justice s...