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Nick McKim
Senator for lutruwita/Tasmania

Media Release: Senate Inquiry established into abuse in Australia’s detention centres

12 September, 2016 - The Greens and Labor have co-sponsored a motion to establish a Senate inquiry into the allegations of abuse and self-harm on Manus Island a...

Denial of medical care allegations demand urgent action

5 September, 2016 - Allegations that the Government has denied medical care to a family of asylum seekers, including a 12-year-old with a badly broken arm, are ...

Address-in-Reply – Nick McKim

2 September, 2016 - Senator McKIM Before I concluded my previous contribution on this, I was speaking about the fact that the government's so-called border prot...

Media Release: Wilson’s Evacuation Shows Offshore Detention Untenable

2 September, 2016 - Wilson Security’s decision to withdraw from Australian offshore detention centres shows that the Government’s mandatory detention regime is ...

Speech in Reply on Immigration and Section 18C

1 September, 2016 - Before I concluded my previous contribution on this, I was speaking about the fact that the government's so-called border protection regime ...

Media Release: Labor and Liberals vote down immigration detention Royal Commission

31 August, 2016 - Labor and the Coalition have voted together to reject a Royal Commission into Australia's detention centres including Manus Island and Nauru. ...

Greens move for Royal Commission into Australia’s detention regime

30 August, 2016 - The Greens have introduced a motion in the Senate calling on the Government to hold a Royal Commission into Australia’s immigration detention ...

Greens pledge to protect 18C as many times as it takes

17 August, 2016 - The Australian Greens say they will keep standing with the community to protect Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, in the face of r...

Time to pull the plug on second Basslink

15 August, 2016 - Warwick Smith’s sudden resignation from the viability study of a second Basslink cable should prompt an urgent rethink of the proposal, Greens...

Greens unveil plans for a more just Australia

1 July, 2016 - The Greens will pursue an Australian Bill of Rights, stricter gun control and a rethink of Australian counter-terrorism laws in the next Parliame...

Greens to create firefighting capacity within the Australian Defence Force

28 June, 2016 - The Greens have pledged to establish a specialist firefighting unit within the Australian Defence Force and bolster Australia’s aerial firefight...