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Nick McKim
Senator for lutruwita/Tasmania

TWWHA fires adjournment speech

3 February, 2016 - Tasmania has so many beautiful places but one of its most breathtakingly spectacular places is the Walls of Jerusalem inside the Tasmanian Wi...

Effects Test: Everyone's Business

29 January, 2016 - Competition is good for business. It can provide consumers with more choices, lower prices and better service. Businesses compete against eac...

Labor’s commitment to own policy welcome

28 January, 2016 - Labor’s return to its own policy of fully funding the Gonski reforms are a welcome development, Australian Greens spokesperson for schools Ni...

Resources needed to help prevent fires in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area

25 January, 2016 - Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania Nick McKim has written to Environment Minister Greg Hunt to request urgent assistance to fight fires b...

Funding for full Gonski package is critical

15 January, 2016 - Full funding for all six years of the Gonski reforms is critical to ensure better educational outcomes for all students, Greens spokesperson ...

Polling shows Tasmanians don’t want an increased GST

15 January, 2016 - Polling of Tasmanians showing an overwhelming rejection of a higher GST should send a clear message to the Liberal Federal and State governme...

ASIO head deserves better than attacks from Liberal backbenchers

17 December, 2015 - The head of ASIO deserves better than criticism from ill-informed Liberal backbenchers, Greens spokesperson for Legal Affairs Nick McKim say...

Tasmania Short-Changed By MYEFO

17 December, 2015 - Tasmania has been left completely short-changed by the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook, with $46 million ripped out of the state and no...

Further Delays in Gonski Disability Funding Not Good Enough

15 December, 2015 - More delays in disability support funding for schools are deeply disappointing, Greens Schools spokesperson Nick McKim says. “The Liberal Go...

Declared Dangerous Criminal Laws Should Follow Rules of Natural Justice

11 December, 2015 - The Government needs to put a greater focus on deradicalisation both in and out of prison, Greens legal affairs spokesperson Nick McKim says...

Small businesses can remind Scott Morrison of the need for an effects test

11 December, 2015 - The release of a discussion paper on misuse of market power is another chance for Australian businesses to remind Scott Morrison of the obvi...

Innovation Statement welcome, but not enough to replace massive research cuts

7 December, 2015 - The Greens broadly welcome the Turnbull Government’s Innovation Statement, however it does not repair the huge damage done to the science and...