Nick McKim
Australian Greens Senator for Lutruwita/Tasmania
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- Australians are bracing for another interest rate rise because Labor has turbo-charged the housing crisis and refused to tackle corporate price gouging.
- The Oxfam report shows exactly what’s broken in our economy.
- While renters and working people are doing it tough, billionaires are pocketing more than half a million dollars a day, turbo-charged by tax breaks like the capital gains tax discount.
- Pressure is growing on Labor to act, with NSW Treasury now joining a long list of experts calling out the capital gains tax discount as unfair and damaging.
- Tasmania once criminalised people for being gay or for cross-dressing. Yesterday Tasmania's Parliament finally passed laws to erase those convictions and offer redress for the harm caused. This is justice decades overdue.
- This reform was driven by the LGBTIQA+ community - especially Rodney Croome and Equality Tasmania - and championed in Parliament by the Greens. It’s a nation-leading acknowledgment that simply being yourself should never have been a crime.
- The Greens have secured a Senate inquiry into the capital gains tax (CGT) discount. We will use this to expose one of the most regressive tax breaks in Australia, where 50% of the benefit goes to the top 1% wealthiest Australians.
- In an abhorrent turn of events, Queensland's Health Minister - Tim Nicholls - has reinstated a ban on gender-affirming care for young trans folk, just hours after the Supreme Court ruled the LNP’s first ban unlawful.
- A Queensland mum just had to take the LNP Government to court so her trans kid could get healthcare. And she won! The Supreme Court ruled the LNP’s ban on gender-affirming care was unlawful.
- Police and Forestry Tasmania have scoped out the Styx Forest Sentinel Camp that I visited this week.
- 2025 has already been the worst on record for the destruction of koala habitat. Almost 4,000 hectares – the size of four Sydney Airports – has been approved to be bulldozed this year.
- My privilege to meet today with a delegation of Australia’s Tibetan community. We spoke about the need for self-determination for Tibetan people, and the importance of protecting the future succession of the Dalai Lama from Chinese government interference.
- Of course we need more renewable energy projects, but Robbins Island is the wrong project in the wrong place.
