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Christmas Closure Announcement

Just a heads up! Our team is taking a well-deserved Christmas break so we can return refreshed and ready for a big year in 2026! 📅 Closed: From 4:00 PM Friday, 19 December 2025 📅 Reopen: Monday, 12 January 2026 at 8:30 AM As you can imagine, the inbox will be overflowing! If your message […]

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Equality Means Fairness – Not Quotas

At Senate Estimates, I raised key questions about workplace gender equality and family policy. I asked the Workplace Gender Equality Agency to state executive salaries — the head earns $313,000. I highlighted to them that the agency itself has a gender pay gap in favour of women — women earn $111,746 vs men $106,141, and […]

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The NACC: Big Budget, Small Results

Since its inception in July 2023, the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has spent over $140 million of taxpayer money. Yet, despite having more powers and more staff than its predecessor, the results so far are underwhelming: just one conviction, two simple investigations, and ten historical cases carried over from the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement […]

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Lyme Disease Denial in Australia

During this Estimates session, I raised questions regarding the management of Lyme Disease. Unfortunately, my concerns appeared to fall on deaf ears. I was repeatedly told the same narrative—that there is no evidence of Lyme Disease existing in Australia—and it was evident that the so-called “experts” had no interest in exploring this issue further. There […]

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A Simple Step Toward Safer Immunisation

FOI requests, and the information they reveal, are an important element of Senate Estimates. In the past, a reference to the FOI number would prompt a staff member to appear with the relevant information to enable discussion. At the start of my question, a staff member approached the table with their laptop open—most likely with […]

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One Nation, One Law

Senator Watt has circulated an edited version of my exchange with the Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, which omits a large part of the discussion. This is the full exchange. I asked the new Islamophobia Envoy about a report he delivered to the Government a few months ago which, in One Nation’s view, whitewashed Islamic […]