Nick McKim

Devastating to hear about the attack on Helen Haines. Helen is a thoroughly decent human who is admired right across the political spectrum, and I join with countless others in sending love and best wishes to her, her family, and her loved ones.

This moment does not exist in isolation. There is a crisis of violence against women in Australia, overwhelmingly perpetrated by men, and this is the latest in a tragic pattern. All men have a responsibility to not only be better, but to demand better of other men.

No-one should have to live in fear. Everyone deserves to be safe.

Work 11 hours a day. Pay a fortune in rent. Get gouged at the supermarket. Hand over more of your wages to privatised corporations. And somehow, you're told that migrants and trans people are the problem.

The billionaires and big corporations are laughing all the way to the bank while Labor and the Liberals keep us fighting amongst ourselves. It's time to break the power of the billionaire class and put it back in the hands of everyday Australians.

Free Palestine.

17 Sept

Criticism of Israel and the genocidal Zionist project is not antisemitism. We will not be intimidated into silence. Free Palestine.

17 Sept

Instead of fighting Pauline Hanson, Labor is letting her ghost write their migration policy. It is craven, cowardly and just emboldens the far right.

10 Sept

We will not be party to making forest protection contingent on a mechanism that drives their destruction.

National Threatened Species Day has been observed in Australia for 30 years. It marks the death of the last Tasmanian Tiger in 1936, driven to extinction by a government bounty. Yet in 2026 governments are still failing, and we are facing yet more totally avoidable extinctions and habitat loss.

And the Swift Parrot - the world’s fastest parrot – faces a similar fate if native forest logging is allowed to continue destroying its breeding habitat in Tasmania.

Labor prioritises corporate profits and toxic industries over the survival of endangered species. Labor MPs should stop posing for photos with cute creatures and start actually doing something to protect them and their homes.

Labor promised ‘no new extinctions’ - what about the Maugean skate? The government supports industrial salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour that is destroying the only known habitat for this ancient species and driving it towards extinction.

27 Aug

Vale Dolly Parton and Tim Curry - two incredible advocates for LGBTQIA+ rights, education, and inclusion.

27 Aug

Dolly championed LGBTQIA+ love and acceptance throughout her global music career and personal advocacy. Her music became a staple in queer spaces and celebrations. Dolly proudly advocated for all people to be themselves and live without fear. And, she absolutely rocked!

27 Aug

Tim Curry’s role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show inspired generations of queer people to defy gender stereotypes, and to be themselves. Tim’s portrayal of this character and ongoing support for LGBTQIA+ community helped build inclusion, education and empowerment.

7 Aug

Young Australians (25 and under) can submit a speech through the Raise Our Voice website until August 14th. Can't wait to make this year's speech. It's time to make positive change for young people in this country.

7 Aug

Stoked to again be taking part in the Raise Our Voice campaign this year! Raise Our Voice is an exciting opportunity to ensure young voices are heard loud and clear in our Parliament.

The Greens welcome the launch of a national campaign to end native forest logging. This is a critical moment in defence of Australia's precious forests.

Ending native forest logging would protect the habitat of some of Australia's most endangered species, and is the quickest, easiest way to reduce national emissions.

The Greens look forward to working with the environment movement and finally delivering overdue protection for Australia's native forests.

The Greens welcome the launch of a national campaign to end native forest logging. This is a critical moment in defence of Australia's precious forests.

For the first time in many years the environment movement has put down a marker, said enough is enough, and come together in defence of our forests. This is a reflection of the urgency of the climate and ecological crises we are living through.

2 July

The Albanese Government accepted UN human rights recommendations for other marginalised groups, but rejected every recommendation relating to LGBTIQA+ people. At a time of renewed attacks on queer communities, Labor should not be so abjectly capitulating to the far right.

2 July

With LGBTIQA+ people under sustained attack, what is Labor's response? Reject every suggestion aimed at improving their rights. Clearly the Prime Minister sees the queer community as little more than props for his photo opportunities.

2 July

There is so much more to be done to support the lives of the LGBTIQA+ community in Australia. Now is not the time for Albanese to engage in performative support, pat himself on the back and act like everything is fine. LGBTIQA+ rights are human rights.

25 June

One Nation is the local arm of a globalised dark money network, promoting fascism and division across the world. The Greens are here to fight them every step of the way.

24 June

The Labor and Liberal Party are colluding with the mendicant forestry industry by destroying nature, emitting massive amounts of carbon and bleeding the Tasmanian and Australian tax payers through public subsidies. It is time to end native forest logging.

23 June

Labor’s proposed cuts to the NDIS represent one of the most serious attacks on the rights, independence and dignity of disabled Australians in recent memory. The Greens will do everything we can to stop this bill.

Labor and the Liberals are colluding to plunder Tasmania’s native forests, ship logs across Bass Strait and saw them in Victorian mills, with public subsidies propping up every step of the way.

It is absurd for the Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme to be subsidising the movement of Tasmanian logs into Victorian mills, and this loophole must be closed.

The federal government needs to stop passing the buck to the states and use its powers to end native forest logging around Australia. Our native forests are too important to keep sacrificing for an industry that is environmentally destructive and financially dependent on public money.

Labor and the Liberals are colluding to plunder Tasmania’s native forests, ship logs across Bass Strait and saw them in Victorian mills, with public subsidies propping up every step of the way.

Native forest logging only survives because governments keep it on life support with public subsidies. The industry destroys nature and emits massive amounts of carbon while leeching off taxpayers. It should be wound up immediately.

18 June

So here for the transgender insurgency.

The Bureau of Meteorology has declared an El Niño, and Tasmania has just recorded its warmest May on record. This is what climate breakdown looks like. Not in some distant future. Right now.

Climate breakdown is a story about inequality. A tiny number of corporations and billionaires get rich from pollution, and buy off politicians to keep it this way. The other 99% of us wear the costs.

We already know what the solutions are - making polluters pay, protecting forests, and keeping coal and gas in the ground. The climate crisis isn't just coming. It's already here.

The Bureau of Meteorology has declared an El Niño, and Tasmania has just recorded its warmest May on record. This is what climate breakdown looks like. Not in some distant future. Right now.

For decades, coal, oil and gas corporations have known exactly what their pollution was doing. They made enormous profits while governments looked the other way. Now the rest of us are being left with the bill.

While the climate crisis accelerates, Labor and the Liberals are approving new coal and gas projects and continuing to allow the destruction of native forests. At the exact moment we should be strengthening nature's defences, they're tearing them down.

The Bureau of Meteorology has declared an El Niño, and Tasmania has just recorded its warmest May on record. This is what climate breakdown looks like. Not in some distant future. Right now.

The people paying the price aren't the billionaires and fossil fuel corporations driving this crisis. It's farmers facing drought. Communities facing bushfires. Workers dealing with dangerous heat. Families paying higher insurance bills and food prices.

5 June

Yesterday we learned that Labor and the Liberals are working on a bilateral agreement to approve Tasmanian logging operations. This is being done before the relevant environmental standards have even been finalised. This is totally unacceptable.

5 June

We haven’t even seen some of the standards in draft form. Those we have seen are woefully inadequate. Labor and Liberal governments in Tasmania have spent years rubber-stamping forest destruction, and simply can’t be trusted to look after our precious native forests.

5 June

Governments should be working together to protect native forests, not conspiring to destroy them. Native forest logging needs to end, and it needs to end now.

1 June

Can you believe this? Labor is handing over tens of millions of dollars from an emissions reduction fund to help a Tasmanian cement plant burn native forests.

1 June

This will lock in ongoing destruction of nature and massive greenhouse gas emissions from industrial logging. It’s yet another lifeline for the native forest logging industry, which cannot survive without massive taxpayer subsidies.

1 June

The native forest logging industry should be ended once and for all, not propped up with public funds under the cover of "clean industry" funding.

29 May

The AFR Rich List shows a grotesque accumulation of wealth while millions of Australians struggle with the cost of living. There are now 178 billionaires in Australia, 17 more than a year ago. Australia doesn't have a wealth problem. Australia has a wealth distribution problem.

29 May

Australian billionaires added another $53 billion to their fortunes last year. The average billionaire got $811,000 richer every single day. Meanwhile, people are skipping meals, putting off medical appointments and wondering how they'll pay the rent.