With an election looming it’s little wonder that the Morrison Government has tried to use the Budget to improve its standing with Australian women, who have been abandoning the Liberals in droves. But this ain’t it. #Budget2022 #auspol 🧵1/15 While some announcements are a step in the right direction, the budget is largely a grab bag of bare-minimum measures that fall well short of what we know is needed to make women safe and ensure their economic security. #Budget2022 #auspol 2/15

The AEC has published political donations data for the 2020-21 fin yr today (better late than never, but it should be in real time!). Let’s see which dodgy corporations have been lining whose pockets, shall we? (thread) #auspol The biggest donor of the year goes to billionaire Anthony Pratt of the Visy recycling empire for giving the Libs $1.26 Million. Pratt is mates with Trump & Morrison.

The Greens today will move for an independent inquiry into Christian Porter’s fitness to be a Minister. 1/9 #auspol #ChristianPorter For two months now I have been fighting to progress my bill that would set up an independent inquiry into Christian Porter’s fitness to be a Minister and uphold the parliamentary standards that the PM is meant to apply. 2/9 #auspol #ChristianPorter

More Senate bastardry from big parties - gave late verbal notice that 2moro they’ll gang up to PERMANENTLY REMOVE the rights of Senators to move & get a vote on issues in ‘motions’. This is deeply anti-democratic; means LibLab get to dictate issues that can be voted on! #auspol The LibLab proposal is to replace actual votes with 2min statements. Problem is, votes are where the accountability is! Big parties want to weasel out of telling the public what their position is on issues that might be tricky/politically inconvenient. But ppl deserve to know!

Mr Porter abandoning his defamation action against @Milliganreports and the ABC leaves serious allegations against him unexamined. 1/8 #auspol #ChristianPorter The Australian people cannot have confidence in this government while a man with a rape allegation hanging over his head remains a Cabinet Minister. 2/8 #auspol #ChristianPorter

Big day in #estimates today. I found out from AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw that the Brittany Higgins investigation had received 32 referrals of information to their investigation, and the AFP are actively pursuing six matters. 1/7 During my questioning of the Secretary of the Department of Parliamentary Services we learned that there had been no changes to parliamentary security protocols since Brittany Higgins’ allegations came to light. 2/7 #estimates

Greens women will walk out of the senate on Monday as part of the national #MarchForJustice protests, which are calling for gender equality and an end to gendered violence. We'll join demonstrators at the Canberra rally on the lawns outside Parliament House. @womensmarchaus 1/4 These last few weeks have made every woman in the country angry, sad and exhausted. The government’s reaction to allegations of sexual assault in Parliament House and allegations of rape against the Attorney-General have left us disgusted and fed up. #March4Justice 2/4

The consent education program trumpeted by Education Minister Alan Tudge this morning is a weak-kneed response to the roar of fury from women and girls everywhere. 1/8 It wasn't new. It was a re-announcement of a $2.8 million online program the Morrison government unveiled in 2019. A program that has so far, in two years, apparently failed to deliver any education materials for schools. 2/8

The Greens are moving to suspend standing orders to discuss why the PM said he’d be participating the the Global Climate Summit, when diplomatic sources revealed Australia wasn’t invited to participate because of our dismal inaction on climate change. What we need to hear from the Govt is whether the PM misled parliament in response to questions about whether we were invited to the global climate summit or not?

BREAKING: I just moved to suspend standing orders to debate my Parliamentary Standards Bill. Women deserve to feel safe and heard in Parliament, as they should in any workplace. “It is long past time that women in this building feel safe... We’ve called on the PM to show some leadership and to take action. All we’ve heard is that this isn’t his problem, these issues are in the past, and there is a process.”

ESTIMATES: Earlier today, I had a whole 11 mins to interrogate the Environment Dept on Adani, managing conflicts of interest, New Acland coal mine and the Browse Basin gas pipeline, and the findings were revelatory; a thread: The Auditor General noted that the Enviro Dept didn't have a policy to deal with conflicts of interests, so the Dept created one. BUT the Dept isn’t looking back in time to see if previous enviro approvals were affected by conflicts, which seems... like a massive oversight imho

AEC donations data has been released and whaddya know, Adani has made $50k in donations to the Libs and One Nation... #auspol Chevron has donated $121k in total to the Libs, Labor and the Nats. Also, paid $0 tax last year...