Dr Monique Ryan
@mon4kooyong.bsky.social
Independent Member for Kooyong. Authorised by M. Ryan 145 Camberwell Rd, Hawthorn East, 3123 #Mon4Kooyong
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Lest we forget.
Today, we honour those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.
I was honoured to lay a wreath at the Kew Remembrance Day service.
Representatives from my office were also very proud to lay a wreath at the Camberwell service.
Today, we honour those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.
I was honoured to lay a wreath at the Kew Remembrance Day service.
Representatives from my office were also very proud to lay a wreath at the Camberwell service.
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Lest we forget.
Today, we honour those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.
I was honoured to lay a wreath at the Kew Remembrance Day service.
Representatives from my office were also very proud to lay a wreath at the Camberwell service.
Today, we honour those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.
I was honoured to lay a wreath at the Kew Remembrance Day service.
Representatives from my office were also very proud to lay a wreath at the Camberwell service.
The govt is spending billions to keep 100 asylum seekers on Nauru, a nation of 12 000 people the size of Tullamarine airport. Reports implicating the Finks bikie gang in those deals are deeply concerning. Public servants have risked their livelihoods to speak out.
‘Dirty deals’: Nauru rorting, bikie gang allegations to be referred to NACC
Allegations of rorting, graft and bikie gangs infiltrating critical border security operations are set to be referred to the national anti-corruption watchdog.
www.theage.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The govt is spending billions to keep 100 asylum seekers on Nauru, a nation of 12 000 people the size of Tullamarine airport. Reports implicating the Finks bikie gang in those deals are deeply concerning. Public servants have risked their livelihoods to speak out.
Lest we forget.
On November 11, we remember those who sacrificed their lives for our freedoms.
On November 11, we remember those who sacrificed their lives for our freedoms.
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Lest we forget.
On November 11, we remember those who sacrificed their lives for our freedoms.
On November 11, we remember those who sacrificed their lives for our freedoms.
Australia has a long history of dodgy deals around offshore detention. We’ve repeatedly paid hundreds of millions of dollars to companies linked to alleged criminal activities.
Again and again the Morrison and Albanese govts have hidden the details of those deals.
It’s a disgrace.
Again and again the Morrison and Albanese govts have hidden the details of those deals.
It’s a disgrace.
‘Mind-boggling’: Whistleblower reveals how global bikie boss won Nauru security deal
A former soldier recruited to support an Albanese government deportation plan wants an inquiry after finding a gang had infiltrated the border security operation.
www.theage.com.au
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Australia has a long history of dodgy deals around offshore detention. We’ve repeatedly paid hundreds of millions of dollars to companies linked to alleged criminal activities.
Again and again the Morrison and Albanese govts have hidden the details of those deals.
It’s a disgrace.
Again and again the Morrison and Albanese govts have hidden the details of those deals.
It’s a disgrace.
The EPBC nature laws the govt wants Parliament to pass today would delegate project approvals to the states.
For months the WA govt has been hiding its own report, which shows that its gas industry is driving increased emissions globally.
For months the WA govt has been hiding its own report, which shows that its gas industry is driving increased emissions globally.
Secret report challenges government claim WA gas will help world decarbonise
A secret report undermines the WA government's claim that domestic gas production is helping the rest of the world decarbonise, while the state's own greenhouse gas emissions rise.
www.abc.net.au
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The EPBC nature laws the govt wants Parliament to pass today would delegate project approvals to the states.
For months the WA govt has been hiding its own report, which shows that its gas industry is driving increased emissions globally.
For months the WA govt has been hiding its own report, which shows that its gas industry is driving increased emissions globally.
Today, leading medical researchers from across the nation are stepping into Parliament, joining my call for the government to release the funds being withheld from the Medical Research Future Fund.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Monique Ryan urges Australia to fast-track medical innovation funding as Trump guts research
Kooyong MP urges government to release more of the earnings from the $20bn Medical Research Future Fund
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Today, leading medical researchers from across the nation are stepping into Parliament, joining my call for the government to release the funds being withheld from the Medical Research Future Fund.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The new nature laws are too important to get them wrong. When something really matters, you have to get it right.
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
The new nature laws are too important to get them wrong. When something really matters, you have to get it right.
Hard to understand a govt that blocks teenagers from social media but has *no* issue with them accessing online gambling platforms at all, or with them being bombarded with ads for online gambling.
Australia’s teen social media ban has a gaming-sized loophole
The list of banned platforms requires mental gymnastics that the government has struggled to explain, and ignores where kids actually spend their time.
www.theage.com.au
November 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Hard to understand a govt that blocks teenagers from social media but has *no* issue with them accessing online gambling platforms at all, or with them being bombarded with ads for online gambling.
Australia's nature laws are the most powerful protection we have against environmental destruction and species extinction.
Our new environmental laws are 5 years in the making, and 1,500 pages long.
Our new environmental laws are 5 years in the making, and 1,500 pages long.
Do new environment laws actually help the environment?
Ambiguous language in draft national environment laws means acting on scientific facts or not will come down to ministerial discretion.
www.abc.net.au
November 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Australia's nature laws are the most powerful protection we have against environmental destruction and species extinction.
Our new environmental laws are 5 years in the making, and 1,500 pages long.
Our new environmental laws are 5 years in the making, and 1,500 pages long.
Australia’s MRFF is sitting on billions of taxpayers’ dollars which was meant to be invested in world-leading, lifesaving health innovations.
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Australia’s MRFF is sitting on billions of taxpayers’ dollars which was meant to be invested in world-leading, lifesaving health innovations.
Laughing in the face of a climate crisis.
November 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Laughing in the face of a climate crisis.
Did you know that when you send a postal vote application to a political party, it can (and does) harvest your personal data, store it, and sell it on to third parties?
It’s illegal in Victoria - but fine at a federal level.
It’s illegal in Victoria - but fine at a federal level.
Voters warned to be wary of unsolicited postal vote application texts
Australia's electoral commissioner has urged voters to "carefully consider" who they give their personal information to as the election campaign gets underway.
www.abc.net.au
November 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Did you know that when you send a postal vote application to a political party, it can (and does) harvest your personal data, store it, and sell it on to third parties?
It’s illegal in Victoria - but fine at a federal level.
It’s illegal in Victoria - but fine at a federal level.
Dumping net zero by 2050 ignores Australia’s international commitment to slash climate pollution, sells out young Australians and leaves the regional communities the Nationals claim to represent more vulnerable to fossil-fuelled extreme fires, floods, and storms.
Sussan Ley under pressure as Nationals formally scrap net zero target
David Littleproud says he informed the Liberal leader days ago of the policy position his party was considering
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Dumping net zero by 2050 ignores Australia’s international commitment to slash climate pollution, sells out young Australians and leaves the regional communities the Nationals claim to represent more vulnerable to fossil-fuelled extreme fires, floods, and storms.
Having a cold one has never been more expensive in Australia.
This week I’ll be moving an amendment to freeze beer excise indexation—because a schooner shouldn’t cost $11 in Melbourne when it’s $5 in Tokyo.
This week I’ll be moving an amendment to freeze beer excise indexation—because a schooner shouldn’t cost $11 in Melbourne when it’s $5 in Tokyo.
November 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Having a cold one has never been more expensive in Australia.
This week I’ll be moving an amendment to freeze beer excise indexation—because a schooner shouldn’t cost $11 in Melbourne when it’s $5 in Tokyo.
This week I’ll be moving an amendment to freeze beer excise indexation—because a schooner shouldn’t cost $11 in Melbourne when it’s $5 in Tokyo.
A lobbying code of conduct which allows our defence minister to discuss defence business with a global contracting firm in cabinet then take a job with that firm nine days after leaving politics is a lobbying code which is corrosive of public trust.
A poodle is a dog
Christopher Pyne was still a cabinet minister when he met with EY to discuss taking a job with the consultancy. There was no confusion about the purpose of the meeting.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
October 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
A lobbying code of conduct which allows our defence minister to discuss defence business with a global contracting firm in cabinet then take a job with that firm nine days after leaving politics is a lobbying code which is corrosive of public trust.
There's been too little progress on the shockingly high rates of violence against women and children in Australia.
The government has failed to act on a series of enquiries and reports. Our responses have been inadequate and fragmented.
The government has failed to act on a series of enquiries and reports. Our responses have been inadequate and fragmented.
National watchdog needed for violence against women, commissioner says
The Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission found systems meant to keep governments accountable are so fragmented they are leading to authorities passing the buck on responsibility.
www.abc.net.au
October 30, 2025 at 3:36 AM
There's been too little progress on the shockingly high rates of violence against women and children in Australia.
The government has failed to act on a series of enquiries and reports. Our responses have been inadequate and fragmented.
The government has failed to act on a series of enquiries and reports. Our responses have been inadequate and fragmented.
The recent repeated oil and gas leaks around Australia highlight the importance of better environmental protections - which we’ll be debating in Parliament next week.
I’ll be pushing the government to include clean air protections in the new EPBC act.
I’ll be pushing the government to include clean air protections in the new EPBC act.
Oil spill, emissions error trigger gas giant federal investigation
An oil spill that leaked into Darwin Harbour and the substantial under-reporting of toxic emissions have put one of Australia's biggest gas companies under federal investigation.
www.abc.net.au
October 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The recent repeated oil and gas leaks around Australia highlight the importance of better environmental protections - which we’ll be debating in Parliament next week.
I’ll be pushing the government to include clean air protections in the new EPBC act.
I’ll be pushing the government to include clean air protections in the new EPBC act.
Good luck to all the year 12 students starting VCE exams today!
October 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Good luck to all the year 12 students starting VCE exams today!
With the US govt making catastrophic cuts to its health and medical research programs, American experts are saying that Australia has to step up. When we debate the CDC legislation in the House tomorrow, I'll be proposing amendments to increase its size and scope.
Australia must ‘step up to prevent catastrophic and preventable loss of life’ amid Trump cuts, former CDC boss says
Dr Tom Frieden served as director of the US health body under Barack Obama until 2017 and warns about cuts under Donald Trump
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
With the US govt making catastrophic cuts to its health and medical research programs, American experts are saying that Australia has to step up. When we debate the CDC legislation in the House tomorrow, I'll be proposing amendments to increase its size and scope.
Another day, another fossil fuel leak in the Northern Territory. This is the third in a month.
While we wait to see the govt’s delayed and diluted revisions to the EPBC Act, we’re allowing overseas-based multinationals to poison our environment while paying minimal tax.
While we wait to see the govt’s delayed and diluted revisions to the EPBC Act, we’re allowing overseas-based multinationals to poison our environment while paying minimal tax.
www.ntnews.com.au
October 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Another day, another fossil fuel leak in the Northern Territory. This is the third in a month.
While we wait to see the govt’s delayed and diluted revisions to the EPBC Act, we’re allowing overseas-based multinationals to poison our environment while paying minimal tax.
While we wait to see the govt’s delayed and diluted revisions to the EPBC Act, we’re allowing overseas-based multinationals to poison our environment while paying minimal tax.
Congratulations to the Government for securing a deal to grow Australia's critical minerals industry and put us in the running to become clean tech heavyweight, but it's a shame to see the PM return empty-handed on another critical sector of our economy.
October 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Congratulations to the Government for securing a deal to grow Australia's critical minerals industry and put us in the running to become clean tech heavyweight, but it's a shame to see the PM return empty-handed on another critical sector of our economy.
The Albanese govt can find $368 billion for submarines we’ll be lucky to ever see, but can’t provide very modest amounts of funding for our world-leading, Nobel Prize winning researchers.
Cutting funding to Lucas Heights and the Melbourne synchrotron is shortsighted and wasteful.
Cutting funding to Lucas Heights and the Melbourne synchrotron is shortsighted and wasteful.
Budget cuts ‘threaten Nobel Prize-generating research’
The government may close one-of-a-kind instruments at the synchrotron in Melbourne and Lucas Heights reactor in Sydney.
www.theage.com.au
October 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The Albanese govt can find $368 billion for submarines we’ll be lucky to ever see, but can’t provide very modest amounts of funding for our world-leading, Nobel Prize winning researchers.
Cutting funding to Lucas Heights and the Melbourne synchrotron is shortsighted and wasteful.
Cutting funding to Lucas Heights and the Melbourne synchrotron is shortsighted and wasteful.
With a new deal signed between the US and Australia dominating today’s news cycle, many might be wondering what critical minerals are and why they matter. Take a look at this excellent explainer by A/Prof. Amir Razmjou in The Conversation.
The global race is on to secure critical minerals. Why do they matter so much?
Global energy giants are turning their focus to critical minerals. With such deep-pocketed players, Australia must invest heavily if it wants to stay in the race.
theconversation.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
With a new deal signed between the US and Australia dominating today’s news cycle, many might be wondering what critical minerals are and why they matter. Take a look at this excellent explainer by A/Prof. Amir Razmjou in The Conversation.
Last month we learnt that Santos was underreporting a massive methane leak in Darwin. This month it’s cancer-causing benzene emissions from the NT Ichthys facility.
www.theaustralian.com.au
October 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Last month we learnt that Santos was underreporting a massive methane leak in Darwin. This month it’s cancer-causing benzene emissions from the NT Ichthys facility.
If it wasn’t clear before, it certainly is now: without a credible, coherent climate action plan and clean energy policy, the Federal Opposition is heading into the political wilderness.
The LNP’s infighting over net zero exposes its policy poverty and growing irrelevance.
The LNP’s infighting over net zero exposes its policy poverty and growing irrelevance.
Coalition showdown on net zero looms amid speculation more MPs could quit over policy
Meeting called for end of sitting week inviting backbench MPs to argue for or against dumping the policy after Barnaby Joyce announced resignation
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
If it wasn’t clear before, it certainly is now: without a credible, coherent climate action plan and clean energy policy, the Federal Opposition is heading into the political wilderness.
The LNP’s infighting over net zero exposes its policy poverty and growing irrelevance.
The LNP’s infighting over net zero exposes its policy poverty and growing irrelevance.