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Deputy Labor Leader, Senate. Shadow Min Home Affairs, Immigration & Citizenship. NSW Senator. 42nd NSW Premier. Mother of 3. Advocate for stillbirth reduction.

New South Wales, Australia
Joined January 2009

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    Terror’s newest faces. Not in some overseas country. Here in Australia. For months the Government has downplayed, ignored or dismissed the threat of right wing extremism. Meanwhile, in the Grampians, this week, the newest RWX group in Aus forms. Read more 👇

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  2. Why aren’t and condemning this hatred & terror, especially the extremist views, conspiracy theories and far right narratives in their own party, like Craig Kelly & George Christensen? Meeting this national security risk requires leadership, now.

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  3. In December, Labor successfully forced the Govt to refer an inquiry on right wing extremism to the Intelligence & Security Committee. The US Capitol attacks show Australia must meet this growing domestic terrorist threat & act to keep all Australians safe.

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  4. Australia is the only 5 Eyes country that has not listed any right wing extremists as terrorists. UK, Canada, USA and NZ all have. Clearly, such groups are here and these views are taking hold.

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  5. ASIO has revealed that up to 40 per cent of its resources are being directed towards right-wing extremist groups. 👇

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  6. “The Lads Society and Antipodean Resistance, recently helped form a new Australian extremist outfit, the National Socialist Network, which in turn helped organise the 38 young, white men to assemble in the Grampians over the Australia Day weekend” 👇

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  7. The Government must remove the barriers that prevent equal participation among our diverse community.

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  8. As my colleague says in today’s ,“Migrants have played a significant role in building our nation into the thriving, prosperous place it is today and continue to make an enormous contribution.”

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  9. The Govt has racked up a trillion $ of debt in a budget that still doesn’t do enough to create jobs, fails to build for the future & leaves too many Aussies behind. It’s more pain for hard-working Australians.

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  10. As Treasurer, promised $3.5b for child care for more than 1.2m families. But, in fact, the Morrison Govt is actually spending $3 billion a year less than what Mr Morrison estimated as Treasurer.

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  11. In 2019, promised an Agriculture Workforce Strategy to identify gaps in the labour market. Today, $39m in crops have been lost because of labour shortages & we still have no safe national border security quarantine plan

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  12. Following the AFP raids of and , the Morrison Govt promised to “overhaul” whistleblower protections. Yet, still no new whistleblower protections. Another broken promise.

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  13. When under pressure over Govt integrity in 2018, promised a National Integrity Commission. Two years later, the PM has still not delivered on his promise.

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  14. On 15 March, promised that cruise ships coming to Australia would be under the “direct command” of Just 4 days later, the arrived and spread across the country

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  15. In Sept, promised ~28,000 they would be home by Xmas. The PM broke that promise, and there are still 40,000 Aussies still not home.

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  16. After mishandling the 2020 bushfires, set up a bunch of photo-ops... But, time and time again, the PM has shown he's there for the photo-op, but not for the follow-up…

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  17. . promised that his vaccine "strategy puts Australia at the front of the queue". But, today we learnt the PM has broken that promise… 61 times.

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  18. The Morrison Government never delivers. It is always there for the photo op, never there for the follow up. Looking forward to working with on making sure is held to account on important issues like these 👇

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  19. Australians want a government that acts in their interests. Instead, they get who breaks his promises & serves up sports rots, dodgy land deals & a dud NBN

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  20. Very pleased to continue in Home Affairs, Immigration & Citizenship, incl helping & other Aussies let down by & Also, honoured to take on additional role of Shadow Min for Govt Accountability in 's team. 🧵👇

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