Instead of the $270b military spend, we could:
— Adam Bandt (@AdamBandt) July 1, 2020
✔give free uni and TAFE to all who wanted it
✔offer every parent free childcare
✔bring dental into Medicare (six times over)
✔build the 500,000 public homes needed to end homelessness (twenty times over)
What would you rather?
It’s appalling that the Chinese Government is planning to directly introduce national Security laws in Hong Kong. These laws bypass Hong Kong’s Parliament, its judiciary and its people.
— Adam Bandt (@AdamBandt) May 26, 2020
Lib gov now moving to cancel Parl until August.
— Adam Bandt (@AdamBandt) March 23, 2020
No.
In this crisis, Parl must meet (where safe to do so) so no-one’s left behind.
In 24hrs we found out carers& students miss out on help: who else will we find over coming mths?
In this crisis, we need more democracy, not less.
BREAKING: At estimates, the @BOM_au confirmed its forecasts that the world is on track for 3.4°C of warming under current climate pledges & that means up to 4.4°C for Australia.
— Adam Bandt (@AdamBandt) October 20, 2020
Our last horror summer of bushfires was at ~1° of warming, & we're going to fail our current targets.