ARC estimates starting now ARC Tracker watch live here: aph.gov.au/Watch_Read_Lis…

For the entire term of this Lib gov the ARC has received 46 separate FOI applications to the tune of 1259 documents and NONE of them have been placed on the disclosure log. ARC Tracker #auspol

Procedural fairness and natural justice must be afforded to all our scholars and the work we do. We must not let McCarthyism take hold of our research system. ARC Tracker #research

6 projects recommended by the experts and the ARC but vetoed by the Minister. No real explanation or transparency, peoples livelihoods disrupted on a minister whim. ARC Tracker #research #estimates

Sad to hear of the passing of Moss Cass, a great Labor stalwart who served as environment and conservation minister and minister for the media in the Whitlam government. Moss laid the foundations of modern politics in these areas. We are all in his debt.

Ministerial vetoes of peer-reviewed research grants should be extremely rare and properly explained to Parliament. But this government has made the veto a weapon in far-right culture wars

The Government's so-called "anti-trolling" bill is really a defamation bill. It will do nothing to help those who endure bullying, harassment and hate speech online. theguardian.com/society/2022/m…

Tragic news about the passing of my caucus and Senate colleague Kimberley Kitching, who has been taken far too young. My deepest condolences to her husband Andrew and family.

This month we mark 90 years of one of the Senate's oldest standing committees - the Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation Committee (currently chaired and deputy chaired by Concetta Fierravanti-Wells and Kim Carr) Read more here: bit.ly/SenNews

I have decided not to seek endorsement for a place on the ALP Vic Senate ticket at the coming election. When my current term ends on June 30, it will bring to an end my time as a senator, which began in April 1993, when I filled a vacancy created by the retirement of John Button.

They’re at it again Just days out from the election Michaelia Cash appoints another 6 Liberal mates, including 2 defeated WA Liberal MPs, to lucrative taxpayer funded jobs on the AAT paying up $496,000 a year. That’s at least 85 Liberal mates on the AAT now since 2013.

A big national security change to student visa processing made, so far as I know, without warning or announcement. immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/already-…

The Liberals are trying to claim that privatisation doesn't affect electricity prices - you tell me. Their obsession with privatisation means that you pay more. From tolls to electricity. Under a Labor Government - this ends.

I’m deeply grateful to the learned Academies for the recent honours - Academy Medal from the Academy of Science and induction as Honorary Fellow of both Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering, and Academy of the Humanities.

The learned Academies have an important role to play in shaping the nation’s future. Australian Academy of Science Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering Australian Academy of the Humanities

Great to see the SKA (Square Kilometre Array) launched in Perth and Murchison yesterday. International mega science projects offer huge opportunities for collaboration, for new knowledge and technological development. I’m proud of Labor governments for supporting this program.

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.