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Appointment as Shadow Minister for Choice in Childcare and Early Learning

I am privileged to be appointed Shadow Minister for Choice in Childcare and Early Learning and Shadow Minister for Child Protection and Prevention of Family Violence in Angus Taylor’s Coalition Shadow Ministry. Labor’s childcare system is locked into a rigid,...

Resignation from Shadow Ministry

Today I resigned from my position as Shadow Assistant Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Infrastructure, effective immediately. This decision has not been taken lightly. However, I have reached the view that the Coalition currently lacks the policy clarity, leadership and...

Joint Media Release: Coalition Calls for Action on Road Safety Crisis

Australia’s road toll rose in 2025 with approximately 1,314 lives lost on roads across the country. This upward trend in road fatalities is the highest annual toll in the last 15 years and underscores an alarming reversal in national road...

Urgent Action Needed to Save WA’s Infrastructure Future

Figures revealed through Senator Matt O’Sullivan’s Budget Estimates questions confirm the WA Labor government has not only delayed critical infrastructure projects but is overseeing a total collapse in federal infrastructure investment in our state. Treasury’s responses show Commonwealth infrastructure payments...

Joint Media Release: Forestry sector cut down by dirty Labor-Greens deal on EPBC

Labor’s dirty deal with The Greens to pass controversial changes to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act will decimate Australia’s forestry sector, sending jobs offshore, and deliver the death knell to an industry under siege from inner city environmentalists....

Joint Media Release: Coalition Urges Labor to Take PSHB Seriously

Labor is missing in action on the invasive Polyphagous Shot-Hole Borer (PSHB) outbreak in Perth, leaving Western Australia to confront one of the most serious biosecurity threats in decades alone. PSHB poses a catastrophic risk to our urban tree canopy,...