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Dec 22, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Monique Ryan
One in four flights in Australia are delayed. At least one in 50 are cancelled. Australian governments have never legislated consumer protections for air passengers. Sunday’s announcement of a draft charter of passenger rights goes some way towards addressing the frustrations of the system but it left out the most important issue: the need for cash compensation for delayed flights. When a flight is significantly delayed in Canada, every passenger receives $400. In the US, $100.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Monique Ryan
For more than a week politicians have been peppered with enquiries about their dealings with Qantas and Virgin. In my previous career as a paediatric neurologist and medical researcher I had lounge memberships by virtue of many hours in planes travelling to conferences. When I was elected in 2022, I accepted membership of the Qantas Chairman’s Lounge and Virgin’s Beyond club. It seemed like they came with the job.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
johnmenadue.com | Monique Ryan
660 000 Australians are participants in the National Disability Insurance Scheme, and 400 000 work in NDIS-related jobs. Our country needs the NDIS, but it’s expanded too quickly in recent years, as state-based services have withered on the vine. 11% of five- to seven-year-old Australian boys, and 5% of five- to seven-year-old girls, are now NDIS participants. At the current rate of growth, its cost could increase to as much as $100 billion a year by 2032. This is simply unsustainable.
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May 23, 2024 | 
thenewdaily.com.au | Monique Ryan
By putting billions of dollars towards critical minerals and green hydrogen, Australia is finally getting serious about a clean energy future. The federal government should be lauded for its efforts to make us a clean energy superpower with its Future Made in Australia plan. Yet the government has missed a big – perhaps the biggest – piece of the puzzle. Alongside critical minerals and green hydrogen, the government should make big plays to support the rise of the humble home battery and heat pump.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Monique Ryan
From 1 July the only vapes available in this country should be those prescribed by medical practitioners and dispensed by pharmacies. As a paediatrician who has witnessed the extraordinary increase in childhood vaping addiction in Australia, I wish our government had the courage to do this years ago. As a politician, I’m watching with concern the pushback from the tobacco and vaping lobby – and the political parties they support.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
change.org | Monique Ryan
The HECS debt system is broken. Last year, over a million Australians saw their HECS debt grow faster than it was being repaid because of an unfair indexation system. The government got more money last year from our HECS debts than it did from its main fossil fuel tax. As we sign this petition, Education Minister Jason Clare is deciding what to do about HECS debts. We are calling on Minister Clare to change the way HECS debts are indexed.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
johnmenadue.com | Monique Ryan
Commercial lobbying is a multibillion dollar industry in Australia. A 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 code which is corrosive of public trust in democracy. Edited transcript of a speech to Parliament by Dr Monique Ryan MP on the tabling of the Lobbying (Improving Government Honesty and Trust) Bill 2023, November 13, 2023.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Ange McCormack |Monique Ryan
7am is a daily news podcast brought to you by the publishers of The Saturday Paper and The Monthly. How to listen? WebsiteIndependent member for Kooyong and member of the delegation to Washington, DC, Monique Ryan, on whether Australia’s pleas to free Julian Assange are being heard in the US. Over the years, countless efforts have been made to release Julian Assange. As of now, he’s still likely to be extradited to the United States to face charges that amount to over 100 years in jail.
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Monique Ryan
The relationship between Australia and the United States has long been cordial and productive. Founded in the same era, both post-colonial democracies and now partners in a 70-year military alliance, we share both our language and our cultural affinities. That relationship has, however, had challenges from its earliest days. In 1804 an Australian sealer, Joseph Murrell, was seized and held captive by a group of Americans who were also hoping to harvest the rich seal colonies of King Island.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
themonthly.com.au | Daniel James |Thomas Mayo |Monique Ryan |Megan Davis
7am is a daily news podcast brought to you by the publishers of The Saturday Paper and The Monthly. How to listen? WebsiteHow was the campaign built? And can it really overcome the huge challenge in time for Saturday’s vote? The “Yes” campaign set out to accomplish a rare feat in Australian politics: to win a majority of Australians and a majority of states. That is, to win a referendum. It began as a difficult task and has only become more gruelling as bipartisanship was lost and the polls turned.
