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It is my great privilege to represent the people of Monash in the Parliament of Australia. Our local area is a great place to live, work and raise a family and I work to ensure it continues to be an even better place for us all.

In addition to serving our Monash community, I am a vocal advocate for a just and compassionate society with a focus on: a fair and sustainable NDIS, care and dignity for our elders and their carers, respect for women, flexibility and support for small businesses and the humane treatment of refugees.

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Chat with Meryl Dorey
18 December, 2024
I still get calls from people sharing the most heartbreaking stories of unbearable trauma and suffering due to vaccine injury. And last ...
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Numbers don't Lie
17 December, 2024
Russell Broadbent here, Federal Member for Monash. The Albanese Government claims to be delivering a ‘cheap and reliable’ renewables plan. But this ...
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The Hunter Becomes the Hunted
12 December, 2024
The Great Debate in Perth was a unique opportunity to thank everyday Australians for challenging the status quo and changing the narrative. ...
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Russell Broadbent MP

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Just had another listen to Matt Barrie's sobering + confronting speech. It's 100 minutes long and not a word is wasted. In the absence of other explanations, I'm keen to know what you think about his observations.
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It's our reality, word for word. How do the powers that be sleep at night? It's definitely an intentional controlled demolition. I feel powerless as to making them stop.

Yes, watched that. He covers a lot of ground and it is something everyone should watch. Very sobering and a big wake up call.

Lab and Lib, two wings of the same bird. What's happening to this country is a globalist agenda that we, without our knowledge, were signed up to decades ago.

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I still get calls from people sharing the most heartbreaking stories of unbearable trauma and suffering due to vaccine injury. And last Friday’s call from a husband whose family’s life has been destroyed due to his wife’s severe life-changing injuries is no exception. Doctors refusing to acknowledge the link and an overwhelming sense of desperate hopelessness is exacerbating their desperate plight. But people like Meryl Dorey have been sounding the alarm about the existence of vaccine side effects for decades. Please take a moment to listen to her story.
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Chat with Meryl Dorey

Russell Broadbent MP 1.6K views 18 December, 2024 11:52 am

Russell Broadbent here, Federal Member for Monash. The Albanese Government claims to be delivering a ‘cheap and reliable’ renewables plan. But this is clearly not the case, the numbers don’t lie. Let’s have a look what energy retailers are saying. In AGL’s annual report, the Generation cost of coal-fired power was almost 3 times cheaper than renewables. And when considering the Fuel cost, coal was still 56% cheaper than renewables. Let me be clear - the more that renewables force themselves into the energy grid, the more that Australians will be paying as both consumers, and as taxpayers. Between intermittent wind towers and solar panels, ‘green’ compliance costs, taxpayer funded subsidies and higher electricity bills, it is certain the renewable energy transition is not in the best interest of our nation. Australian households are paying 20% more for their electricity than they did 2 years ago, and it is a shame because this supply shock on dispatchable, baseload electricity was imposed by the Australian Governments, on Australians. Only coal can supply the industrial standard of cheap energy that drives Australia. So when the Liberals or Labor are promising cheaper energy, they better be promising to keep our coal fired power stations open. That’s justice as I see it.
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Numbers don't Lie

Russell Broadbent MP 6.4K views 17 December, 2024 10:20 am

The Great Debate in Perth was a unique opportunity to thank everyday Australians for challenging the status quo and changing the narrative. Let the hunter become the hunted. Live version of the debate can be viewed here: https://youtube.com/live/QLd7CsEiksc Graham (Hoody Hood: 0:00 Julian Gillespie: 13:47 Senator Malcolm Roberts: 33:21 Professor Ian Brighthope: 58:31 Panel Discussion: 1:26:23 Graham (Hoody) Hood: 2:20:19 Dr Kevin McKernan: 2:29:07 Russell Broadbent: 2:50:05 Maryanne Demasi: 3:18:25 Professor Gigi Foster: 3:33:18 Katie Ashby-Koppens: 3:55:05 Panel Discussion: 4:09:35
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The Hunter Becomes the Hunted

Russell Broadbent MP 5.8K views 12 December, 2024 3:42 pm

Russell Broadbent here, Member for Monash. The term ‘universal childcare’ sounds pretty reasonable, doesn’t it? It implies that childcare will be fair, accessible, and the right decision for every family. Judith Sloan in The Australian, says the Prime Minister plans to make universal childcare a key element of his election campaign. But when I started peeling back the layers of this policy, I noticed a few red flags. Firstly, as Judith says: ‘the biggest winners will be high-income earners who currently receive proportionately lower childcare fee subsidies than those on lower incomes.’ Doesn’t sound very fair now, does it? It’s important to understand that sending children to childcare is not a first option for many Australian families, even though it may be becoming the norm. In fact, I think many parents are reticent to use childcare too soon – many want to spend time with their children, especially when they’re babies. But in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, most parents have no choice but to rely on two incomes to pay the mortgage and feed the kids. So it appears childcare has become a rather lucrative business model for the private sector. In Melbourne, centre-based childcare, which is the most common option, costs anywhere between $70 to $185 dollars PER DAY. When you have multiple kids to factor in, it hardly makes the return to work worth it. The Productivity Commission recommends that 30 hours, or three days, per week should be made available to all children aged up to five years. Modelling suggests that this policy will have a small impact on workforce participation, adding an additional 17,000 full time equivalent workers. According to Judith Sloan, the cost of Universal Childcare works out to be more than $200,000 per job created. Doesn’t seem like the best use of taxpayer dollars to me. At the end of the day, we all want what’s best for our kids and whatever makes life easier for parents. Universal Childcare sounds like a great idea. But as I said earlier this childcare policy puzzle has a few missing pieces. That’s justice as I see it.
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Universal Childcare: But who's benefitting?

Russell Broadbent MP 652 views 10 December, 2024 1:15 pm

Last Friday, I posted a video of a part of my chat with Dr Judy Wilyman. I encourage you to tune in to our full conversation via the video link above.
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Chat with Judy Wilyman: Extended interview

Russell Broadbent MP 1.7K views 9 December, 2024 4:48 pm

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