Media Statements & Letters
Crossbench Calls for AUKUS Inquiry (13 June 2025)
13 June 2025 Crossbench MPs from the House of Representatives and Senate have written to Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles, calling for an urgent parliamentary inquiry into...
Kate Chaney MP Renews Call for Independent Inquiry into Australia’s AUKUS Commitments (3 June 2025)
Click here to read MEDIA STATEMENT 3 June 2025 Kate Chaney MP Renews Call for Independent Inquiry into Australia’s AUKUS Commitments Following the US calls for increased national defence spending,...
North West Shelf Approval Exposes Broken Environmental Laws (28 May 2025)
Click here to read MEDIA STATEMENT 28 May 2025 Independent Member for Curtin, Kate Chaney MP, says the conditional approval of the North West Shelf gas extension exposes Australia’s outdated...
Dutton’s Energy “Plan” for WA is Reckless and Desperate (19 March 2025)
Click here to read MEDIA STATEMENT 19 March 2025 Peter Dutton’s latest election stunt shows he has no idea about the future of energy in WA with a reckless plan...
Statement on WA Live Sheep Exports (Mar 2025)
March 2025In June 2024, I voted to keep the sheep by voting against the ban on live sheep exports. My position has not changed. As an Independent MP, I carefully...
Kate Chaney Sets the Record Straight on WA Gas (26 Feb 2025)
MEDIA STATEMENT 26 February 2025Independent Federal MP for Curtin, Kate Chaney, has rejected the false and alarmist claims circulating in the media about her stance on WA’s gas industry, describing...
Antisemitic graffiti in Dalkeith (2 Feb 2025)
Click here to read Kate Chaney MP, Federal Member for Curtin, condemns the antisemitic graffiti that has appeared in Dalkeith, a suburb of Curtin, overnight. “I’m shocked by this. It...
Fatal Shooting in Floreat: Kate Chaney MP Urges Her Shocked Community to Support Each Other (25 May 2024)
Click here Yesterday’s fatal shooting in Floreat has shocked and devastated our community. In our usually safe neighbourhood, everyone has some connection to this family or this street. I know...
Curtin recognises big picture thinking needed to solve cost of living crisis (22 May 2024)
Click here Tax reform and additional social and affordable housing have been identified by Curtin voters as the priority issues for government to address in tackling rising cost of living.A...
Carers deserve improved rights and recognition (28 Mar 2024)
Click here to read Kate Chaney MP, Federal Independent for Curtin, has urged the Federal Government to adopt all recommendations from the recent Carers Inquiry conducted by the Standing Committee...