Monique Ryan
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Statement
Evidence
Score
Introduce a tax on the excess profits of large corporations (e.g. on banks, gas companies)
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan advocates for responsible economic management that prioritises long-term investment in essential services like healthcare, education, and renewable energy. Ryan supports closing tax loopholes used by multinational corporations, ensuring high earners pay their fair share. Ryan also supports reforming the petroleum resources rent tax (PRRT) to make it a “true windfall profits tax”.
Introduce short-term price caps (e.g. on rent and gas prices)
We could not find evidence to suggest that Monique Ryan supports this policy.
Support a significant reduction of individuals employed by the public service
We could not find evidence to suggest that Monique Ryan supports this policy.
Prevent big companies from controlling the market and limiting consumer choice (e.g. supermarkets)
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan has a consumer protections policy that focuses on addressing the supermarket duopoly, taking on the airlines, and combatting scams.
Phase out tax concessions for property investors (e.g. negative gearing or capital gains tax discount)
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan responded to our survey as being supportive of limiting or reducing negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts, stating “I support sensitive tax reform but have not proposed specific changes to negative gearing or the CGT discount - I think we need to look at whole-of-system tax reform, not tinker around the edges.”
Incentivise state/territory government to increase renter rights and protections
While Monique Ryan supports policies to increase housing supply, could not find evidence to suggest that Ryan supports strengthening protections and rights for renters.
Increase investment in public and community housing
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan supports investment in public and social housing to reduce homelessness and lessen pressure on the private rental market.
Source: https://www.moniqueryan.com.au/housing_affordability
Allow first home-buyers to access their super to help purchase their first home
We could not find evidence to suggest that Monique Ryan supports this policy.
Incentivise state/territory governments to increase housing supply
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan supports significantly increasing the scale of the Housing Australia Future Fund, Help to Buy, and Build to Rent schemes, to rapidly expand housing stock for sale and rental.
Source: https://www.moniqueryan.com.au/housing_affordability
Help first-home buyers with shared equity programs that would allow participants to co-purchase a home with the government
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan supports significantly increasing the scale of the Help-to-Buy scheme to support first-home buyers in entering the housing market.
Source: https://www.moniqueryan.com.au/housing_affordability
Introduce energy bill rebates
We could not find evidence to suggest that Monique Ryan supports this policy.
Increase financial support for energy efficiency upgrades
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan supported the government’s $1.3 billion program for home upgrades and residential electrification, and proposed tax incentives for landlords to upgrade rental properties. Ryan is also supportive of Rewiring Australia’s Electrify Everything Loans Scheme (EELS), to provide homes and small businesses with financing at purchase for electrification upgrades.
Increase funding for community batteries that increase access to solar
Type: Website / Social Media
Summary: Monique Ryan has worked with local councils and community groups in Kooyong – including Electrify Boroondara and Lighter Footprints – to support community uptake of household electrification, while also advocating for the government to help establish community batteries.
Source: https://www.moniqueryan.com.au/climate, https://x.com/Mon4Kooyong/status/1878264792940716370
Strengthen regulations to prevent price-gouging by energy companies
Type: Website
Summary: Though we could not find evidence to suggest Monique Ryan supports giving regulators powers to prevent price-gouging by energy companies, due to her support of ensuring multinationals in the resources space pay their fair share of tax and her policies around consumer protections, we consider her to be aligned with supporting this policy and have scored her a 2.
Source: https://www.moniqueryan.com.au/economic_management https://www.moniqueryan.com.au/consumer_protections
Make university free
We could not find evidence to suggest that Monique Ryan supports this policy.
Cut a portion of existing student debt
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan has successfully advocated for reduced HECS/HELP indexation and further reducing HECS/HELP debts, and supporting secondary and tertiary education is a key priority within her cost of living policy. In addition, in recapping Labor’s 2025 budget, she was not against the announced waiver of 20% of student HECS/HELP debts. For this reason, we consider Ryan to be aligned with supporting this policy and have scored her a 2.
Source: https://www.moniqueryan.com.au/cost_of_living https://www.moniqueryan.com.au/a_pre_election_budget
Support more fee-free TAFE places
Type: Parliamentary Decision
Summary: Monique Ryan supported the Free TAFE Bill 2024.
Increase funding for public schools
Type: Statement
Summary: Monique Ryan responded to our survey as being supportive of increasing federal share of public school funding to 25% or more.
Increase funding for and access to childcare subsidies
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan has historically voted in favour of increasing the accessibility of cheaper childcare education, and supports “accessible and affordable universal early childhood education and care”.
Stop fossil fuel project approvals and expansions
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan opposes new fossil fuel developments and is in favour of ending fossil fuel subsidies in Australia.
Accelerate the rollout of renewable energy projects
Type: Website
Summary: Though Monique Ryan does not have a separate renewables target herself, she notes: “Under current projections, by 2030 more than 84% of the main national electricity grid will be powered by renewables.“ As Ryan’s emissions reductions policy is to support “real emissions reduction of at least 75% by 2035”, we consider her to be aligned with a score of 1.5.
Strengthen policies that ensure Australia’s biggest polluters genuinely cut their emissions
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan helped pass the Safeguard Mechanism in 2023, using her role on the cross bench to strengthen the law before it passed. Ryan has a current policy priority related to improving the transparency and accurate measurement of emissions by industry. Alongside her support for no new fossil fuel developments, we consider her to be aligned with strengthening existing policies and have scored her a 2.
Source: https://www.moniqueryan.com.au/safeguard_mechanism_2_0_legislation_passed https://www.moniqueryan.com.au/climate
Increase investment in preventative health programs
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan has supported Medicare reforms which “shift the focus from incentivising high patient turnover to encouraging GPs to prioritise quality preventive care—to keep people healthy, not just see them when they’re sick.” If elected, Ryan supports multiple preventative health measures, including a full ban on gambling advertising, a National Women’s Health Strategy, universal basic dental care through Medicare, and improved primary health care (including mental health).
Make GP visits free or more affordable by increasing bulk billing incentives
Type: Website
Summary: Though Monique Ryan does not have a specific policy on increasing bulk-billing incentives, she appeared supportive of Labor’s 2025 budget commitment of $8.5 billion in her recap to their budget. In addition, per Ryan’s alignment with other investments in public healthcare, we consider her to be aligned with supporting an investment similar to Labor’s in size, and have scored her 1.5.
Source: https://www.moniqueryan.com.au/a_pre_election_budget
Increase funding to train, attract, and retain more healthcare professionals, especially in regional areas
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan is supportive of equitable healthcare access across the country, stating: “We need to ensure that all Australians can receive best practice care wherever they live - and that healthcare, including specialist care - remains affordable for all.”
Source: https://www.moniqueryan.com.au/health_care
Increase funding for dental and mental health
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan supports including “universal basic dental care” in Medicare, and “Better primary healthcare for all Australians, including mental health care”. She advocates for removing session limits for mental health sessions, stating “We don’t put a quota on GP visits: we shouldn’t ration mental health care to 10 or 20 visits a year, if Australians need more than that.”
Source: https://www.moniqueryan.com.au/health_care https://www.moniqueryan.com.au/economic_management
Expand subsidies to make more prescription medicines cheaper
Type: Website
Summary: Though Monique Ryan does not have a specific policy on expanding PBS subsidies, she appeared supportive of Labor’s 2025 budget commitment to decrease the co-payment and make prescription medications cheaper in her recap to their budget. Additionally, Ryan is supportive of broader reforms around the PBS and healthcare, stating: “Australians deserve access to new treatments as they’re developed and shouldn’t have to cope with medication shortages. Our systems for approving, funding, and supplying medications, vaccines, and new technologies are too slow and opaque. I support evidence-based reform of AHPRA, the TGA and the PBS.”
Source: https://www.moniqueryan.com.au/health_care https://www.moniqueryan.com.au/a_pre_election_budget
Increase investment in large-scale renewable energy and storage
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan is supportive of public and private investments in large-scale renewable energy and storage, stating: “We should be on track to attain 96% renewables by 2035. By 2035, a balanced mix of wind, solar, batteries, pumped hydro and very small amounts of gas peaking will provide reliable, renewable electricity around the clock - including times when electricity demand is high, and wind and sun resources are low.”
Require multinational gas companies to prioritise domestic supply, without supporting the approval of new gas projects
Type: Website
Summary: Despite criticising Peter Dutton’s plan for a gas reservation scheme, stating that: “Peter Dutton’s talking now about a gas reservation policy, which could potentially increase the price of gas. He’s talking about us paying money for extra investment, and infrastructure, which will help us buy our own gas back from other countries”, Monique Ryan supports a domestic gas reservation scheme that does not enable new gas projects.
Source:
https://www.moniqueryan.com.au/climatehttps://www.moniqueryan.com.au/economic_management
Invest in nuclear power as a future energy source, while extending the life of coal power and increasing gas use in the interim
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan does not support nuclear power, stating: “Peter Dutton’s nuclear policy is a plan for extending our dependence on failing coal plants and expensive gas.” In addition, Ryan has stated: “Climate pollution from burning fossil fuels is overheating our planet and causing more frequent extreme weather events. We are in a climate emergency.”
Improve access to government-held information about government policies and decisions
Type: Website
Summary: Though we could not find evidence to suggest Monique Ryan supports this policy, given Ryan’s other policies related to integrity and transparency in politics, we consider her to be aligned with supporting this policy and have scored them a 1.5.
Source: https://www.moniqueryan.com.au/integrity_in_politics
Protect the ABC and SBS’s independence and funding
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan’s supports maintaiing ABC and SBS funding in real terms and implementing reforms to enable planning certainty across funding cycles.
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Require all lobbyists that meet with politicians to be publicly disclosed
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan has introduced a private members bill – the Lobbying (Improving Government Honesty and Trust) Bill – twice before parliament, and plans to continue focusing on it if elected again. The bill would: “Create a publicly-accessible register for all lobbyists actively engaging with federal parliamentarians, showing who they’ve met with, where, and why; Publish ministers’ diaries online, so we know who they’ve met with; Ban ministers and senior public servants from working as lobbyists in the area where they’ve worked in government for three years after they leave parliament.”
Source: https://www.moniqueryan.com.au/integrity_in_politics
Make public transport more frequent and reliable
Type: Website
Summary: Though we could not find evidence to suggest Monique Ryan supports incentivising state/territory governments to improve the frequency, reliability, and accessibility of shared transport, due to her support for active transport and low emissions vehicles, we consider her to be aligned with supporting this policy and have scored her a 2.
Improve bike paths and footpaths to encourage active transport
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan supports active transport options like bike paths and footpaths, stating: “More of us would cycle or walk to work or school if we felt safe to do so. Fewer cars on our roads means decreased emissions, less traffic congestion, cleaner air, and healthier Australians.”
Increase access and affordability of electric and low-emissions vehicles
Type: Website
Summary: Monique Ryan is supportive of the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard, and given her support for charging infrastructure and the uptake of EVs, we consider her policy position to be aligned with strengthening the standard to encourage more fuel-efficient and electric vehicles to enter the market.
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