August 08, 2022

Independent MP Dr Sophie Scamps is pushing for the federal government to ban junk food advertising to children to address Australia’s obesity epidemic, warning the impacts were heaping pressure on the nation’s health system.

August 05, 2022

And so the wind blows, the tides turn and the climate inches through change. Seven years ago, Tony Abbott’s excitable forces were dancing confected jigs and high-fiving and embracing each other on the floor of the parliament in florid celebration of the end of...

August 03, 2022

Dr Sophie Scamps has given her first speech to the 47th parliament, sharing what she believes was the key to her success at the recent federal election.

August 01, 2022

Politics will ‘never be the same’: first speeches lay markersA number of new MPs made their first speeches to parliament on Monday.

July 27, 2022

The first Independent MP for Mackellar Dr Sophie Scamps was sworn into Parliament yesterday. Dr Scamps won the federal seat of Mackellar in the election on 21 May, defeating Liberal MP Jason Falinski as part of the ‘teal wave’ that swept many moderate Liberals...

July 27, 2022

July 27, 2022

Paywall Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has introduced Labor’s legislative package which enshrines the government’s 43 per cent emissions reduction target in law.

July 27, 2022

Australians are continuing to feel the squeeze with the latest data showing we now have the biggest inflation rate in two decades.

July 27, 2022

ABC News Breakfast - Dr Sophie Scamps MP interview

July 27, 2022

July 26, 2022

Sophie Scamps, the new teal MP from the northern beaches, is already drawing up legislation to stamp out ‘jobs for the boys’ political appointments in Canberra