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If we’re going to make the country safer, it starts in the building where Helen and I work

If we’re going to make the country safer, it starts in the building where Helen and I work

Politicians are regularly asking our community to disagree well, but our own hypocrisy is often on display. We need to collectively look in the mirror...

tuesday 10

WA Today

Allegra Spender

If we’re going to make the country safer, it starts in the building where Helen and I work

If we’re going to make the country safer, it starts in the building where Helen and I work

Politicians are regularly asking our community to disagree well, but our own hypocrisy is often on display. We need to collectively look in the mirror...

tuesday 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Allegra Spender

If we’re going to make the country safer, it starts in the building where Helen and I work

If we’re going to make the country safer, it starts in the building where Helen and I work

Politicians are regularly asking our community to disagree well, but our own hypocrisy is often on display. We need to collectively look in the mirror...

tuesday 10

The Age

Allegra Spender

If we’re going to make the country safer, it starts in the building where Helen and I work

If we’re going to make the country safer, it starts in the building where Helen and I work

Politicians are regularly asking our community to disagree well, but our own hypocrisy is often on display. We need to collectively look in the mirror...

tuesday 10

Brisbane Times

Allegra Spender

Helen Haines is the best of us. What happened is a watershed for all of us

Helen Haines is the best of us. What happened is a watershed for all of us

Politicians are regularly asking our community to disagree well, but our own hypocrisy is often on display. We need to collectively look in the mirror...

tuesday 10

The Age

Allegra Spender

Labor’s IR laws making housing crisis harder to solve

We should be wary of unions that set the terms for the construction industry given the experiences with the CFMEU.

29.07.2026 40

Financial Review

Allegra Spender

There’s a way to tax gas windfalls for the long term

Four key design principles point to a specific set-up: progressive price-linked royalty on LNG exports, with a volume-based floor.

22.04.2026 30

Financial Review

Allegra Spender

Spending cuts must go hand-in-hand with tax reform to fix budget

Tightening the purse strings is great, but it won’t solve our economic problems. The scale of the challenge means a review of the tax system is...

24.03.2026 70

Financial Review

Allegra Spender

The case for national hate speech law reforms after Bondi

After antisemitic attacks in my electorate, I proposed to introduce stronger hate speech laws addressing vilification. Both major parties declined to...

12.01.2026 60

Financial Review

Allegra Spender

This is not for the Jewish community to solve alone: Allegra Spender

The federal member for Wentworth writes: Every single one of us must ask – are we in our actions, in what we say, making our country safer for each...

15.12.2025 50

WA Today

Allegra Spender

This is not for the Jewish community to solve alone: Allegra Spender

The federal member for Wentworth writes: Every single one of us must ask – are we in our actions, in what we say, making our country safer for each...

15.12.2025 60

The Sydney Morning Herald

Allegra Spender

This is not for the Jewish community to solve alone: Allegra Spender

The federal member for Wentworth writes: Every single one of us must ask – are we in our actions, in what we say, making our country safer for each...

15.12.2025 60

The Age

Allegra Spender

This is not for the Jewish community to solve alone: Allegra Spender

The federal member for Wentworth writes: Every single one of us must ask – are we in our actions, in what we say, making our country safer for each...

15.12.2025 80

Brisbane Times

Allegra Spender

In the right hands, AI can help solve the housing crisis

The Housing Delivery Authority should not be punishing employees for using AI. It should be encouraging them.

30.11.2025 50

The Sydney Morning Herald

Allegra Spender

As descendants of Liberal MPs, we wish the Coalition had a rational climate policy

Labor’s approach has been erratically interventionist, slow and piecemeal. The Coalition could capitalise on that by offering a credible pro-market...

11.11.2025 40

Financial Review

Allegra Spender

Will Netanyahu’s tough talk change Albanese’s approach?

21.08.2025 50

The Guardian

Allegra Spender

Australians could keep more of their wages if we rebalanced taxes on other forms of income

21.08.2025 60

The Guardian

Allegra Spender