Terri Butler MP is recognising Griffith’s unsung local heroes this weekend at the 21^st annual Griffith Australia Day Awards ceremony.

I have this morning seen footage tweeted by a refugee protest group, in respect of an incident appearing to involve a Queensland Police officer at Kangaroo Point.

REBECCA LEVINGSTON: Terri Butler is the federal member for Griffith. Terri Butler, good morning.

TERRI BUTLER:              Good morning.

LEVINGSTON:                You've just tweeted that you've seen the video footage of the Queensland police officer engagement with the refugee advocate. Can you give me your response to that?

BUTLER:                        Yeah. Look, I just saw the footage on Twitter. I saw that one of the protest groups had tweeted it out and people who have seen it will see that it looks like a very concerning incident. The Queensland Police need to really swiftly investigate it and respond as quickly as possible. Because of course, Australians want to know that the Queensland Police are going to be respecting the fact that people have got a right to protest. And they also want to know that we can trust the hierarchy of the police service, I should say, who investigate when something like this does happen.

Greens party leader Adam Bandt must hold his party's officials accountable for the sexist slurs levelled at the Hon Jackie Trad MP.

The Coronavirus pandemic has seen the number of locals relying on unemployment payments increase from 3,947 in December 2019 to more than 9,800 in August 2020 – up by more than 5,800 people or 249 per cent.

This September, for the first time in almost a quarter of a century, pensions will not be increased through indexation.

New numbers reveal that more than 27,000 workers on Brisbane’s Southside could be worse off and more than $24 million will be ripped out of the local economy every fortnight if the Morrison Government goes ahead with its cuts to JobKeeper at the end of September.

An international survey found that more than 44 % of women in politics have been threatened with murder, rape, beatings or abduction.

Terri Butler MP looks back at the first week of the Spring sittings as parliament returns.