House debates

Monday, 18 November 2013

  • Fraser Electorate: Hackett and Watson 50th Birthday Celebrations (1 speech)
    Suburbia is an oft maligned word in Australia, but our suburban communities here in the ACT are something to be proud of. As part of the Canberra centenary, Canberra has been celebrating the...
  • Australian War Memorial (1 speech, 1 comment)
    I would like to make comments on the proposal to take a chisel to the Tomb of the Unknown Solider just down the road from here to obliterate the words 'Known Unto God' and replace them with some...
  • Parramatta Electorate: Building Multicultural Communities Program (1 speech)
    Earlier this year, I was pleased to announce funding to 12 great local organisations under the Building Multicultural Communities Program. The funding was given to improve facilities and to help...
  • Clontarf Foundation (1 speech)
    I rise tonight to bring to the attention of the House a wonderful organisation that operates around Australia—the Clontarf Foundation. Clontarf was started in Western Australia...
  • Learn Earn Legend Program (1 speech)
    The Learn Earn Legend Program was an initiative of the former Labor government aimed at encouraging young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians to stay at school, to study to get a...
  • Reid, Mrs Isobel Louise (1 speech)
    Madam Speaker, may I congratulate you on your speakership. On indulgence, I rise tonight to ask this parliament to reflect on and to admire the life of Isobel Louise Reid, a woman of brightness,...