House debates

Wednesday, 3 June 2015

  • Holt Electorate: Casey Cultural Precinct Regional Arts Centre, Holt Electorate: headspace, Holt Electorate: Medicare (1 speech)
    A major challenge that I have been committed to since I became the member for Holt has been ensuring that families who live in the outer suburbs have what I call the social infrastructure that...
  • Paterson Electorate: Citizen of the Year Awards, Paterson Electorate: Disaster Recovery Payment, Patterson Electorate: Category C Assistance for Primary Producers (1 speech)
    In my travels throughout the Paterson electorate, I constantly meet residents who work extremely hard for others to make our community a much better place. These unsung heroes, who do such...
  • Gellibrand Electorate: Arts Funding (1 speech)
    Melbourne's west is lucky to be home to many small and medium-sized arts institutions and independent artists. I am proud to be a financial supporter of institutions like the Footscray Community...
  • Agriculture (1 speech)
    Last night I had the great opportunity of joining with part of the alumni of Nuffield scholars for a dinner here in Parliament House. Yesterday and today they will be visiting Parliament House...
  • Irrigation (1 speech)
    Very shortly we will be putting forward a program to government which requires that each of the landholders in North Queensland at station properties get 200 hectares per station of freehold...
  • Australian Natural Disasters (1 speech)
    On Monday, the Prime Minister signed off on nearly $30 million in Category D funding to further help regions affected by Cyclone Marcia, which occurred earlier this year. I have spoken to local...
  • Multiculturalism (1 speech)
    As you well know, Australia is a tolerant society, but on the weekend we saw some of those views challenged. There were frightening scenes when a rally organised by the United Patriots...
  • Lyons Electorate: Campbell Town Show (1 speech)
    It gives me great pleasure to rise and congratulate the Midland Agricultural Association on successfully conducting the 177th Campbell Town Show—this is in fact the oldest show in the...
  • Infrastructure (1 speech)
    I rise this morning to speak about infrastructure in Victoria. We have had the Prime Minister down in Victoria a few times over the last few months, talking about congestion and tweeting from...
  • Lindsay Electorate: Youth Sports Grants (2 speeches)
    It is fabulous to see here in the chamber a fellow traveller from Western Sydney in the member for Mitchell, a fellow enthusiast for local sport right across Western Sydney. I stand here today...