House debates

Thursday, 17 September 2015

  • Turnbull Government (1 speech)
    It has been a momentous week in this building. We are approaching the end of a parliamentary week in which we saw, on its first day, on Monday, a change of the Prime Minister of this nation. On...
  • Calare Electorate: Polling Booths (1 speech)
    I would to take the opportunity to raise my concern over the proposed closure of polling booths, particularly those in the Calare electorate. I was recently contacted by the Australian Electoral...
  • Health Services (1 speech)
    I would like to welcome to this chamber today CEO, Marg Bennett, and board chair, Brendan Schutt, from Northeast Health, based in Wangaratta and servicing most of north-east Victoria. Their...
  • Bass Electorate: Netball (1 speech)
    We have got quite a few world champions in Launceston and I would like to tell the House about the most recent world record holders from my home town. They are the members of the Generation...
  • Turnbull Government (1 speech)
    For almost the entire time this government has been in office, it has been an absolute disaster. It has been a disaster for the economy, a disaster for education, a disaster for manufacturing and...
  • Solomon Electorate: Sport (3 speeches)
    I rise today to speak about Midnight Basketball in my electorate of Solomon. Midnight Basketball is a national, community-run program—and I see the member for Rankin knows all about...
  • Turnbull Government (1 speech)
    I will ask the House a question today: when is a progressive not a progressive? The answer: when they become an ultra-conservative Prime Minister. This Prime Minister, this new shiny Prime...
  • Flynn Electorate: Sport (1 speech)
    Today I want to add my support to all the Northern Districts Rugby League teams in my electorate. They had a pretty tough season. They have a lot of South Sea Islanders in those teams now. The...
  • Turnbull Government (1 speech)
    On Tuesday it was revealed that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had transferred oversight of the Murray-Darling Basin from the environment minister to the agriculture minister, Barnaby Joyce,...
  • Barker Electorate: Sport (1 speech)
      I rise today to speak about the success of the Mount Gambier Pioneers as winners of the South East Australian Basketball League this year. The Mount Gambier Pioneers are a much loved...
  • Kingsford Smith Electorate: Health Funding (1 speech)
    The Liberals' cuts to health care in our community just keep on coming. At the Prince of Wales Hospital, our local community hospital, the New South Wales Liberal government and the federal...
  • Hinkler Electorate: Australia Post (1 speech)
    When the Torbanlea licensed post office closed suddenly two weeks ago, I gave a commitment that I would work to ensure local postal services were restored as soon as possible. As such, I was in...
  • Turnbull Government, Bendigo Electorate: Employment (1 speech)
    Malcolm Turnbull's policies are exactly the same as Tony Abbott's. This weekend we were going to launch in Bendigo our Save Local Jobs campaign, and we had done all the preparation of material....
  • Lynch, Professor Stephen, AC (1 speech)
    Today I am delighted to have the opportunity to highlight the extraordinary contribution to medicine in Australia and the world by Professor Stephen Lynch AC. Professor Lynch is in Canberra...
  • Australian Public Service (1 speech)
    I rise today on behalf of public servants in Canberra and right across the country who have been fighting this government for more than 18 months over their enterprise agreements. The employment...
  • Petrie Electorate: Sport (1 speech)
    When I was seven years of age, I started judo. I did judo for many, many years and I achieved my shodan black belt and represented Queensland. When I left school, I went for a job at a place...
  • Turnbull Government (1 speech)
    What difference does it make that the member for Wentworth has replaced the member for Warringah as our Prime Minister? This is what people in my electorate want to know. They want to know what...
  • Grey Electorate: Coalmining (1 speech)
    I have spoken on a number of occasions recently about the closure of the coal fired power stations at Port Augusta that are owned by Alinta and the effect on that community, and also the Leigh...
  • Turnbull Government (3 speeches)
    This week, the nation woke up to the news that the Liberal Party had sacked the previous Prime Minister and we now had a new Prime Minister, the former Minister for Communications. Australian...