House debates

Thursday, 15 October 2015

  • Chronic Disease Management (1 speech)
    Making sure that our health system is set up to provide quality chronic disease management is one of our great challenges. I have previously spoken about integrated health checks, a health policy...
  • Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
    It is well past time to dispense with some myths and to confront some uncomfortable truths in relation to Australia's offshore detention system. It is wrong for anyone to say that our complicity...
  • Parliamentary Group on Population and Development (1 speech)
    Today we had the annual general meeting of the bipartisan group named the Parliamentary Group on Population and Development. We have been in existence in this parliament for some 20 years and we...
  • Sri Lanka (1 speech)
    I rise today to reaffirm my heartfelt support for the determined efforts of the international community and the many people of goodwill in Sri Lanka to usher in an era of progress and...
  • Gilmore Electorate: Save Our Voices Campaign (1 speech)
    Today I speak in support of the Save Our Voices campaign. Our local people want our local media. There has been a rapid change in the way that media operates in our community. When the original...
  • Cunningham Electorate: Multicultural Communities Council of Illawarra (2 speeches)
    Before I go to the topic of my speech, I associate myself with the comments that the member for Gilmore, my colleague, has made about the importance of the Save our Voices campaign. It is...