House debates

Thursday, 23 March 2017

  • Lindsay Electorate: Community Services (3 speeches)
    The community that I represent—I come in here often and I feel like I am bragging about it—is wonderful. We are generous, family-minded and fair. We love Western Sydney and we are...
  • Energy (1 speech)
    It is fitting that we end this sitting week with the topic that is foremost in the minds of the people in the Murray electorate—the cost of electricity and the cost of gas. The Nationals...
  • Herbert Electorate: Water Security (6 speeches)
    I rise in this place again and I stand here again to talk about the critical need for the Turnbull government to act immediately on Townsville's water security. I am tired of Townsville being...
  • Leichhardt Electorate: All Saints Anglican Church, Erub (1 speech)
    I rise here today as the member for Leichhardt and the member for the wet tropics in the real tropical capital of Tropical North Queensland—Cairns, of course. I am here to talk about...
  • Workplace Relations (1 speech)
    The decision of the Fair Work Commission to cut Sunday penalty rates for as many as 700,000 hardworking Australians was as shocking as it was unprecedented. In the past month, I have received so...
  • Small Business (2 speeches)
    This is not the first time I have risen in this House to speak on behalf of small business. I might just mention in passing right from the outset that the response to the former speaker's...