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- Dominique Quirke: Darren, I have repeatedly written to you and have personally discussed this issue with you at your office a few months ago. You mentioned then that you were keen to see indemnity insurance... (9 September 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Tonia Paroz: Thank you so much, Ian. I am from Toowoomba also, and was in the rain in Canberra on Monday. I am excited to see the democratic process in action, as I have not had much faith in it before.... (9 September 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Nicole Carver: Thankyou to Ian MacFarlane and everyone else who supported us on Monday. It is heartening to read this speech and to know that women are being heard. It really is ethically wrong to marginalise... (9 September 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Kiera Pedley: Thank you Ian for voicing so eloquently the concerns of so many of us. Two thousand submissions fell on deaf ears - but it's so reassuring to know that there are still people who see through... (8 September 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Melissa McFarlane: And what of homebirth Darren? What of the women and families within your electorate who choose homebirth, a number of whom were outside in the rain at the time you were speaking? I am looking... (8 September 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Melissa McFarlane: Good on you Ian. I saw you speak brilliantly at the homebirth rally and I am very impressed with your speech in parliament, while we were still all out there in the rain, doing it for homebirth.... (8 September 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Frank Baarda: How sad that the Federal Minister for Education doesn't seem to understand what bilingual education is all about. Call it 'two-way', call it 'teaching in the vernacular' call it whatever you... (8 September 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - connaught linton: At last a lucid and simple explanation on the Climate Change Bill (split!), that most Australians want, but don't understand. Pity they have to either have been in Parliament house to have heard... (21 August 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Judie Gade: What is needed is a total shift in community attitudes at all levels. If community members instigated sustainability efforts on the home front, such as urban food gardening, recycling,... (15 August 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Hadley Baker: The Right Honorable PM Mr Rudd, Can you please explain why your environment Minister is at odds with expert opinion on the Four Mile Creek (Beverley) Uranium Mine? A Miner which is clearly... (12 August 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - John Brown: September 1 initiative has very forcefully approached churches and religions across the country to be met with silence from those in authority and weeping from followers. The September 1... (15 July 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - John Brown: It would be appropriate to include the abandoned - those who have been sexually abused by clergy The September 1 initiative does address this in the most appropriate manner available today -... (15 July 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - David Leigh: Dick, Resource harvesting is clear felling and it is wrong. The carbon stored in Tasmania's native forests is 5 times that sequestered by warmer climate forests elsewhere in the world. That... (7 July 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - James Fehon: This has now been sent to a Senate Committee and you can give your input on this at: http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/legcon_ctte/marriage_ equality/index.htm (7 July 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Jonathon Singleton: Mr Ferguson, thank you for pointing to and reiterating the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Migration report of December 2008, the first of three reports from its current inquiry,... (6 July 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Juiced Pixels: Completely agree with the statement that: "housing affordability has certainly not improved. Australians are paying more for their homes, and they are going into bigger debt than ever before." (3 July 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Ben Gray: As per what Grendal was saying, this question is "Dorothy Dix"'r. I think Open Australia should chart this kind of data. Imagine that... "Minister XYZ Asks Dorothy Dixers 95% of the... (22 June 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Grendel : Trent - you statement is not entirely accurate. Road and rail infrastructures are sometimes state and sometimes federal responsibility - National highways for example are the responsibility of... (19 June 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Trent Murray: Isn't infrastructure such as rail & roads the responsibility of the state governments? That being the case, if true, the ALP have been the ones neglecting this "vital" area in many cases, NSW for... (18 June 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Ben Gray: This is a magnificent speech and I'm really impressed. (17 June 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Ben Gray: It's a bit rich bringing up the use of consultants given that most of the consultants used by Government at the moment are quite likely remnants of the last government. Maybe he should stop... (17 June 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Ben Gray: ? (17 June 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Henare Degan: Here's the Leader of the Opposition's speech Senator Ludlam was referring to: http://www.openaustralia.org/debate/?id=2009-06-01.35.1 (16 June 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Robert Ashman: This clown is only to look after the interests of the rich squatocracy who paid so much money to get him elected. (4 June 2009)
Read comment | All by this user - Steve H: Danna, please be very careful what you wish for. Whilst we all abhor such things as the recently reported rape video you mention, it is important to consider steps that will be effective in... (4 June 2009)
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