House debates

Monday, 12 February 2007

  • Airport Security (1 speech)
    On 9 August 2006 the Minister for Justice and Customs answered my question No. 3391 in relation to tampering with CCTV cameras in the baggage area of Sydney airport controlled by Customs. That...
  • Ms Shirley Su-Lan Huang (1 speech)
    Last weekend I joined with hundreds of other local people to celebrate the life of Shirley Su-Lan Huang. Shirley Huang came to Australia to settle in 1988. She was in every possible way a pioneer...
  • Melbourne Ports Electorate: Multifaith Service (1 speech)
    Late last year I had the opportunity to attend the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary, Mary Potter week multifaith service at Calvary Health Care Bethlehem—which I am sure will interest...
  • Water (1 speech)
    I rise today to congratulate Coleambally Irrigation Cooperative Ltd, or CICL, on their successful application to do with the most timely and biggest issue on our agenda at the moment and their...
  • Ms Joan Burke (1 speech)
    Today I want to tell the House about one of my great constituents, who is one of my harshest critics but one of my greatest fans. I had the joy at the end of last year of attending her final...
  • Workplace Relations (1 speech)
    Last weekend a Your Rights at Work rally was held at Lithgow, in the new part of my electorate. I certainly accept people’s rights to engage in such rallies and to demonstrate in whichever...
  • HMAS Voyager (1 speech)
    Saturday, 10 February, was a stark reminder of one of the great naval tragedies in peacetime in Australia, and that is the sinking of the Voyager, the Daring class destroyer that on 10 February...
  • Airport Security (1 speech)
    I again raise the issue of two security cameras on three occasions being interfered with at Sydney airport and the questions to the Minister for Justice and Customs that are outstanding on the...
  • Corangamite Electorate: Investing In Our Schools Program (1 speech)
    I want to put on the public record the thanks of the schools in the electorate of Corangamite for $2.8 million that the Howard government has provided to look after the state schools in...
  • Airport Security (2 speeches)
    I again raise the question of why, on three occasions, two CCTV security cameras in the Customs baggage make-up area of Sydney international airport were interfered with: on 23 October 2004, out...