House debates

Tuesday, 19 June 2007

  • (1 speech)
    Order! It being 9 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
  • Broadband (1 speech)
    I rise with a sense of considerable indignation, representing the electorate of Denison and, I suppose more broadly, the people of Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania. To give you some sense of...
  • Wing Commander Robert Henry Maxwell Gibbes (1 speech)
    I rise tonight in this adjournment debate to pay tribute to arguably one of the most distinguished fighter pilots this country has ever seen: Wing Commander Robert Henry Maxwell Gibbes DSO, DFC...
  • Broadband (3 speeches)
    The government has failed on all counts to deliver what it should have delivered 11 years ago to the Australian people. Now that the government is staring down the barrel of an election gun, it...
  • Blair Electorate: Ipswich Motorway (1 speech)
    It was an incredible day on the Ipswich Motorway today for residents of the electorate of Blair who rely on the motorway as their route for getting to and from the city of Brisbane. I heard of...
  • Oxley Electorate: Ipswich Motorway; Fuel Prices (3 speeches)
    After the member for Blair’s ranting it would be wrong of me not to respond in some way and correct some of the mistruths that he has put onto the record, but there are so many I will not...
  • Fuel Prices; Broadband (2 speeches)
    Let me begin by reminding the member for Oxley that, if we were still running Labor’s excise system on fuel, petrol would now be substantially more expensive—that is, 17.2c a litre...