House debates

Wednesday, 19 September 2007

  • (1 speech)
    Order! It being 7.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
  • Federal Election (1 speech)
    In what might be the last sitting week of this parliament I would like to take the opportunity tonight to speak about why, in my electorate of Gellibrand, we need a Rudd Labor government. First...
  • Mr Gavan O’Connor MHR (1 speech)
    My opponent in the House of Representatives for the last 14 years, the honourable member for Corio, leaves this place for pastures greener. The parliament will miss the good-humoured...
  • Police Integrity (1 speech)
    In the course of the last two weeks we have seen two occasions on which members of the government have seen fit to use this parliament to attack the integrity and independence of the police force...
  • World War I Soldiers (1 speech)
    I rise tonight in the adjournment debate to speak about the recent discovery of the bodies of two missing World War I soldiers in the battlefields of the Western Front, almost 90 years after...
  • Hindmarsh Electorate: Italian Community (1 speech)
    I rise to speak tonight on behalf of the many Italian constituents within my electorate of Hindmarsh who have made Hindmarsh in the western suburbs of Adelaide their home. I acknowledge the...
  • Wakefield Electorate: Projects (2 speeches)
    I rise tonight to report to the House about some developments in the electorate of Wakefield in the suburbs of Smithfield Plains and Davoren Park—collectively known as the ‘Peachy...