House debates

Wednesday, 20 February 2008

  • (1 speech)
    Order! It being 7.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
  • Flinders Electorate: Warley Hospital (1 speech)
    I wish to raise two serious matters: the cutting of health services and the cutting of education services within the electorate of Flinders. Most particularly, as members of this House may be...
  • Speaker: Election; Newcastle Electorate: Sport (4 speeches, 1 comment)
    Mr Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your elevation to the speakership. I did have a previous opportunity but at the time, in question time, you were being so...
  • Regional Partnerships Program (1 speech)
    Mr Speaker, I rise here today to ask this new Labor government, led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, to honour the commitments the previous coalition government made to the people of rural and...
  • Business Enterprise Centres (1 speech)
    Mr Speaker, I too would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on gaining the high office of Speaker. This is also my first opportunity to speak freely in this new parliamentary term...
  • Forrest Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
    I rise this evening to call on the federal Labor government to deliver on its funding promises to my electorate of Forrest. In particular, I refer to funding for the Bunbury port access road and...
  • Dental Health (1 speech)
    I want to speak about two very important election commitments the Rudd government has made to the Australian people in the area of dental health and what this will mean for my electorate of...
  • Murray Electorate: Water (2 speeches)
    The north-south pipeline is planned to take 75 gigalitres of water annually out of the Goulburn Valley across the Great Dividing Range to Melbourne. I want to know why the Victorian government...