House debates

Monday, 17 March 2008

  • (1 speech)
    Order! It being 9.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
  • Health Services (1 speech)
    According to the Rural Doctors Association of Australia, at least 1,000 doctors are needed immediately to provide even just basic medical care in rural Australia. Yet over the past 15 years less...
  • Middle East (1 speech)
    Few conflicts today inspire the level of mistrust and misunderstanding that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict does, and few have the capacity to divide public opinion so sharply. These divisions...
  • Kangaroo Culling (1 speech)
    We are told that very soon there will be a cull of some 400 kangaroos on a former naval site at Belconnen here in Canberra. In 2002 a kangaroo cull on a larger scale took place at Puckapunyal in...
  • Terrorism (1 speech)
    Today I had the honour of announcing the Research Support for Counter-Terrorism program grants of the federal government. This program is under the auspices of the National Security Science and...
  • Camp Kookaburra (1 speech)
    Last Saturday week, I visited Camp Kookaburra at the Anglican youth department camp in the national park in my electorate of Cook to congratulate Camp Kookaburra founder and Sutherland shire...
  • Isaacs Electorate: Surf-Lifesaving (1 speech)
    I rise to speak about some of the unsung heroes in my electorate of Isaacs. These are the fantastic men and women who volunteer as lifesavers on the magnificent beaches in my electorate from...