House debates

Monday, 1 June 2009

  • (1 speech)
    Debate resumed from 25 May.
  • Youth Allowance (1 speech)
    I rise tonight to speak in this grievance debate about a pressing injustice: the grievous wrong that the Rudd Labor government wishes to inflict on rural, regional and remote students and those...
  • Death Penalty (1 speech)
    I rise to speak again on the death penalty for Australian citizens, an issue I have now been involved with for some time. I speak tonight while Indonesian lawyers for Scott Rush are preparing the...
  • Youth Allowance (2 speeches)
    I rise this evening to speak on a matter that is of particular concern and has caused extreme stress amongst certain communities in my electorate of Indi north-east Victoria—in fact, right...
  • Queensland and New South Wales Floods (1 speech)
    I wish to bring to the attention of the House an injustice which is being perpetrated by the Rudd government on the people of the Coffs Coast. It is an injustice that highlights the very best and...
  • Tasmanian Scallop Fishery (2 speeches)
    I represent regional Australia and I have a very good story about regional Australia to talk about, without exaggeration or hyperbole. Seafood lovers around the House will be rejoicing in the...