House debates

Monday, 16 November 2009

  • (1 speech)
    Debate resumed from 26 October.
  • Climate Change (1 speech)
    The Prime Minister is a coward. He is a leader who takes his shots at people from a protected position yet lacks the courage to actually debate people directly. A little over a week ago the Prime...
  • Broadband (1 speech)
    I rise tonight on behalf of the residents of Bonner who have expressed on many occasions a grievance to me about the lack of broadband services in that electorate. It is a shame and an indictment...
  • Breast Cancer (1 speech)
    I rise to talk about a very serious women’s disease that was talked about in the last parliamentary sitting—I did not have the opportunity to contribute then—the issue of breast...
  • Digital Economy; Tasers (1 speech)
    Before I speak about the two issues I want to speak about in the grievance debate, I want to say in response to the ‘mere male’, the honourable member for Hume, that I—as a...
  • Petition: Spencer Gulf and Outback Australian Technical College (2 speeches)
    I would like to take this opportunity to place on the record the disbelief, the bewilderment and the anger of my constituents at the Deputy Prime Minister’s decision to close the highly...
  • Climate Change (3 speeches)
    I rise today to talk about an issue that I campaigned extensively on in the lead-up to the 2007 federal election. I am referring to the consequences of greenhouse gas emissions, the path that the...