House debates

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

  • (1 speech)
    Order! It being nearly 7.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
  • Higher Education (1 speech)
    I rise to report that earlier this week some key education and community development stakeholders within the mid-North Coast region and I met with the office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the...
  • Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
    I congratulate the member for Lyne on such a good speech; it is good to hear his local community responding so well to the challenges of getting more people into higher education. I also want to...
  • Gilmore Electorate: Employment (1 speech)
    To many the steelworks at Port Kembla near Wollongong is a positive symbol of the economic fortunes of the Illawarra. Yet the term Illawarra is rather fluid, sometimes including the Shoalhaven...
  • Deakin Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
    I would like to make the House aware of the completion of another important project in the suburb of Croydon in my electorate of Deakin. The last time I spoke in the House on local projects was...
  • Green Loans Program (1 speech)
    I never intend to ascribe to incompetence what can be perfectly explained by a lack of attention to detail. As I speak about the green loans—which have barely been able to be brought to...
  • Banks Electorate: Chinese Lunar New Year (2 speeches)
    Kung hei fat choi, which loosely translates to, ‘Congratulations and be prosperous’. On 6 February this year I attended the official opening of the lunar New Year celebrations...