House debates

Monday, 21 June 2010

  • Cowan Electorate: Goollelal Primary School (1 speech)
    On 17 June 2010, I visited Goollelal Primary School, a very good local school in the suburb of Kingsley in the Cowan electorate. While I was there I had a brief conversation with the principal,...
  • Canberra Electorate: Mr Darryl McLindin (1 speech)
    I rise today to talk about the loss of a great community member of ours. Sadly, Darryl McLindin, a community member in my electorate, passed away on Sunday, 13 June. I, along with many members of...
  • Farrer Electorate: Blood Donations (1 speech)
    I would like to recognise the willingness of the people of Hay, in my electorate of Farrer, to donate blood. This is emphasised in federal parliament today as I table a petition with 1,095...
  • Learn Earn Legend Program (3 speeches)
    The words I am about to read were prepared by Tamara Gibbs, of St Saviour’s College Toowoomba, Queensland, who is 16 years old and in year 12, and Corey Colbung, from Katanning Senior High,...
  • Swan Electorate: Demons District Football Club Junior Carnival (3 speeches)
    Yesterday, I attended the Demons District Football Club Junior Carnival, which was held at Higgins Park in the suburb of Victoria Park in my electorate. The teams that were involved in the...
  • Dawson Electorate: China First Coal Project (1 speech)
    I welcome the good news today of the announcement by the Prime Minister of Australia and the Vice President of China of the signing of a cooperation agreement for the China First coal development...
  • Bradfield Electorate (1 speech, 1 comment)
    Amidst the long catalogue of outrages perpetrated on the Upper North Shore by the New South Wales state Labor government we have had, recently, one that really ranks as amongst the very worst....
  • Kyrgyzstan; Israel; Mr Xi Jinping; Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (1 speech)
    Tonight I want to briefly raise a few matters of international concern. Firstly, I want to express sorrow at the ethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan that have caused some 300,000 Uzbeks to be internally...
  • Mr John Coombe (1 speech)
    I rise tonight to pay tribute to the Chief Executive Officer of the Alexandrina Council, Mr John Coombe, who on 7 June this year announced that, as of 22 December, he will retire from being the...
  • Hasluck Electorate: Midland Health Campus (2 speeches)
    I rise today to talk about my ongoing concerns about the Midland Health Campus in my electorate of Hasluck. In the 2009-10 budget, the Rudd government provided $180.1 million in funding for the...