House debates

Thursday, 24 June 2010

  • Calare Electorate: Gumnut House (1 speech, 1 comment)
    When it comes to education I guess we have heard it all from the government: trade training centres, an apparent education revolution, an end to double drop-offs, laptops for every student and...
  • Aung San Suu Kyi (1 speech)
    I want to talk today about an issue that has been very important in my electorate of Sydney. Many of my constituents have a great deal of interest in, and support and concern for, the issue and...
  • Canning Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
    I rise today to mention two significant projects in Canning that will benefit the community for years to come. They are two projects that I have long supported and fought to deliver for the...
  • Bennelong Electorate: Disability Services (1 speech)
    I rise today to acknowledge a wonderful result for some extraordinary people in my electorate of Bennelong. After a long period of advocacy on my part, the Karonga School in Epping, which...
  • Higgins Electorate: Planning (1 speech, 2 comments)
    One of the critical issues in my electorate of Higgins is planning, whether it be in Windsor, Prahran, Armadale, South Yarra, Malvern, Malvern East, Glen Iris, Ashburton, Camberwell, Carnegie,...
  • Petition: National Schools Curriculum; Middle East (1 speech)
    I rise to table a further 3,338 signatures to add to the petition I presented to the House of Representatives on Monday night. This ongoing petition is about the inclusion of the modern Greek...
  • Petition: Child Care (2 speeches)
    I rise to table a petition on behalf of Lisa Fuda of the Harvey Occasional Child Care Centre and the many families in south-western, wheat-belt and regional Western Australia who will be very...
  • Millennium Development Goals (1 speech)
    On Tuesday I was visited by four young people from my electorate and surrounding electorates who were representing Micah Challenge. They visited me with the goal of improving the situation in...
  • Petition: Wandering Trad (1 speech)
    I rise to present a petition recently approved by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Petitions, regarding wandering trad, with my constituent Mr Todd Coleman being the principal...
  • Shortland Electorate: Surf-Lifesaving Clubs (2 speeches)
    I am very pleased to stand in this House today and share with the members just how lucky I am to represent the most beautiful electorate in this country, a coastal electorate with some fantastic...