House debates

Thursday, 23 August 2012

  • Health and Ageing Committee; Report (4 speeches)
    It gives me great pleasure to speak to the report, Discussion paper on late effects of polio/post-polio syndrome, which was tabled in the House on Monday. I see some of my colleagues from the...
  • Regional Australia Committee; Report (1 speech)
    The national policy debate in respect of the Murray-Darling Basin started long before I became an elected member of parliament. In fact, it started well before any of us came into this chamber....
  • Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
    I want to commend this report by my colleague and friend the Chairman of the Human Rights Subcommittee, the Hon. Laurie Ferguson MP, which has sought further participation of NGOs in the human...
  • Intelligence and Security Committee; Report (1 speech)
    Australia's review of the relisting of the Hezbollah organisation as a terrorist organisation could not be more timely. On 18 July this year, a suspected suicide bomber killed six people and...