House debates

Thursday, 5 December 2013

  • Pacific Highway (1 speech)
    I rise to give the House an update on the duplication of the Pacific Highway in my electorate of Page. Once completed, it will transform the region, benefit businesses, create much-needed jobs...
  • Population (1 speech)
    In my speech on the address-in-reply, I told the House I was going to establish a non-government organisation to campaign against rapid population growth and its attendant environmental and...
  • Rural and Regional Health Services (1 speech)
    I come from Kimba—the district population is about 1,200. I was born in the local hospital, something that cannot happen anymore—obstetric services have been discontinued. I had my...
  • Michael John Maher OAM (3 speeches)
    If there were ever a former member of this place whom I would seek to emulate, it is the late Michael Maher, who died on 29 September, the former member for the electorate of Lowe. I thank...
  • Labor Government (1 speech)
    The Labor Party seem to think that their loss during the election was a result of disunity. I have got something to clue the Labor Party in on: the real reason that the Labor Party lost was...
  • Type 1 Diabetes (2 speeches)
    Thank you, member for Tangney. I wish to speak for the time remaining about an insidious condition which affects many Australians—about 1.5 million—and a number of our young. That...