House debates

Monday, 2 June 2014

  • Climate Change (1 speech)
    I am pleased to lead off on the adjournment debate. I want to take the time allotted to me to talk about the visit by the Pacific Calling Partnership last week, a program of the Edmund Rice...
  • Barton Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
    I rise to commend recent federal government commitments to economic growth, investment in infrastructure and community consultation, which have all been evident in my electorate of Barton over...
  • Budget (1 speech)
    The Treasurer has meticulously created a falsehood about our debt levels, used it to savage the budgets of families and pensioners on the basis that he needed to reduce the debt, but at the end...
  • Australian Defence Force Parliamentary Program (1 speech)
    Since 2002, there have been 40 operational deaths of Australians in Afghanistan and 261 wounded. The first death was Sergeant Andrew Russell, SAS Regiment, who died on 16 February 2002. The 40th...
  • Melbourne Ports Electorate: Budget (1 speech)
    The opposition have said again and again in this House that this budget is based on a concocted budget emergency, and this was very ably set out by the member for Parramatta in her adjournment...
  • Parkes Electorate: Moree Reconciliation Awards (2 speeches)
    Contrary to the negative bleatings that we have just been listening to, I would like to speak about something positive that is happening in my electorate. On Friday night, I attended the Moree...