House debates

Thursday, 5 June 2014

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (1 speech)
    Tomorrow marks the 70th anniversary of the D-day landings, a massive and decisive military operation in a war that shaped the world as we know it today. Seventy years on, we find ourselves...
  • Bass Electorate (1 speech)
      I left my former profession of 31 years to enter politics for one important reason: to make a real difference for people in my community, and I have enjoyed some success in the nine...
  • Budget (1 speech)
    It has now been more than three weeks since the Abbott government handed down its budget of broken promises, but, in that time, the shock and outrage in the community has not subsided one bit. In...
  • Treasurer (1 speech)
    I rise to object to an offensive and disgraceful set of comments uttered by the Treasurer in this place yesterday and to demand an unreserved apology from him. I, the member for Moreton and the...
  • Mitchell Electorate: Infrastructure (3 speeches)
    I rise today to speak about the government's commitment to infrastructure in Sydney. This is perhaps one of the most important and significant infrastructure investments in Commonwealth history,...
  • Environment: Tasmanian World Heritage Area (1 speech)
    From the 15th to the 25th of this month in Doha, the World Heritage Committee are meeting to consider many issues. One of those issues is the recommendation by the federal government to rescind...