House debates

Monday, 16 June 2014

  • Health Funding (3 speeches)
    I rise today to speak on the government's attack on our health-care system. I listened with some interest to the previous speaker, who was speaking on another matter, who wants to claim really...
  • Electorate of Herbert: Local employment (1 speech)
    I will try not to sound like a broken record. I would like to raise two issues tonight and I will try to string two stories together in a coherent narrative. The first is about the tender...
  • Budget (1 speech)
    Tonight I rise to object to the Abbott Liberal government's first budget. This is a budget of inequality: a budget that hurts women, the vulnerable, pensioners, seniors, parents, carers,...
  • Health Care (1 speech)
    I rise to draw the attention of the House to the plight of expectant mothers and their families in my home town of Katanning, a regional service hub in the heart of the electorate of O'Connor....
  • Indi Electorate: Rail Services (1 speech)
    Day after day, as I move around my electorate, I am confronted by constituents who are not happy with the state of rail services in our communities. The lack of a punctual and reliable service is...
  • Defence (2 speeches)
    President Eisenhower, in his final speech as President to the people of the United States, warned of the potential danger of burgeoning and unfettered power of what he termed the...