House debates

Monday, 17 October 2016

  • Kamban Tamil Literary Festival (1 speech)
      This Saturday I will have the pleasure of attending the 10th anniversary celebration of the Kamban Literary Festival.    The festival which is being held at the...
  • Manly Warringah Women's Resource Centre (1 speech)
    This Friday, 21 October, the Manly Warringah Women's Resource Centre will celebrate their 40th anniversary at the Long Reef Golf Club in Collaroy. Providing crisis accommodation, counselling,...
  • Albury Wodonga Aboriginal Health Service (1 speech)
    It gives me great pleasure today to acknowledge and honour the work that is being carried out by the Albury Wodonga Aboriginal Health Service and to thank David Noonan, the CEO, and his team, the...
  • Netball (1 speech)
    Last week the Australian federal parliamentary netball team attempted to bring the Diggeress Cup to Canberra. Despite valiant efforts by my co-captains, the member for Lalor—here in the...
  • Cub Scouts Centenary (1 speech)
    I was very pleased on Saturday to attend the Chinderah 1st Scout Hall, where I had the great honour of cutting the cake celebrating 100 years of the Cub Scout movement. The Chinderah Cub Scouts...
  • Charles Sturt University: New Colombo Plan (1 speech)
    I wish to draw the attention of the House to the fact that I recently attended the Bathurst campus of Charles Sturt University's new engineering faculty to hear about how CSU is benefiting from...
  • Nepean Hospital (1 speech)
    I want to take this opportunity to read onto the record some of the stories I have been told regarding Nepean Hospital. My community's hospital has the longest emergency department waiting times...
  • Padbury Catholic Primary School (1 speech)
    Padbury Catholic Primary School in my electorate recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. I was pleased to attend a whole school mass with students and current parents, celebrated by clergy from...
  • Catherine McAuley Centre (1 speech)
    I rise today to update the House on the great work being done by the Catherine McAuley subacute centre at the Mercy Hospital in Werribee. I stood in this chamber in June 2014 because cuts to the...
  • Citizenship (1 speech)
    I rise to reinforce the importance of the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Allegiance to Australia) Bill 2015 brought into effect by the Turnbull government in December last year. This is sound...
  • Australian Red Cross (1 speech)
    To keep up with demand for blood in Australia, the Red Cross estimates it needs a donation every 24 seconds—all day, every day, year round. I rise today to pay tribute to one of my...
  • Grey Electorate: National Stronger Regions Fund (1 speech)
    I cannot tell you how pleased I was a couple of weeks ago to be able to inform the Peterborough community that they were the recipients of a National Stronger Regions Fund contribution of $8.6...
  • Canberra Electorate: Tuggeranong Netball Association (1 speech)
    Every Saturday during the season, 1,000 girls and young women and an increasing number of boys and young men, as well as countless volunteers, gather to play netball at the Tuggeranong Netball...
  • Capricornia Electorate: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1 speech)
    I rise to pay tribute to the role that our local ABC plays in the lives of the Central Queensland community. ABC Capricornia recently celebrated its 85th birthday. In remote country Australia,...
  • Scullin Electorate: Roads (5 speeches)
    Just like the Abbott government, the Turnbull government is shamefully failing the communities of Melbourne's north when it comes to providing decent infrastructure to enable people to lead...
  • Petrie Electorate: School Chaplains (1 speech)
    School chaplains play an important role in schools in my electorate and right across Australia. More fondly known as 'chappies', they help students find a way to deal with issues, and these can...
  • New South Wales: Hospitals (1 speech)
    Australians have known for some time that they cannot trust the federal coalition government when it comes to Medicare and the healthcare system. But in New South Wales this month they are...
  • Swan Electorate: Retirement Village (1 speech)
    Today I want to update the House on a recent example of the community and relevant authorities and stakeholders working together for a positive outcome in my electorate of Swan. The City of...
  • McEwen Electorate: Tennis Club Funding (1 speech)
    I rise today to talk about the curious case of an election commitment that never was. The Bulla tennis club in the City of Hume has recently been contacted by the minister for regional...
  • Moorebank Logistics Park (1 speech)
    I have long argued in this place that, with the Moorebank intermodal, and the idea of shuttling containers from Port Botany out to Moorebank on rail and distributing them from there is destined...
  • Northern Territory: Veterans (2 speeches)
    I do not have much time, so I just want to make a quick point. Yesterday, I attended a veterans barbecue in Darwin out in the rural area. It was great to speak with a number of veterans from the...