House debates

Wednesday, 22 March 2017

  • Council of Mayors: Southeast Queensland (3 speeches)
    We are in now the adjournment debate. It is always a pleasure to follow the honourable member for Blair. The House, along with the member for Blair, would be happy to know that today in this...
  • Blair Electorate: Royal Australian Air Force (1 speech)
    To the surprise of the member for Wright, I will commend him for his speech and agree with him and commend South-East Queensland Council of Mayors for their advocacy for South-East Queensland! In...
  • Dawson Electorate: Mackay Ring Road (1 speech)
    The $500 million Mackay Ring Road, Stage 1, will create a wealth of jobs—600, in fact. These jobs will include concreters, plant operators, drivers and labourers. We have people with these...
  • Income Inequality (1 speech)
    Increasing inequality is driving so many of the challenges that Australians face and Australia faces as an economy, but the Turnbull government cannot even say the word, much less take meaningful...
  • Dunkley Electorate: Public Transport (1 speech)
    In the past two weeks Dunkley residents have again seen the impact of a Victorian Labor government which continues to make decisions without proper consultation with the local council, local...
  • Harmony Day (1 speech)
    With so much going on in the chamber yesterday I think it is timely to actually take a minute to reflect on the true meaning of Harmony Day, because while we were in here having a fairly robust...