House debates

Tuesday, 5 December 2017

  • Workplace Relations (1 speech)
    Many of you on the other side of the House may not realise, but we do on this side of the House, that ExxonMobil, one of the biggest multinationals in the world has—guess what?—paid...
  • Brisbane Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
    Over the past few weeks I was honoured to attend graduations, speech nights and assemblies at schools right across Brisbane: Kelvin Grove State College, Ascot, BGS, Newmarket, St Finbarr's, Girls...
  • Rankin Electorate: Unity Cup (1 speech)
    Every year for four years now the Moreton and Rankin Muslim communities come together for a hotly contested game of cricket to determine who holds the Unity Cup. Part of the tradition has been to...
  • Barlow, Mr Ross, OAM (1 speech)
    On 30 October, a lion of the Australian music industry and the Northern Beaches community lost his long battle with illness. Ross Barlow was from the small New South Wales town of Braidwood, but...
  • Moreton Electorate: Unity Cup (1 speech)
    Thank you, Deputy Speaker, for looking after me. That cautionary warning is needed because, after the Moreton against Rankin community cricket cup—after Moreton was victorious in that...
  • Boothby Electorate: Blackwood Community Events (1 speech)
    It was a very exciting weekend in Blackwood. The 53rd Annual Blackwood Christmas Parade and Fair was held on Friday night. The parade is the second biggest in South Australia and was coordinated...
  • Workplace Relations (1 speech)
    I rise today to inform the House of a meeting that I attended with many of my Labor colleagues this morning with representatives of the 200 local Gippsland workers of the AWU, the AMWU and the...
  • Medical Workforce (1 speech)
    There is a chronic shortage of doctors in country Australia. This is well known and it has been a source of great concern to country communities everywhere. Access to medical professionals and...
  • Cunningham Electorate: Energy Policy, Workplace Relations (1 speech)
    Last week I was graced in my electorate with a visit by the Prime Minister and his Minister for the Environment and Energy. I thought perhaps they'd come to talk to the local community about the...
  • Electoral Roll (1 speech)
    Maintaining the integrity of the electoral roll is of the utmost importance in our democracy. I wish to inform the House that I'm aware of two electoral enrolments in the division of Moore which...