House debates

Tuesday, 27 November 2018

  • South Australia: Hospitals (1 speech)
    This week the South Australian Marshall Liberal government announced that $18.9 million will be paid to accounting firm KordaMentha to find $276 million of savings out of the Central Adelaide...
  • Page Electorate: OneWave (1 speech)
    OneWave is worldwide organisation that draws together the surfing community to promote mental health. The group holds fluoro Fridays each week to raise awareness about mental health. Lisa Nichols...
  • Master Builders Australia awards (1 speech)
    Over the weekend Master Builders Australia held their annual awards for national excellence in building and construction. I'm very pleased to report to the House that our NT apprentice of the...
  • Calare Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
    For 160 years, people have been trying to get a road across the Macquarie River at Dixons Long Point in the Central West of New South Wales. An upgraded crossing would deliver a wide range of...
  • Centenary of Armistice (1 speech)
    It was my great honour to attend the 100th anniversary of Armistice in the electorate of Lindsay on Remembrance Day. The event in my electorate was organised by the Penrith CBD Corporation in...
  • Lyne Electorate: Community Groups (1 speech)
    It was my great honour and pleasure to meet with the board of the Comboyne Ex-Servicemen's and Citizens' Club at the Comboyne Plateau to announce a $10,000 grant that's going to catalyse a...
  • Safety Bay Senior High School: 40th Anniversary (1 speech)
    Last week, I attended the 40th birthday celebrations of my old school Safety Bay Senior High School. Safety Bay Senior High School was celebrating 40 years of public education in what was, when...
  • Diabetes (1 speech)
    There are 130,000 Australians with type 1 diabetes. It is a condition that is growing at the rate of 3,500 patients per year and affects many people in my electorate of Moore. I welcome the...
  • Mayo Electorate: Community Service Awards (1 speech)
    As we approach the end of the school year, I have spent the last month presenting the Mayo community service awards. The award is conferred to a senior student who has demonstrated a keen...
  • Cowper Electorate: Belcher, Ms Rosa (1 speech)
    I rise in the House to honour Telegraph Point's oldest resident, Rosa Belcher, who turned 100 on 14 November. Rosa is a great Australian, who was born in Extremadura, Spain in 1918. She emigrated...
  • Women in Information and Communication (1 speech)
    I'm the proud patron of Women in Information and Communication, or WIC, as it's known, which is an organisation that champions the role of women in the information technology, communications and...
  • Canning Electorate: Peel Health Campus (1 speech)
    Today marks 210 days since the Peel health rally. On that chilly May night more than 400 people from the Mandurah community stood outside the Peel Health Campus and called on the WA Labor...
  • Burt Electorate: FIRST LEGO League Competition (1 speech)
    Mr Deputy Speaker Hogan: Everything is awesome, everything is cool when your part of a team …   …   … We're the same unlike you, you're like me...
  • Groom Electorate: Heritage Bank Business Excellence Awards (1 speech)
    Earlier this month the Toowoomba Chamber of Commerce hosted the 2018 Heritage Bank Business Excellence Awards at our wonderful historic Empire Theatre in Toowoomba, with the indomitable Lee...
  • Mabo, Dr Bonita, AO (1 speech)
    Along with all Australians I offer my deepest condolences to the Mabo family on the loss of Bonita Mabo AO. Ninety seconds here can't reflect the enormous achievement she made in her 75 years....
  • Australian Public Service (1 speech)
    They said that decentralisation would not work. They told us that having a centre of excellence at Armidale with APVMA was not going to come through, but now we have the evidence coming in. We...
  • Lalor Electorate: Education (1 speech)
    I rise today to give a clear shout-out to the principals, school council presidents leadership teams in the schools across the electorate of Lalor. Over the past four weeks, I've visited the...
  • Road Safety (1 speech)
    In the First and Second World Wars, over 100,000 Australians lost their lives; every single death a tragedy leaving behind grieving families and friends. Since the end of the Second World War,...
  • Prime Minister (1 speech)
    () (): After four weeks of crisscrossing the country trying to convince Australians that this guy is authentic—after 20 years in public life, if you've got to convince Australians that you...
  • Queensland Children's Hospital (2 speeches)
    The greatness of Lady Phyllis Cilento: the only female graduate of her class of medicine in 1919; a lady medical officer in the British colonial service; in 1924 had a private practice in New...