House debates

Thursday, 13 February 2020

  • National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
    This summer has been a season of grief, loss and hardship for many Australians. The unprecedented bushfire crisis, followed so quickly by floods, has changed Australia. Sadly, this government may...
  • Bennelong Electorate: Australia Day Honours (2 speeches)
    It is once again the time of the year when we celebrate the contributions of great Australians to our national life through the awarding of the Order of Australia and other awards as part of the...
  • Defence Industry (1 speech)
    It is absolutely clear that the Australian defence sector no longer has any confidence in the Morrison government delivering on its rhetoric on Australian industry content, which it has been...
  • Queensland: Health Care (1 speech)
    The nation is now watching what is the weeping sore of Queensland Health, and that is Redland Hospital. I don't think we've ever seen a Labor health minister so egregiously drain a hospital...
  • Australian Capital Territory: Bushfires (1 speech)
    It has been 17 years since the 2003 Canberra bushfires, but the memory loomed large over the capital in the recent summer months. Emergency services battled multiple fires in record-breaking...
  • Capricornia Electorate: Shine Energy (1 speech)
    I wish to take this opportunity to speak about an important and promising energy project that the Australian government is supporting in Capricornia. It is Shine Energy's high-energy,...
  • Health Care, Child Care (1 speech)
    If the people of Brand needed any more examples of just how the Liberals don't care about them, they've got it in the ever-increasing cost to go and see the doctor and to put their children into...
  • Hopgood, Mr Jack (1 speech)
    I rise today to recognise Mount Gambier resident Jack Hopgood, who recently celebrated his 100th birthday. Jack is a softly spoken, humble man who is not overly comfortable with attention. I...
  • Baha'i Faith, Arts (1 speech)
    The people of the Baha'i faith in my electorate of Wills and across Australia are deeply concerned about their brothers and sisters in Iran. Since 1979, the government of Iran has made it...
  • Page Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
    I want to acknowledge the Australia Day award recipients from the Kyogle local government area at the recent Australia Day awards. There were three different official functions in the Kyogle LGA....
  • Health Care (1 speech)
    Many members will know that in recent months I've had some health issues which relate to renal and kidney problems. I want to refer to that in this opportunity, because of the lessons I've...
  • Calare Electorate: Australia Bushfires (2 speeches)
    I've spoken in the House before about the firefighting effort in the Calare electorate. Our fireys and emergency services personnel were simply outstanding, but so too were the huge numbers of...
  • La Trobe Electorate: Local Sporting Champions Program (1 speech)
    I'm proud today to speak about some very talented young individuals in the electorate of La Trobe. The Local Sporting Champions program provides financial support of up to $750 for travel costs...
  • Australian Bushfires (1 speech)
    I want to take the opportunity to offer my condolences to all those who have lost loved ones in this devastating season of bushfires. I want to do that on behalf of my community of Calwell as we...
  • Swan Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
    I want to take the opportunity to report to the House and to the residents of my electorate on the Manning Road on-ramp. Residents of the area know that the Kwinana Freeway and Manning Road...
  • Sydney Electorate: Sydney Metro (1 speech)
    I want to take the opportunity to raise the need for an additional metro station on a line that the New South Wales state government is already constructing. The Sydney Metro project is already...
  • Australian Floods (1 speech)
    As we stand in this place, once again, across my electorate of Forde and across the south-east of Queensland it's raining. I know that across the east coast, from South-East Queensland all the...
  • Racism (1 speech)
    In 2020 we should be talking about fascism as a historical curse of the past and not as a present threat; yet, here we are, a dangerous place in history where far Right populism is back on the...
  • Wentworth Electorate: Water Safety (2 speeches)
    I wish to congratulate several brave off-duty Bronte Surf Life Saving Club lifesavers and Waverley Council lifeguards who courageously performed the mass rescue of 11 people caught in the...