House debates

Thursday, 25 February 2021

  • Collins, Mr Albert Maurice (1 speech)
    Bert Collins was born in 1916, the year after the Anzacs landed at Gallipoli; the year that they arrived on the killing fields of the Western Front; and the same year that the Labor Party tore...
  • COVID-19, News Media and Digital Platforms (1 speech)
    We passed some sombre milestones this week around the world in our experience with COVID-19. In the United States half a million people have now lost their lives because of COVID-19, and in the...
  • Family and Domestic Violence (1 speech)
    Each year, I rise in this parliament to honour the lives of women who have died in the past year through acts of violence, often by someone known to them. Tonight, I stand to honour and pay my...
  • Queensland: Olympic and Paralympic Games (1 speech)
    I'm sure you will agree with this, Mr Speaker. How good is Queensland, and how good is my home city of Brisbane? I rise today, as a proud Queenslander and a proud Brisbane resident, to speak...
  • Aged Care (1 speech)
    This time tomorrow the federal government will hold in their hands the final report of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. This time tomorrow the Morrison government will know...
  • Manufacturing Industry (1 speech)
    In this country we're famous for digging stuff up. We used to dig up gold, then we dug up coal, then iron ore, and now we dig up everything from lithium to dinosaur fossils. Digging up things and...