House debates

Tuesday, 1 June 2021

  • Covid-19 (1 speech)
    [by video link] Tonight I am joining you from lockdown in Melbourne. I must begin by acknowledging all the people in my electorate tonight who are doing it tough because this is an extremely...
  • South Australia: Energy (1 speech)
    This week there's been some very good news for South Australia, with the agreement by TransGrid in New South Wales to build their end of the new Project EnergyConnect transmission line between...
  • Petition: Inland Rail (1 speech)
    by leave—I table a set of documents which contain a petition that seeks the abandonment of the ARTC's proposal for a railway overpass bridge and a proper and detailed analysis of an...
  • Afghanistan (1 speech)
    Members here would be aware that the Prime Minister announced last week, on 25 May, that our embassy building in Kabul in Afghanistan would close—with effect from 28 May, a few days ago....
  • Australian Screen Industry, Outback Truckers: 100th Episode (1 speech)
    The week before last I attended an event to celebrate the screening of 100th episode of Outback Truckers, a successful and distinctive piece of Australian factual television making that was...
  • Queensland Corruption and Crime Commission (1 speech)
    I rise tonight to talk about that most important of principles, the burden of proof. You should be innocent until proven guilty, and the world of people, democracy itself, should not be able to...