House debates
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
- Members of Parliament: Staff (5 speeches)
Nearly one year since the day Ms Brittany Higgins came forward with a horrific story about alleged crimes perpetrated on her in this building Australian women are still demanding answers from the... - Parkes Electorate: Business (1 speech)
Last Friday night I attended the business awards in Dubbo, aptly named the Rhino Awards as a tribute to the stars at the Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo. What was particularly exciting about... - Covid-19 (1 speech)
This summer a member of my community wrote to me in despair and said: My husband and I are older people and parents of two disabled adults. We've been made to feel expendable by the Morrison... - Murray-Darling Basin (1 speech)
Over 2.2 million people live across the most productive agricultural region in Australia, and that is the Murray-Darling Basin. Those 2.2 million people are in extreme fear of a Labor government... - Aged Care (1 speech)
Today I had the privilege of meeting Shirley, Ashka and Katie, who between them have worked more than 30 years in aged care. They came to Canberra to implore this parliament to address the... - Leichhardt Electorate: Citizens of the Year (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to place on the record and pay tribute to those in my community who were recently named as Citizens of the Year at recent local government Australia Day Awards ceremonies in... - Commonwealth Scholarships Program for Young Australians (1 speech)
Everyone, wherever they live, deserves access to the best education and training Australia has to offer. But this government is deliberately making it harder for young people in my community to... - Glenhaven Carols by Candlelight (1 speech)
It's rare that one event can bring the whole community together, but, for over 20 years, the Glenhaven Christmas carols is an event that can and does. Each year Glenhaven Oval fills with... - Petition: Climate Change (1 speech)
There are 114 new coal and gas projects in the approvals pipeline, and right now both the government and the opposition want to see them developed. This would create 2½ times as much... - Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
Today I would like to congratulate the recipients of awards in the 2022 Australia Day honours within my electorate of Boothby. I'm honoured to be able to congratulate this year's recipients and... - Loadsman, Mrs Tascha (1 speech)
With sadness, I rise today to say farewell to an incredible member of the Queanbeyan community. After a long battle with motor neurone disease, Queanbeyan mother of five Tascha Loadsman passed... - BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha (1 speech)
On Australia Day, I was privileged to attend the ceremony to commemorate the 20th anniversary of BAPS Perth at the temple in Wangara. BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha is a worldwide sociospiritual... - Shortland Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
The Liberal government hates Medicare. That's why there's a GP crisis in Shortland right now. Shortland is the sixth oldest electorate in the country. We have a higher than average Indigenous... - Groom Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
Health care is an economic mainstay of the Toowoomba region, contributing around $1.6 billion to our regional economy and accounting for one in five jobs in our fair city. That's why I was... - Dunkley Electorate (1 speech)
Last week the Prime Minister came to my electorate and my community, and what did he do? He washed a young woman's hair! It's such a shame that he didn't tell me he was coming, because I would... - Riverina Electorate: Wagga Wagga (3 speeches)
Here's a bit of a fun fact: there are around 11,000 beaches in Australia, which means that someone could go to a new beach every day for the next 30 years and not go to the same beach twice.... - Cox, Ms Wendy (1 speech)
Today, I'm making a big shout-out to Wendy Cox, who runs the Graceville Fine Foods & Deli, and her team. Everyone in Graceville knows Wendy. Last year, she received a Moreton Volunteers Award... - Schools (1 speech)
As a career supporter of choice and faith based education and values, many of us in Brisbane were shocked by the actions of Citipointe Christian College last week. Brian Mulheran's notion of... - Western Sydney: Health Care (2 speeches)
Now more than ever, Western Sydney deserves better health infrastructure. The population of the north-west is forecast to soar, and its needs cannot be absorbed by Blacktown and Westmead... - Speaker (2 speeches)
Thank you, Mr Speaker. I think you're looking quite wonderful today, and can I say the entire chamber would agree with me on that point. Thank you.
