House debates

Monday, 26 September 2022

  • Fowler Electorate: Moon Festival (2 speeches)
    After two long years of COVID lockdowns and restrictions in Western Sydney, it was an absolute delight to see my electorate of Fowler come to life again for the Moon Festival. More than 80,000...
  • Spence, Catherine Helen (1 speech)
    I rise in this place just over 79 years to the day that Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney entered through the doors of Old Parliament House. I note the member for Tangney in the chamber today. These...
  • Brisbane Electorate: Housing (1 speech)
    The cost-of-living crisis is hitting hard and it is especially felt by renters. In my home electorate of Brisbane, 53.5 per cent of dwellings were rented at the time of the most recent census. In...
  • Siddall, Ms Barbara (1 speech)
    I want to pay tribute to the inspirational Barbara Siddall. Thirty years ago, Barbara did something truly amazing: she founded Cornerstone, which is a much-loved community institution in...
  • North Sydney Electorate: Tantallon Oval Pavilion (1 speech)
    North Sydney is an electorate that cares deeply about our impact on the natural environment. We want to see the nation take action on climate change, and we're willing to walk the talk. The...
  • Global Kids Clothes (1 speech)
    I wish to commend Global Kids Clothes, which is an outstanding group of women in Robertson on the Central Coast who meet weekly to knit and sew clothes for girls, boys and babies in some of the...
  • Central West Charity Tractor Trek (1 speech)
    It's not every day that motorists stumble across a procession of 17 tractors chugging along at 20 kilometres an hour on Central West roads, but, on the weekend, the slow, colourful parade of...
  • Parliamentary Standards (1 speech)
    I'm a new member of this parliament. I was a police officer and became well known across my community for my police work. As my colleagues would know, a lot of this job is spent knocking on...
  • Kowanyama Softball Competition (1 speech)
    I'm sure, Madam Deputy Speaker Chesters, you'll agree with me that it's important that we celebrate sporting events in our remote areas. Recently the remote Cape York community of Kowanyama held...
  • Human Rights (1 speech)
    Australia has a growing community of people from Iran and people with Iranian heritage, which includes people of the Baha'i faith. The 2016 census recorded approximately 60,000 Australians who...
  • Parkes Electorate: Floods (1 speech)
    I'd like to bring to the attention of the chamber the status of the flooding in the Parkes electorate. As you all would be aware, with the La Nina spring that we're having, we've had...
  • Macnamara Electorate: The Torch (1 speech)
    Last week I had the privilege of visiting the Torch. The Torch is an organisation based in Macnamara that goes into our prison systems, works with Indigenous people who are incarcerated and helps...
  • Johnston, Mr Robert (1 speech)
    I'd like to acknowledge the wonderful life of Robert Johnston, who, sadly, recently passed away. Born in Lismore, Robert was well known in the working-dog community. He won multiple titles at...
  • Adelaide Bowling Club (1 speech)
    Yesterday, Sunday 25 September, I attended the opening of the bowls season at the Adelaide Bowling Club. I was accompanied by Lucy Hood, the state member for Adelaide. We were honoured to put...
  • Guilfoyle, Corporal Hayden (1 speech)
    I would like to place on the record my congratulations and appreciation for the incredibly brave actions of Corporal Hayden Guilfoyle from Shepparton in my electorate of Nicholls. Corporal...
  • Australian Ambassador to the Holy See (1 speech)
    Earlier this year, Australian Ambassador to the Holy See Chiara Porro and her husband, Rien Schuurhuis, visited Australia. They came up to Darwin and spent time in Darwin, including a visit to...
  • Banks Electorate: St Luke the Evangelist Catholic Church, Banks Electorate: St George Academy of Performing Arts (1 speech)
    St Luke's Catholic church in Revesby is an absolute linchpin in the Banks community, and it was great to visit Father Dariusz Basiaga, the new priest, recently. St Luke's, which has been around...
  • Sri Lanka (1 speech)
    I rise to speak about the situation in Sri Lanka and the Albanese Labor government's response. Sri Lanka, the country of my birth, is experiencing an unprecedented economic crisis that has...
  • Forrest Electorate: Augusta & Districts Community Childcare (1 speech)
    s MARINO () (): I rise to support the Augusta & Districts Community Childcare group. This is a wonderful group of local women who since 2019, led by Kylie Lucas and Jasmine Meagher, have been...
  • Corangamite Electorate: Climate Change (1 speech)
    I'm running a schools climate project for students in my region for the second year in a row. The Corangamite Schools Climate Change Challenge is a project that started in 2021 to help schools to...
  • Dawson Electorate: Space Exploration (1 speech)
    I bring great news from Dawson. Two brothers, Adam and James Gilmour, from Gilmour Space Technologies, are taking on the world's space race by building a orbital space port at Abbot Point,...
  • Cashless Debit Card (1 speech)
    This morning the Albanese government's betrayal of the Australian people was put on display for all to see. The announcement of $50 million for alcohol and drug treatment services is an admission...
  • Wollongong: 2022 UCI Road World Championships (1 speech)
    I speak today on a fantastic event that was hosted by Wollongong over the past week. The 2022 UCI Road World Championships brought over a thousand riders from 70 countries to compete. The UCI is...
  • Queensland: Roads (1 speech)
    I wish to raise my concern with the Queensland Labor government's Department of Transport and Main Roads, including lack of planning, funding shortfalls and delays. The former member for Flynn,...
  • Covid-19 (1 speech)
    The sting in the tail of this pandemic is long COVID. We estimate that between five and 30 per cent of people will develop long COVID. As of July this year there may have been up to 400,000...
  • Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens (1 speech)
    On Tuesday 30 August I visited the Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens, where I had the pleasure of launching the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Avenue and Woodland Walk. This project...
  • Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (1 speech)
    Last week my community marked a sombre date—10 years since 29-year-old Jill Meagher was raped and murdered in a Brunswick alleyway on her walk home. That night Jill was, as many people do,...
  • New South Wales Central West (1 speech)
    Parkes is boom town in the Central West of New South Wales, and there are jobs, jobs and more jobs going there right at the moment, with GrainCorp. I'm so pleased that I, the Nationals and the...
  • Carpenter, Mr Alfred Clive (Alf), OAM (2 speeches)
    Today I want to honour the incredible life of a much-loved and highly respected Novocastrian, Alf Carpenter OAM. Alf served in the 2/4th Australian Infantry Battalion and undertook active service...