• United Nations Climate Change Conference, Fossil Fuel Industry (1 speech)
    Two things happened recently. Last week, the Australian government hosted a climate conference in Fiji to help drive climate action and focus the world's attention on climate impacts in the...
  • National Carers Week (1 speech)
    It is National Carers Week, and, as a foster carer for many years, I want to start by thanking carers of all ages and backgrounds for their tireless and often thankless work. Even on the hardest...
  • Roads, Private Health Insurance (1 speech)
    I rise today to once again implore the Victorian state Labor government and the Albanese Labor government to put more funding into our roads. I ask the Albanese Labor government to stop taking...
  • Cost of Living (1 speech)
    Since the turn of the century, the world has drifted from one crisis to another, beginning with the 11 September 2001 Twin Tower and Pentagon attacks in the USA, followed by the October 2002 Bali...
  • Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (1 speech)
    I rise today to acknowledge the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia's specialist nurses who are here in Canberra and Parliament House this week. They have travelled here because they are...
  • Housing (1 speech)
    No Australian should ever be turned away from crisis or transitional housing, but we know that too many Australians each and every night, whether it be young people, or women and children fleeing...