• Former Liberal National Party Senator for Queensland
• Shadow Special Minister of State (since 28 May 2025)
  Shadow Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities (since 28 May 2025)
  Shadow Minister for Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games (since 28 May 2025)
• Became a Senator on — Federal election
• Left Senate on n/a — Still in office

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Documents: Housing Australia; Order for the Production of Documents (15 Oct 2026)

“In speaking to this motion for attendance by the minister, I want to remind the chamber that this is actually about two issues, both equally important, and they are the issues of transparency and accountability. It is the role of this chamber to be the house of review, through the committee process, through how the chamber is elected with senators from each state. It is not designed to be a...”

Documents: Housing Australia; Order for the Production of Documents (15 Oct 2026)

“Roadkill?”

Matters of Urgency: Taxation (14 Oct 2026)

“That was an irrelevant point of order, and that's what we expect from this Labor Party: they are irrelevant when it comes to the country. They can't run the country properly and they can't do points of order properly either. I want to go back to this urgency motion before someone gets me on relevance. It's going to cost small businesses across this country $13.3 billion in terms of...”

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• Has spoken in 50 debates in the last year — below average amongst Senators.
• People have made 4 comments on this Senator's speeches — well above average amongst Senators.
• 4 people are tracking whenever this Senator speaks .
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 564 times in debates — above average amongst Senators. (Why is this here?)