• Dementia, Tasmanian Football Club (2 speeches)
    Once again I'm speaking about dementia and the impact that it has on the Australian community. Tomorrow we have an event here. As the co-chair of Parliamentary Friends of Dementia, I want to...
  • Victoria: Roads (1 speech)
    In the not too far distant past, Victorian roads were the envy of Australia. By virtue of its geography and a deliberately well-maintained road network, there was a noticeable difference in...
  • Artificial Intelligence, Red Lines Package (1 speech)
    This week, people building the most powerful AI systems have warned that, within six to 12 months, they could become powerful enough to pose an existential threat to humanity. Yet the Albanese...
  • Income Tax (1 speech)
    Sixty-five billion dollars—that's how much poorer working Australians have become during the last four years of this Labor government, and that's only when we're talking about income taxes....
  • Men (1 speech)
    I'd like to acknowledge the work of Kristie Johnson in preparing and presenting a petition to the House of Representatives calling for the establishment of an office for men. The point of this...
  • Marine Sanctuaries (1 speech)
    I am here to protect our oceans. It must be done, it must be done right and it must be done right now. Australia is responsible for managing one of the largest ocean estates on the planet. It is...
  • Defence Properties (1 speech)
    The government's proposed Defence estate sell-off raises some very serious questions it has not yet answered. It is a real hammer blow to my home state of Western Australia. Earlier this year,...
  • John XXIII College (1 speech)
    I rise tonight to acknowledge the year 6 students and teachers from John XXIII College in Perth who visited Parliament House earlier this year, and to reflect on why school visits to our national...
  • Avian Influenza, Renewable Energy (1 speech)
    I advise the chamber of a very serious matter that's occurred in my state. South Australia has confirmed the first bird flu infection of an Australian sea lion, found at Seal Bay on Kangaroo...
  • Cost of Living, Housing, Waste Management and Recycling (1 speech)
    Do you know who benefits from people believing that immigrants are to blame for an unaffordability crisis that almost all of us are experiencing? It's the massive private corporations who are...
  • Climate Change, Energy, Trade (1 speech)
    The coalition has set a very simple ambition for Australia. Our plan will reward hard work, restore homeownership, secure Australia's future and put Australians first. Those words mean something....
  • Social Cohesion (1 speech)
    I got pretty angry last week, and, as often happens, it was my electorate office that had to wear the abuse. Thank you, guys, once again for being so stoic as you always are. I received lots of...
  • Whyalla Steelworks, Indigenous Australians (1 speech)
    Well, there was devastating news from my home state of South Australia this week: 500 Whyalla steelworkers will lose their jobs, and there are so many more contemplating what that also means for...
  • COVID-19: Vaccination, Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, Migration (1 speech)
    In the week since I spoke about the huge volume of scientific papers on the COVID scandal, more new papers have been published. After years of censorship, Dr Yaakov Ophir from the University of...
  • Housing (1 speech)
    For a generation of Australians, homeownership is becoming less a dream and more a distant prospect. House prices are now around 8.9 times the median household income, and young Australians are...