• Simplot (1 speech)
    Yesterday I made some comments regarding the terrible treatment of potato growers in Tasmania from the company that processes their potatoes, Simplot, and the fact that, despite me having...
  • Parent Pathways (1 speech)
    Flexible, tailored, voluntary support—that is the Albanese Labor government's Parent Pathways program, which, to date, has provided support for nearly 40,000 eligible parents and carers...
  • Fossil Fuel Industry (1 speech)
    Imagine a humpback whale gracefully gliding through the warm, breathing sea, only to be confronted by an abandoned, decaying gas rig. That is the grave reality in our oceans. There is no legal...
  • Taxation (1 speech)
    There are two guarantees in life, death and taxes, and the Treasurer has taken this to a whole other level. There are now birth taxes and death taxes, and every time the Treasurer tries to fix...
  • Road Transport Industry (2 speeches)
    On an extraordinarily happy note, I am very pleased to announce that the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government last week announced the establishment of...
  • Aged Care (1 speech)
    I add my congratulations to Senator Sterle as well. The FOI revelations reported by Melissa Davey in the Guardian today about the government's IAT, integrated assessment tool, are damning. Time...
  • Members of Parliament: Staff, Labor Government (1 speech)
    Homophobic, antisemitic, racist and misogynistic—that is how the language used in Rhys Muldoon's now deleted social media posts has been rightly described. We will not let the Labor...
  • Cybersafety (1 speech)
    The internet is a very different place from the one that I grew up with. When I was a teenager, the biggest social crisis that I faced online was deciding who made it to my Top 8 best friends on...
  • Housing (1 speech)
    The collapse of Bathla Group, the housing developer, shows why Australia needs a public developer for our housing crisis. Private developer Bathla Group owes over $3.4 billion to around 3,000...
  • Homelessness (1 speech)
    Somewhere in Western Australia tonight, a child goes to bed hungry. It's not because their parents don't love them or work hard enough but because the system has let them fall through the cracks....
  • Electoral System (15 speeches)
    Every day, we're hearing new revelations about the extent of the relationship between the Liberal Party and the Exclusive Brethren and their Neo-Nazi associates. As we all know, at the last...