• Former National Party Senator for NSW
• Shadow Minister for Water (since 28 May 2025)
  Shadow Minister for Fisheries and Forestry (since 28 May 2025)
  Shadow Minister for Emergency Management (since 28 May 2025)
• Became a Senator on — Federal election
• Left Senate on n/a — Still in office

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Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers: Migration (17 Sep 2026)

“That word salad was as coherent about private health insurance as anything I've ever heard. It's like a year 7 artistic dance version of private health insurance, that response. It was quite the thing. I want to go back to the issue of the day. We're talking about immigration. We heard the great immigration policy apparently, presented to the Press Club today by the Labor Party, but they...”

Bills: Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (Veterans' Healthcare Without Caps) Bill 2026; Second Reading (17 Sep 2026)

“We've had the announcement this morning that the government will no longer hurt the allied health provisions for our veterans, but it needs to go further. Part of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (Veterans’ Healthcare Without Caps) Bill 2026 is going further. It's about helping them. Not hurting is not good enough. We have gone through this process. So many people...”

Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers: Answers to Questions (14 Sep 2026)

“I move: That the Senate take note of the answers given by ministers to questions without notice asked by Opposition senators today. What we have here is some amnesia by this government. Every time you hear about anything good, we're told to look at what they've done, but, for anything bad, we heard that it's only been 4½ years, and they'll get to it. When we talk about wages, they keep...”

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• Has spoken in 63 debates in the last year — below average amongst Senators.
• People have made 0 comments on this Senator's speeches — average amongst Senators.
• 1 person is tracking whenever this Senator speaks .
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 181 times in debates — below average amongst Senators. (Why is this here?)