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ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT- BILLS – Treasury Laws Amendment (Reserve Bank Reforms) Bill 202

Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (18:13): I acknowledge the presence of the Greens leader, the member for Melbourne, in the room. I recognise that he’s a decent person—although, philosophically, we are absolutely poles apart—but I do worry about the member for Melbourne and the Greens getting any control or say on the Treasury benches after the next […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Small Business

There were 249,179 small businesses across regional Australia as at 30 June 2023. That is a big number—a quarter of a million small businesses—and that’s just in New South Wales. We know that right across the country small business absolutely dominates the economic landscape, because it is in small businesses where they employ most of […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – Valedictory – MEMBER FOR BARTON

Member for Barton, I have nothing but yindyamarra for you. For those of you who don’t know what yindyamarra means, in Wiradjuri it means ‘respect’. For the Hansard translators, there was a beautiful song we were treated to. If they want to get a translation of that they need to go no further than Stan […]

Condolence Motion – Mr Thomas Page Pritchard

I wear the poppy pin in respect, remembrance and, indeed, awe. Today we gather again to pay tribute to Thomas Page Pritchard. We should respect him, we do remember him, and we are in awe of him. I look across the chamber and see the member for Spence, and I honour his service, too, as […]

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