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- Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Bill 2023, Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety (Transitional Provisions)
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (11:23): At the outset, I will acknowledge the member for Solomon’s service to our nation. I thank him for most of the content of his speech. He, like me, wants our nation to be the most secure it can be. He, like me, wants the very best in capability and the very […]
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 – STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS – Labor Government: Agriculture Industry
I refer to the Canberra Times article that at the time said: ‘July 1, 1985, is likely to be remembered as the day when Australia’s rural community re-emerged as a crucial political force.’ The more things change, the more they stay the same. Indeed, the article also referred to how, speaking over noisy interjections, Mr […]
TRANSCRIPT: INTERVIEW WITH ELLIS GELIOS ON FLOW FM RADIO, 26 AUGUST 2024
Subjects: Canola crops, Sarah Carter, Hume League finals
TRANSCRIPT: INTERVIEW WITH ELLIS GELIOS ON FLOW FM RADIO, 22 AUGUST 2024
Subjects: Visa vetting for Gaza refugees, regional air transport industry, National Youth Summit in Canberra
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – STATEMENTS ON SIGNIFICANT MATTERS – Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence
That was a fine contribution from the member for Cowper. As we know, he is the shadow assistant minister for the prevention of family violence and he is working to end the scourge of gender based violence. Having been a police officer, he would have seen far too many sad examples of domestic violence in […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – COMMITTEES – Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water Committee – Report
This shirt I’m wearing is made from Australian cotton. The cotton industry is an industry which has been demonised by many in this place. Cotton is a very good agricultural product, and Australian cotton growers do it better than any other nation on earth. But this shirt has a number of plastic buttons on it, […]
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 […]