ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – BILLS – Taxation (Multinational—Global and Domestic Minimum Tax) Bill 2024, Taxation (Multinational—Global and Domestic Minimum Tax) Imposition Bill 2024 – Second Reading
There are some aspects of the member for Hawke’s speech which I earnestly agree with. If you do business in Australia and with the Australian government, yes, you should pay your fair share of tax. There’s no question about that. For many multinational entities operating in the global village that the world is today, as […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – CONSTITUENCY STATEMENTS – Riverina Electorate: Telecommunications
Mobile phone connectivity is imperative for regional communities to continue to thrive. In recent days, my office has been receiving much correspondence from residents in and around Ardlethan and Kamarah expressing their concerns about what they say is a degradation of mobile phone reception over recent years, in particular. They are rightly concerned about this […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – MOTIONS – Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
This is yet another motion brought in by a Labor member pretending as though everything good that is in the nation has happened since May 2022. If they spruik something often enough and loud enough, eventually, I reckon they’re going to start to believe their own talking points. I reckon they’re going to start to […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Early Childhood Education
I reckon they would be listening with interest in Gerringong, Nowra, Shellharbour, Ulladulla and Warilla at the moment to the member’s contribution, putting forward this motion about childhood education and care educators. Yes, we want the best for those people who work in that sector. But two words that the member for Gilmore, a regional […]
EULOGY FOR SARAH HELEN CARTER 1979-2024 DELIVERED ON FRIDAY 16 AUGUST 2024 AT FLEMINGTON RACECOURSE
As we farewell beautiful Sarah, a newborn is entering the world in a far-flung village of stick huts in a forsaken part of Kenya. The baby boy, of the Turkana people, blinks, breathes and utters his first hungry cry. It will not be his last. He will never know – but his chances of surviving […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE – National Security, Economy, Cost of Living
I listened closely to the contribution of the member for Solomon, and I thank him for his service; I thank him for being a veteran. Veterans should be lauded and applauded for the fact that they have kept our country safe. So, for his efforts, and for the efforts of the member for Braddon, I […]
ADDRES TO PARLIAMENT – STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS – Literacy and Numeracy
During the winter recess of parliament I took the opportunity to attend many schools, where I handed out certificates for my 14th annual Anzac Day writing competition. I was so impressed with the more than 1,100 entries that I received—not just the quantity but, indeed, the quality. Anybody who rubbishes our children these days and […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – MOTIONS – Budget
To be honest, I’m a little bit surprised that there aren’t any government speakers on this motion to take note of the 2024-25 budget papers. It’s been left to the Greens leader—the member for Melbourne—and me to talk about this important topic. It is important because the budget is the economic framework which determines economic […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – BILLS – Future Made in Australia (Omnibus Amendments No. 1) Bill 2024 – Second Reading
I rise to speak on the Future Made in Australia Bill 2024. There are already some remarkable success stories when it comes to being made in Australia, and I want to highlight a couple of those right in my hometown of Wagga Wagga. Indeed, Tim Rose, who is a chemical engineer with degrees in both […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Wages
Here we go again—just another Labor motion taking credit for the sun coming up. It’s just nonsense—this whole motion and notion that somehow Labor is there for the low-paid worker. Ask someone like Bruce Billson. Honourable members interjecting— Mr McCORMACK: I hear the scoffing. Bruce Billson is a friend of the worker and small business. […]