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ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Taxation

With all this pizzazz and excitement, you would think that people out in voter land would be dancing in the streets and rejoicing. I wonder, member for Wright, are they dancing in railway street in Beaudesert? They’re certainly not dancing in Baylis Street in Wagga. Labor talks about tax cuts and power price reductions. The […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS – Pacific Region

Tomorrow I will have the distinct pleasure of launching the Asia-Pacific Development Diplomacy and Defence Dialogue’s paper about the importance of youth, civil society and media in the Pacific. If there’s one thing I agree on with the Prime Minister it’s the fact that Australia is the Pacific nations’ partner of choice. Indeed, the opposition […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Medicare

Surprise, surprise, I agree with the member for Newcastle when she says that health is the most pressing issue, because it is. Of course it ties in with the cost-of-living crisis too, but if Labor were so good with Medicare and health in general, why have bulk-billing rates slipped and fallen so markedly since they […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Road Safety

Road safety is so important in our society. Better roads means less deaths on those roads. The member for Hawke politicised his argument. He said those opposite always make a political play thing out of this—not true; not true. But, seeing as he wants to take this motion there, the 90-day review put in place […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Wages

The member for Spence comes in here and takes credit, on behalf of the Labor government, for the Australian Fair Work Commission’s recent wage rise of 3¾ per cent. It’s like coming in here and taking credit for the sun coming up. I’ll give the member for Spence a little heads up. The sun coming […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – MOTIONS – National Disability Insurance Scheme

The motion is absolutely seconded. The suspension of standing and sessional orders is very important because we now have one hour and 15 minutes left of parliament this week and it’s so important that the member for Maribyrnong, the Minister for the NDIS, responsible for one of the most important parts of government, comes back […]

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