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ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – BILLS – Payment Times Reporting Amendment Bill 2024

Small business plays a crucial role in the Australian economy. According to the Small business data report: 2023 year in review, approximately 42 per cent of private sector employment is in the small business sector. Small business adds one-third of gross value. It accounts for 97½ per cent of all businesses, roughly 2½ million, and […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – CONSTITUENCY STATEMENTS – Animal Welfare

It is incongruous that we have in Canberra a government so quick to ban the live sheep export trade yet sanction, through its New South Wales counterpart, the cruel slaughter of beautiful brumbies so close to the national capital. Ms Plibersek interjecting— Mr McCORMACK: I’m pleased that the environment minister is here—I hear her interjecting—because […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2024-2025 – Consideration in Detail

Tonight I’m having dinner with the Georgian, Turkish and Azerbaijani ambassadors. I’m looking forward to that opportunity because, as the shadow minister for international development and the Pacific, it’s important—as the member for Jagajaga has just said—to have diplomatic relations. I do take umbrage, however, with the assertion that the coalition in government between 2013 […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Budget

I listened closely to the member for Wentworth talking about small business in her contribution. I note that just now the Fair Work Commission has awarded a 3.75 per cent pay rise to 2.6 million minimum wage and award-reliant workers. The cost of business is getting harder for those small business operators, for those employers, […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS – Mount Erin Boarding

My wife, Catherine; daughter, Georgina; mother, Eileen; three sisters, Denise, Robyn and Julieanne; mother-in-law, Beverley; and her mother, Joan, all attended Mount Erin at Wagga Wagga. The school holds a very special place in our family and many families across the Riverina and indeed the country. On the weekend, the sesquicentenary of the Presentation Sisters’ […]

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