ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT- STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS – Albanese Government
I look across there and I see so many people—ministers—who’ve let down country Australia. Regional Australians are feeling betrayed. We’ve got the infrastructure minister who put in a 90-day delay, which ended up being more than 200 days, and that stalled so much of the infrastructure in regional Australia. We’ve got the Minister for Climate […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – VALEDICTORY – THE HON SCOTT MORRISON MP
Jane McNamara is one of those rough-and-tumble, down-to-earth, say-it-as-it-is mayors we all know and love in regional Australia. She’s been mayor of Flinders Shire, centred on Hughenden in north-western Queensland, for eight years. Jane is someone who can see a fake, a fraud, a phony or someone who is insincere from a mile away. She […]
address to parliament- ADJOURNMENT – New Vehicle Efficiency Standard, Electric Vehicles
Scott Braid is one of the principal dealers of the long-established family firm Wagga Motors. I have known Scott for many years, and I knew his father. I have always respected this wonderful family company, a wonderful business that has put the wheels under so many people in the Riverina. Knowing Scott as I do, […]
address to parliament- – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Ukraine
Yesterday Wagga Wagga hosted a moving ceremony to mark 31 years since we as a city were declared the first Rotary Peace City in the world. That was brought about by the great work of the late Tony Quinlivan, a Rotarian who did so much to foster good relations and world peace. In my keynote […]
address to parliament – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Cuba
I acknowledge the presence of the Cuban ambassador in the chamber, and I acknowledge the presence of the co-chairs of the Cuban parliamentary friendship group—the member for Newcastle, who brought this motion to the parliament, and the member for Leichhardt. I want to talk about trade, because trade is essential and vital. Depending on who […]
address to parliament- PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Education
The shadow minister for early childhood education and youth certainly summed it up when she talked about the failures of Labor on this particular issue. Education is so important. It is the great enabler, particularly for our young people, and Labor has let them down on their watch. At the moment we have got record […]
address to parliament – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Multiculturalism
I wish to thank the member for Bennelong for bringing this important motion to the House, and I want to especially acknowledge the work that the member for Adelaide has done in this place and elsewhere around the nation and right across the world, particularly with the World Hellenic Inter-Parliamentary Association, of which he is […]
address to parliament – MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE – Albanese Government
Labor ought to know that unemployment now is higher than when we left government after COVID, and we had COVID to cope with. Labor promised real wages would go up; they have come down. They said, ‘my word is my bond’—the Prime Minister’s words, not mine—that they would stick to stage 3 tax cuts and […]
address to parliament – BILLS – Help to Buy Bill 2023, Help to Buy (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2023 – Second Reading
The member for Boothby could’ve just tabled a note. She could’ve just stood there and said, ‘We’re good and you’re not,’ and left it at that. But I want to rebut many of the points that she made—for a start, the point that she made about the very name of the bill we are debating: […]
address to parliament – MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS – National Apology to the Stolen Generations: 16th Anniversary
Eight million dollars—it’s not a lot of money, particularly when you consider the amount of money spent on last year’s referendum, which was about $450 million. Eight million dollars is not a lot of money when you consider the amount of money that Treasury handles every year to run this nation. Compared to the sort […]