ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT- BILLS-Agriculture (Biosecurity Protection) Levies and Charges Collection Bill 2024 – Second Reading
I’m very pleased that I have been joined here in the Federation Chamber by the member for O’Connor. The reason I’m pleased is that he understands farmers and he understands agriculture. He represents an electorate, as large as it is, that in an average year produces 10 million tonnes of wheat—10 million tonnes of wheat […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT- MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE – Economy
I want to take the member for Higgins up on a couple of issues. I have the utmost respect for the member for Higgins; I want to put that out there. She was a clinician scientist before coming to this place, an expert in infectious diseases as a physician and an award-winning doctor as well. […]
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 […]