Transcript: Australia Day 2025 Citizen of the Year Ceremony the Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre, 25 January 2025
E&OE STARTS: 6.30pm ENDS: 6.37pm MICHAEL McCORMACK MP: Thank you very much, Velika (Hayes) – and to Edison (McIntosh), Joz (Pastor) and Tille (Carroll) what a wonderful and magnificent job you just did in front of the fantastic 1RTB Kapooka Army Band. You have really started the proceedings off brilliantly. To the Australia Day Committee, […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT- Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin) Bill 2024
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (11:11): News outlets are presently reporting power outages impacting thousands of residents in Wagga Wagga. And it’s not just at that large inland city in southern New South Wales; it is also Henty, Holbrook, Rand, Culcairn, south of the largest inland city in the state. Thousands of houses in Wagga Wagga are […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – GRIEVANCE DEBATE – Aviation Industry, Agriculture Industry, The Greens
Last night, Wagga Wagga City Council put forward a motion, which was passed unanimously, saying that the federal government should nationalise Rex. Rex went into voluntary administration at the end of July. I said from the outset of Rex’s financial difficulties that all options need to be on the table. I’ve raised the possibility of […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE – Economy
Whether it’s households, whether it’s farms, whether it’s factories, whether it’s small businesses, right across society Australians are worse off now than what they were prior to the election in May 2022 with the Albanese government. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition and member for Farrer asked a very good question in question time today […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS – Albanese Government
In May 2022, there were so much hope and expectation in this country. They had just elected a new government and they thought that nirvana was on the horizon. How disappointed they must now be! Buyer beware. They must regret putting in a Labor government. But, you know, only 32.5 per cent of first preference […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – WorldSkills Competition 2024
I would like to compliment and praise Jasmine Cecchini. She is a beauty therapist in Wagga Wagga, and her journey has been deeply rooted in family influence and personal ambition. She set out on this course when she was 19 years young, apprenticing in her mother’s salon. This early immersion in the world of beauty […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Cash
Let me acknowledge the presence in the chamber of the erstwhile member for Kennedy, who is about to deliver his 977th speech to this parliament—on this occasion about the importance of cash—and acknowledge his 50 years of parliamentary service, including since 1993 as the member for Kennedy. I’d like to thank him for what he […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Royal Far West
At the outset, I wish to heartily commend the member for Parkes for bringing forward this very important motion. Certainly, for a regional member—somebody who represents half of the landmass of New South Wales—health is critical. If you have a healthy electorate, you have a happy electorate. No-one knows this better than the member for […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – Free TAFE Bill 2024 – Second Reading
I can tell the member for Adelaide where he’d be were it not for TAFE. He’d probably be floating in the Aegean Sea somewhere off the island of Kastellorizo! He’s a good man, and there were some elements to his speech which I wholeheartedly agree with, like when he said that the government was delivering. […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – BILLS – Cyber Security Bill 2024 – Second Reading
If ever we had cause for alarm over cybersecurity, it was just the other day—5 November, in fact—when the Guardian published an article headed ‘Is your air fryer spying on you? Concerns over “excessive” surveillance in smart devices’. The article, penned by UK Technology Editor Robert Booth, said: Air fryers that gather your personal data […]