PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Aviation Industry
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (13:16): I thank the member for Mallee for bringing forward this very important motion. I just want to take the member for Gilmore up on a little point she made about Labor representing more regional electorates. I think, if you look at the actual landmass, the actual geographical size of the electorates that […]
PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Afghanistan: Human Rights, Hazara Community
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (19:07): At the outset, I want to commend the fine words of the member for Corangamite in bringing this motion to the parliament. I’ve heard the member for Melbourne make several very personal contributions, and each time she speaks it’s well worth listening to—likewise the member for Goldstein just now. I want to […]
Commonwealth Parole Board Bill 2025, Commonwealth Parole Board (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2025
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (17:38): The member for Sturt and the speaker who will follow me, the member for Blair, are both lawyers, and I respect that. But I cannot understand why Labor wants to outsource what should be the work of a minister—it should be the role of the Attorney-General—particularly to the member for Sturt, who […]
Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 1) Bill 2025
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (13:10): A bouquet for the minister at the table straight up. I know he has veterans at heart, and I know that he and I share support for the two veterans facilities in Wagga Wagga, in the heart of the Riverina: RSL LifeCare, the Riverina Veteran and Family Hub at 240 Baylis Street, […]
Migration Amendment (Combatting Migrant Exploitation) Bill 2025
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (18:35): The member for Gorton is new here. I wasn’t going to pick on her about her speech, but some of the things that she mentioned— Mr Thistlethwaite: Then don’t. Mr McCORMACK: I listened to her in silence, so the member for Kingsford Smith can give me the same courtesy, and I’ll get to you […]
CONDOLENCES – Richardson, Hon. Graham Frederick, AO
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (10:51): Fine words by the Deputy Prime Minister from another, former deputy prime minister. I love Richo. I really did, and he was so good to me. You can only take people as you find them. You can only take people as you see them, as you have experiences with them, and Graham […]
CONDOLENCES – Bondi Beach Attack Victims
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (12:59): Fifteen blessings. Fifteen rays of light. Fifteen beacons of hope. Fifteen beautiful, innocent lives gone—lost, taken, stolen—in a hail of hateful bullets, a mad and bad fury of mere minutes when iconic, peaceful Bondi Beach changed forever. These were 15 Australians—strangers to most, but Australians. They loved and were loved. This country […]
GRIEVANCE DEBATE – Transport Industry
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (12:37): Without trucking, the nation stops. Australia is so heavily reliant on our transport industry, particularly our truckies. They do a power of good, and they’ve never been under more pressure than right now with all the rules, compliance, obligations and regulations. They appreciate that they have to do the right thing, and, […]
Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 2) Bill 2025
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (19:16): Last night, at the Australian War Memorial, the shrine of remembrance, that remarkable Australian place where the memory of 103,000 fallen is sacrosanct and they are honoured, immortalised and memorialised, we had a service, a last post ceremony, for Major Cyril Herbert Dodson Lane. He was killed at Gallipoli, aged just 27. […]
Health Legislation Amendment (Prescribing of Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2025
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (11:57): We should thank our nurses each and every day—not only our nurses but our pharmacists and our doctors. Anyone who puts on scrubs and goes into a theatre ward and anyone who serves our hospital system or our medical system needs the applause and the gratitude of this place and of Australians […]