address to parliament – BILLS – Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Bill 2023
At the outset, I want to thank the member for Paterson for much of the content within her speech. When she talks about protecting Australia and Australian farmers’ ability to grow food and fibre, she is right. When she talks about the ultimate collaboration, she is correct. When she talks about the importance of forestry, […]
address to parliament – CONSTITUENCY STATEMENTS – Health Care
Jane Gentle is a caring person—you could almost say by name and by nature. But she says what she thinks, she means what she says and she says what she means. She’s been a pharmacist for 23 years—19 of those have been as an owner of a chemist operation. She runs a pharmacy in Junee, […]
address to parliament – MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE – Living Standards
The Assistant Treasurer needs to be a little bit careful when he disparages Drongo. I know it’s a popular term in the Australian vernacular, but it was a very good racehorse in the 1920s. Indeed it was. It was by the Melbourne Cup runner Lanius. It came midfield. It also ran in the Melbourne Cup. […]
address to parliament – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Wages
Last Thursday, I met with some good-hearted people, people who are concerned about the aged-care sector: Jeff Hay and Fran Hatty from the Tocumwal Lions Community Hostel. They’re not in my electorate but in the neighbouring electorate of Farrer. Also there were John Knight and Ross Tout from Uralba at Gundagai. They are very concerned […]
address to parliament – pRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Migration
With all due respect to the member for Reid, we can all pick out isolated examples of situations where, yes, things could have been better, absolutely. But to then, from that example, paint a broadbrush picture of the immigration system under the previous government—a government in a parliament which you did not sit in—and then […]
address to parliament – BILLS – Interactive Gambling Amendment (Credit and Other Measures) Bill 2023 – Second Reading
To take up the remarks of the member for Bruce, albeit brief: yes, he is correct when he says that by their very nature credit cards are looking at credit; it’s money that gamblers do not have, money that is not in their bank. To ensure that that is a provision of the Interactive Gambling […]
address to parliament -COMMITTEES – Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint Committee – Report
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade and as deputy chair of the trade subcommittee, I present the committee’s report entitled Inquiry into Australia’s tourism and international education sectors ‘quality and integrity—the quest for sustainable growth’: interim report into international education. Report made a parliamentary paper in accordance with […]
address to parliament – STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS – Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023
It was called the ‘restoring our rivers’ bill, but what it will be is a ‘destroying our river towns’ bill. That’s what passed the lower house earlier today, and it will have such an effect on those people who grow food and fibre for this country. I say: shame on all of you and, in […]
address to parliament – BILLS – Identity Verification Services Bill 2023, Identity Verification Services (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023 – Second Reading
The two bills before us deal with identity verification. Identity verification is such that a person’s identity is electronically confirmed by comparing a person’s face or biographic details with existing records. I come to this place as somebody who ran the 2016 census. I don’t want anybody to smile or laugh, but having been given […]
address to parliament – BILLS – Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023 – Consideration in Detail
Consideration in detail, schedules 1 and 2—this is bad policy. The SPEAKER: The member for Riverina, you are entitled to speak on this regarding Ms Sharkie’s amendment. Mr McCORMACK: I’ll speak to the amendments, and the amendments include buybacks. The amendments include— The SPEAKER: Order. The amendment that we’re dealing with before the House is […]