Have Your Say

address to parliament – STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS – Mental Health

I want to thank a Labor minister and also to make a request. I do want to thank the Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention and Assistant Minister for Rural and Regional Health, Emma McBride, for intervening when the mental health practitioner at Gundagai was going to be lost. I made an urgent […]

address to parliament – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Housing

I say to the member for Gilmore: you still had 25 seconds; you could have bagged the Greens a little bit more. But I digress. The social and housing situation, in terms of affordability and availability, is a major issue, but the Greens are using what is essentially and primarily a state issue to garner […]

address to parliament – MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE – Inflation

I wouldn’t mind it so much that the member for Perth mentioned—424 days, was it?—costing policies. The Australian public would just love 424 days of not costly policies, because that’s what Labor has produced. Government members interjecting— Mr McCORMACK: That’s a good one, isn’t it! I thought of it just then as I looked at […]

address to parliament – BILLS – National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Bill 2023, National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023 – Second Reading

I give this address on behalf of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. This package of legislation—the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry Bill 2023 and the National Occupational Respiratory Disease Registry (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023—delivers on a recommendation of the National Dust Disease Taskforce, established by the former coalition government in 2019, to create a […]

address to parliament – CONDOLENCES – Crean, Hon. Simon Findlay

Simon Crean—a friend, never a foe. He was, as the minister, the member for Gorton, has just described, a role model. I want to put on record how he was a role model to me. I came to this place in 2010, a backbencher—not like Simon, who was a frontbencher from day 1. I was […]

address to parliament – CONSTITUENCY STATEMENTS – Pharmacies

Today is exactly one month to D-Day for pharmacies, the day, 1 September, when 60-day dispensing comes into effect. This is going to sound the death knell, chemists claim, of many of our rural, regional and, perhaps most disappointingly, remote pharmacies. A constituent of mine is Luke van der Rijt. He is a good man. […]

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