ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – BILLS – SOCIAL SECURITY (ADMINISTRATION) AMENDMENT (INCOME MANAGEMENT REFORM) BILL 2023 – SECOND READING
Late last year, with a cross-party delegation, I visited Kenya in Africa, looking at the famine there. Four failed rainy seasons have caused such heartache, such hardship. Indeed, it has resulted in the worst drought in 40 years, and 942,000 children under the age of five are acutely malnourished. The delegation, which included Liberal members—Labor […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – LABOR GOVERNMENT
I disagree with the motion and I disagree with the principles behind it. I’m glad the member for Kennedy is in the chamber, because he, like me, knows full well the benefit of regional spending, of funding for country people. He, like me, wants to see an aquatic centre for Mornington Shire. The mayor there, […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS – WYANGLA DAM
Wyangala Dam in the state’s Central West is a piece of infrastructure that needs to be enhanced. When in government, the coalition federal government put in place $650 million to increase the dam wall by 10 metres, to 95 metres, which would have added 650 gigalitres to that dam—that is, more than what the Sydney […]
ADDRESS TO PALRIAMENT – MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE – ALBANESE GOVERNMENT
In AHistory of Delusions, author Victoria Shepherd takes readers back hundreds of years to investigate extraordinary and well documented cases of delusion. But she doesn’t need to look back over hundreds of years of history; she only needs to look at those opposite, because to think that the past 10 months has been anything but […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – BILLS – SAFEGUARD MECHANISM (CREDITING) AMENDMENT BILL 2022 – SECOND READING
Australia is a trading nation. It is a nation that gets things done, a nation that, being an island continent, relies very much on exporting agricultural goods and exporting resources. These exports have made this country what it is today: great. It’s absolutely the best nation on earth. What we don’t want to do is […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – GRIEVANCE DEBATE – DEFENCE
Last Friday at Jerilderie I had the enormous privilege and honour to deliver the thirteenth Monash oration. This speech is in honour of General Sir John Monash, 1865 to 1931. He was a soldier, a statesman and an engineer. He played a great part in the shaping of our nation, and he is remembered at […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – NEW SOUTH WALES: ROADS
We have set the scene early. It’s state election day this Saturday. Pre-polls opened on Saturday, just gone, and already Labor is out bashing the Perrottet-Toole government, saying they don’t deserve to be re-elected, talking up Chris Minns, talking up Labor in the state. The last thing Australia needs is wall-to-wall red, wall-to-wall socialism! The […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – CONSTITUENCY STATEMENTS – GOLDER, MRS DORIS EILEEN, OAM
I rise to pay tribute to the late, great Doris Eileen Golder OAM, who passed away at Lockhart on 4 February at the grand old age of 97—a life well lived. She was raised on a farm at nearby Boree Creek, and she was known far and wide as an exceptional wool artist, which is […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE – ENRGY
There’s one person walking around this parliament at the moment who is very, very happy, and that is the Greens leader. Even though the Prime Minister is off watching the cricket in India, the Greens leader has done a dodgy deal with Labor to get through the National Reconstruction Fund. Why is he happy? It’s […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – BILLS – MIGRATION AMENDMENT
The coalition will not be supporting the Migration Amendment (Australia’s Engagement in the Pacific and Other Measures) Bill 2023 and the Migration (Visa Pre-application Process) Charge Bill 2023. I concur with the amendment that the shadow minister for immigration, the member for Wannon, has put forward and totally support his views on this important matter. […]