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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 […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – ADJOURNMENT – Hyne Timber

In the black summer of 2019-20, the bushfires destroyed 40 per cent of the Hyne Timber mill pine feedstock. Now, for many companies, they might just pack up and leave, but not Hyne. This company was established in 1882. It’s one of Australia’s largest softwood manufacturing companies. It has a commitment to the Tumbarumba region […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Medicare

The distribution priority areas might be okay in the member for Lalor’s electorate. Her electorate is just 17 kilometres north of Melbourne’s central business district. But it’s not there that the doctors are most needed. It’s out in regional and particularly remote Australia where they are now suffering because of the distribution changes brought about […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE – International Relations

There could be no more important subject to be discussing in today’s matter of public importance debate than the importance of Australia’s relationships with our key allies. It’s appropriate. It’s timely. In politics, as in life, sincerity is everything. Say what you mean and mean what you say; don’t say it if you don’t mean […]

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