ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – BILLS – Universities Accord (National Student Ombudsman) Bill 2024;Second Reading – 09 Oct 2024
At the outset, I acknowledge the minister in the chamber. I also pay tribute to the member for Wentworth for her comments about antisemitism in our tertiary institutions. I thank her for turning up too. I know it’s important to her. I know it’s very much part and parcel of her electorate. To the solidarity […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE – Immigration
Member for Canberra, nobody denies that there have been success stories of people who have come to this nation, people who have been granted humanitarian visas, people who have contributed mightily to our nation. But to say that we are politicising and weaponising this and that there’s no gutter into which we won’t stoop is […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT- Customs Tariff Amendment (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Expansion) Bill
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (18:13): I echo the fine words by the member for Sturt, who, as he explained, is very much across these issues and the importance generally of trade. I’m glad that we also have in the chamber, as I rise to speak on the Customs Tariff Amendment (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT- BILLS – Treasury Laws Amendment (Reserve Bank Reforms) Bill 202
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (18:13): I acknowledge the presence of the Greens leader, the member for Melbourne, in the room. I recognise that he’s a decent person—although, philosophically, we are absolutely poles apart—but I do worry about the member for Melbourne and the Greens getting any control or say on the Treasury benches after the next […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT- Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Bill 2023, Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety (Transitional Provisions)
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (11:23): At the outset, I will acknowledge the member for Solomon’s service to our nation. I thank him for most of the content of his speech. He, like me, wants our nation to be the most secure it can be. He, like me, wants the very best in capability and the very […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Small Business
There were 249,179 small businesses across regional Australia as at 30 June 2023. That is a big number—a quarter of a million small businesses—and that’s just in New South Wales. We know that right across the country small business absolutely dominates the economic landscape, because it is in small businesses where they employ most of […]
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS – Labor Government: Agriculture Industry
I refer to the Canberra Times article that at the time said: ‘July 1, 1985, is likely to be remembered as the day when Australia’s rural community re-emerged as a crucial political force.’ The more things change, the more they stay the same. Indeed, the article also referred to how, speaking over noisy interjections, Mr […]
TRANSCRIPT: INTERVIEW WITH ELLIS GELIOS ON FLOW FM RADIO, 26 AUGUST 2024
Subjects: Canola crops, Sarah Carter, Hume League finals
TRANSCRIPT: INTERVIEW WITH ELLIS GELIOS ON FLOW FM RADIO, 22 AUGUST 2024
Subjects: Visa vetting for Gaza refugees, regional air transport industry, National Youth Summit in Canberra
ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – STATEMENTS ON SIGNIFICANT MATTERS – Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence
That was a fine contribution from the member for Cowper. As we know, he is the shadow assistant minister for the prevention of family violence and he is working to end the scourge of gender based violence. Having been a police officer, he would have seen far too many sad examples of domestic violence in […]