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ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint Committee – Report

On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, I present the committee’s report ‘Are we there yet?’:from recovery to resilience—opportunities and challenges for Australia’s tourism sector, the final report for the inquiry into Australia’s tourism and international education sectors. Report made a parliamentary paper in accordance with standing order 39(e). […]

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- 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 – 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 […]

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