Treasury Laws Amendment (Financial Reporting System Reform) Bill 2026
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (10:57): To quote Oscar Wilde, the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. Yes, I am being facetious; it’s not normally in my nature to do that. I could also quote the late Bert Lance, a Georgian banker and confidant of the 39th President of the United States of […]
STATEMENTS ON SIGNIFICANT MATTERS – Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (17:29): Well said, Member for Sturt. It’s 2026, and there should be no more silence about domestic and family violence. There should be no more domestic and family violence. It is sad that we are devoting time, yet again, to this scourge—and it is a scourge. It’s a national scourge. It’s a scourge […]
MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE – Cost of Living
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (16:23): This matter of public importance is the decline of Australia’s living standards during the government’s cost-of-living crisis, moved by the member for Goldstein, the shadow Treasurer. It is a matter of public importance and not, essentially, a matter of political importance. There’s a big difference, because the public are hurting. They are […]
STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS – Cost of Living
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (13:51): Under Labor, living standards have not only gone backwards; they are in such a poor and parlous state at the moment that ordinary, everyday Australians are wondering when they’re going to make ends meet. We heard yesterday in question time the Prime Minister and particularly the Treasurer going on about the fact […]
Coal Mining Industry (Long Service Leave) Legislation Amendment Bill 2025
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (12:52): I’m interested to see the member for Fenner and the minister at the table. The member for Fenner has written a number of publications in recent years, one of which is entitled The Economics of Just About Everything:the hidden reasons for our curious choices and surprising successes. Apart from the 1,152 speeches he’s […]
MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE – Fuel Security
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (15:57): Today’s matter of public importance debate is about the government’s failure on fuel prices and fuel distribution, moved by the member for Wannon, the Manager of Opposition Business. He comes from a regional electorate and he would, as I have and as many other regional members should, talk to his farmers, talk […]
PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Defence Procurement: Submarines
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (18:39): I find myself in furious agreement with the member for Spence, and, when I finish my remarks, the member for Spence—if he’s still here—and the member for Adelaide should absolutely applaud. I’ll tell you who else should be applauding, and that’s Tom Koutsantonis, the Treasurer of South Australia, because, but for the […]
Treasury Laws Amendment (Genetic Testing Protections in Life Insurance and Other Measures) Bill 2025
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (12:48): The Treasury Laws Amendment (Genetic Testing Protections in Life Insurance and Other Measures) Bill 2025 is an important piece of legislation. It truly is. What I do question is why it has taken this long to be brought before the House. The coalition, as is often the case, had to drag Labor […]
PRESS CONFERENCE, DOMUS AUSTRALIA, ROME, 26 APRIL 2025.
E&OE STARTS: 2:15 PM (IN ROME) ENDS: 2:45 PM (IN ROME) DON FARRELL: Thank you very much and thank you to everyone who has come here today to Domus House in Rome. I am very pleased to be here with the former Deputy Prime Minister, Michael McCormack, and for both of us I can say […]
TRANSCRIPT: KHANCOBAN LONG LUNCH
START: 1:31pm MICHAEL McCORMACK: Thank you very much, Cam (Harmer), and I understand you’re the unofficial Mayor of Khancoban. It was really nice to hear Cam speak so respectfully and highly of Snowy Valleys Council, because not everybody always speaks highly and appropriately about their councils. And he acknowledged the work that Julia Ham, Mayor, […]