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ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – MOTIONS – Budget

To be honest, I’m a little bit surprised that there aren’t any government speakers on this motion to take note of the 2024-25 budget papers. It’s been left to the Greens leader—the member for Melbourne—and me to talk about this important topic. It is important because the budget is the economic framework which determines economic […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Wages

Here we go again—just another Labor motion taking credit for the sun coming up. It’s just nonsense—this whole motion and notion that somehow Labor is there for the low-paid worker. Ask someone like Bruce Billson. Honourable members interjecting— Mr McCORMACK: I hear the scoffing. Bruce Billson is a friend of the worker and small business. […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Geneva Conventions

Today, 12 August 2024, marks the 75th anniversary of the Geneva conventions of 1949. Following the tragedy, the atrocities of World War II, it was clear to the peace-loving international community that a global set of minimum standards had to be implemented to ensure such atrocities were never committed again. As the member for Bean […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE – Live Animal Exports

On 14 May, federal budget night, the Treasurer, the member for Rankin, went to that spot and adjusted his red tie, and in his budget he announced the biggest spend for agriculture would be that he would pay farmers to stop farming. He would pay farmers to stop farming. Wouldn’t you think that a government […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – ADJOURNMENT – Environment: Kosciuszko National Park

During the winter recess we will, as parliamentarians, go back into our electorates. It will be cold. Some of us may work, some of us may do other things but, all the while, we should think about and reflect upon what will be happening in Kosciuszko National Park, because what will be happening there, unfortunately, […]

address to parliament – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Energy Bill Relief

In question time today I asked the Prime Minister a very serious question about Capital Brewing Co, a local success story. He took me up on the regionality of that. Given my boundary changes—many of us in New South Wales are experiencing electorate boundary changes, and I’m no different—my electorate will now wrap right around […]

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