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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 […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – CONSTITUENCY STATEMENTS – Riverina Electorate

As I drove to work in Canberra some months ago, I noticed, at the intersection at Manuka Circuit, which intersects with Canberra Avenue, going into Captain Cook Crescent—it’s a wonder they haven’t changed the name of Captain Cook Cresent; they probably will, knowing that we’re in Canberra—there was a crash. The windscreen was all over […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS – Melbourne Cup

Starters are locked away for the 2024 Melbourne Cup of politics! Election promises—scratched! The Greens are fractious in the stalls and appear unwilling to race! The field is now settled. The gates crash back, and they’re off! The Greens head sharp left and burst through the fence and right off the course! The teals, still […]

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