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ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – BILLS – Veterans’ Entitlements, Treatment and Support (Simplification and Harmonisation) Bill 2024 – Second Reading

Much of what the member for Moreton just spoke about I agree with, but I will clinically go through the legislation and some of the points he raised in relation to the Veterans’ Entitlements, Treatment and Support (Simplification and Harmonisation) Bill 2024. This is, as the member for Moreton correctly pointed out, important legislation, and […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS – Agriculture Industry

The unrealised capital gains issue—call it a Labor threat—still hangs like the sword of Damocles over Australian farmers. Whilst abroad last week I was interested to read an editorial in the Daily Mail for 1 November which read: Many will have no option but to sell up to pay the bill, destroying businesses held by […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Pesticides

My late father, Lance, left school after his primary school years and went straight to the farm. I can remember, when I came along and Dad took me up to the paddock, we used to pour chemicals and liquids into water in the boom sprayer and then make sure we did everything we could to […]

ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT – – BILLS – Aged Care Bill 2024 – Second Reading

Last sitting week, the Albanese Labor government introduced its new Aged Care Bill 2024 to the parliament. We, as the coalition opposition, think that the bill ought to go to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee for inquiry. As you can see, there are a lot of pages to it. There is a lot of […]

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 […]

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