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 – Treasury Laws Amendment (Fairer for Families and Farmers and Other Measures) Bill 2024 – Second
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (12:25): As an amendment to the motion for the second reading, I move: That ‘now’ be omitted with a view to substituting the word ‘not’. Labor, as always, is late to the party on this. We’re on the last day of the scheduled sittings for 2024, and Labor comes into this place, […]
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 – BILLS – Treasury Laws Amendment (2024 Tax and Other Measures No. 1) Bill 2024 – Second Reading
Whilst the Albanese Labor government will tell you that this bill, the Treasury Laws Amendment (2024 Tax and Other Measures No. 1) Bill 2024, will help reduce red tape, there are many of us who suspect or know otherwise. We cannot forget the hypocrisy that Labor has shown when it comes to all things tax. […]
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 – BILLS – Universities Accord (National Student Ombudsman) Bill 2024;Second Reading – 09 Oct 2024
At the outset, I acknowledge the minister in the chamber. I also pay tribute to the member for Wentworth for her comments about antisemitism in our tertiary institutions. I thank her for turning up too. I know it’s important to her. I know it’s very much part and parcel of her electorate. To the solidarity […]
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- Customs Tariff Amendment (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Expansion) Bill
Mr McCORMACK (Riverina) (18:13): I echo the fine words by the member for Sturt, who, as he explained, is very much across these issues and the importance generally of trade. I’m glad that we also have in the chamber, as I rise to speak on the Customs Tariff Amendment (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific […]