House debates
Thursday, 30 March 2006
- Juvenile Diabetes (1 speech)
I will do something very unusual today: I will start by congratulating the federal government and the Minister for Health and Ageing for contributing $4.2 million today to research into juvenile... - Taxation (2 speeches)
I rise to address once again in this place the issue of taxation zone rebates for remote and moderately remote Australia. It is over 10 years since anything was done to revisit this situation, to... - Mr Tony Blair (1 speech)
Although I was not in total agreement with the content of the speech given by Tony Blair in the House on Monday, it was nevertheless a very impressive speech indeed. The coverage of the speech in... - Mrs Lisbeth Ann Neill (1 speech)
I rise to share with the House some observations about a remarkable woman named Lisbeth Ann Montgomerie, or Lisbeth Ann Neill after she was married. Mrs Neill was born on 3 August 1924. As a... - House of Representatives Class of ’93; Tasmanian Election (1 speech)
Seventeen days ago was a milestone in the lives of the class of ’93. Twenty-seven of us entered this place on 13 March 1993. Sadly, only 15 of us are left. As members may or may not know,... - Fisher Electorate: Community Water Grants (1 speech)
I am pleased to have been able to present certificates to 10 organisations recently under the Australian government’s excellent Community Water Grants program. This program was designed to... - Herceptin (1 speech)
I rise today to give this chamber an update on the struggle of Maree Bissels. Maree is a very brave woman who is suffering from HER2-positive breast cancer. She came to this place in February... - C17 Aircraft (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the decision by the government to purchase four C17 aircraft and the announcement that, following the complete delivery of the anticipated aircraft, they will be based... - National Security (1 speech)
Our society is on a heightened alert when it comes to threats of terror, and it certainly impacts on our national security. In my own electorate last year there was a series of raids that led to... - Hinkler Electorate: Kyoto Protocol (2 speeches)
The release of Labor’s Climate Change Blueprint was hardly an earth-shattering event, but it did resonate in Gladstone, which stands to lose thousands of jobs if the opposition follows...
