House debates
Monday, 14 August 2006
- Telstra (1 speech)
I would like to express my deep concern today about the announcement last week that Telstra will be removing several thousand phone boxes from use within our communities. During the recent debate... - La Trobe Electorate: Beaconsfield Station (1 speech)
Earlier this month a constituent alerted me to the state of the car park at Beaconsfield train station. The station is in Pakenham, in the south of my electorate, and is run by Connex, a private... - Ms Judy Tatow (1 speech)
I want to take this opportunity to congratulate Judy Tatow, or Auntie Judy as she is known to many in Rockhampton, on being named Female Elder of the Year as part of the 2006 NAIDOC celebrations.... - Disability Services (1 speech)
On the Saturday before parliament resumed its sitting I spent a couple of hours at Innaloo shopping centre in my electorate. I spoke to a constituent, whose name I will not use because I have not... - Advocates for Survivors of Childhood Abuse (1 speech)
Yesterday I was very pleased to attend the opening of the new Parramatta office of the Advocates for Survivors of Childhood Abuse, or ASCA. The location of the office near Parramatta, the... - Healthy School Communities Program (1 speech)
In my electorate of Macquarie, 27 schools have recently benefited from grants of up to $1,500 under the Australian government’s Healthy School Communities Program. They have each developed... - Canberra Cabs (1 speech)
I wish to share an experience that I and many others have had with Canberra Cabs here in the ACT. It is now on a voice activated service and the conversation with the computer goes like this:... - Ms Shirin Ebaldi (1 speech)
I rise to share my grave concern for Iranian lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Ms Shirin Ebadi. It has been widely reported in the press that the Iranian government is clamping down on... - Interest Rates (3 speeches)
It is now official. The Reserve Bank of Australia’s statistics show that mortgage interest payments are now higher under John Howard’s coalition government than they ever were under... - View of Geelong (1 speech)
I am pleased to mark the occasion when Eugene von Guerard’s famous View of Geelong painting, having been returned to its home in Geelong, will be unveiled at the Geelong Art Gallery tonight... - Lowe Electorate: Aircraft Noise (2 speeches)
I bring to the attention of the House that Sydney airport continues to operate very well as a shopping centre and a car park and that we are getting far too much noise in the electorate of Lowe...
