House debates
Thursday, 21 February 2008
- Sturt Electorate: Glenside Hospital (5 speeches)
It gives me pleasure to rise in the Main Committee today to raise an issue of great importance in my electorate, which is the changes to the Glenside Hospital. The state government has decided to... - Sustainable Living Challenge (1 speech)
I rise to inform the House that students from Catherine McAuley in Westmead have been named ‘Sustainable Living Champions’ for their environmental work at their school. The... - Economy (9 speeches)
I have been noticing of late that the Labor government are attempting to rewrite history. We have a situation where we have an economy that is basically the best in Australian history, and what... - Climate Change (3 speeches)
There is no doubt that climate change is one of the biggest challenges we as a nation face. We are told by the experts that as the earth’s average temperature rises we will see some more... - Parliamentarians’ Entitlements (8 speeches)
I call the honourable member for Slipper. - Lunar New Year (1 speech)
Today I wish all Australians who have recently celebrated the lunar new year a happy and prosperous Year of the Rat. On 9 February I celebrated the Tet festival with the Vietnamese community at... - Climate Change (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the release of the interim report of the review by Professor Garnaut on climate change. My position, and the position of the opposition, is very clear: we welcome this review,... - Dental Health; Aged Care (1 speech)
Two issues have been of great concern to me over a long period of time. One is the shortage of aged-care beds and the other is the number of people on dental waiting lists. I thought I would... - Hervey Bay (1 speech)
It is proper in times of restraint that governments should look carefully at various sectors of the budget, but that should be done with equanimity not with biased selectivity. It is bad enough... - New South Wales Health (8 speeches)
Today I would like to refer to comments that were made only recently by the member for Macarthur, the shadow minister for sport and ‘Mayor of Mosman’.
