House debates
Thursday, 19 March 2009
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I move: That the Main Committee do now adjourn. - South Australian State Aquatic Centre (1 speech)
I have spoken previously about the poor quality of road infrastructure in Adelaide. I would like to speak today about the poor quality of sporting infrastructure in Adelaide. It is one of the... - Kingston Electorate: Fleurieu Peninsula (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on an issue of great importance, and also a key primary production sector in the electorate of Kingston, and that is the growing olives and olive oil. This is not often... - Mr Ronald Conway (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to a great Australian, Ronald Conway, who died this week in Melbourne and who wrote Australia’s best-selling work of serious social criticism after Donald... - Robertson Electorate: Central Coast Mariners (1 speech)
I rise with pleasure this morning to pay tribute to the Central Coast Mariners, a team I certainly strongly support on the Central Coast and a team that has become very much a community icon.... - Sturt Electorate: Jobs Forum (1 speech)
Today I wish to speak about the jobs forum that was held in my electorate on Friday, 6 March. We held it at St John’s Lutheran Church hall, at Dernancourt, in the north-east of my... - Kokoda Trail (1 speech)
Prime Minister John Curtin told this place in 1942: Today as in 1915 men are dying so that the nation may live. There will come a new dawn, bringing with it peace and freedom for the peoples of... - Gippsland Lakes (1 speech)
I commend the member for Blaxland for his courage and wish him well on his journey. I rise to highlight community concerns in relation to the environmental health of the Gippsland Lakes and... - Petition: Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
Today I rise to present a petition that has been accepted by the Petitions Committee. It gives me great pleasure to do so. The petition was orchestrated by the Uniting Church in Australia Synod... - Mitchell Electorate: Hills Community Aid and Information Service (1 speech)
I rise today to praise the ongoing work of the Hills Community Aid and Information Service, based within my electorate of Mitchell. The Hills Community Aid and Information Service is a... - Economy (1 speech)
Right around the world we face the worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression. What started as a problem with the subprime market in the US soon became a credit crisis infecting... - Civil Liberties (1 speech, 3 comments)
We Australians are an easygoing people, and that is both a blessing and a curse—a blessing for the relaxed manner this engenders and a curse for the apathy which results. It is that apathy... - Police Force (1 speech)
Many times in this House I have stood to acknowledge the pivotal role the police play in our communities and to offer my sincere support for the difficult and often dangerous jobs that they... - Electorate of Cowper: Television Reception (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the very important issue of television reception. It seems incredible that, in the 21st century, the TV reception in many areas in my electorate is just not up to... - Corangamite Electorate: Spring Creek Development (1 speech)
I rise to speak in this adjournment debate on a very pressing issue of concern to my electorate—particularly the community in which I live, the coastal town of Torquay. Late last year the... - Anzac Day (1 speech)
I am cognisant that this may well be the last sitting day, short of sitting again tomorrow, prior to the budget of 12 May, and therefore the last sitting day before we as a nation commemorate... - Nation Building and Jobs Plan (1 speech)
The Rudd government’s Nation Building and Jobs Plan will deliver the biggest investment in schools Australia has ever seen. Building the Education Revolution is about ensuring schools have... - Cowan Electorate: Yellagonga Regional Park (1 speech)
Yellagonga Regional Park is currently one of eight regional parks within the Perth metropolitan region. It is located about 20 kilometres north of Perth City and six kilometres from the Indian... - Braddon Electorate: Ten Days on the Island Project (1 speech)
On the weekend past I had the great privilege of being able to launch the beginning of Ten Days on the Island in Tasmania in a project called Trust, which essentially was a partnership between... - Employment (1 speech)
I rise with pleasure, following the member for Braddon, to speak today in this adjournment debate on a very serious issue affecting my electorate, my state of South Australia and our... - Small Business; Gold Coast (1 speech)
While I understand the concerns of the member for Mayo, a lot of what small business needs in this country is encouragement. I want to talk about the encouragement which the government is putting... - Petition: Redevelopment of Commonwealth Land; Ryan Electorate: Traffic (3 speeches)
I am pleased to speak in the House of Representatives as the member for Ryan and to raise a couple of important local issues from the Ryan electorate, because they are of deep concern to the... - Shortland Electorate: Telecommunications (1 speech)
I rise in the House to raise the issue of Mr and Mrs Hiles, constituents of mine who have become extremely frustrated by a telecommunications issue that has been running since August 2007; my... - Christmas Island Pipistrelle (1 speech)
I want to talk about the imminent extinction of a critically endangered animal species—that is, the Christmas Island pipistrelle, which is one of Australia’s smallest bats. If we... - North East Tasmanian Innovation and Investment Fund (1 speech)
Last year when the Tonganah sawmill in Scottsdale in north-east Tasmania closed down, this government stood ready to respond—not in a way which would simply brush issues such as... - Aged Care (1 speech)
Members will be aware that I am a committed campaigner for the elderly in my electorate of Swan. I spend plenty of time in my electorate talking to older people and the organisations that... - Australian Electoral Commission (1 speech)
Yesterday at a public hearing the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters heard dramatic information from the refreshing new head of the Australian Electoral Commission, Mr Killesteyn. His... - Transport (1 speech)
Today I rise to speak on the need for an integrated transport system around this country. At the moment, and this is the way it has stood for such a long period of time, we have various forms of... - Alcopops (1 speech)
It is important for every member of parliament to put on the public record their position regarding our responsibility to give a very strong message to all communities across this country that we... - Economy; Dunkley Electorate: Transport (1 speech)
In my last opportunity before the May budget, I urge the Rudd government, in its search for savings, not to squib out of its responsibility to provide a pension increase for Australia’s... - Alcopops (7 speeches)
by leave—In rising to speak again in this debate I would first like to compliment the member for Newcastle on her fine contribution to the debate, raising the issue of alcopops and the...
