House debates
Monday, 21 February 2011
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Order! It being 9.30 pm, I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn. - Disaster Relief (1 speech)
The government’s welfare payments for flood and cyclone victims is beginning to look like the latest multimillion-dollar administrative bungle of the Rudd-Gillard government. Early in the... - Shortland Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
When members leave this place and return to their electorate it is an opportunity to see how the programs and legislation that have passed through this parliament work and also to connect with... - Durack Electorate: Regional Tertiary Education (1 speech)
I rise this evening to address the issue of tertiary education for country students, a very topical situation I may add given that this government should hang its head in shame for the drastic... - Blair Electorate: Queensland Floods (1 speech)
Usually the new year brings with it a feeling of refreshment, a new beginning, the chance to undo, redo or redress. Resolutions abound, often about behaviour and choices aimed at improving our... - Aston Electorate: Youth Mental Health Services (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the urgent need for better youth mental health services in my electorate of Aston in outer eastern Melbourne. I raise this in the parliament because I believe it is one of... - National Service Day (1 speech)
On Sunday, 30 January, I attended the annual memorial service held by the Para Districts Sub Branch of the National Servicemen’s Association of Australia. It was one of many services held... - National Service Day; Indigenous Housing (1 speech)
The third Closing the Gap report was released by the Prime Minister last week. Looking through it for the outcomes that we, of course, expect to see in these reports but getting little more than... - National Service Day; Kingston Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the important investments in health care that this government has made in my electorate of Kingston. Ensuring health care is affordable and accessible to people when they... - Bruce Highway (1 speech)
There is a very important issue confronting the Sunshine Coast, and that is the need to upgrade the Bruce Highway from Caboolture to the Sunshine Coast to six lanes. The Howard government,... - Harvest Moon (1 speech)
What do you get when you have got a long growing season, rich volcanic soils, a mild maritime climate without the extremes of heat in summer and cold in winter, pristine waters and attention to... - Bowel Cancer (1 speech)
Over the last year or so, one of the most talked about issues in my electorate, and one that I have the most correspondence about, is the matter of bowel cancer screening. Bowel cancer is... - Africa (2 speeches)
The Third World has shrunk. For most of the past century, the development challenge has been how to get the rest of the world up to the living standard of the top one billion. Now that challenge...
