House debates
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
- Canning Electorate: Mediterranean Fruit Fly (1 speech)
I rise this evening to discuss an issue in my electorate which is also faced right across Australia—the Mediterranean fruit fly, or medfly. If left unchecked this harmful pest has the... - Dunn, Harry, Hunter Electorate: Local Government Elections (1 speech)
The town of Singleton in my electorate is in mourning. Very tragically, on Monday afternoon a horror crash occurred involving a prime mover and a school bus. As a consequence, one nine-year-old... - Dental Health (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the latest failure of this Labor government: its disastrous plans for a new dental health scheme at some stage in the future. This announcement is essentially about... - Fowler Electorate: Community Health Day (1 speech)
On Friday, 31 August I held a bilingual Community Health Day at Freedom Plaza in Cabramatta. The event brought the community together to raise awareness of various health issues—in... - Government Spending (1 speech)
What a sham this government is! What a sham the Treasurer is! After the litany of broken promises—backflips, backflips on backflips, outright stuff-ups, waste and now billions upon billions... - Obesity (1 speech)
A recent report from the Charles Perkins Centre, the University of Sydney's new research hub for the study of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, warns that more than 60 per cent of... - Small Business (1 speech)
Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to invoke a point of order here: the member for Reid was looking at me all the way through that speech! I rise to speak on behalf of the people of Townsville... - Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
It has been another bleak fortnight for Australia's live export trade and one that has again brought international focus on Australia for our involvement in it. In a near disaster reminiscent of... - Organ Donation (1 speech)
I rise tonight to express my great concern about Australia's appallingly low rate of organ donations and the failure of the federal government's $151 million reform package, which was designed to... - Queensland Government (1 speech)
Tonight over 14,000 Queenslanders are experiencing the cold, hard reality of living without a job. Yesterday the Queensland LNP state government handed down its first budget and announced the... - New South Wales Government (1 speech)
It went under the radar because of the announcement of $1.7 billion of cuts in education, but yesterday the New South Wales government also released their strategic regional land use policy,... - Elizabeth Town: Motor Vehicle Accident (1 speech)
Colleagues, it is my unfortunate duty to report to the House that unfortunately today, in an area near Elizabeth Town, which is between my electorate of Braddon and into Lyons and on the way to...
