House debates
Monday, 17 June 2013
- Avenue of Honour, Lake Tinaroo (1 speech)
In the early hours of 21 June 2010 a US Black Hawk helicopter was flying low and fast to avoid enemy detection in the forbidding mountains of Kandahar Province in Afghanistan. In the pitch-black... - Griffith Electorate: Playing Fields (1 speech)
I recently advised the parliament of the Queensland Liberal National Party government's plan to privatise school playing fields at both Balmoral State High School and Whites Hill College and to... - Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
There are only two sitting weeks to go before the 14 September election. All Australians are sick to death of the division and chaos of this federal Labor government. The ongoing soap opera... - Electorate of Holt: Fountain Gate Headspace Campaign (1 speech)
Last Friday I caught up with some of Casey's youth as part of our campaign for a headspace centre at the Fountain Gate shopping centre precinct in my electorate of Holt. The Australian... - Liberal-National Party Coalition (1 speech)
This federal election is about the future, a future in which we as Liberals will carry forward our defining principles: the right of all Australians to be free to determine how they live their... - MELLS, Mr Patrick, OAM (1 speech)
It is wonderful to follow Pitt the Younger! I always love to follow my friend Wyatt. I would like to talk to the House about the Gawler Show season launch which happened last Wednesday. Gawler is... - Boothby Electorate: Environment (1 speech)
I rise to speak on some local environmental initiatives I am currently fighting for. I am lucky that the electorate of Boothby, which I represent, has both a beautiful coastline and an expansive... - Banks Electorate: Roller Derby Championship (1 speech)
On Saturday 15 June, I attended the Hurstville Stadium for the Roller Derby Championship. The first game was between the Central Coast Roller Girls, who defeated the Inner West Roller Derby... - Herbert Electorate: Townsville Bridges (1 speech)
I have driven the Bruce Highway a number of times since moving to Townsville in 1994. In my days as an auctioneer and as a finance company representative I would always do between 60,000 and... - Robertson Electorate: Five Lands Awakening Ceremony (1 speech)
I rise with considerable delight, having found out from the member for Banks here in the House this evening about the Central Coast roller derby team. He gave a most eloquent explanation of how... - Farm Finance Package (1 speech)
I rise tonight to ask the Treasurer and ask the minister for agriculture what is going on with the Farm Finance package. Farmers across Australia need some certainty. They need to know what is... - Renewable Energy (1 speech)
We all know that the Leader of the Opposition's history of misleading statements about global warming and climate change does not have a significant component of scientific evidence. Those... - Cost of Living (1 speech)
Last week the Victorian Liberal government wrote to all public housing tenants, including all of the people in Housing Commission accommodation in my electorate in East St Kilda and South... - GrainCorp (1 speech)
More than 300 delegates at the New South Wales Nationals conference on Saturday at Bathurst outrightly said no to the foreign takeover of GrainCorp by American corporation Archer Daniels Midland...
