House debates
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
- Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (1 speech)
This week the Abbott government moves Australia into refined company indeed as it becomes only the third nation, after Tanzania and Oman, to ask the World Heritage Committee to delist a World... - Scientific Research (1 speech)
In the coalition we have a very clear understanding of the best way to achieve economic progress—that is, that the free market is the best driver of progress, provided that that market has... - Women in Science and Research (1 speech)
Women are not a minority. But an observer from another planet looking at the number of women working in Australia's universities and research institutions could be forgiven for thinking that they... - Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
There has been an improvement in the returns to beef producers in the south-west of Western Australia in recent months. It has taken an extraordinarily long time for the industry to recover from... - World Heritage Areas (1 speech)
The government currently has an application before the World Heritage Committee with respect to the Tasmanian wilderness area. It is an action taken by this government that is without need,... - Indigenous Eye Health (1 speech)
I speak tonight on the subject of Indigenous eye health. Compared with non-Indigenous Australians, Indigenous adults have six times the rate of blindness and three times as much low vision....
