House debates
Tuesday, 2 December 2014
- Higher Education (1 speech)
Today I rise to condemn this government's higher education changes that are currently before the Senate. What we will see is $100,000 degrees occurring across our higher education sector. Just to... - Electorate of Corangamite: National Broadband Network (1 speech)
I rise to celebrate the news that some 34,000 premises across Corangamite will receive fixed line NBN more cheaply and quickly under our 18-month rollout just announced. I was very pleased to... - Electorate of Indi: Disability (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker Scott, as you would know, one of the joys of this job is the people you meet and the organisations you come across. Today I would like to acknowledge one of these organisations... - McIntosh, Mr Wayne (1 speech)
I rise today to speak of the passing of Wayne McIntosh, who was a loyal supporter of the Hasluck division of the Liberal Party of Western Australia. Wayne played a key role in my election to this... - Higher Education (1 speech)
Today we have seen another desperate attempt by the Minister for Education to revive or somehow get his higher education bill through the House. Of course, what the minister needs to do is to... - Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation, Organ and Tissue Donation (1 speech)
On Tuesday, 2 December 2004—this day, 10 years ago—a little local Goulburn Valley schoolgirl, Zaidee Turner, died of a brain aneurysm. She was only seven. Her parents subsequently... - Higher Education (1 speech)
It is Christmas, a time for giving, but Australia does not want the present Minister Pyne is planning in higher education. It appears that those opposite may have picked up on the deep anger in... - Petition: People's Republic of China (1 speech)
I have the honour today of presenting a petition from more than 10,000 members of the Vietnamese community in Australia. The petition read as follows— To the Honourable The Speaker and... - Victoria State Election, Higher Education (1 speech)
On Saturday there was a state election in Victoria. I am sure that members opposite will be very interested in hearing some of the issues raised in that election which are relevant to them and... - Greste, Mr Peter (1 speech)
Right now it is the early hours of the morning in Egypt and Peter Greste has just spent his 49th birthday in a small, dark prison cell. Although he did at least receive a visit from his parents,... - University Funding (1 speech)
Universities across Western Australia are facing huge cuts in government funding over the next four years. Curtin University of Technology will lose $146 million; Edith Cowan University, $101... - Capital Grants Program (1 speech)
One of the important roles for a member of parliament can be helping schools to get access to capital grant funding. I am particularly proud of the role that I have played in a number of capital... - Higher Education (3 speeches)
In this final week that the parliament sits, there is a policy over in the Senate flapping and flailing and attempting to find a new breath of life. It should not do so. I want to commend the... - Electorate of Lindsay: Cancer Support and Research (1 speech)
Today I rise to speak on the amazing contribution that the people of Lindsay provide in cancer support and research. Recently, Adam Bensen, Manager of the Penrith Golf Club, worked with the... - Higher Education (1 speech)
We all know that the education minister's political career started when he was a student politician at the University of Adelaide, promising to fight for free higher education. I am told that it... - Hume Electorate: Reynolds Street Community Preschool (1 speech)
The opportunity to learn another language is a gift to young Australians, particularly those in regional towns and communities. It is great news that a preschool in my electorate—Reynolds... - Higher Education (1 speech)
This government's so-called higher-education reforms are a shambles. It is a flawed policy, and it should be thrown on the scrap heap. Deregulation of university fees means that many... - Porritt, Mr Alan (1 speech)
I rise to honour a friend of many of us in this chamber and of the media, someone whose job it has been for almost four decades to capture the important images that record our social and... - Higher Education (1 speech)
The Abbott government's unfair changes to university funding will result in university fees of $100,000 and will hit lower-income households the hardest. Cutting $5.8 billion from Australian... - China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (2 speeches)
Time is short, but the failures of those opposite are a very, very long list, and none more so than in the area of free trade, where in six years they achieved absolutely nothing. But under the...
