House debates
Tuesday, 1 March 2016
- Animal Welfare (1 speech)
Today World Animal Protection released a report calling for national leadership in animal welfare. It highlights the repeated exposes of animal cruelty involved with live baiting in greyhound... - North Coast Combined High School Girls Cricket Team, Pacific Highway (1 speech)
I would like to acknowledge the North Coast Combined High School girls team that recently won the New South Wales state cricket championships. The girls went through the competition undefeated,... - Indi Electorate: Bright (1 speech)
Today I would like to talk about the superbly named town of Bright. I would like to acknowledge the chamber of commerce and thank them for their wonderful hospitality on Wednesday, 17 February. I... - Petrie Electorate: Bald Hills Memorial Hall (1 speech)
The Bald Hills Memorial Hall was erected almost 100 years ago, back in 1920, in memory of the soldiers from around Bald Hills who served in World War I. The hall was a place of friendships and... - Rural and Regional Health Services (1 speech)
Many choices by this government are hurting regional areas. I often say that National Party choices hurt. In health, some of these choices and some of these cruel cuts have been very harsh. Let... - HMAS Tobruk (II) (1 speech)
The HMAS Tobruk (II) served our nation proudly for 35 years. Her motto was: faithful and strong. It would be indeed disrespectful, and shameful perhaps, to see this part of our heritage and our... - Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (1 speech)
The evidence that Cardinal Pell has been giving to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has stirred the emotions of hundreds of thousands of Australians across... - Airport Noise (1 speech)
I appreciate the shadow minister's call to my call yesterday. If you land in Perth you land in my electorate of Swan. There is one particular flight in my electorate that causes great angst to... - Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (1 speech)
You could not pick up The Age this morning and not be absolutely moved by the most extraordinary act of courage I have ever seen. These brave, beautiful men from Ballarat are in Rome currently to... - Stronger Communities Program (1 speech)
I wish to update the House on the success of the Stronger Communities Program and the positive difference it is making in my electorate of Tangney. The Strong Communities Program is designed to... - Rare Cancers (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on behalf of one of my constituents, Gerry Hodges, whom I spoke with yesterday from Daw House Hospice. Gerry has been diagnosed with a rare cancer in his stomach. It has... - Liquor Licensing (1 speech)
In Townsville we are looking for jobs and we need every one of them. That is why it was so disappointing that the Queensland Labor government, with the crossbenches, voted to support the lockout... - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1 speech)
Australians should be enormously proud of the achievements of our science community and its role in detecting gravitational waves for the first time in human history. I acknowledge the work of... - Veterans (1 speech)
Since 1999 we have lost 46 Australian servicemen on active duty in foreign fields. In the same period we have lost 239 returned servicemen who have taken their own lives on home soil. In the last... - Sport (1 speech)
It is my sad duty, on behalf of the member for Dunkley and the member for Fowler, to report the cricket score from the match between the Press Gallery and politicians on Sunday. Mr Ewen Jones... - Queensland: Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1 speech)
In the great state of Queensland there really is palpable concern about the lockout laws that are the sum total of the Queensland government's response to alcohol-fuelled violence—nothing... - Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (1 speech)
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has been proceeding with its important work since 2013. The Australian people are rightly horrified by what it has... - Durack Electorate: Boundary Redistribution (1 speech)
I am pleased to rise in the House today to welcome the new towns which have been added to Durack following the boundary redistribution in Western Australia. The shires of Bruce Rock, Westonia,... - Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (1 speech)
Right now, the media is dominated by the royal commission into child sexual abuse. The horrific abuse of children has shocked and saddened all of us. The cruelty, negligence and indifference of... - Flynn Electorate: Liquefied Natural Gas (2 speeches)
This weekend will see the opening of yet another gas plant on Curtis Island in Gladstone in the seat of Flynn. The project is expected to supply LNG for the next 20 years. It has cost something...
