House debates
Monday, 19 June 2017
- Kangaroo Island Food, Wine and Tourism Awards (1 speech)
Last Friday evening in Kangaroo Island—a beautiful and very innovative part of my community—there was hosted the second annual Kangaroo Island Food, Wine and Tourism Awards. It was... - Flynn Electorate (1 speech)
Last weekend I visited north and south Burnett in the south of my electorate. I visited Gayndah, which is approximately 400 kilometres south-west of Gladstone. Gayndah is the oldest town in... - Macquarie Electorate: Rural Fire Service (1 speech)
Anyone in the chamber who lives in a bushfire area knows that it is that time of year: the Rural Fire Service AGM season. There are more than 40 individual brigades in the Blue Mountains and the... - Barker Electorate: Queens Birthday Honours (1 speech)
Every minute of every day in our community there are people volunteering their time to strengthen our community. In my electorate of Barker, we are blessed to have a large and varied army of... - Workplace Relations (1 speech)
There is no social or economic argument for cutting penalty rates and for taking money out of the pockets of workers who tend to be part time and low paid, workers who are more often young and... - Durack Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the visits that I had here in parliament last week from school students from Geraldton Grammar School, Port Hedland School of the Air, Carnarvon School of the Air and the... - Herbert Electorate: Refugee Week (1 speech)
I rise in this place to celebrate Refugee Week, which began on Sunday, 18 June and will finish on Saturday, 24 June. The theme this year is 'With courage let us all combine'. The United Nations... - Fadden Electorate: Seniors (1 speech)
It is that wonderful time of the year when the nation's largest seniors forum run by a member of the House or the Senate is once again on in July. The Northern Gold Coast Seniors Expo is a forum... - Schools (1 speech)
There are a lot of facts around school funding that are flying around at the moment. Today, I want to use the opportunity of my 90-second statement to actually deliver the facts. The fact: under... - Gilmore Electorate: City of Shoalhaven Eisteddfod (1 speech)
Last Saturday was the 33rd annual City of Shoalhaven Eisteddfod Stars of the Eisteddfod performance. The opening act by the dance troupe from Batemans Bay Public School was so good that I thought... - Cox, Mrs Jo (1 speech)
Just over a year ago, Jo Cox, the UK Labor MP, was cruelly, brutally and senselessly murdered in the course of going about her business in her constituency, doing the job that all of us here do.... - Telecommunications (1 speech)
I rise to draw attention to today's Productivity Commission report into the future of Australia's telecommunications universal service obligation. In the short time I have here, I wish to... - Singh, Private Sarn 'Saran' (1 speech)
It was a great pleasure to join with the Governor of South Australia, many other dignitaries and the Sikh community on Friday to recognise the centenary of the death of Private Saran Singh.... - Bonner Electorate: Moreton Bay College (1 speech)
Today I would like to speak about my recent visit to Moreton Bay College in my electorate. I, along with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Leader, the Honourable Julie Bishop, met the... - Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
In 10 days time, Queensland's only state-wide domestic violence legal helpline will be forced to cut its services. Half of the vulnerable women who receive advice from this service live in rural,... - School Chaplains (1 speech)
It is with great pleasure that I rise today to speak about the fantastic work that our chaplains do in our local schools. On a day when debate is raging about what is best for our schooling... - Port Adelaide Electorate: Vietnamese Community (1 speech)
I rise today to pay tribute again to the work of the South Australian chapter of the Vietnamese Community Association, which works particularly in the western and northern suburbs of Adelaide; to... - Fisher Electorate: School Chaplains (1 speech)
Scripture Union Queensland is one of the largest providers of school-based chaplains in Australia. They focus on bringing hope to a young generation by enabling them, with skills and strategies,... - Grayndler Electorate: WestConnex (1 speech)
I want to take the opportunity to raise the impacts of the WestConnex project on St Peters, a community in my electorate. The fact is that St Peters has suffered substantially not just from the... - Robertson Electorate: Science and Engineering Challenge (1 speech)
Over the next two days, 500 students from 16 high schools across the Central Coast will take part in the annual Science and Engineering Challenge in East Gosford. The challenge started in my... - Tibet (2 speeches)
Australia grants unrestricted access to citizens of the People's Republic of China to all parts of Australia, and the same level of access and freedom to travel to Tibet is not afforded to...
