House debates
Wednesday, 16 August 2017
- Marriage (1 speech)
We have been hearing all week about the marriage postal survey and how the government is very confident, as the Prime Minister himself vowed, that this would be a very respectful debate and that... - Digeorge Syndrome (1 speech)
The unconditional love of a mother and grandmother came to my office in Chisholm in recent weeks. A very worried Oakleigh grandmother, Charlotte McLatchie, needed our urgent assistance and... - Infrastructure (1 speech)
The triangle of power will be visited by Mr Anthony Albanese, who will follow on from Barnaby Joyce's visit up into the area and the visit by the Premier of Queensland as well. The triangle of... - Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
David Marr can be pretty hard when he writes. It comes out of his life experiences, and I accept that. I think I know him reasonably well. But there was one line in his article of 9 August I... - Shortland Electorate: University of the Third Age (1 speech)
I associate myself with the fine remarks by the member for McMillan. I rise today to talk about a great local organisation in Shortland, and that is the University of the Third Age. This is an... - Wright Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
I rise to inform the House about two new schools and some improvements to one of the oldest schools in my electorate and some of the great things that the government is doing in and around that... - Deputy Prime Minister (1 speech)
Some 700,000 Australians are affected by penalty rate cuts. It's an absolute disgrace, yet we have a Deputy Prime Minister in this parliament who is continuing to collect his pay as an executive... - Dawson Electorate: Mackay Skate Park & Wheeled Sports Plaza (1 speech)
The () (): Now for something that means something to real people. In November last year I had a couple of my younger constituents come to see me about their desire to see a skatepark or some form... - National Broadband Network (1 speech)
For a week now we had a government in complete disarray as they squabble among themselves over policy, over whether they should turn up for a division, over who is entitled to sit in this place... - Banks Electorate: Lamrock Committee (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate the Lamrock Committee on its recent successful fundraising event at Georges River Sailing Club, which I was fortunate to attend on 4 August. The Lamrock Committee has... - Workplace Relations (1 speech)
There are serious doubts over the Deputy Prime Minister's entitlement to sit and vote in this place, notwithstanding the Prime Minister's breathtaking declaration that the High Court should find... - Reserve Forces Day (1 speech)
On 2 July, I was honoured to attend and represent the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and the Prime Minister at the Reserve Forces Day parade and commemorative service at the Shrine of Remembrance... - Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I went to hospitality today to say hello to a school from the electorate visiting us here in Canberra. They're really excited to be here. They've come to see the country's leaders making... - Australia Day (1 speech)
We come together as a nation on 26 January to celebrate what is great about being Australian. It never crowds out a conversation that we can have about what we've got wrong in the past and how we... - Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
I rise to talk about the tragedy of the penalty rates vote in this chamber and the role of the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources and his tainted vote in that process—and he is... - Cooktown Medical Centre (1 speech)
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker; we will just lower the tone a little bit now! I am pleased to say that Cooktown residents in Far North Queensland are about to see great improvements in the Cooktown... - Deputy Prime Minister (2 speeches)
You don't have to spend long in this place to realise this Prime Minister is not backward in coming forward in relation to giving us the benefit of his legal opinions. What was the latest opinion... - Energy (1 speech)
Brisbane knows that the energy debate is about delivering on a detailed plan. Labor in government, and even in opposition today, have absolutely no plan for storage, for dispatchability or for... - Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
Last month, the government's brutal choice to strip one in six workers in my electorate of Paterson of their penalty rates began: 11,722 workers will lose up to $77 per week. Even before that...
