House debates
Tuesday, 5 September 2017
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
One of the major concerns in my electorate of Richmond is the ever-increasing and disturbingly long delays in the processing of age pension claims. The delays are a major concern affecting age... - Mallee Electorate: Medical Workforce (1 speech)
The people who live in the Wimmera Mallee are very fair minded, decent people. I always say it is not unreasonable for them to able to drive on a decent road, make a mobile phone call, have good... - Shipping (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about Australian seafarers in my electorate of Bass. Tasmania has a proud history of merchant seamen servicing our island coastline and is home to many fly-in fly-out... - Swan Electorate: Lathlain Park, Swan Electorate: Manufacturing (1 speech)
Last week I had the pleasure of having the Assistant Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, Craig Laundy, the member for Reid, in my electorate of Swan. It was a big day for the assistant... - Northern Territory: Economy (1 speech)
This afternoon I'd just like to place on the record some of the important sectors in my electorate of Darwin and Palmerston in the Top End of Australia, the northern capital of our country; some... - Capricornia Electorate: Local Industry Capability Plan (1 speech)
When the Shoalwater Bay military upgrade was announced, I promised our business community that I would be fighting to make sure that local industry would benefit. Just last week, the Minister for... - Workplace Relations (1 speech)
The hallmark of the Turnbull government is letting large multinational corporations take advantage of hardworking Australians, cutting wages and putting employees at risk—all in the name of... - Schools (1 speech)
We in Queensland continue to work very hard on better elucidating the progress that schools are achieving. This is a very important metric that is currently submerged in very basic My School data... - Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Special Broadcasting Service (3 speeches)
I rise to speak for the over 15,000 Australians who have signed a petition urging crossbench senators to reject the moves to undermine the ABC and SBS as part of negotiations with the Turnbull... - Yeltsin, Mr Boris Nikolayevich (2 speeches)
This month marks 28 years since one of the great but little known turning points of world history. It happened in September 1989, when Boris Yeltsin, the then newly elected member of the Soviet... - Elections (1 speech)
For far too long, conservatives have suggested that Australia's young people simply aren't politically engaged, that they are apathetic and that they don't care about politics. We're told that... - McPhee, Ms Anna (1 speech)
Too many people don't get the recognition they deserve. Even today, despite the wonders of modern medicine, too many people are cut down in their prime. Today I rise to pay tribute to Anna... - Newcastle Electorate: Women (1 speech)
It is a great pleasure to rise again in this chamber. Tackling inequality is central to the work of Labor. It sits at the very core of our being and is a focus of all our policy pursuits in this... - Page Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
Every year, thousands of dance academies around the world send audition tapes to Disneyland and Universal Studios in Hollywood in the hope of becoming one of the select few who are invited to... - Cambodia (1 speech)
More than 25 years ago the Paris Peace Accords brought to an end some of the most awful periods of genocide and warfare in modern history, particularly in Cambodia. The Paris Peace Accords, in... - Coptic Christians (1 speech)
I was privileged to welcome to my electorate His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, on his first visit to Australia, to open a new Coptic church, the... - Mercer, Mr Dean Paul, OAM, Seay, Mr William Samuel, OAM (1 speech)
Last Monday was a very sad day for my electorate. On that day we lost two wonderful people—one who'd grown up as a young man and then left our region to go onto the national stage, and the... - Goldstein Electorate: Sport (1 speech)
It is a great pleasure to be able to get up and celebrate the wonderful activities in the Goldstein electorate as the blossoms come out and the trees in the sun show the wonder of spring. It's... - Turkey (1 speech)
I wish to speak of my deep concern over the dissolution of democracy and human rights we are witnessing in Turkey today. Turkey has been, throughout most of the 20th century, a beacon of... - Queensland: Mining (2 speeches)
Today I want to talk about the Queensland black coal industry. Queensland has a rich and enviable history when it comes to black coal. Blair Athol, probably one of the oldest coalmines in central...
