House debates
Thursday, 1 March 2018
- Solomon Electorate: Commonwealth Games Baton Relay (1 speech)
Tomorrow, the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games baton relay will travel through Darwin and Palmerston. I want to acknowledge the baton bearers that have been selected to participate: Floss Roberts, a... - Regional Education (1 speech)
I want to thank the CWA in Western Australia, who recently marched on state parliament to protest against the $41 million of sweeping cuts to regional education. One of the most blatant and... - Battle of Sunda Strait: 76th Anniversary (1 speech)
Seventy-six years ago today, the HMAS Perth and the USS Houston were both lost to the sea in the Battle of Sunda Strait. Three hundred and seventy-five Royal Australian Navy sailors of the HMAS... - Swan Electorate: Sports Challenge Australia (1 speech)
Last week, I joined Westpac at their South Perth branch in my electorate of Swan for a morning tea to present Sports Challenge Australia with $10,000 from the Westpac Foundation. Sports Challenge... - Cambodia: Human Rights (1 speech)
I rise today to express my deep concern and anger—speaking also on behalf of the member for Werriwa—about the statements that were made by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who is due... - Leader of the Opposition (1 speech)
Although members of the Labor Party might think it boring that there have been 400,000 new jobs created in the Australian economy, it's something we should celebrate. In the electorate that I... - Halal Expo Australia (1 speech)
Earlier last month I attended one of my favourite events the year, the Halal Expo at Rosehill Gardens. The Halal Expo has been running for four years now; I've attended each year. It's the only... - Bowman Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
Like every outer metropolitan city, Redlands struggles with increasing population and threats to the local environment. The Redland City Council has just approved a $1.2 million bridge that... - Batman By-Election (1 speech, 1 comment)
I want to give a shout-out to some of our amazing volunteers and supporters who are powering our campaign to turn Batman green. We're not a party of big corporate donations. Instead, our power... - Christie, Mr John (1 speech)
I was saddened earlier this year to learn of the passing of one of the kindest gentleman I have had the pleasure of knowing, John Christie. John was born in 1947 in Sydney and moved to... - Broadband (1 speech)
Less than 20 kilometres from Parliament House, in the nation's capital, in 2018, Canberrans are battling with upload and download speeds of less than one megabit per second. In some parts, it is... - Berowra Electorate: Greenway Park (1 speech)
We all know how competitive sport can be, not just on the field but between the various sporting codes themselves. Australia has a famous tradition of inter-sporting-code rivalry, so what could... - National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
Kirsty Carpenter from South Windsor is 31 and an NDIS participant. She is an osseo-integration amputee, having had her leg amputated above the knee. She has a titanium implant inserted into the... - Rainbow on the Plains Hay Mardi Gras Festival (1 speech)
On 7 December last year, this parliament created history by passing new same-sex marriage laws. Forty years ago, Sydney created history with its first Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. It is my... - Batman By-Election (1 speech)
For years we have been lectured to by the Greens party, with them wagging their finger, pointing at us and saying: 'We're the party of the grassroots. We're the people who are inclusive.' Not... - Tangney Electorate: Willetton Basketball Stadium (1 speech)
It's a great pleasure to update the House on an issue I have updated the House on a number of times, and that is the Willetton basketball stadium expansion project. It's a project I fought very... - Home Care Packages (1 speech)
Nine hundred and fifty older Australians on the Central Coast of New South Wales are waiting for home care packages, and some have been waiting for 12 months. They are among 100,000 older... - Water (1 speech)
Today I wish to speak about water for the regions. It's already there, but we just need to capture a bit of it before it goes rushing out to the reef and killing the seagrass, which then of... - Centrelink (2 speeches)
We were outraged when this grovelling government announced that 20,000 people who received debt notices as a result of this government's reprehensible robo-debt scheme turned out to owe nothing...
