House debates
Thursday, 21 June 2018
- Macquarie Electorate: Breast Cancer (1 speech)
As I speak, family and friends are celebrating the life of 27-year-old Jane Bryant, a nurse from the Blue Mountains who last week lost her battle against metastatic breast cancer, having made the... - Hodder, Mr Tahj, Page Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours (1 speech)
Evans River K-12 School year 7 student Tahj Hodder has recently been selected to dance in the 2018 NSW Public Schools Aboriginal Dance Company. He attended a workshop in Lismore that was run by... - Scully, Private William Jack (1 speech)
At the close of sittings today, I'll be attending a Last Post ceremony at the Australian War Memorial with Territorians Jack Nicholson and his granddaughter Christina, who are here with us in the... - Hughes Electorate: Rural Fire Service (1 speech)
Over the past fortnight, I've had the great pleasure to visit many of the Rural Fire Service brigades around my electorate for their annual general meetings. I would like to congratulate all the... - Cooper, Professor David, AC (1 speech)
On Thursday, I joined over a thousand people at a memorial service at the Sydney Town Hall celebrating the life and legacy of Professor David Cooper AC. David was an immunologist and a director... - Bowman Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
After the Queensland budget last week, Redlands are the forgotten people. We're watching our state debt tick up to $83 billion and we're hearing promises of more bus and boat stops, but, in... - Spain (1 speech)
I rise to express my concerns about aspects of the long-running political contest between unionists and separatists in the Spanish region of Catalonia. This is, of course, a complex debate around... - Forrest Electorate: Australind (1 speech)
Australind is one of the fastest-thriving coastal communities in regional Australia. Boarded by the Brunswick and Collie rivers and Leschenault Estuary, in 1840, the West Australian Land Company... - Immigration Detention (1 speech)
Ali—that's not his real name—is a 63-year-old man who has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. Doctors have told him he does not have long to live. That's a devastating diagnosis... - Political Correctness (1 speech)
I rise to raise the issue of the moralistic persecution being committed across our society. This persecution is not being committed against people for their heritage or their age, nor for their... - Esso (1 speech)
I rise to commend the 200 Esso Longford workers who have been locked out of their place of employment for 365 days. That's right: it is a year since the Esso Longford workers were originally... - Berowra Electorate: Pie of Origin (1 speech)
While at this time of the year many Australians are focused on the annual New South Wales-Queensland grudge match known as the State of Origin, there's another important grudge match, which is... - Esso (1 speech)
I also rise to talk about Esso's ugly dispute and what they're doing to 200 families in Gippsland. So far, these brave men and women have been out of work for 8,760 hours. Two hundred and thirty... - Pie of Origin (1 speech)
On Sunday the second game in the battle between the cane toads and the cockroaches kicks off. But instead of telling you all how New South Wales is going to bite the dust, I need all the... - Income Tax (1 speech)
Question time starts in 10 minutes, and I guarantee the epithet of class war will be thrown about an awful lot from the government. It is true that a class war is happening right now. It is a... - Moore Electorate: Local Government Week (1 speech)
Earlier this week, I hosted visiting local government representatives from my electorate as part of national Local Government Week. From the City of Joondalup, Mayor Albert Jacob, Councillor Nige... - ExxonMobil (1 speech)
Three hundred and sixty-five days ago, ExxonMobil's Longford maintenance workers were sacked by ExxonMobil and offered their jobs back with a significant pay cut. Esso, which is one of the... - Schools (1 speech)
In this year's budget, we secured funding for the School Chaplaincy Program. It has been locked in and supported by all in this House. It is vital funding for vital, effective programs. However,... - Income Tax (1 speech)
On Tuesday, we saw how this Prime Minister really looks at the world. He said that if a 60-year-old aged-care worker was wondering why she only gets $10 a week from this government, while an... - Australian Labor Party (6 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I'm afraid that the Australian Labor Party has become morally bankrupt.
