House debates
Thursday, 28 June 2018
- Youth Voices in Parliament (1 speech)
Continuing my Youth Voices in Parliament campaign, I would like to introduce Rebecca, a year 7 student in the Gifted and Talented class at Cumberland High School, who is passionate about the need... - Page Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
I would like to congratulate Lismore's St John's College Woodlawn netball team, who, this week, won the 24th annual Marist Netball Carnival. The team members were: Sarai Sandral, Georgia Davis,... - Workplace Relations (1 speech)
This Sunday, 700,000 Australian workers will again have their penalty rates cut by on average $77 a week. Yet again, the Turnbull government stands by and does nothing and supports this cut to... - Swan Electorate: St Pius X Catholic Primary School (1 speech)
A few weeks ago I visited a year 6 class at St Pius X Catholic Primary School in Manning, which is in my electorate of Swan. I know they're watching, so a big hello to all the students at St Pius... - Decentralisation (1 speech)
Today Canberrans are vindicated. They are vindicated by the Select Committee on Regional Development and Decentralisation's report once again, once again, once again showing the relocation of the... - Petrie Electorate: Sport (1 speech)
This weekend is going to be really exciting for the community of Redcliffe Dolphins football on the Redcliffe Peninsula, because we're opening the eastern grandstand. When I was first elected I... - Higher Education (1 speech)
'A pinch and a punch for the first day of the month' is a little rhyme that I'm sure all of us heard at some point in our childhood to remind us that a new month was coming and one was finishing.... - Special Broadcasting Service (1 speech)
SBS are currently running an ad showing an elderly couple in bed. The wife turns to the husband and says, 'Can you turn the heater back on; it's pretty cold in here.' The husband then says, 'I... - South Sudan (1 speech)
On 21 June 2018, the President of the Republic of South Sudan, General Salva Kiir Mayardit, and his former vice-president and current armed opposition leader, Dr Riek Machar Teny, met for the... - Bowman Electorate (1 speech)
Mine is the only seat in this place that conforms precisely with a city—that's Redland City in outer metropolitan Queensland. There's a bit going on in federal infrastructure in our neck of... - Turnbull Government (1 speech)
On budget night we heard the Treasurer ask what those opposite had achieved. I thought I would spend a bit of time today talking about what they've achieved. Well, they've managed to give... - Heart of Australia (1 speech)
Australians who live in rural and remote areas, the outback of this wide, brown land, are often referred to in romantic fashion as 'hard as nails' or 'tough as teeth'. These terms of reverence... - Workplace Relations (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker, there is much commentary about the world being a 24/7 place, and indeed it is true that it's busier than when you and I went to school. But let me tell you what hasn't changed:... - Berowra Electorate: Scouts Australia (1 speech)
Back in March, I went to the Cherrybrook Movie under the Stars, a wonderful family event organised by the 1st Cherrybrook Scout Group, which is led by the omnipresent and hardworking Stephen... - Energy (1 speech)
Wholesale energy prices in this country have doubled under this government. We have record-high electricity prices and a record number of energy policies by this hopeless and incompetent... - Farrer Electorate: Hospitals (1 speech)
I rise to note a very important event tomorrow in my electorate and in my hometown of Albury. After much fanfare and lengthy planning, it will be my pleasure to help open the new Albury-Wodonga... - Turnbull Government (1 speech)
We've heard a lot of talk about aspiration from the Turnbull government this week. Unfortunately, it's been more like the kind of talk you'd hear around a merchant banker's corporate boardroom... - Forrest Electorate: Nannup (1 speech)
Nannup is a special town in the South West of Western Australia, officially gazetted in 1890. Its name stems from a word in the Noongar people's language, meaning 'stopping place'. Nannup was... - Family and Domestic Violence (1 speech)
On White Ribbon Day 2016, I announced that a Labor government would amend the Family Law Act to prevent women in family violence cases from being cross-examined by unrepresented perpetrators of... - Newton, Mrs Joyce, OAM (2 speeches)
In Fisher, we have a true local hero in the form of Joyce Newton. Joyce has always displayed an energetic commitment to going the extra mile for others in everything she has been involved in....
