House debates
Thursday, 11 June 2020
- Southam, Ms Doreen (1 speech)
I rise today to pay tribute to a longtime friend, local WA Labor icon and Neighbourhood Watch stalwart, Doreen Southam, who passed away over the weekend. Doreen was around as long I can remember,... - Lawler, Mr Jordy (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge the incredible talent and endless ambition demonstrated by Narrabeen local Jordy Lawler. Mr Lawler is a professional surfer who continues to represent Australia within... - Findlay, Ms Moira, Mason, Ms Julie, Price, Ms Maureen, Monahan, Ms Marlene (1 speech)
I rise today to bring to the attention of the House the retirement of four fabulous women in my electorate who have given a lifetime of service to schools education. In 2020, Moira Findlay... - Grey Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise to welcome the announcement from GFG Alliance and Sanjeev Gupta of an investment timeline for the Whyalla Steelworks. Just yesterday, he announced that work on their solar farm will... - Cybersecurity (1 speech)
The Commonwealth government's 2016 cybersecurity strategy reached the end of its life more than seven weeks ago. The Minister for Home affairs, Mr Dutton, has been working on a new strategy for... - Taree Universities Campus (1 speech)
I'd like to give a big shout-out to the volunteer members of the Taree Universities Campus bid, who were successful in the latest Regional University Centres funding round. I congratulate the... - HomeBuilder (1 speech)
() (): I'm trying to fathom the logic of the government's recently announced renovation grants. In principle, it sounds really great—$25,000 to carry out renovations on a home. But I'm just... - Moore Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
Linking Whitfords Avenue with the realigned Gnangara Road will improve access for local commuters to employment and services in the Wangara industrial and commercial area. This critical east-west... - Indi Electorate: Small Business (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the long-awaited extension of the $10,000 small business bushfire recovery grant. My electorate of Indi, like many this summer, suffered through devastating bushfires.... - Push-Up Challenge (1 speech)
I rise today to recognise the Push-up Challenge, an event which ran for three weeks in May this year. This challenge aims to increase awareness of lives lost to suicide in Australia and encourage... - HomeBuilder (1 speech)
From the party that brought us knighthoods, robodebt and the right to bigotry, we shouldn't expect much. But, even by their standards, HomeBuilder is a home blunder. It's a policy that worsens... - Leichhardt Electorate: FNQ Spirits (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to highlight one of the many fantastic businesses in my electorate who stepped up to the plate during the recent health crisis. FNQ Spirits is a small craft distillery... - JobKeeper Payment (1 speech)
It is lucky that the PM's focus group didn't decide to call it 'promise keeper' rather than JobKeeper. If they had, they would be in a real pickle now, because all we are seeing is broken... - Australia's First Airmail Flight: 100th Anniversary (1 speech)
Lismore is a site of an important moment in our postal service history. This month marks 100 years since Australia's first official airmail flight sanctioned by the Postmaster-General. The flight... - Callaghan, William (1 speech)
At 2 pm on Monday, a family's worst fears were realised. Whilst walking to the summit of Mount Disappointment, their 14-year-old boy raced ahead of his family and became separated from them,... - Northern Territory: Parliamentary Representation (1 speech)
It's interesting coming and standing back here, because you feel almost disassociated from the process of the parliament. Where you find even more of a sense of disassociation from the parliament... - Australia Post (1 speech)
I don't know about you, but when the post comes at my place it's usually bills, and a lot of them have been going up under this government. Sometimes, during COVID, it's been a lovely note or a... - COVID-19: Economy (1 speech)
The latest ABS numbers record that, as a result of the coronavirus restrictions, employment has decreased by 594,300 people and monthly working hours have fallen by 10 per cent. We are borrowing... - COVID-19: Higher Education (2 speeches)
On behalf of the thousands of workers at the University of New South Wales and other Australian universities, I ask the Prime Minister: why has your government abandoned universities during the...
