House debates
Thursday, 11 May 2023
- Eurovision Song Contest (1 speech)
I'm asking everyone to get behind WA progressive metal band Voyager as they represent Australia at the Eurovision song contest this week. Eurovision will see Bunbury's Ashley Doodkorte play as... - Bennelong Electorate: Budget (1 speech)
The cost of living is one of the things brought up with me the most in Bennelong. People are struggling not just with big-ticket items like the cost of housing and education but also with the... - Victoria Government: Lockdowns (1 speech)
When the COVID lockdowns began, we were told we were all in this together. But residents of public housing towers in Flemington and also North Melbourne, in my electorate, quickly found out this... - Run for the Voice (1 speech)
I rise to speak about a community event that I hosted in my electorate of Pearce last week, which was inspiring and incredibly uplifting due to the commitment of a man who is putting his body on... - Maranoa Electorate: Cooladdi (1 speech)
Today I rise to recognise the special achievement of one of the most unique towns in my electorate. Cooladdi, between Quilpie and Charleville in western Queensland, has recently taken out the... - Spence Electorate: Immanuel Lutheran School, Mother's Day (1 speech)
I must say that this has been quite a big week, to say the least. It's also safe to say that good things come in twos. This week marks the second budget that's been delivered by the Treasurer and... - Macquarie Point Stadium (1 speech)
The budget confirmed what many Tasmanians feared: that the federal government has fallen for the Tasmanian government's scandalous con job and will indeed go ahead and fund a third AFL stadium in... - Macquarie Electorate: Telecommunications (1 speech)
The Hawkesbury and Blue Mountains have mobile phone black spots which, for the entirety of the nearly 10 years of the previous government's reign, I have been pleading for help with. With the... - Capricornia Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
This Labor-Greens government is so engrossed by hitting climate targets they are willing to do absolutely anything to meet their goals, even if it means that they flood one of Australia's most... - Holt Electorate: St Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church (1 speech)
I was honoured to represent the people of Holt at a dedicated mass for the new St Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Clyde North. Both local community members and dignitaries attended this... - Berowra Electorate: King's Coronation Family Picnic (1 speech)
Last Saturday over a thousand people from across the Berowra electorate gathered together for the King's Coronation Family Picnic in Fagan Park in my electorate. The sun was shining and the mood... - Fraser Electorate: Community Bike Hub (1 speech)
Behind Footscray's Community Bike Hub is a great story. For more than 10 years, volunteers have been repairing donated bikes for people in need, including refugees and asylum seekers. More than... - Farrer Electorate: Riverina Field Days (1 speech)
After the pressures of another budget week, I rise to invite every member of the House to unwind at this year's Riverina Field Days. The two-day event is staged at Griffith, in the New South... - Bendigo Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
Last week I had the opportunity to visit three schools in my electorate. We can really get an insight into what's being discussed at home and in the classroom when you speak to school students.... - Budget (1 speech)
One of the sad things about being in opposition is that you've a lot of spare time to pore through budget papers. As an accountant, I'm perplexed by some of it. I note that inflation in the... - Australia Post (1 speech)
My office has received a large number of approaches about the impending closure of the Oaklands Park post office at Westfield Marion Shopping Centre. Of all the post offices in the area, the... - Hummingbird House (1 speech)
Hummingbird House is a critical organisation that delivers essential support to families in Queensland. It's Queensland's only children's hospice. It sits just outside my electorate of Petrie. It... - Battle of the Coral Sea: 81st Anniversary (1 speech)
On Sunday evening, I attended an event on the Esplanade in Darwin which was to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea, which is often referred to as the battle that saved... - Stronger Communities Program (1 speech)
The Learmonth Cemetery rotunda construction received $20,000 for a rotunda for the internment of ashes in the electorate of Ballarat. In Rankin, the Stretton State College P&C Association... - Barker Electorate: Health Care (2 speeches)
I want to take the opportunity to tell the House about a circumstance that's finding itself playing out in Barker. In 2019, the coalition government secured $4.3 million for radiation therapy in...
