House debates

Tuesday, 28 May 2024

  • Climate Change (1 speech)
    SPENDER () (): 2023 was the hottest year on record, and these records are already being broken in the first few months of 2024. The climate crisis is accelerating and the world's top climate...
  • Invasive Species Management: Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (1 speech)
    Western Australia has a new enemy. This one is not political, it does not play sport and, like a submarine, it is very hard to detect. This new enemy is the polyphagous shot hole borer. More and...
  • Wordsworth, Major-General Robert Harley, CB, CBE (1 speech)
    Just before Anzac Day I stepped across the electorate boundary into Lyons to speak at the launch of the book Lastof the cavalrymen: memoirs of Major General Robert Harley Wordsworth, edited by...
  • Budget (1 speech)
    When we were elected, Prime Minister Albanese he said that under our government no Australian would be held back and no Australian would be left behind. That's why the 2024 federal budget...
  • Moncrieff Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
    Since the beginning of 2024 and the school year, I've been visiting many schools to present school leaders with certificates and to engage in discussions about leadership skills. In the heart of...
  • HMAS Armidale (1 speech)
    I rise to speak about an issue that's very important to me and, I think, to our nation, and that is the loss of the HMAS Armidale north of Darwin, between Darwin and Timor-Leste, or East Timor,...
  • Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
    The Albanese Labor government recently announced that it was going to shut down the WA live sheep trade from May 2028. This decision was not backed by science. It was not backed by legitimate...
  • Infrastructure (1 speech)
    We hear a lot about infrastructure. No newspaper, TV or radio bulletin fails to mention the term on a daily basis. It's a term bandied about with, at times, little thought to what it actually is...
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1 speech)
    In April, I hosted guest speaker and noted environmentalist Steven Nowakowski for an open discussion on Central Queensland's energy future including wind, solar, coal fired power and nuclear. It...
  • Chisholm Electorate: Small Business, Chisholm Electorate: Story House Early Learning (2 speeches)
    It is so important that we shop local, love local and support our local businesses, and I've been working with our local community in Chisholm to encourage support for some terrific local...