House debates

Wednesday, 11 September 2024

  • Carillon Business Awards 2024 (1 speech)
    On Saturday, I had the honour of attending Bathurst Business Chamber's Carillon Business Awards. The awards celebrate the remarkable achievements of our local businesses and the outstanding men...
  • Spence Electorate: Welcoming the Babies (1 speech)
    Having a child offers two very different extremes for a parent. On the one hand, it is the most exciting and rewarding time of a parent's life. There is genuinely nothing like it. But, on the...
  • Organ and Tissue Donation (1 speech)
    I am delighted to get up this morning and discuss the Parliamentary Friends of Organ Donation. I have just finished a particular event with my very good friend Dr Mike Freelander to have people...
  • Canterbury Bankstown Torch, Eve's Apple (1 speech)
    There was a time when the local newspaper was the fixture of front lawns across our suburbs. Often they'd fly out the window of a station wagon with varying degrees of accuracy. Local media has...
  • Longman Electorate: Homelessness (1 speech)
    Recently, I had a community forum in the Longman electorate around homelessness and housing affordability, which is as bad as I've ever seen it. Like many communities around the country, there...
  • Genetic Testing and Life Insurance (1 speech)
    Last year I held a roundtable in my office with Assistant Minister Stephen Jones, Dr Jane Tiller, advocates and members of our community who were confronting potential discrimination by life...
  • O'Connor Electorate: Migration (1 speech)
    I rise today to inform the parliament of the coordinated approach to migration taken by 10 shires and a regional city in my electorate and how federal and WA Labor are strangling their...
  • Swan Electorate: Young Changemakers Conference (1 speech)
    Are you a young changemaker? What change do you want to see? These are two questions I asked young people aged 16 to 17 years in Swan, and I received some amazing replies. One said: A change in...
  • Menzies Electorate: Manningham Civic Awards (1 speech)
    We have the great honour, in this Chamber and in the other one, of rising to acknowledge the work of volunteers. It was Winston Churchill who said, 'We make a living by what we get, but we make a...
  • Marne, Uncle Wes, AM (2 speeches)
    On the morning of 31 August, our Chifley community and, I would say, the country lost an incredible person in 102-year-old Uncle Wes Marne. Bigambul man Uncle Wes lived on the lands of the Dharug...