House debates

Tuesday, 4 February 2025

  • Fadden Electorate: Runaway Bay, Shattock, Mr Aaron, Queensland: Floods (1 speech)
    Today I rise to speak on one of the iconic suburbs within my electorate of Fadden, Runaway Bay. Many people on the Gold Coast will be well aware of the iconic nature of this suburb. It's reached...
  • Western Australia: Environment (1 speech)
    Since 1985 the Bassendean Preservation Group has been at the head of efforts to preserve, protect and rejuvenate the Ashfield Flats. They have long understood that this is a critical area, over...
  • Calare Electorate: Australia Day Honours and Awards (1 speech)
    Right around the Central West of New South Wales, Australia Day celebrations were held with great pride. While I couldn't get to every Australia Day event in the Calare electorate, I attended...
  • Education, Aston Electorate: Lunar New Year, Medicare: 41st Anniversary (1 speech)
    It's a privilege to be back here in Canberra for the start of a new sitting year. Over the break I have had the great pleasure of being out in the community, hearing from any of my constituents...
  • Victoria State Election, Western Australia State Election, Albanese Government (1 speech)
    Smalltown Australia needs bigger voices than ever before, and in Bendigo we have Andrew Lethlean, who is fighting for a fair go for his community after years of neglect by the Albanese Labor...
  • Shortland Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
    I'm pleased to provide an update on how the Albanese government is improving the health outcomes of people in my community. One of the biggest challenges people in my region face, which is linked...
  • Banks Electorate: Community Services (1 speech)
    Milperra Lions Soccer Club was formed back in 1958, and, during that time, it has become an absolutely essential part of the Milperra community. It was great to meet at the clubhouse recently...
  • Liberal-National Coalition (1 speech)
    I rise today to point out the risk that the opposition leader and the Liberals and Nationals pose to my electorate on the New South Wales North Coast and, indeed, right throughout the nation. The...
  • Labor Government, Regional Australia: Infrastructure (1 speech)
    We've just endured an hour and a half of this hapless, hopeless Prime Minister and his merry bunch of men and women telling us how lucky we are to have suffered them for the past three years, how...
  • Sri Lanka, Perera, Mr Jude (2 speeches)
    Seventy-seven years ago today, the country of my birth, Sri Lanka, gained its independence from Britain. It was a moment of great pride for Sri Lankans, marking the end of more than four...