House debates

Monday, 10 February 2025

  • Insurance Industry (1 speech)
    Households and businesses are experiencing some of the most difficult economic times in living memory. Many of us in this place have talked about the cost of energy, groceries or fuel or about...
  • Burt Electorate: Health Care, Western Australia State Election (1 speech)
    On Friday, I was so pleased to officially open Western Australia's eighth Medicare urgent care clinic in downtown Gosnells. It is Western Australia's largest urgent care clinic. Now our community...
  • McDermott, Karen, Legends of Cricket Twenty20 (1 speech)
    I'd like to acknowledge Karen McDermott, who has just retired after 35 years of service to the Jumbunna Community Preschool and Early Intervention Centre in Casino. Karen started at Jumbunna as...
  • Free TAFE Bill 2024 (1 speech)
    The Free TAFE Bill 2024 was passed by the House last week and sits now with the Senate. Hasluck, and indeed Western Australia, look forward to the passage of the bill. The legislation lists seven...
  • Cost of Living (1 speech)
    It's a great honour to represent the people of Petrie here in federal parliament. There are some 130,000 voters, and, when you add children in as well, there are a lot of people in Moreton Bay...
  • Tertiary Education (1 speech)
    From the moment we came to government we made it clear that we would prioritise tertiary education and support students, reversing nearly a decade of ideological attacks from the Liberals and...
  • Tasmania: Bushfires (1 speech)
    Deputy Speaker Scrymgour, I'd like to hazard a guess and say that you understand completely the power of mother nature. Our thoughts and our support need to go to our brothers and sisters, our...
  • Australian Public Service (1 speech)
    When Labor took office, veterans seeking support faced a backlog of 42,000 claims, with some waiting over two years to have their case looked at. This was the direct result of a decade of public...
  • Cook Electorate: Australia Day (1 speech)
    I'd like to acknowledge some recent award recipients in the Sutherland shire. Most recently, John Veage was awarded the 2025 Citizen of the Year. If you've seen a photo of someone in the Leader...
  • Wills Electorate: Medicare (2 speeches)
    Medicare and bulk-billed urgent care clinics are so important for many in my community, after suffering a decade of cuts from Peter Dutton and the previous Liberal government. For too long,...