Bushfire recovery is a most difficult area for people who have been affected by bushfires. It takes a long time, and it costs a lot of money. There’s a report this morning that the bushfire recovery will cost in excess of $100 billion. When you equate...
This is the face of Sally Anne Edwards, who died of the scourage that is ovarian cancer on the 14 February. She was 54 years of age. This is a beautiful photo of her as a child. She is one of a thousand who will succumb to this disease over the next 12 months....
It wouldn’t matter what time I got up in the morning; there would be a farmer up before me somewhere in Australia. He could be a dairy farmer, an orchardist or a cattle, sheep or pig farmer—you name it. He could be on the Murray. He could be in South...
I want to agree with the member for Fraser on one thing: the importance to the Australian people of this issue and how we deliver services to older Australians. I listened very carefully to his statistics and the fact that we have an ageing society and government...
There was clearly a lot of passion in the member for Gilmore’s address. I think that all members who are fire-affected members have been touched by this tragedy and tragedies that have gone before. Not one word spoken in here today will assuage or ameliorate the...
