Speeches

Mr Speaker, you will agree with me that today in Victoria we have many people in distress, including in your own electorate. I...

Before I get fully into this bill, the Private Health Insurance Amendment (Income Thresholds) Bill 2021, I want to make a few comments...

Back in 2007 or around then—the member for Hunter will remember this very well—we ran a very strong campaign to stop New Zealand apples coming...

Firstly, I would like to acknowledge the Gunaikurnai people, the traditional owners of the land known as the...

I suffer from Dupuytren's disease, a hereditary disease that curls up the hands. If you've attended a nursing home and gone from room to...

One of the vulnerabilities that we have, as was borne out in the pandemic—and I'm going to pull a lot of my...

I want to speak truth to the richest nation in the world per head. Our older women have been recognised as the fastest growing...

I have made some points throughout the whole debate on arguments that have been presented on the aged-care issue, but there is one...

It seems that the place of discussion has just shifted from the government and where the Leader of the Opposition was to a different...

In times such as these we need to remember why. 'The country has great and imperative obligations to the weak, the sick, the...

I am the member for Monash and I represent the Liberal Party in this House. Throughout my career, I have had the benefit of being...

I have to say to the previous speaker, the member for Cowan, that I do enjoy her addresses. My dear friend Barry...

I've spoken before of opportunity arising from adversity. I learned this week from Landcare, NRM Regions Australia,...

John Howard provided a leadership legacy on national land and policy and planning, but in the last 10 years...

I would like to talk today about opportunity and adversity—opportunity and adversity in a nation where, for the last 25...