Speeches

  Ten years ago next week is the anniversary of the toppling of the democratically elected Kevin Rudd by Julia Gillard. Australia woke...

  This nation has faced unprecedented trauma. It's touched every family, every person, everybody, every business across this...

  Ian Ronald Symons is a man I loved the first time I met him. He was the regional officer for region 8 for the...

  I don't know how you're approaching the coronavirus yourselves, but I know that what I've done is to make sure that...

  It would've been my pleasure to second the motion. However, I've been jumped by the member for Indi, which I'm now...

  Bushfire recovery is a most difficult area for people who have been affected by...

  This is the face of Sally Anne Edwards, who died of the scourage that is ovarian cancer on the 14 February....

  It wouldn't matter what time I got up in the morning; there would be a farmer up before me somewhere in Australia. He...

I want to agree with the member for Fraser on one thing: the importance to the Australian people of this issue and how we...

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...

  I second the motion. I support the motion because this is a very important issue for regional Australia, and I commend the...

  We have had an horrific fire centred around the Bunyip State Park Forest. To say that there was not tested that we...

What did former Prime Minister Tony Abbott; the former leader of the Nationals, Peter Ryan, in Victoria, Christian...

Remembering Black Saturday - with the blood of the victims, the ash of the forest and the sweat of those facing the foe, when drowned in our tears, new life did spring forth. Until the new dawn, when the sun would rise over the southern hills of the Great Dividing...

Surf lifesaving clubs become the hub, the nurturing, of our coastal communities during the summer months. From Bass coast through to Prom coast, summers at the beach are made safer by the vital work of our local communities and our surf lifesaving clubs. This weekend...

McMillan was an affected area, and my wife and I were down the street in the newsagent at Pakenham in the immediate aftermath of this fire. She said to me as I walked in, 'If this was John Howard instead of Kevin Rudd, he'd have rung by now; he'd have been talking to...