Speeches
Marriage Amendment (Definition & Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017
Wed, 24 April 2024 2:33 amAustralian Border Force Amendment (Protected Information) Bill
Wed, 24 April 2024 2:33 amPrivate Members’ Business – Renewable Energy
Wed, 24 April 2024 2:33 am31st May 2017 – Bill – Accelerated Depreciation for Small Business Entities
Wed, 24 April 2024 2:33 am20th March, 2017 – Private Member’s Business – Energy
Wed, 24 April 2024 2:33 am13th February, 2017 – Statement by Members – Fairfax Electorate: Bushfires
Wed, 24 April 2024 2:33 am7th November, 2016 – Private Member’s Business – Nth Qld Tourism
Wed, 24 April 2024 2:33 amWALK FOR DANIEL – DAY FOR DANIEL 2020
Thu, 29/10/2020 – 15:04
Today, 30 October 2020, Australians across the nation joined two Sunshine Coast parents to honour the memory of their precious child. By starting the Daniel Morcombe Foundation, Bruce and Denise Morcombe have turned a tragedy into a message of hope. Their tireless work to keep Australian children safe from harm is truly inspiring. It was an honour to attend this morning’s walk to kick-start the 2020 #DayforDaniel.
GET ON BOARD FOR BETTER RAIL
Tue, 16 March 2021 12:00 amThere is one form of infrastructure that would transform the Sunshine Coast like none other. Better rail. Watch on to hear Ted update parliament on his critical infrastructure project.
Get on board: www.fastrail.com.au
Australia’s National Plan
Mon, 30 August 2021 2:00 pmEntrepreneurs Make Pitch
Wed, 28 September 2022 12:00 amThree budding young entrepreneurs have made it to the final stage of this year’s Generation Innovation Challenge.
Bailey Page, Eliza Blumke and and Josie Pacey have worked hard to develop their business concepts and refine their pitch over the past few months of workshops, training and mentoring through the program.
Now there is just two weeks left before they battle it out for the top prize of $10,000 to help them take their business to market.
Fairfax Biggest Survey – Have Your Say
Wed, 29 March 2023 1:30 pmThere are fewer greater honours than to represent people in Australia’s parliament. I can’t tell you how grateful I am every single day to represent the people of Fairfax on Australia’s beautiful Sunshine Coast. I am calling on residents across Fairfax to tell me what they want my priority to be as their federal MP as we move forward. Already over 1,400 people in Fairfax have responded to my Biggest Survey. It is going to stay open until the end of April. Please go to www.tedobrien.com.au and have your say.
Support for the Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Amendment Bill 2023
Wed, 2 August 2023 12:28 pmThe Coalition supports the Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Amendment (Using New Technologies to Fight Climate Change) Bill 2023. which aims to give expression to two sets of amendments that were made several years ago to the London protocol. In our view, these are each well-intentioned changes, and we stand with the government in supporting the passage of them through the parliament. If the bill is passed, it is likely to provide Australia with improved flexibility and opportunity in relation to the import and export of carbon dioxide streams and the rapidly emerging field of marine geoengineering.
In turn, these changes would be likely to enhance Australia’s capacity, and indeed the capacity of other nations, to reduce carbon emissions.
Transparency for New Vehicle Efficiency Standard Bill 2024 and the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2024
Wed, 27 March 2024 11:30 amLabor’s Family Car Tax 2.0 was introduced to parliament this week under the guise of the ‘New Vehicle Efficiency Standard Bill 2024’.
The lack of transparency has been extraordinary. The government isn’t telling consumers how much it will drive up vehicle prices, it’s refusing to release any economic modeling and its gagged many industry stakeholders by forcing them to sign non-disclosure agreements.
I therefore put forward a motion calling for the legislation to be scrutinised by a parliamentary committee consisting of MPs from all political parties.
In what can only be described as a move to deliberately deceive the Australian people, this motion was rejected by Labor and also members of the Teal Party who like to wax lyrical about transparency but fall short when it comes to taking action.
Listen to my speech below.