MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE – TAXATION
"Under a vision of a future with a Labor government, it is the everyday Australian being poorer. In a future under the coalition, it is everyday Australians being richer."
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STATEMENT – TAXATION
"If Labor were to win government, all Australians would have to pay more. Why under a potential Labor government should people in my electorate— indeed, why should all Australians—have to be forced to pay more?"
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PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – DEFENCE INDUSTRY
"We all know there is no greater responsibility for government than the protection of its people—the safety and security of Australians. As this motion notes, we need to ensure that not only are we protecting…
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ADJOURNMENT – ECONOMY
We have a scoreboard that proves that we're delivering on (jobs). National unemployment is 5.5 per cent. On the Sunshine Coast, where I live, it's 4.8 per cent. It's 4.9 per cent in the seat…
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STATEMENT – Political Correctness
"We need to ensure that we protect our culture, we protect our way of life and we call it out when people try to challenge it."
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ADJOURNMENT – Motherhood
"Today I pay tribute to all mothers. In all our deliberations of public policy in this House, across every portfolio, we must have mothers at the forefront of our minds."
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CONSTITUENCY STATEMENT – Youth in Philanthropy
"What gives me great hope for our future is witnessing young Australians who are leaders among their peers recognise that, as leaders, the weight of their responsibility is heavier than the weight of their rights."
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PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
"We produce amazing goods and services, and this government has been supporting our businesses to ensure we are competitive within the global economy."
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MEMBER STATEMENT – SENATOR JIM MOLAN
"(The Greens' accusations) are a vile insult, not only to a courageous and respected leader but to all men and women who have served with him, those we send in our name to endure the…
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MEMBER STATEMENT – FAST RAIL
"We are going after a proposal for fast rail that would connect Brisbane through Moreton Bay, up through the Sunshine Coast. This is a bold and transformative project."
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Treasury Laws Amendment Bill
"This bill is a multi-staged tax reform package that benefits all Australians; a reform that is essential to our prosperity and competitiveness as a nation and as a people."
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Criminal Code Amendment Bill 2017
"This bill before the House today aims to stop the Labor Party from ever being able to run a (Mediscare) campaign again. It extends the illegality of impersonating a Commonwealth officer to also include impersonating a…
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Member Statement – City Deals
"We have the opportunity to actually have capital cities or regions establish a very set vision for what their future is and then pull on every lever possible to deliver on that vision."
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Marriage Amendment Bill – speech 2
...I rise to support the amendment put by the member for Deakin. To me, it addresses a deficiency in the bill where there's an embedded assumption that religious beliefs are more important than conscientious beliefs.…
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Member Statement – Sam Dastyari
...Any senior official who undermines the interests of the nation that they represent is not worthy of office, and the Leader of the Opposition should have the courage to remove the senator from this parliament...'
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Marriage Amendment (Definition & Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017
...Changing the definition of marriage is more than a legal issue; it's a social issue—a social issue that holds great cultural significance. This is why I have been, from the get-go, so supportive of a…
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Cashless Debit Card Bill
...The operating mechanism of the cashless debit card is simple enough: having 80 per cent of welfare payments to recipients quarantined to be spent in the best interest of welfare recipients and their dependants, and…
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Member Statement – Day For Daniel 2017
...As much as each and every one of us loves our children, so too did Bruce and Denise Morcombe love their child, Daniel, who in 2003, at the age of only 13, was abducted and…
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Private Members’ Business – Illicit Drugs
...I rise in the chamber today in enthusiastic support of the member for Tangney's motion acknowledging the commitment of the Turnbull government and the hard work of our law enforcement agencies, health workers and support…
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Matters of Public Importance – Employment
...the coalition government has created the environment for 825,500 extra jobs. Under the Labor Party's six years in office, do you know how many they created or enabled to be created? It was the opposite.…
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Housing Tax Integrity and Vacancy Fees Bill
...There are three key reforms in this bill. The first two seek to strengthen the integrity of the tax system, while the third goes to boosting the supply of rental properties in key markets. The…
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PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Climate Change
...This motion, unfortunately, seems to be more mindless nonsense from the Labor Party. They simply cannot face the reality when it comes to meaningful, sensible, responsible action on climate change or the delivery of secure and affordable…
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PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Mental Health
...Today I join with my colleagues to congratulate the government on its highly focused and targeted approach to mental health funding in the 2017 budget to broaden the scope and accessibility of mental health services and…
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PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS – Coral Bleaching
...There is no environmental ground to be opposing the Adani mine, as those opposite like to claim. At the end of the day, we should also be reminded the Great Barrier Reef has periodically faced challenges,…
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Fair Work Amendment (Ensuring Integrity) Bill
...This bill will help restore such principles by bringing back the faith and trust that all Australians should have in their workplace representatives. Unions are often said to be fighting for the integrity of their members,…
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Customs Amendment (Anti- Dumping Measures) Bill
...There are few more contentious issues to be had around the topic of international trade than the issue of dumping and the measures governments right around the world have exercised for a century or more to…
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Adjournment speech – Lottoland
...there's a new entrant that has come in the online gambling space of the lottery: Lottoland. And it concerns me. I started hearing about this player earlier in the year. A petition has since been…
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Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (A More Sustainable, Responsive and Transparent Higher Education System) Bill
...The Labor Party seem to not understand that when money goes up, when you get more of something, that's actually not called a 'cut'. Nevertheless, does the government need to ensure that universities are more efficient? Absolutely,…
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Welfare Reform Bill
...The Australian welfare system has for decades, ramping up over time, achieved an enormous redistribution of wealth to provide a level of support for the welfare of individuals and families courtesy of the Australian taxpayers…
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Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Amendment Bill
...To the vast majority of us, nuclear science can seem incomprehensible. Say the word 'nuclear' in Australia and thoughts of nuclear weapons will be immediately invoked in many people's minds. It will immediately trigger debate…
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