Speech - Water Amendment (Water for the Environment Special Account) Bill 2012

November 28, 2012

I am pleased to support the money for the extra 450 gigalitres of water for the Murray Darling Basin,  for permanent environmental water entitlements and for infrastructure improvements.

I have been interested in creating a sustainable Murray the whole time that I have been a member of parliament and I put on record my support for all three of the acts we are currently considering, which represent the culmination of a six-year journey which started in 2007 with John Howard and Malcolm Turnbull.
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Speech - Balyana Swimming Pool

November 28, 2012

I call on the Mitcham Council to show leadership on the issue of ongoing  maintenance of the Balyana Swimming Pool. ... Read more »

7.30 Report - Carbon Tax and the Belair Hotel

August 16, 2012

The 7:30 Report discusses the impact of the Carbon Tax on the Belair Hotel. ... Read more »

Question without notice: Carbon Tax and the Belair Hotel

August 15, 2012

I ask the Prime Minister to apologise to the Belair Hotel, for the 45 per cent increase in their off-peak power rate, as a direct result of the carbon tax. ... Read more »

Speech - Migration Legislation Amendment (Offshore Processing and Other Measures) Bill 2011

August 15, 2012

The sad thing about the asylum seeker debate is that it has taken almost five years of policy failures, and failures by the Government to secure our borders, for the Government to finally admit that the Coalition was right.

The expert panel has recommended substantially what the Coalition had in place and what we have been recommending for years. For four years, the Prime Minister has said that offshore processing on Nauru would not work. That solution was not good enough for the government six weeks ago when the Coalition proposed it, but it is good enough for them now.

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ABC News 24 - Speech on the Migration Legislation Amendment (The Bali Process) Bill

June 28, 2012

The Coalition has come to the table with a compromise and a way forward for asylum seeker policy. We simply hope that the Government does not vote again for deadlock. ... Read more »

Capital Hill - 11 June, 2012

June 14, 2012

We discuss Melinda Taylor being detained in Libya, structural change in the Australian economy and the issues that people are raising with me in Boothby ... Read more »

Capital Hill - 31/01/12

January 31, 2012

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ABC News Breakfast on plain packaging legislation

August 17, 2011

The Coalition supports plain packaging - but the Government needs to make sure that their secondary legislation doesn't override the law of the country. ... Read more »

ABC News Breakfast on the lack of Government consultation on plain packaging legislation

August 4, 2011

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