Speeches

Families, businesses and farms have become just speed bumps in this rush to bring in huge overseas projects. Together with the Mount Pleasant High Court decision, there are serious implications...

The terrible experiences of real people in the electorate of Parkes are showing just how lacking our healthcare services are in regional Australia. It’s time to do better.

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Today, the Federal Court ruled the decision made by the Federal Government to block the billion-dollar McPhillamy’s gold mine, near Blayney, was “made without authority”. I asked Mr Albanese, “who...

12-year-old Kian from the Parkes electorate has written a speech for the Raise Our Voice competition and it’s a beauty. But before I read it, I would like to tell...

Inland Rail, more taxes, unworkable gun laws, high energy bills, high inflation, high interest rates… there have been disastrous decisions made with disastrous consequences. Watch my speech here.

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Small businesses are absolutely critical not only in keeping our economy running but in keeping all of us running in this country. We need to protect our workers, but we...

People who have done as the government wanted them to do, who have put money away for health insurance all of their lives, are now being told the additional private...

Our country is in bad shape, and it hurts. Australia is in the grip of a cost-of-living crisis affecting just about every Australian across this great country. People are frustrated....

It’s a blessing to be the Member for Parkes where my electorate is more than 400,000 square kilometres of the great state of New South Wales. It means that every...

Today in Parliament, I moved – That this House: Calls on the Government to: repeal the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Firearms and Customs Laws) Act 2026, and reverse laws...