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The Secret Garden Island Highway Study

I rise to speak on the Albanese and Cook governments’ mismanagement of the proposed Garden Island Highway project in Western Australia. In late 2024, with considerable attention, a $2 million feasibility study was announced to examine road access options in...

Honouring the Victims of the Bondi Antisemitic Terror Attack

I rise today alongside my colleagues, with a very heavy heart, to support this motion. I rise to remember the 15 innocent lives that were taken from us far too soon: Boris and Sofia Gurman, Rabbi Eli Schlanger, Edith Brutman,...

Labor’s Empty Promises & Rising Energy Prices

Just a few years ago when I finished school—actually maybe it was a bit longer ago than that—I did an apprenticeship in electronic servicing. If I’d had a dollar for every time that someone brought in some equipment and said,...

Australian Local Government Association 2025 National Local Roads, Transport & Infrastructure Congress

Thank you for the invitation to be here at the National Local Roads, Transport and Infrastructure Congress. My colleague, the Hon Senator Bridget McKenzie, was not able to attend and has asked me to be here on her behalf to...

Matters of Public Importance: A Call for Transparency and Integrity

I take great pleasure—or maybe not, actually—in moving this motion today, because it highlights a very significant problem that we have in this country and that we have here in this parliament, and that is having a government that is...

Labor’s Energy Policy: Secrecy, Failure and the Cost to Australian Industry

You know, Deputy President, because I’ve told you, that I like this Senator Sterle—I reckon he’s a ripper. He’s one of the best senators they’ve got over there, frankly. He’s a good man. But I am going to take him...