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More Delay After Delay for WA

[Click to watch the full speech] Recent Senate budget estimates have confirmed what Western Australians already knew, and that is that the Albanese and Cook Labor governments are mismanaging our state’s infrastructure projects. Whether it’s the huge cost blowouts in...

Securing Australia’s Strategic Future Through Critical Minerals

I move: That the Senate take note of all the answers given by ministers to coalition senators today. I want to focus on one issue that is particularly pertinent to my home state of Western Australia, and that was in...

Statements by Senators: Artificial Intelligence

Only a few technological advancements have revolutionised the world as we know it: the telephone in the 19th century, the computer in the mid-20th century, the internet and later the smartphone in the late 20th century and early 21st century,...

Government Spending, Productivity, and the Prospect of Higher Taxes

I move: That the Senate take note of answers given to all coalition senators’ questions today. I want to start with the last question that was asked by Senator Paterson. What was very telling in the response from Minister Gallagher...

Cost-of-Living Crisis, Synonymous to Albanese’s Labor Government

I rise to speak on this important issue that Senator Lambie has brought before the Senate. I thank her for bringing it to us today. Senator Polley referred to Senator Lambie’s speech as a rant. I would say it was...

Second Reading Speech: Defence Housing Australia Amendment Bill 2025

I rise to speak on the Defence Housing Australia Amendment Bill 2025 and, at the outset, declare that the coalition will be supporting this bill. This is important. It’s important that it goes through this place and receives royal assent...