Speeches

Banking and Financial Services

May 23, 2017

Australians need to have confidence in their banks and financial institutions to uncover and deal with unethical behaviour that compromises that confidence. We will never support practices, systems or cultures that allow consumers to be ripped off, small business owners doing the right thing to lose their livelihoods and retirees to lose their life savings.

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Asylum Seekers

May 22, 2017

I think together multiple nations can do their part to have a positive impact on the situation that we are all facing. So I will take this opportunity to once again state that we as a nation can and must do more when it comes to the global humanitarian and refugee crisis which is upon us.

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Fletcher Insulation Workers

May 10, 2017

They have endured months without pay in this fight for what is right. It takes guts to do what they are doing and I commend them, stand with them and support them in this fight.

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Medicare Rebate Changes

March 28, 2017

People miss being able to just walk into a Medicare office, hand over an invoice from their trip to the doctor, along with their little green card, and have their rebate processed then and there.

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Victoria: Law & Order

March 27, 2017

It is supremely hypocritical for this coalition government to be crowing about the importance of national security and law and order whilst simultaneously defunding our federal policing and national security programs.

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Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (18c Debate)

March 21, 2017

I am going to put the same question to those on the government benches that we on this side have all been asking—and we still do not have an answer. What do you possibly want people to say that they cannot already say now?

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