Mar 22, 2023 | In Parliament, Latest Speeches
Last year, after speaking at the Australian Forest Products Association dinner in Canberra, the Prime Minister tweeted: ‘We want a thriving and a sustainable timber industry. One that provides jobs and drives down our emissions for years to come.’...
Feb 16, 2023 | In Parliament, Latest Speeches
I stand to inform the House that, yesterday, 200 workers at the Australian Maryvale mill lost their jobs. They didn’t lose their jobs because they weren’t good at them, they didn’t lose their jobs because their product wasn’t good enough, and...
Feb 9, 2023 | In Parliament, Latest Speeches
I rise to again raise my concerns about the arrogant contempt the big four banks are displaying towards their customers, particularly in remote, rural and regional Australia. In September last year, the Regional Banking Taskforce released its final report, and that...
Feb 7, 2023 | In Parliament, Latest Speeches
People and wildlife die in poorly managed forests, and Victorian Premier Dan Andrews’s plan to shut down the native timber industry is a plan to kill country towns, to kill wildlife and to kill Australian jobs. The combined impact of judicial activism,...
Feb 6, 2023 | In Parliament, Latest Speeches
The contempt of banking executives towards regional Australia is well known, with more than 1,600 branches closing in the past six years. In Gippsland, we’ve experienced dozens of closures in our smaller towns, but now Westpac is going a step further. Forget...
Sep 9, 2022 | In Parliament, Latest Speeches
I rise to raise my concerns in relation to delays by the current government in honouring a commitment to bushfire impacted communities made prior to the May federal budget. I refer specifically to the $2.3 million for the Ensay Recreation Reserve and the $3.6 million...
