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National Apology to the Stolen Generations: 14th Anniversary
I begin by noting that I’m speaking today on Ngunawal and Ngambri country and I pay my respects to elders past, present and emerging. Thank
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Pensioners and the Pension Loans Scheme
The Pension Loans Scheme is an important one. It allows older people in our community who are asset-rich but income-poor to have a source of
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Education in our community
I would like to thank my friend the member for Dunkley for bringing this important motion to the House today. There has probably never been
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Religious Discrimination Bill
People of faith in our community should be free from discrimination. I have nothing but respect for people of faith in my community and around
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Our community’s summer and the Morrison Government’s summer
This summer a member of my community wrote to me in despair and said: My husband and I are older people and parents of two
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Member’s Statement on the Jagajaga Resilience Award
I want to say congratulations to all the school students in my electorate who are winners of this year’s Jagajaga Resilience Award. We have asked
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On the NBN
Over the last couple of years we’ve been working from home and we’ve been learning from home. To be able to do this we need
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Asylum Seekers
I thank my colleague the member for Macnamara for moving this very important motion. He is absolutely right to note that asylum seekers are still
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End of Melbourne Lockdown
Today my thoughts are with all the people in my community, who are in their last day of what has been a very long and
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Raise Our Voice Australia’s Youth Voice in Parliament 2021
I give this speech as part of Raise Our Voice Australia’s Youth Voice in Parliament project. ‘Dear members of the 46th Parliament of Australia, my
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National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Amendment Bill 2021
Child sex abuse survivors deserve better from the Morrison government. This bill goes some way to improving the National Redress Scheme, but it is in
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Member’s Statement on Medicare
I begin today by registering my ongoing thanks to all the healthcare workers here in Jagajaga—the nurses, doctors and pharmacists—administering vaccines and caring for people