Speeches

  • Wednesday, 22 October 2014

    Mr TAYLOR (Hume) (13:59): The recently released agricultural green paper outlines how we will get a farm gate price that rewards farmers, so that they will invest, create jobs, produce more, export more and create prosperity in the regions. It highlights what I have been saying for years: that there are things we have got to fix if we are really going to capture the agricultural opportunity we...

  • Monday, 20 October 2014

    Mr TAYLOR (Hume) (16:38): There are fewer and fewer communities these days that do not have some sort of access to long day care child care services. Unfortunately Boorowa, in my electorate, has been one of them. There is a great little pre-school there, Boorowa pre-school, which is doing a wonderful job, but there is no long day care. It is well known that families with access to long day car...

  • Monday, 20 October 2014

    Mr TAYLOR (Hume) (11:23): I rise today to pay tribute to a great man—a community leader who by anyone's measure was an inspiration and a role model. He was a friend of mine. His name is Gavin Jones. He took his own life in July at his farm at Goulburn, just near mine, at the age of 47. Gavin was perhaps best known as the founder of the Deadly Vibe Group which published Deadly Vibe magazine and...

  • Thursday, 02 October 2014

    Mr TAYLOR (Hume) (16:35): The coalition is delivering on its commitment to get the National Broadband Network rollout back on track and, importantly, into rural and regional areas. In my electorate of Hume, five wireless towers were recently activated, offering internet speeds faster than city based ADSL connections. Towers located in Cowra, Cowra West, Koorawatha, Noonbinna and Young West mea...

  • Tuesday, 30 September 2014

    Mr TAYLOR (Hume) (12:47): I rise today to speak on the Fair Entitlements Guarantee Amendment Bill 2014. I am pleased to do so because this bill is critical for the sustainability of an important program in a budget environment where every dollar must be targeted for maximum impact after the spendathon of the previous government. Under the Fair Entitlements Guarantee, the FEG scheme, the govern...