Speeches

  • Tuesday, 27 September 2022

    E&OE

    The CIS has been fond of pointing out that recent years have been a tough time for fiscal conservatives across the globe.

    My side of politics has long believed that a strong economy demands lower tax rates, balanced budgets, spending growth restraint and containment of inflation and interest rates.

    There is no greater killer of aspiration, enterprise and personal r...

  • Tuesday, 27 September 2022

    Mr TAYLOR (Hume) (13:45): I rise today to highlight a significant program funded under the coalition government, which has provided major infrastructure improvements in my electorate of Hume: the Building Better Regions Fund. Mayors, councillors and community members are deeply concerned about the future of this program.

    The Goulburn Mulwaree Council used BBRF funding to build an irrigat...

  • Friday, 29 July 2022

    Thank you Mr Speaker. Mr Speaker, when the UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was asked about the greatest challenge for a leader, he replied: ‘Events, dear boy, events’.

    The world is facing substantial economic and geopolitical events and challenges.

    For the best part of three years, global events have thrown curve balls and continual challenges at Governments.

    But for thi...

  • Tuesday, 08 March 2022

    This week, Australians are cheering on our athletes in green and gold at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, and what a magnificent job they're doing. It's a great honour that from my electorate we have two representatives at the games: Ellen Ryan from Goulburn, competing in the lawn bowls, and Josh Azzopardi from Camden, competing in the men's 4 x 100 track relay.

    Ellen Ryan knows the...

  • Thursday, 18 February 2021

    I rise today to support local mining jobs in my electorate—mining jobs that are at risk. In the north of my electorate, the Tahmoor coking coal mine operates just near the small village of Tahmoor, selling as an essential supplier to the BlueScope steel mill down at Port Kembla. Tahmoor Coal is one of the biggest local employers in the Wollondilly shire, with 60 to 70 per cent of its employees...