Parliamentary speeches

Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (A More Sustainable, Responsive and Transparent Hi...

September 13, 2017

I'm very pleased to be able to continue my remarks in opposition to this Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment (A More Sustainable, Responsive and Transparent Higher Education System) Bill 2017...

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Higher Education Support Legislation Amendment

September 13, 2017

With this bill, the Turnbull government continues its war on young people. This bill combines massive cuts to our universities with placing greater burdens and very significant disincentives on our students.

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Asylum Seekers Forum

September 12, 2017

'I feel like a spectator in my own life'—a young woman said this to me and to a room full of strangers in Mill Park a couple of weeks ago. She's from Iran and living in Melbourne's north...

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Social Services Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform) Bill 2017 - Second reading speech

September 07, 2017

The mark of a good society is how it treats its most vulnerable citizens. On this marker, this government shows it has a very, very poor vision of how our society should function.

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Electoral & Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017 - Second reading speech

September 05, 2017

What an extraordinary diatribe! Although, perhaps, we should not be so surprised that government members prefer to go back to the past and seek to refight the last election rather than concentrate...

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Marriage equality (1)

August 14, 2017

I haven't met either of my friend Ben's mums, but this week I've been thinking about them a lot as I've heard that not having their relationship recognised at in law as a marriage has had awful practical...

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