2024 McPherson Community Achiever Awards NOMINATIONS CLOSED Do you know someone who deserves recognition? Do you know someone who deserves a special ‘thank you’ for their contributions to our local community? If so, nominate them for a McPherson Community Achiever Award. The McPherson Community Achiever Awards recognise the amazing work done by local residents…
Mrs ANDREWS (McPherson) (16:19): The Gold Coast is an absolutely fantastic place to live and to work, but the cost-of-living increases are really hitting many people in my community very hard. The interest rate rise on Melbourne Cup day is yet another blow—that’s probably the best way to describe it—for Gold Coasters. We have, over the…
Second Reading The DEPUTY SPEAKER (Mrs Andrews) (11:57): As it is necessary to resolve this question to enable further questions to be considered in relation to this bill, in accordance with standing order 195 the bill will be returned to the House for further consideration.
I was honoured to join Rabbi Adi Cohen and the congregants of Temple Shalom on the Gold Coast last Friday evening to celebrate the Sabbath with them after what has been an absolutely distressing week for our Jewish-Australian community. The news and the images that are coming out of Israel are absolutely shocking. The acts…
I was honoured to join Rabbi Adi Cohen and the congregants of Temple Shalom on the Gold Coast last Friday evening to celebrate the Sabbath with them after what has been an absolutely distressing week for our Jewish-Australian community. The news and the images that are coming out of Israel are absolutely shocking. The acts…
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As many people will know, I have extensively voiced the very genuine concerns of my community about stage 4 of the Gold Coast Light Rail. Transport infrastructure that may well be very appropriate for the northern and central Gold Coast is not necessarily the right solution for the southern Gold Coast. Yet some of our…
Archbishop James Duhig Memorial Lecture Address, 15 August 2023 The personal quest to contribute to our great Australian story I am very pleased to be here today and humbled to have the great honour and privilege of delivering the 45th Archbishop Sir James Duhig Memorial Lecture. I note the poetic oratory of many of the…
I’ve spoken in this place before about the need to ensure that planning is advanced for the extension of the heavy rail from Varsity Lakes to Coolangatta airport. This is the public transport infrastructure that our community wants and needs. In a recent survey, more than 85 per cent of residents said the heavy rail…
I rise today to express my disappointment with the way this government has downgraded one of Australia’s emerging and enabling industries: our space sector. When I was the minister for industry, science and technology I asked the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Resources to report on the future of Australia’s space industry. Their report…