There are three topics that I’d like to deal with tonight in my contribution on the legislation that we’re currently debating here in the House, the Treasury Laws Amendment (Cost of Living Tax Cuts) Bill 2024 and Treasury Laws Amendment (Cost of Living—Medicare Levy) Bill 2024. These bills are about proposed changes that the Labor…
As everyone in this place is aware, it is our responsibility as members to listen to our communities, to listen to what people are saying so we can bring those concerns back here to the parliament, represent those particular views and fight for a solution. Over the last couple of months in particular, when I…
Mrs ANDREWS: This evening I would like to talk about transport infrastructure on the Gold Coast, which is home to myself, my family and about 500,000 people outside of school holidays time, when the population on the Gold Coast escalates to probably close to 700,000, if not well beyond that. The reason I rise to…
Mrs ANDREWS (McPherson) (13:33): Friday last week marked the start of the year-long countdown to the 100th anniversary of Surf Life Saving Queensland’s Point Danger Branch. What a fabulous milestone and achievement that will be. Each month over the next year we will see highlighted some of the achievements of that branch and what it…
Mrs ANDREWS (McPherson) (09:36): Remembrance Day is a very important and a very significant day for our nation. It continues to represent a time when Australians can stand together alongside our veterans, our service personnel and their families to remember those who have lost their lives serving in wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations. On Saturday,…
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…
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…