Posted on Thursday, 16 February, 2012
Mr RAMSEY (Grey) (19:51): I rise to support the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition earlier today concerning the Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives Bill 2011. My leader made the point that this abandonment of the solemn commitment to the Australian people by the government not to... ... more
Posted on Wednesday, 15 February, 2012
Cognate debate.
Mr RAMSEY (Grey) (19:51): I rise to support the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition earlier today concerning the Fairer Private Health Insurance Incentives Bill 2011. My leader made the point that this abandonment of the solemn commitment to the Australian people by the... ... more
Posted on Tuesday, 14 February, 2012
Wind Power
Mr RAMSEY (Grey) (22:11): There are increasing concerns around Australia, and particularly in my home state of South Australia, about the rapid expansion of wind farms and the associated health risks and long-term threats to agriculture. Last year, I raised in this place the issue of th... ... more
Posted on Wednesday, 23 November, 2011
Mr RAMSEY (Grey) (21:10): I rise to speak on the Minerals Resource Rent Tax 2011 and related bills. The deliberately leaked ALP polling that is purportedly telling us that the Australian public is in favour of the government's minerals resource rent tax may well reflect the case. That may be what th... ... more
Posted on Thursday, 3 November, 2011
I rise to speak on the Australian Renewable Energy Agency Bill 2011 and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2011. I welcome the government's move in establishing ARENA. There is no doubt that government expenditure in the area of renewab... ... more
Posted on Monday, 17 October, 2011
Rowan Ramsey
I rise to address the Clean Energy Bill 2011 and related legislation. The government has no mandate for these bills—in fact, it has a mandate to oppose the bills. Of the 150 members in this place, 149 took the same policy to the last election—that is, not to implement a carbon tax.
W... ... more
Posted on Thursday, 22 September, 2011
Mr RAMSEY (Grey) (19:40): For two years, parts of my electorate have been battling a mouse plague. Last year it was estimated that there was $80 million of damage on Eyre Peninsula alone. There is a little bit of history in this. In the late 1990s, strychnine was removed as a preferred poison for mo... ... more
Posted on Monday, 12 September, 2011
Mr RAMSEY (Grey) (21:13): There has been much
said in recent weeks about the dysfunction of the
Ananga Pitjanjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in the far
north of my electorate, brought to a head by the
decision of Red Cross to provide food parcels to
the Fregon community. Fregon is not substantial... ... more
Posted on Wednesday, 17 August, 2011
Mr RAMSEY (Grey) (16:56): by leave—I rise as Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Education and Employment. I support the chair's remarks and thank her for them. They were a true and accurate representation of the committee's deliberations. As she stated, submissions were provided by six organi... ... more
Posted on Wednesday, 17 August, 2011
Mr RAMSEY (Grey) (20:20): I rise to speak on the National Health Reform Amendment (National Health Performance Authority) Bill 2011. Just before I begin, I am just drawn to comment on the remarks by the member for Fraser, who suggested that the opposition had become a fringe opposition. I su... ... more