Mr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (16:21): On 13 August, I was very pleased to welcome back the 143rd Crystal Brook Show, which had had a couple of years off because of COVID. The show was opened by the newly decorated Commonwealth marathon gold medallist, Jess Stenson, and it was wonderful to have her in Crystal Brook on…
Mr RAMSEY (Grey) (10:06): I’m going to take this opportunity to add to my comments from last night on the cashless debit card and its rollout. I said at the time that I thought it was pretty sad that the first urgent bill the government had to get through the parliament was on the cashless debit…
Mr RAMSEY (Grey) (17:21): Let me say from the outset that a reduction of 43 per cent of CO2 emissions by 2030 on 2005 levels is an admirable target. It is a good target. It may be ambitious but it is an admirable target. It has already been adopted by the government and they have submitted…
Mr RAMSEY (Grey) (13:39): The government has introduced legislation regarding two weeks leave for domestic and family violence. I’d like to lay on the record that I am supportive of the concept, but I am not supportive of the concept that it should be funded by the employer. I think there is a whole lot of…
Mr RAMSEY (Grey) (21:07): I must say, as I stand here today as the member for Grey but also the member for Ceduna, how saddened, deeply apprehensive and angry I am about the gutting of the cashless debit card. To understand the origin of the cashless debit card, I think the House needs to know about…
Mr RAMSEY (Grey) (17:31): This bill purports to be about territory rights. It is, in my view, a very clean handball. It is in fact about voluntary euthanasia. I think there is only one outstanding issue around state rights, or territory rights in this case, and it is voluntary euthanasia. As you would well know, Madam…
Mr RAMSEY (Grey) (11:45): I thank the member for Mayo for bringing this important issue forward. Certainly I would have to say in the last six or 12 months as I’ve travelled around my electorate the No. 1 issue when I walk into a business has been, ‘We can’t get enough workers.’ It’s repeated whether it’s…
Mr RAMSEY (Grey) (19:03): Deputy Speaker Claydon, I, like many others, add my congratulations to your elevation to that position. The address-in-reply by Governor-General David Hurley is good reading. It was good to listen to, and I listened to it intently. I’d like to thank him for that contribution. It’s obviously a document prepared on government…
Mr RAMSEY (Grey) (16:31): Sadly, I’m not quite sure that the new government is actually getting the urgency of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Indonesia, including in Bali. Last week I attended a briefing from the minister. I learned something from that briefing: if we get an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Australia—just one outbreak—our…
In his first speech to the new Parliament Member for Grey Rowan Ramsey has called on the Albanese Government to move quickly and match the Coalition’s $10m commitment to Helping Hand in Whyalla to extend and upgrade the Yeltana and Copper House Court facilities. “While the Coalition committment was not matched by the Labor Party…