Mr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (09:42): I’d like to thank Senator Matt Canavan very much for his perseverance in getting the Senate’s Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee to do a year-long study into the closure of regional and rural banks. We’ve been particularly hard hit in South Australia and in the electorate of Grey.…
Mr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (12:11): Before I begin on the content of the bill, I might advise the member for Jagajaga to have a look at when Ford Australia and Mitsubishi Australia decided to pack up and leave the car manufacturing industry in this country, because it certainly wasn’t under a coalition watch. Then to come…
Mr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (16:13): Last week, I was very pleased to attend the opening of the new Balaklava pool. It was the first time that the kids in Balaklava had been able to have a swim for three years. It was funded under the BBRF—50 per cent funding, of about $1.58 million. I congratulate Mayor…
Mr RAMSE Y (Grey—Opposition Whip) (11:08): I rise to speak on these three bills—the Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023, the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council Bill 2023 and Treasury Laws Amendment (Housing Measures No. 1) Bill 2023. The opposition have announced that we will be supporting the latter two, so I will be confining my…
Mr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (13:45): Madam Deputy Speaker, with your tolerance, I have a small book with me, a child’s book. It’s called Just Like You, Only a Little More Different, and it was written by Brook Seal, a farmer from Kimba, about his son, Ziggy. Ziggy had a cardiac arrest two days after birth and…
Good reliable communications will ensure opportunities presented by digital innovation to the farming community and rural Australians will see our regions grow and prosper. Federal Member for Grey Rowan Ramsey is encouraging people in Grey to have their say and participate in an ACCC survey to better prepare Government for regional communication needs through the…
Three projects in Grey recognising the service of Australians in times of conflict will receive funding through the Saluting Their Service Program. Federal Member for Grey Rowan Ramsey said the Saluting Their Service is a source of funding available from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs for projects and activities that commemorate the service and sacrifice…
Federal Member for Grey Rowan Ramsey MP is calling on the Albanese Government to pay out $7.4m in promised funding to to upgrade two road projects in Grey saying Labor is failing local communities by allowing country roads to fall into disrepair. “Persistent wet weather throughout winter and spring, torrential rain events and flooding…
Mr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (16:00): From where I sit in regional Australia, all I can see is the dust from the ALP wheels as they skid back to the city. They’ve been in government for six months, and already they’ve slashed a heap of programs that were so beneficial to my electorate. In fact, I’ll point…
Mr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (13:48): Last Friday, I visited T-Ports at Lucky Bay, on the Eyre Peninsula, with a couple of parliamentary colleagues. T-Ports tranships grain from a relatively shallow port using a highly manoeuvrable small ship with a single 3,400 tonne hold; it’s quite a slick operation. They ship the grain about five kilometres for…