The Government’s proposal to ban live sheep export has spurred the Coalition Agricultural Policy Committee to the speak to the industry directly to give them a platform to send their reaction to the Government back to Canberra. Member for Grey Rowan Ramsey chairs the policy committee and said the Albanese Government’s determination to abolish the…
DetailsMr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (13:48): I present a petition that has been considered by the Petitions Committee and found to be in order. The principal petitioner, my constituent Barbara Shearer of Cleve, has collected 144 signatures to support a petition urging the government to reconsider its decision to introduce 60-day dispensing, which disproportionately impacts regional pharmacies.…
DetailsMr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (19:00): Just as the schoolchildren of the 19th century chanted, the collective pants of this Labor government are on fire. From the first time Mr Albanese and his Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, used the weasel words, ‘We have not changed our position,’ when pressed on tax cuts, we can assume they had already…
DetailsContinuing reports of escalating lawlessness and violence in Ceduna have prompted Federal Member for Grey Rowan Ramsey to speak in Parliament and urge Minister for Social Services Amanda Rishworth to visit the community unannounced. “I am so disheartened to hear reports of increased anti-social behaviour in Ceduna,” he said. “Ceduna has been a beautiful regional community, a wonderful tourist destination and a safe community in which to live. …
DetailsMr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (19:50): I take this opportunity to acknowledge the life and the contribution of Barry Hugh Wakelin, OAM, my predecessor and former Liberal Member for Grey from 1993 to 2007, who passed away on 19 December last year following a devastating cancer diagnosis. Barry was born in my hometown of Kimba in South…
DetailsMr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (13:53): I rise to acknowledge an extraordinary Australian, Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue, who was born in my electorate of Grey and passed away 4 February at age 91. Dr O’Donoghue was a Yankunytjatjara woman who was born in Indulkana—in what is now the APY Lands—in northern South Australia, and was the youngest of five.…
DetailsMr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (16:18): It gives me no pleasure to be here today raising the issue, once again, of Ceduna. It’s a beautiful town in the far west of my electorate, with a population of about 3,200, 25 per cent of whom are Indigenous. It also services a number of outlying remote Indigenous communities—Oak Valley…
DetailsMr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (13:30): Today is World Diabetes Day, and I am co-chair of the Parliamentary ‘enemies of diabetes’ Group with my friend the member for Moreton, Graham Perrett, who we will be hearing from in a moment. In 2023 the campaign focuses on the importance of knowing the risk of type 2 diabetes, to…
DetailsMr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (11:30): Let me say from the outset how surprised, shocked and disappointed I was that the government decided to cancel the Stronger Communities Programme. In my experience, and I’ve been here quite a while, I’ve never seen a program that managed to have such a multiplier effect. These were small grants going…
DetailsMr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (12:27): I support the opposition’s premise that this should be debated now. I’m grateful that the Senate dealt with this last week and got what I’d say are the good parts of the government’s bill debated and through. It seems to be a tendency of this government to mix up the good…
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