Mr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (20:43): The rise of atmospheric CO2 levels from 290 parts per million in about 1900 to 414 in 2021 is indisputable. The last time CO2 reached these levels in the atmosphere was about four million years ago. While the effects of these levels on the environment are debatable, most would agree it’s…
DetailsMr 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.…
DetailsMr 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…
DetailsMr 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…
DetailsMr 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…
DetailsMr 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…
DetailsMr 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…
DetailsMr 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…
DetailsMr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (16:51): Last Friday was an anniversary for me and a number of other people in this place, including the member for Parkes, who is sitting in front of me. We’ve been here for 15 years. For the entire period that I’ve been here, I have been on about the disparity in health…
DetailsMr RAMSEY (Grey—Opposition Whip) (19:50): We’ve all seen the high-profile cybertheft stories regarding Optus and Medibank Private, and unfortunately that’s just the tip of the iceberg. I’m receiving increasing reports from people who’ve been scammed—losses in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, people losing their life savings. And recently I was contacted by a service business…
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