Oct 31, 2014 | Homepage, Media, Speeches
Check against delivery It’s a pleasure to join you this morning. This is a special occasion as we celebrate five decades of the Faculty of Education at this university. 1964 was an interesting year: The Beatles toured Australia; The first edition of our first national...
Oct 30, 2014 | Homepage, Media, Speeches
Check against delivery Welcome to Parliament House. These walls usually echo with the sound of speeches and debates, and occasionally raised voices and misbehaviour. But very soon, the more pleasant sound of singing voices will ring out as all of you sitting here join...
Oct 30, 2014 | Homepage, Media, Media Releases
Senator the Hon Scott Ryan, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education, welcomed 850 ACT students to Parliament House as part of Australia’s largest school sing-a-long, the 2014 national celebration for Music: Count Us In. The ACT school students were...
Oct 29, 2014 | Homepage, Media, Transcripts
Topics: Tax reforms, fuel excise indexation, refugee resettlement in Nauru. E&OE… CHRIS HAMMER We’re joined now in the studio by Liberal Senator, Scott Ryan, from Victoria and Michelle Rowland, Labor MP from Greenway. Good morning to you both. SENATOR SCOTT RYAN...
Oct 28, 2014 | Homepage, Media, Transcripts
Topics: Fuel excise indexation, Australian troops in the Middle East. E&OE… Rafael Epstein So the Federal Government is going to reintroduce indexation to your fuel tax bill – it means your fuel tax bill is going up. Is it an essential new tax – something we...