Nov 28, 2018 | Homepage, Media, Media Releases, Senate
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT Parliamentary Behaviour 28 November 2018 The PRESIDENT (09:31): Senators, when parliament resumed in August this year, we discussed certain events in June and committed to reflecting our better selves in this...
Nov 27, 2018 | Homepage, Media Releases, Senate
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT 27 November 2018 The PRESIDENT (16:11): I’m going to make an observation before I call another senator. I had hoped I would never use that standing order. I can’t remember when it was last used. I think it...
Nov 27, 2018 | Homepage, Media, Speeches, Speeches
Book Launch of ‘The Land of Dreams’ by David Kemp 27 November 2018 Check against delivery Well thank you for that address, David. It is a great privilege for the Speaker and I to be here with our friend, and mentor to so many of us in the Victorian...
Nov 9, 2018 | Homepage, Media, Speeches, Speeches
Mr Speaker, distinguished guests, Philip, Lynn, Margaret, Ted Baillieu, ladies and gentlemen. In 1919, as the first anniversary of the Armistice approached, an Australian journalist working in London at the time by the name of Edward Honey was one of the first to...
Oct 24, 2018 | Homepage, Media, Speeches, Speeches
[Check against delivery] The Honourable Julia Gillard, Mr Speaker, colleagues, Mr Fantauzzo, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. In the early years of Federation, one of the most vocal advocates of a formal artistic commemoration of key people and events was...
Aug 29, 2018 | Homepage, Speeches, Speeches, Transcripts
49th Alfred Deakin Lecture Wednesday 29 August, 2018 David P Derham Theatre, The University of Melbourne (check against delivery) As a former trustee, it is a little daunting giving this address, the more so as a joint event with my colleague...
