Speeches

I call on the Minister for Corrections to launch a full inquiry into youth detention. We want to know how we can stop failing our young people.

I recently joined Labor Loves Live Music to march with the 4,000-strong crowd through the streets of Sydney in support of our nightlife.

Paid domestic violence leave offers certainty where there would otherwise be none. It enables women and children to leave abusive relationships. It provides space and time for women to get themselves back on their feet.

Maintaining the best standards in public education must be the number one priority of government.

The Cook's River is in peril. And unsurprisingly, we have had nothing but secrecy and silence from this Government.

Every student has the right to feel safe at school, irrespective of their race, religious beliefs, gender identity or sexuality. 

It is clear that where this Government is concerned, innovation extends only so far as selling off something, and there is absolutely no limit to what it will privatise. Now the Government has put a price tag on the very system which underpins the ownership of our land.

The community accepts that the Government has a responsibility to protect the most vulnerable in our society. Ensuring that those entrusted with managing and collecting debt are properly licensed and subject to the highest levels of accountability and transparency is the very least that we can do.

We have an absurd situation where travelling by bus is now more expensive, despite being less reliable. Public transport is a basic right and making it more expensive will hit vulnerable people hardest.

Renters deserve to feel secure in their housing and I believe it is time for us to take a hard look at what we can do in this place to make that a reality.