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Entries for May 2010
31 May 2010 in Media
Speaking with Richard Marles on SkyNews AM Agenda - Monday 31 May, 2010
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29 May 2010 in Media
Speaking on Stateline about the implementation of the BER - Friday 28 May, 2010
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28 May 2010 in Footy Tips
Round Ten
Essendon v Western Bulldogs - Western Bulldogs
Geelong v Melbourne - Geelong
Port Adelaide v Richmond - Port Adelaide
Brisbane Lions v Collingwood - Collingwood
St Kilda v Adelaide Crows - St Kilda
Hawthorn v Sydney Swans - Hawthorn
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28 May 2010 in Speeches
Main Committee - CONSTITUENCY STATEMENT - Small Business Survey - Thursday, 27 May, 2010
Mr BRIGGS» (Mayo) (9:36 AM) —It is a pleasure to rise in this place this morning to talk about the small business survey I recently undertook with the 7,000-odd small businesses in my electorate of Mayo. Mayo has a very large small business base. It does not have a whole lot of large businesses but is a very typical Australian situation, with many small busin... »
27 May 2010 in Speeches
ADJOURNMENT - RESOURCE SUPER PROFITS TAX - Wednesday, 26 May, 2010
Mr Briggs (Mayo) (7:50 PM) —Over the last couple of days in this place we have seen this desperate Rudd Labor government try any tactic possible to divert the Australian people’s attention from their disastrous decision to impose a great big new tax on the Australian mining industry.
So desperate have the Prime Minister and his senior ministers become, they are now trying to damage the opposition’s campaign against thi... »
25 May 2010 in Media
18 local jobs at risk from Labor’s new mining tax
Labor’s new great big tax on mining is putting the jobs of 18 local workers at risk.
The Mulgundawa Salt mine has written to the Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan making it very clear that the new tax will impact enormously on the 140 year old mine putting a large question mark above its viability.
Recently the Mulgundawa Salt mine spent a million dollars upgrading the facility, an investment that will be completely wiped out according the operator... »
25 May 2010 in Speeches
APPROPRIATIONS BILL NO 1 & NO 2 - THE FEDERAL BUDGET 10/11 - Monday, 24 May, 2010
Mr BRIGGS (Mayo) (8:03 PM) —I rise to speak this evening on the Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2010-2011 in conjunction with the other appropriation bills before this place. In doing so I make the point that this budget highlights that you just cannot trust Labor with the nation’s finances. It quite clearly is the third consecutive budget where the Rudd government has failed to deliver a well thought through bud... »
25 May 2010 in Speeches
Private Members Time - REPORT ON THE INQUIRY INTO RAISING THE PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH RATE IN THE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY, Monday, 24 May, 2010
Mr BRIGGS (Mayo) (8:45 PM) —I rise in part to support the member for Dobell, the chair of the Standing Committee on Economics, who did a good job in managing this inquiry, as did Stephen Boyd and his assistants in the committee secretariat—Sharon Bryant, Chris Kane and Renee Burton—who helped enormously with what some might describe as a rather dry subject but a... »
25 May 2010 in Speeches
Private Members Motion - HEALTH REFORM, Monday 24 May, 2010
Mr Briggs (Mayo) (9:24 PM) —I understand completely why the member for Dobell would want to get New South Wales Labor out of the health system. I understand why he, as a New South Wales member, would want New South Wales Labor as far away as possible at the next federal election in a few months time because anything the New South Wales Labor Party has touched in recent times does not turn out to be all that good. So I can understa... »
25 May 2010 in Speeches
Main Committee - AUSTRALIAN WINE AND BRANDY CORPORATION AMENDMENT BILL 2009, Monday 24 May, 2010
Mr Briggs (Mayo) (5:23 PM) —The old saying that you learn something new every day is certainly true in this place. I learnt today that Queensland produces wine. I did not know that Queensland produced wine. I knew that they stole our water to do lots of things but I did not know wine was one of the things that they did with it.
Mr Hale interjecting—
Mr Briggs —Member for Solomon, I do not ... »