Speech – National Disability and Carer Congress – 2 May 2011
MITCH FIFIELD: Thanks very much Rhonda. There’s a lot of you here today! But I’ve got to say as I look around the room, I don’t see an audience…
2nd Reading Speech – Human Services Legislation Bill 2011 – 10 May 2011
Senator FIFIELD (Victoria-Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) (13:4 6): I rise to speak on the Human Services Legislation Amendment Bill 2011. This bill continues a program of reform…
2nd Reading Speech – Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Provisional Voting) Bill 2011 – 10 May 2011
Senator FIFIELD (Victoria-Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) (18:09): I rise to speak on the Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Provisional Voting) Bill 2011. The coalition’s key concern when it…
2nd Reading Speech – Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Enrolment and Prisoner Voting) Bill 2011 – 11 May 2011
Senator FIFIELD (Victoria-Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) (10:58): I rise to speak on the Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Enrolment and Prisoner Voting) Bill 2010. This bill seeks to…
Rearrangement of Business Speech – Government’s administrative incompetence – 24 March 2011
Senator FIFIELD (Victoria-Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) (12.12 pm)-This motion is yet another demonstration of this government’s absolute incompetence. The government’s administrative incompetence and their policy incompetence are…
Matters of Public Importance Speech – Carbon Tax – 23 March 2011
Senator FIFIELD (Victoria) (4.09 pm)-It has been said before, but I think it bears repeating, that this government formed office on the back of a lie. Julia Gillard put her…
2nd Reading Speech – FaHCSIA (Budget & Other Measures) Bill 2010 – 23 March 2011
Senator FIFIELD (Victoria-Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) (6.29 pm)-I rise to speak on the Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Budget and Other…
Speech – No Carbon Tax Rally – 12 March 2011
Address to the ‘No Carbon Tax’ Rally Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s Electorate Office Synnot Street, Werribee 12 March 2011 10:15am E & OE MITCH FIFIELD: We are gathered here today…
Condolence Motion – Victorian Floods – 8 February 2011
Senator FIFIELD (Victoria-Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) – It doesn’t seem so long ago that many of us rose in this place to try to articulate the unspeakable…
Speech – National Disability Services CEO’s Conference – 7 December 2010
ADDRESS TO NATIONAL DISABILITY SERVICES CEO’S CONFERENCE “The view from the Opposition” Rydges Lakeside, Canberra 7 December 2010 9:15am Introduction Could I acknowledge, – Tim Walton, President, National Disability Services…