Mark Coulton I rise this evening to speak on the establishment of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. It is a significant and necessary reform. This bill, the National Disability Insurance Scheme Bill 2012, has bipartisan support. I have been listening to the contributions of my colleagues on both sides of the House, and much has…
DetailsMark Coulton I rise tonight to briefly voice my opposition to this National Gambling Reform Bill 2012. My views on this are well and truly on the record, but I do want to reinforce my position. I do not play poker machines-and, quite frankly, to me, this bill is not about poker machines. This…
DetailsI follow my friend and colleague the member for Shortland. While I appreciate her contribution I am afraid she is grossly out of touch with the sentiment that is flowing through Landcare organisations right throughout Australia. Indeed, I have spent much of the last 12 months visiting Landcare groups and natural resource management groups from…
Details21 August 2019 MARK COULTON: Look, thank you Philip and Danny for your introduction, and it’s certainly great to be here. The room’s full of dignitaries. It’s dangerous starting to recognise people, but I’d certainly like to recognise my former boss and the chair of the ARTC, Warren Truss; Dr John McVeigh, the local Member…
DetailsI would like to thank the member for Fremantle for bringing this motion into the House and having such an important issue debated in this place. I would also like to acknowledge the fact that the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, at the Rotary conference in Sydney a couple of weeks ago, committed Australia to another…
DetailsMr COULTON (Parkes–The Nationals Chief Whip) (18:57): The Parkes electorate is an ideal place for the generation of solar energy. It has been identified as having the ideal amount of sunshine as a location for this. Indeed, a good number of my constituents have taken to the concept of solar energy and renewable energy with…
Details16 October 2023 Mr COULTON (Parkes—Chief Nationals Whip) (18:42): I too rise tonight to speak in support of the motion by the member for Barker pointing out that the length of the government’s 90-day infrastructure review has now stretched out to nearly double that amount. This is causing an enormous amount of grief and heartache…
Details13 February 2023 Mr COULTON (Parkes—Chief Nationals Whip) (17:25): I’d be very happy to second the motion. I’d like to thank the member for Macarthur for bringing this to the House. It’s a subject very close to my heart. As someone who represents a western New South Wales electorate with great exposure to the sun,…
Details20 March 2023 Mr COULTON (Parkes—Chief Nationals Whip) (18:35): I think it’s time for a bit of history revision in this place. I want to remind the members present that I actually voted for the Murray-Darling Basin Plan when it came through in 2012. I’ll take the member for Makin up on his point that…
Details6 March 2023 Mr COULTON (Parkes—Chief Nationals Whip) (18:38): I’m also very pleased to back my friend and colleague the member for Riverina on this very important motion about the PALM scheme. I pay tribute to the member for Riverina, who has taken the task of engagement with the Pacific nations very seriously and has…
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