Speeches
Address to the Australia–China Sister Cities Summit / Australia–China Business Summit Welcoming Luncheon
Monday, 31 August 2009
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Hon Ken Smith MP, Hon Henry Tsang MP (introductory comments)
I am very pleased to have the opportunity to speak at this summit that is focussed on sister cities and on friendship cities. Sister city relationships have made a fundamental and essential contribution to the growing ties between our two countries.
Let me give you an example. I come from Western Australia and the City of Perth has had a long standing Sister City relationship with the City of Nanjing in China. Over the past 10 years there have been exchanges of performing artists, students, business people, university delegations between the Nanjing University and the University of Western Australia, with dance troupes, art exhibitions, trade and investment missions, economic and goodwill delegations that have flowed between the two cities of Perth and Nanjing.
Parliamentary Statement - World Humanitarian Day
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
Ms JULIE BISHOP (Curtin) (4.06 pm)—Mr Speaker, on indulgence, the United Nations has designated 19 August as World Humanitarian Day. On this day six years ago, Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the special representative in Iraq for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, was killed along with 21 others in a bomb attack on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad. In a world wearied by terrorist attacks, this shocking bomb attack reverberated around the world.Shadow Ministerial Statement - Afghanistan and Pakistan
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Ms JULIE BISHOP (Curtin) (5.01 pm)—The coalition welcomes the government’s commitment to a region that is critical for Australia and for the world. The coalition supports strongly the work of Australian military and civilian personnel serving in Afghanistan. It is important that bipartisan support endures for this work because it will require a long-term commitment if the NATO-led mission to Afghanistan is to be successful, which also has major implications for stability within Pakistan—a country with nuclear capability.Shadow Ministerial Statement – 60th Anniversary of the Four Geneva Conventions of 1949
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
Ms JULIE BISHOP (Curtin–-Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (11.19am)– The coalition supports this motion that recognises the 60th anniversary of the four Geneva conventions of 1949, which are the foundation of modern international humanitarian law. After the horror of World War II and the devastation that occurred in many parts of the world, the international community agreed that every effort should be made to ensure that the degradations inflicted on soldiers and civilians should never again be allowed to occur.Parliamentary Statement - PNG plane crash
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
JULIE BISHOP (Curtin—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (10.26 am)—Mr Deputy Speaker, on indulgence: on behalf of the opposition I join with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the government in expressing our deep concern about the reports of this plane crash in Papua New Guinea. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of those who were reportedly on this plane.More Articles...
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