Speeches
Shadow Ministerial Statement - Congo Air Crash
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Ms JULIE BISHOP (Curtin—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (3.49 pm)—On indulgence, we in the coalition support the government’s efforts in this very difficult and complex task of retrieving bodies from this tragic event that occurred in Africa last weekend.Shadow Ministerial Statement - Congo Air Crash
Monday, 21 June 2010
Ms JULIE BISHOP (Curtin—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (2.03 pm)—On indulgence, on behalf of the coalition, I confirm that we join with the government in expressing our deep concerns about the safety of the passengers aboard the charter flight from Cameroon which failed to reach its destination in the Congo yesterday.Keynote address to the Institute of Chartered Accountants Business Forum, Perth
Monday, 12 April 2010
Energy and the Future for Western Australia
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Good morning distinguished guests and delegates, Chartered Accountants all.
Mike, I am in fact a director of the West Coast Eagles and yet I am still delighted to be at your Business Forum in Perth today!
Recently, a mining engineer from Great Britain came out to Australia to take up a job on one of the big resource projects in the North West. He boarded a light plane at Perth airport (this is a true story) with an executive from his new employer mining company and off they headed north.Shadow Ministerial Statement – Sri Lanka
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Ms JULIE BISHOP (Curtin) (4.09 pm)—In rising to respond to the ministerial statement on Sri Lanka I acknowledge the further assistance to Sri Lanka announced today by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. It is important that our aid effort be focused on our region and that it be targeted and delivered in the most costeffective way to ensure value for money for the benefit of the aid recipients and the Australian taxpayer.Shadow Ministerial Statement – Zimbabwe
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Ms JULIE BISHOP (Curtin) (4.01 pm)—It is with a heavy heart that I rise to speak to this House again in response to the ministerial statement on the situation in Zimbabwe. After a period of optimism last year when the world hoped that a power-sharing agreement between President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party and Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change would bring a stability to Zimbabwe that would lead over time to relative peace and hopefully a degree of prosperity for this nation that has been devastated politically, economically and socially for decades, that optimism is fading fast with the view that the power-sharing arrangement appears to be going nowhere. The situation appears to be rapidly deteriorating with recent reports that the power-sharing pact has indeed broken down, possibly irretrievably.More Articles...
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