31 March 2021 Thank you Vice Chancellor Martin Bean for having me at your RMIT city campus, and congratulations on your contribution to this great university. I wish you well on your next chapter when you finish up here in a few months. Thank you also for the introductory remarks from the Hon Phil Honeywood.…
Speech 26 February 2021 Acknowledgements I am delighted to join you all today — here at our second oldest university, one of our great research institutions, and my alma mater. This is my first major speech on higher education since becoming Education Minister just before Christmas last year. I want to use it to…
MENZIES RESEARCH CENTRE MELBOURNE, 9 OCTOBER 2018 A little over a month ago, Prime Minister Morrison created a new portfolio which merged population policy with urban infrastructure and cities policy. It made a lot of sense to combine these three areas as they are so interconnected. Population growth, for example, is the major reason for…
HON ALAN TUDGE MP Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs Speech to the Menzies Research Centre Sydney, 7 March 2018 *** Check against delivery *** The Prime Minister is surely right when he states that Australia is the most successful multicultural country in the world. More people from more countries have come here to start…
The Hon Alan Tudge MP Minister for Human Services “NO CHILD WILL LIVE IN POVERTY” – 30 YEARS LATER, A NEW DIRECTION SPEECH TO THE CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT STUDIES SYDNEY 20 JULY 2017 Check against delivery Acknowledgements… Thirty years ago, almost to the day, the then Prime Minister Bob Hawke…
Check against delivery One of the defining characteristics of a modern prosperous country is a strong social security safety net so that when people are down on their luck, we look after them. This has been a feature of Australian society for many decades and we should be collectively proud that our system saves…
**Check against delivery** Acknowledgements His Excellency the Honourable Hieu Van Le, Governor of South Australia Carmel Franklin, Chair Financial Counselling Australia Fiona Guthrie, CEO of Financial Counselling Australia Delia Rickard, Deputy Chair of the ACCC Peter Kell, Deputy Chair of ASIC Commonwealth Ombudsman, Colin Neave State and Territory…
PARLIAMENT HOUSE, Canberra: The Prime Minister eloquently began his national security statement last week in the following way: When innocent people are dying at the hands of violent extremists, no matter where in the world this is happening, hard questions are asked of societies like our own—hard questions for which there are no easy answers.…
PARLIAMENT HOUSE, Canberra: Australia is in the midst of an ice epidemic. Every state and local government is affected, with the devastating effects of ice destroying young people and families across the country. Unfortunately the Knox municipality, which coincides broadly with the boundaries of my electorate of Aston, is not immune. In fact Knox has…
PARLIAMENT HOUSE, Canberra:Mr Speaker, may I congratulate you on your election to this high office. Labor are experts at peddling false information about the government’s policies. As we know, they will suggest that we have cut things when we have in fact increased the funding. They peddle misinformation in relation to our industrial relations policy.…