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October 21, 2019

National leadership needed to solve waste crisis

Mr Wilson (7:30pm) — There is a waste crisis in Australia that has been brought into focus by the decision taken by China and other countries to stop receiving our plastic rubbish. The import ban has been driven by the recognition in China and elsewhere that a number of so-called recycling operations in those countries have […]

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October 16, 2019

Independent analysis key to good trade agreements

Mr Wilson (10:46am) — I’m glad to have the opportunity to speak on report 186 of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, which deals with two preferential trade agreements, the first with Hong Kong and the second with Indonesia. I’ll say something brief about each agreement in a minute, but I want to begin by making […]

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October 15, 2019

Prime Minister has no plan for cornerstone policy – Cancels COAG

The Prime Minister used his recycling and plastics agenda as the cornerstone of his so called practical environmentalism, and to justify his comprehensive failure to lower emissions at the United Nations recently. After hanging the Government’s international and domestic credibility on his recycling agenda, the Prime Minister needs to come clean on his cancellation of […]

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October 14, 2019

Liberals still snubbing the West

WA is a remarkable and distinctive place, as others have noted. With only 11 per cent of the population, it accounts for 42 per cent of Australia’s merchandise exports, 15 per cent of GDP and an incredible array of arts, cultural and sporting output. We need and deserve funding and policy support that’s specific to […]

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October 1, 2019

Roe 8/9 is a Fraud

Roe 8/9 has no design or feasibility study Roe 8/9 is a privately operated toll road  Roe 8/9 cuts communities in half Roe 8/9 is the first step to selling Freo Port

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September 26, 2019

Labor and community to send message to PM on Newstart

The petition was launched by Shadow Minister for Social Services Linda Burney and local Federal Labor MP Josh Wilson, in Fremantle today. The launch of the petition comes a week before submissions to the parliamentary inquiry into the adequacy of Newstart close on Monday. And last week, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released its labour […]

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September 26, 2019

UN IPCC SPECIAL OCEANS REPORT

MEDIA RELEASE: UN IPCC Special Oceans Report There is no beating around the bush, the IPCC’s findings are confronting and dangerous for Australia’s future, especially our treasured coastline. Just a few of the projected findings include: Extreme sea level events that used to occur once a century will strike every year on many coasts by […]

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September 17, 2019

Sheep trade can thrive without live export

Mr Wilson (7:09pm) — I support the second reading amendment moved by the member for Hunter. In the great filing cabinet of Commonwealth law, the Inspector-General of Live Animal Exports Bill 2019 goes into the drawer marked ‘stupid mistakes with terrible consequences’. This bill recreates an Inspector-General of Live Animal Exports. Why? To provide oversight of […]

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September 17, 2019

Threatened species list continues to grow

Mr Wilson (4:25pm) — On 7 September in my electorate of Fremantle, and around Australia, we marked National Threatened Species Day. It’s always an important occasion because Australian species, both flora and fauna, are under threat. Indeed, since the time of European settlement, more than 130 species have disappeared. They are gone forever. And the list […]

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September 16, 2019

Waste management needs national leadership

Mr Wilson (5:20pm) — It is certainly time for the Australian government to get serious about the issue of waste and resource management, because it’s a grave matter of environmental degradation and it’s a clear market failure. It’s also a missed opportunity in terms of innovation and new jobs in manufacturing. In terms of the current […]

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