News

Media

The latest news and media from Josh Wilson MP

Filter media: NewsOpinionSpeechesTranscripts
Speeches
November 27, 2018

Action on climate change

Mr Wilson (4:13pm) — The people I represent want to see action on climate change. They know that rising carbon emissions have affected our climate and that our planet has already warmed significantly as a result of human activity. They know it’s vital that we keep global temperatures well below two degrees, so they expect government […]

Read more...
Speeches
November 26, 2018

NBN Committee Report: rural and regional areas

Mr Wilson (3:55pm) — by leave — I’m glad also to make some comments on the report of the Joint Standing Committee on the NBN, a report focused, as the chair has described, on the rollout of the NBN in rural and regional areas. It followed from the work that the committee did on that topic […]

Read more...
Speeches
November 26, 2018

The importance of local government

On Sunday I was at the George Street Festival in East Fremantle, which has been going for nearly 30 years. On the Friday before that I was at Yangebup Family Centre in Cockburn, which provides both child care and social inclusion programs for seniors. Earlier in the same week I met representatives of Friends of […]

Read more...
News
November 19, 2018

Joint Standing Committee Report into Regional NBN

Of primary concern to the Committee was evidence given about the deterioration of NBN’s Fixed Wireless service, most likely due to congestion issues. The regrettable decision by NBNCo to reduce its fixed-line footprint and instead over-subscribe the fixed-wireless network has compounded this problem, leaving regional Australians worse off in the short-term, and taxpayers worse off […]

Read more...
News
November 7, 2018

Environmental protection and transport clarity

This long-awaited move will help secure the environmental protection of a rare and precious wetland. It also underpins the clarity and commitment the WA government has shown to a range of sensible and necessary transport projects in the Fremantle electorate, including the widening of the freeway, the construction of the North Lake Road bridge, the […]

Read more...
Speeches
September 20, 2018

Young people are engaged in politics

That is the critical thing. You can choose not to be interested in politics and government, but you can’t choose not to be affected by it. Young people should be active in shaping their future and contributing their ideas and their leadership. Fair enough, there are times when you’d be forgiven for being cynical, but […]

Read more...
Speeches
September 19, 2018

Government Procurement Bill 2018

Mr Wilson (4:44pm) — I am glad for the opportunity to speak on this bill, the Government Procurement (Judicial Review) Bill 2017, and to speak in support of the amendment moved by the member for Rankin. I acknowledge the work that he has done and continues to do in this space. Government procurement in Australia is […]

Read more...
Speeches
September 19, 2018

Oil stocks contracts

At the end of the day, this arrangement is about fuel security. It’s about Australia’s fuel stocks and, to put it simply, we’re not in a very good place. Our situation, when it comes to liquid fuel reserves, is parlous. We are a member of the International Energy Agency. There are 30 member countries around […]

Read more...
Speeches
September 17, 2018

Alcoa workers’ strike

Make no mistake: as they stand, the rules of our industrial system are seriously out of whack with our values, and, what’s more, the poor function of those rules is contributing to the broad economic malaise caused by stagnant real wages in this country. We cannot have a situation where a workforce has their existing […]

Read more...
Speeches
September 13, 2018

Trade agreements need much more scrutiny

The trade and economic benefits are minimal and it has some very serious shortcomings that speakers in this debate have identified. It has some regional plurilateral benefits as an agreement that binds together countries in the Pacific, but it could have been so much better. As we debate it and we consider the way forward, […]

Read more...