Speeches
Address to the In The Zone: “Crisis Opportunity and the New World Order” Conference
Monday, 09 November 2009
Plenary Session: “Foreign Investment and Sovereignty: a domestic perspective”
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Australia has long been a beneficiary of foreign investment, in fact throughout our history Australia has welcomed foreign investment from the UK, the United States, Japan and elsewhere.
A Senate Report into Foreign Investment in Australia tabled mid year concluded that it was in Australia’s interests to welcome foreign investment as it generates a range of potential benefits including productivity and competitiveness through the provision of new technology, specialist knowledge, marketing expertise, access to global supply chains, access to capital, and domestically it can result in increased tax receipts and higher incomes.Address to the Australia-Korea Leadership Forum, Seoul
Thursday, 05 November 2009
Australia-Korea Security Cooperation
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Over the past week I have had the opportunity to take part in high level meetings in Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul. While a range of topics were discussed, it has given me a contemporary perspective for our discussions today.
Australia and South Korea are considered global middle powers. We are remarkably similar in size in terms of our economies, with Australia’s GDP the 14th largest in the world and South Korea’s the 15th largest.
Matter of Public Importance - The chaos caused by the failure of the Government’s border protection policies
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Ms JULIE BISHOP (Curtin—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (4.21 pm)—The Prime Minister has lost control of Australia’s border protection system. He refuses to take responsibility for the chaos that he has caused. If we needed any further evidence that the government’s border protection policy is in chaos, just look at what has happened over the last 10 days. An Australian Customs vessel has on board 78 asylum seekers. According to the Prime Minister, he made a deal with the President of Indonesia for those asylum seekers to be taken onshore in Indonesia. Ten days later, the Australian Customs vessel is still at sea, the 78 asylum seekers are still on board and there is no solution in sight. There is no leadership and no responsibility.Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme [No 2] Bill 2009
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Ms JULIE BISHOP (Curtin—Deputy Leader of the Opposition)(10.30 am)—The great American statesman Abraham Lincoln once said:
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
The Prime Minister should take into account those words as he forces Australians into an emissions-trading scheme that will cost jobs, that will harm industries, that will send industries offshore and yet will do nothing to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. This Prime Minister’s approach to emissions trading has nothing to do with the environment or climate change. This debate at this time is not about reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Prime Minister does not have an environmental agenda, he has a political agenda.Shadow Ministerial Statement - Natural events in the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Samoa, Tonga and Indonesia
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Ms JULIE BISHOP (Curtin) (10.02 am)—On indulgence: the Pacific Ocean is the largest body of water on earth. Its name means ‘peaceful’ or ‘making peace’. It was originally named by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who described it as a calm and peaceful ocean. Many thousands of Australians have swum in its waters and travelled to its beautiful island nations. Whilst the vast majority of visitors to the islands have come away with wonderful memories of sandy beaches and warm water, most Australians are aware of the potential for the Pacific to be a danger to human life, mostly through the cyclones that batter the Pacific coastlines. We have been warned many times over the years about the dangers of earthquakes and volcanoes along the so-called rim of fire that circles the Pacific Ocean. Those dangers usually seem distant; however, natural disasters can strike without warning and with great ferocity.More Articles...
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