Maleny Botanic Gardens Named Top QLD Tourist Attraction | Fisher Award Nominations
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 29 July 2025 Speaker: Member for Fisher. Andrew Wallace MP: Thanks, Madam Deputy Speaker. I’m proud today to inform the House that a major tourist development in my electorate of Fisher has been recognised as one of the best in Australia and the South Pacific. The Sunshine Coast’s Maleny Botanic Gardens and […]
National Security Cannot Be an Afterthought
House of RepresentativesDate: 28 July 2025 Speaker:I call the Member for Fisher. Andrew Wallace MP:Thanks, Madam Deputy Speaker. They say a country that doesn’t prioritise national security does so at its own peril. Nothing could be truer when it comes to this Albanese Labor Government. Under the so-called stewardship of the former Attorney-General in the […]
Labor’s Medicare Failures Are Hurting Everyday Australians
House of RepresentativesDate: 28 July 2025 Speaker:I call the Member for Fisher. Andrew Wallace MP:Thanks, Madam Deputy Speaker. I want to thank the Member for Lalor for giving me the opportunity to speak on Labor’s failings when it comes to Medicare. It’s important we separate reality from rhetoric. Everyone remembers the Prime Minister during the […]
Rebuilding, Reflecting and Fighting for Fisher in the 48th Parliament
House of RepresentativesDate: 23 July 2025 Speaker:I give the call to the Member for Fisher. Andrew Wallace MP:Thanks, Madam Deputy Speaker. It’s with great humility that I rise tonight to renew my promise to my electors, to my people in Fisher, that I will once again serve them in the best way that I can. […]
NOMINATION OF DEPUTY SPEAKER (Member for Longman)
House of RepresentativesDate: 22 July 2025 Speaker: Is there any further proposal? I give the call to the Member for Fisher. Andrew Wallace MP: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I move that the Member for Longman be elected Deputy Speaker of this House. Mr Speaker, the makeup of the Australian Parliament should be a microcosm of […]
Speech on my election as Speaker of the House of Representatives
I thank the Leader of the Opposition. I want to begin by paying tribute to the service of the former Speaker the honourable member for Casey. The former Speaker is acknowledged by all of us to have been one of the very best to ever have taken this chair.
Mobile Payment & Digital Wallets
Australia’s payment ecosystem is of a foundational importance to Australia’s economy and society, supporting around 55 million payments, worth up to $650 billion, each day.
SMEAC Camp X-Ray
Near the Ewen Maddock Dam in Fisher is a campsite which once educated thousands of school students every year. Today it lies empty, but one dedicated group of Fisher veterans have a bold vision for how this campsite can make a difference in our region once again.
MIE Labs – Encouraging young people in STEM
My mission is to help make the Sunshine Coast the place to be for education, employment and retirement. To make that a reality as we look forward from COVID-19, we need to encourage growth in new sectors, like health care and high-tech manufacturing, and we need to ensure local young people are ready to take on the smart jobs of the future in these sectors on the Sunshine Coast. That’s why recently I was pleased to deliver a grant of $524,455 from the Morrison government to the MIE Lab project, organised by dedicated University of the Sunshine Coast lecturer Natalie McMaster.
Timber Shortages
I begin by thanking the member for Eden-Monaro for giving an old carpenter and joiner like me a chance to speak here in parliament about one of my favourite subjects. Like the most famous scene from Forrest Gump where Forrest receives a lesson from his new army buddy Bubba about the many different ways shrimp can be cooked and eaten, I could take a lot longer than five minutes telling the chamber all about timber—how it’s grown, the different species and how it’s used—but, out of consideration for members present, I will restrain myself. However, I will not have any suggestion that we talk about wood, because we all know you put wood in a fire and you build things with timber.