RESILIENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF WRIGHT

I rise to inform the nation and the House of the resilience that the people in my electorate have shown in recent months. Earlier this year in January, we were disastrously impacted by the floods and we lost several lives in my electorate. Resilience has also been shown by the 36 dairy farmers who have…

AUDITOR GENERAL AMMENDMENT BILL 2011

I rise to speak on the Auditor-General Amendment Bill 2011 to amend the Auditor-General Act 1997. The coalition's main concern is that independent contractors will be subject to auditors from the Auditor-General if they receive government contr­acts. This would create an extra layer of bureaucracy and increase costs and convince many smaller contractors not to…