I rise to inform the House of the recent 111th year celebrations at the Boonah show. Boonah is a community in my electorate of about 2,800 people situated roughly an hour and a half south-west of Brisbane. The community is in a predominantly rural precinct and has no ties to the resources sector. Before I…
I rise to speak on the three budget appropriation bills that are being debated concurrently. They include Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2011-2012, which is the primary budget bill to appropriate funds from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the ordinary annual services of government and related purposes. The total appropriation of this bill is $72.85 billion.…
A federal member of parliament has questioned the motives and direction of the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry. Federal Member for Wright Scott Buchholz, whose electorate covers the Lockyer Valley region that has dominated the inquiry recently, said he hopes Premier Anna Bligh is being honest when she claims public servants and emergency services…
Federal MP for Wright Scott Buchholz has labelled the federal budget a tragedy for the families of Wright and said people across the electorate are shocked and disappointed. He labelled it visionless and pointed out that the two billion dollar reduction in the family tax benefit will bring further hurt to family budgets already…
Federal Member for Wright Scott Buchholz has turned to social network site Facebook to interact directly with his constituents following this weeks federal budget. He has created a Facebook Page discussion forum and wants people in his electorate to tell him how the budget affects them. He has posed three questions: 1) How…
I rise to inform the House today of the difficulty of a number of sectors within my seat of Wright, firstly, the mums and dads who are struggling to cope with the ever-increasing cost of living. I was elected by those mums and dads on the basis that I would fight to get more money…
A first-time federal MP whose maiden parliamentary speech included a commitment to fight for more money in the pockets of mums and dads has made a passionate pre-budget plea to the Prime Minister. Member for Wright Scott Buchholz has spent most of his parliamentary career looking after the interests of the flood-devastated Lockyer Valley…
Nine thousand deaths is a figure which is unfathomable for us as a community here in Australia, with the possibility of 20,000 deaths to come. As a member, I find it hard to correlate that amount of devastation and destruction. In my experience in the seat of Wright on 10 January we experienced a wall…
Federal MP for Wright Scott Buchholz has appealed to the federal and Queensland governments to immediately fix the unacceptable delay in getting money to the victims of the Lockyer Valley floods, many who have still received nothing. Mr Buchholz labelled the State government incompetent in a speech to parliament yesterday. My people who…
I rise to inform Australians and this nation of the situation that is unfolding in my seat of Wright and, in particular, in the area of the Lockyer Valley. As people start to rebuild and try to regroup, they meet constant hurdles on a number of fronts, one predominantly being the frustration to do with…