Tim Wilson
Goldstein · Liberal Party · Australia
“Now, we see even more immoral leadership as the Prime Minister and his ministers refuse to audit whether federal money has found its way into the hands of organised crime through the CFMEU Labor cartel.”
“The silence that we heard from our prime minister and our national leaders every step of the way led to horrific incidents like, on 10 November, the protests at the front of Central Shule in Caulfield South in the Goldstein electorate. It led eventually to the most horrific terrorist incident on our most famous national beach.”
“The idea that you would put the social solidarity of the most marginalised section of our community on a ballot paper knowing it would fail is an abrogation of leadership and responsibility and something I do not think this prime minister will ever be able to shake.”
“I've recently been spending a lot of time thinking about what moral government is and what type of government seeks to divide citizens, feed corruption and break trust within the community. The short and sharp of it is that it's an immoral government.”
“But to engage in citizenship stacking, where they deliberately went around and targeted electorates and got people to become Australian citizens on the eve of a national poll, is absolutely disgraceful.”
“There is hope. We can have a moral government again that's focused on uniting Australians and building trust and taking Australia forward together. But the only way we can do that is by seeing a change of government and the end of the Albanese government.”
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“Then it's superannuation through industry super funds so that their unions can control your retirement and your destiny. Or it's through the mechanisms of work so that they can control how much you're paid, when you're paid and how you work. They want to control you. But, more than anything else, Labor wants to create a nation of renters controlled by superannuation funds under their control so that the renters will always be dependent on housing stock that Labor directly own through the government or that they own through superannuation funds—so that they can control you. The Liberal vision is completely different. We fundamentally believe in empowering Australians. We want young Australians to be able to get a good education so they have the best chance they can have to go on and get a good career.”
“That's why, when the Prime Minister and the members of this government get up and speak about the virtues of what they claim they're doing in homeownership or in housing, they are so often explicitly focused on how they can control the population—how they can build housing so that they can control how you live your life. This is why, on this side of the parliament, we do not believe in so much of what they're trying to achieve in housing policy. We don't believe that housing policy should be a mechanism to control the Australian people. We believe that housing policy should be focused on how to empower the Australian people. At the centre of the Labor Party's agenda, there has always been a mechanism to control the Australian people. First, it's Labor wanting people to be dependent on welfare so that they can then control the recipients.”
“The solution the Labor Party wanted at the time was to build homes so that returned soldiers could forever rent off the Australian government. The socialist vision has always been one of dependence. The socialist vision and the Labor vision has always been one where they control the people of this country. The Liberal vision, by comparison, was always one where we wanted a nation of homeowners. We wanted to build the homes of the nation so that returned soldiers and their families and the future generations of this country would go on to own their own homes. That was the clear choice then, and that remains the clear choice now.”
“The Liberal vision of this country is that families will come together and own a chunk of this nation not just as the foundation of their security but that will become the wellspring of their future economic success, their security to be able to go on and contribute to the rest of their community and then to become part of the pillars and the foundation of the success of our nation. That's why homeownership matters so much. It's why it has always been one of the great cleaving points of our national political debate. At the end of the Second World War, when soldiers were coming back, the Labor Party faced a great big choice. The question was: how do we build the homes for returned soldiers who have sacrificed so much in defence of our country?”
“The promise of this great nation, the promise of Australia, was that we were going to be a nation where, through hard work, sacrifice and effort, you could own a share of it for yourself and your family as the foundation of your security and your future success. That continues to be the promise of this great nation today. The importance of homeownership is the greatest manifestation and reflection of it, as well as the family unit. That's the basis that I stand for, fight for and will continue to fight for into the future—homeownership. It is the very embodiment of the Liberal ideal.”
“It is such a privilege to be able to get up and speak to this motion, because homeownership is central to the vision we should want for our nation. When I think about the enduring strength of our country, all the way to its modern foundation, one of the key pillars that led to our foundation was the idea of the democratic ownership of our country. It has endured in comparison to European settlement, where many people came from the United Kingdom and they inherited a hereditary system of governance and land title and ownership based on privilege, based on your blood line. One of the great promises of this great country was that we were not going to be a nation where you were going to have your life determined based on who your parents or grandparents, all the way back through generations, were.”
“Unfortunately, we've seen come into the Goldstein office the twins of antisemitism and homophobia, but we are now seeing attacks of other sections of the community too. This is the lived reality of what happens when we tolerate extremism and see a failure of leadership. It spreads. This is why good people need to stand up. We've continued to see it, from what happened in Juniper Salon in Bentleigh, in the electorate of Goldstein, sadly, where people simply seeking to get a haircut experienced antisemitism. We have a choice. We can be a country of harmony, respect, dignity and stability or continue to pay a price as a nation.”
“But it's important to understand—while this is an important step two years too late, don't think it ends here. So many people are still living with the consequences of antisemitism—and will. I was speaking about this only recently, the other day at St Kilda shule. In particular, we often see that, in the outbreak of extremism that validates or gives a permissive environment for antisemitism, we see other types of degradation of other sections of the community. The expression so often used by the Jewish community is that they are the canary in the coalmine. We have seen extremism tolerated against the Jewish community. We have increasingly seen, particularly in Melbourne, a rise in homophobia as well.”
“But, more than anything else, they wanted the government to call out and show leadership, to know that the standard the Australian government, our Prime Minister and the rest of the government of the Commonwealth of Australia was prepared to walk past was a standard we were prepared to accept. We know the standard they were prepared to accept, and it's the reality that people are living with today. The consequence is now clear. As the member for Berowra, shadow Attorney-General and my dear friend has outlined, it has led to a situation where, two years after the coalition called for the IRGC to be listed as a terrorist organisation, finally, on the advice of ASIO, the government has been dragged kicking and screaming to listing them as a terrorist organisation.”
“We have seen it in east Melbourne as well as, of course, Miznon, in the city of Melbourne, where there have been attacks on restaurants, as there have been in the federal electorate of Wentworth as well. At every point, the Jewish community has been screaming out about the rise of antisemitism, and their expectations have been that they want their government on their side. That is not an unreasonable expectation of any Australian. Yes, they want moral support and they want people to stand by them. Where there is an issue with the law, yes, of course there is a reasonable expectation to make sure that there is a change in law.”
“From the steps of Sydney Opera House, where we had this absurd debate about whether people who were supporting Hamas were saying 'Gas the Jews' or 'Where are the Jews?' The solution from this parliament, this government, this Prime Minister wasn't simply to condemn antisemitism, which is an absolute disgrace and a stain on our nation. It has led to a prolific outburst and outbreak of antisemitism that Australians are still living with today. It then escalated and continued. We saw violent protests out the front of Central Shule Caulfield South, in the Goldstein electorate. We have seen graffiti, firebombing and, of course, the most explicit example of that at the Adass synagogue.”
“We heard these stories directly from members of the Jewish community recently at the launch of the book Ruptured at Glen Eira Town Hall. I was privileged to be at the launch and to have been given a copy of the book by the Union of Jewish Students during their recent leadership retreat in Canberra. In doing so, it goes through the stories and trauma of many of the local women in Goldstein and throughout Australia talking about their experiences since 7 October and how that trauma is not over. The tragic reality of antisemitism that started immediately after 7 October has not stopped.”
“This motion is of paramount importance, and I congratulate the member for Berowra for bringing it to the parliament's attention. There is a simple reality. In the two years since the October 7 attacks, we have seen an unprecedented rise in antisemitism in this country. It is an absolute tragedy that, of course, stains the history of our nation. But the reality is in the lived experiences of Jewish Australians, many of whom live within the federal electorate of Goldstein, the neighbouring federal electorate of Macnamara and, of course, throughout our great country. They have seen firsthand—and lived firsthand—the consequences of a failure of leadership that we have had, which started in this federal parliament and the Prime Minister's chair and so often through our state governments as well.”
“They buy their own home. They become masters of their own destiny. They create an opportunity for themselves and their families to get ahead. They then are in a position to go off, start a small business, truly become independent economic actors and go from little platoons to little capitalists and full economic participants in the Australian way of life. They are then able to invest in their future and be a part of the full economic success of our country. That is what we want—a nation that is not governed from Canberra down by big unions, big corporates, big capital, big superfunds and big government. We want a nation governed up from citizens, families, communities and homes. That is the Liberal vision for this country, and it is one that we are proud to stand by.”
“The government is making as much spin as they can to hide from the fact that they caused this crisis, they're part of this crisis, they're living this crisis and Australians are living the consequences of this crisis. It's time they owned up. It's time they lived with the consequences of it. It's time they fixed the consequences of it, and it isn't by mortgaging the future so that they can solve their political crisis. It's by empowering Australians to build out the next best wave of opportunity and excitement for future generations. That is what the coalition is here to do. The Liberal Party has always believed in the power and importance of homeownership. It goes to the core of the ethos of who we are because we know that, when people get a good education, they save. They get ahead. They work hard. They form a family.”
“She had no answers herself, except to borrow more from the future and mortgage Australians' futures to try and solve a problem to get her through an election. Well, they got through that election. There is no dispute about that. They then went to their tax hike summit only last week, and there was only one concrete policy that came out of it. It was to pause the National Construction Code, the coalition's policy that they ridiculed only months ago, because industry pointed out to them—and they were forced to listen in a humiliating backdown—that they were the source of the problems that Australia's construction industry face right now. So, yes, the government is doing a massive amount of work to bandaid the problems they have caused.”
“One of the reasons they've made housing such a central tenet of this week in parliament is that they have been shamed and embarrassed after their tax hike summit from last week—where their only concrete substantive outcome was to finally adopt a coalition policy, from the last election, that they ridiculed. Before the last election, the coalition put forward a simple proposition: to pause the National Construction Code so that builders could get on with building more housing, to address the national housing crisis that Australia faces right now. At the time, the housing minister ridiculed the proposition. She dismissed it and said it had no solution to being part of addressing our housing crisis in this country.”
“This is not a proud record for any government, let alone this government; whereas we got on with the job of building new homes. In the last period of the coalition government, we built close to 200,000 new homes a year. Under Labor it has dropped to barely 170,000 a year. Labor promised to build 1.2 million homes by 2029 in their National Housing Accord. Not only are they not going to get there but also they are now borrowing from the future—and mortgaging your future—so they have half a pathway to get there. We all know that. There is a point where mature adults need to stand up and point out that this government has no answers to the challenges and the problems that our nation faces.”
“It is the difference between our ambition for what we want to see, because the policies the Labor Party is putting forward now are to try to address the problems that they have created. They have no empathy, understanding or concern for the present challenges or for the challenges of future generations. They are spending more taxpayer money today than they have ever spent before, and they are building fewer homes than ever before. The $10 billion fund they legislated in the last parliament has currently built 17 new houses. They've wasted $43 billion of taxpayer money to make Australia's housing crisis even worse. In just three years, the government has presided over the biggest boom in Australia's population growth since the 1950s, while watching, witnessing and observing a historic housing construction collapse.”
“There is a reason for a brighter future. You can get a good education without crippling debt and without the government having to, then, come and forgive it because they created it. You can have a family. You can work hard and save. You can own a home. Do not believe Labor when they talk down your ambition. You are not destined to rent, as Labor would wish. You may not always start where you want to end, but homeownership is a dream that is lived by Australians every day. The promise of this nation lives and you are going to be part of it, and the Liberal Party is going to be there to cheer you on, to back you in, every step of the way. That is core to the difference between us and the Labor Party, our policies and the Labor Party's.”
“When you are an employee, you have a boss—and that is what they want. When you invest with industry super, they control your savings and retirement—and that is what they want. Labor wants to control you, because when they control you they can work between big business, big government and big unions to dictate the terms—and empower themselves. Liberals want to empower you. When you own your own home, you have agency and security. When you work, you have choices in your life. When you run a small business, you are your own boss. When you run a self-managed super fund, you control your retirement. Liberals want you to control your own destiny, and that is the fundamental divide that exists between both sides of this chamber. They are in power to control you. We are in office to empower you. Of course, there is hope.”
“They are not about agency, empowerment or determination for you. Homeownership is about more than bricks and mortar. It's about the type of country that we want to be, and this debate has gone on for decades. It might sound like it was all in the past, but this debate has been raging since after the Second World War. We needed to build houses so returned soldiers had somewhere to live. Then, Labor wanted homes to be rented off the government. Today, they want you to rent off a super fund. Then, Liberals wanted homes to be owned by you. Today, Liberals still want homes to be owned by you. Nothing has changed. The debate remains the same. Labor wants to control you. When you rent, you have a law—and that is what they want. When you are on welfare, you are dependent—and that is what they want.”
“What they see is a political gain, not a gain for the Australian people. Former RBA economist, Martin Eftimoski, has warned the expansion will jack up prices. He also said: The timing of the announcement and the movement of the announcement in particular I think will have a very stimulatory effect on the market. … … … Launching this policy now is like pouring gasoline on a fire. How proud the Labor party must be, because the Labor Party always finds a way to take more of working Australians' income to shove into a superannuation fund so that people can have a larger 67th birthday cake, but their only answer these days is to shovel more government control into people's homes. This is the problem with the priorities of the Labor party. It's always about control. The Labor Party are about controlling your life.”
“The next time a young Australian goes to bid for a house, and they see a price, they'll already think, 'Well, if the market pushes a little bit further, they'll have to add a GST equivalent on top of it just for the cost of Labor's legacy of their political spin.' The government are stealing the futures of young Australians, as some of my colleagues behind me are correctly observing, because they don't have a plan or vision for the future or a solution about how to get house prices to go down. This was a highly targeted scheme, originally. It was for low-income earners, to put them in a position, where they may not otherwise have been, to achieve their best ambition and their best dreams. By turbocharging it, as they have done, they are turbocharging the consequences of increasing house prices for every Australian, for no benefit.”
“We see this in the government's decision to actively encourage young Australians to take on more debt when they're not in a position, necessarily, to finance it. Independent economists are now warning that the consequences of uncapping the scheme are an increase in the cost of insurance and a rise in house prices for the next generation of Australians—all so the Labor Party can come into this House and boast about their success. Labor's distortion of the Home Guarantee Scheme will not achieve the objectives that they claim it will. What it will do is dump a $60 billion liability onto taxpayers and push house prices up by as much as 10 per cent.”
“We want to see young Australians cock their heads higher and look further to the distance, because we want young Australians not just to look at the challenges they face today but to look to the ambitions of what they can live tomorrow. But that isn't what we see from this government. Amongst the spin, the policy and the claims that they have put forward today—and that they continue to seek to put through in their claimed legislation—in practice, what they are doing is seeking to borrow from tomorrow to prop up their government today. They're gaslighting younger Australians as part of the process, every single day. What they're actually doing so often, tragically, is setting young Australians up for failure.”
“Homeownership goes to the core of what this nation is all about. It goes not just to bricks and mortar, which is central to economic security and the ambition that Australians have for what they want for themselves to be able to support their families throughout the stages of their working life and their retirement. It goes to the romantic ideals of who we are as a people and the idea about what we want to be as a country. It goes, centrally, to whether we want to be a nation with democratic ownership of our country, of the land that sits beneath our feet and the assets that we seek to build upon it. That is why the coalition is the party of homeownership. We want to be a nation of owners. We do not want a nation of renters.”
“A community pharmacy provides that care and support. But it can only do so if it has clarity and certainty to provide the support that the community needs, to run a viable business, to build the relationships with the patients they so desperately need and, of course, to be affordable and accessible as part of a long-term sustainable solution for our country. The only way we're going to achieve that is if we have a change of government that seeks to achieve the best interests of economic growth and long-term sustainable budget management to deliver the future success of this great nation.”
“When I think about the benefits of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, they go so much to older patients in our community as well. So many pensioners I talk to in Goldstein talk increasingly about the trade-offs they are making around access to medicines as part of their broader challenge of cost-of-living pressure, particularly in managing chronic conditions and increasingly managing the realities of co-morbidities across multiple stages of life when people are taking multiple medications, which only increases as people get older. Many years ago, the Productivity Commission did a study which looked at this and assessed that around a third of a person's entire health expenditure occurs in the last few stages of their life. It's no surprise. People need support. They need care, and they need care within their community.”
“What you hear about from these small businesses in the electorate is about people who are backing themselves and investing in the growth of their community and, more importantly, for the primary care services in their community. And, of course, they're also new Australian success stories in many cases. They're people who have been part of a migration, whether it is the first or second generation, who have invested in themselves and for the future of their community and their success. They just want to get ahead and support others. We should be wishing and willing them on. I would have thought that this parliament would want to provide them with the clarity and certainty to be able to do so, just like patients need certainty from this parliament too.”
“There's Malcolm Cosgriff and David Szylit at Beaumaris Pharmacy; Andre Beck at Bayside Pharmacy; Yu-Chun Shao from Gardenvale Pharmacy; Genya and Leon Fleischer from Priceline Pharmacy in Caulfield, Paul Krassaris, who's from Seaview Pharmacy in Beaumaris; Lysbeth and Francis Fong from Bentleigh Centre Pharmacy; Alexander Profus and Richard Needleman from Bentleigh Corner Pharmacy; Steve Zakkas, Azman Haroon and John Huynh from Chemist Warehouse in Bentleigh; Steven Christopoulos and Conor McAntee from Priceline Pharmacy in Bentleigh; Ke Ma, Chaoqun Wang and Bin Zhao from Priceline Pharmacy in Bentleigh East; Paul Pham from Nelson Pharmacy in Brighton East; Allan Bernhart from Hawthorn Road Pharmacy in East Brighton; and Michael Shapp from Soul Patterson Chemist in Elsternwick.”
“There are people like Simon Rankin from the Sandy pharmacy in Sandringham. He's been a long-term provider in the community and does an amazing job. There are people like Leah Bartolotta at Hampton Discount Chemist, Lili and Aviezer Jaworowski at Dendy Village Pharmacy, Rebecca Nguyen at the Chemist Warehouse in Brighton, Eric Upton at East Brighton Pharmacy, or Simon Kenny and Stephen Morrin at Direct Chemist Outlet in Elsternwick. They've made a huge investment in their own future. There are people like Leah Bartolotta and Damien Gance from the Chemist Warehouse in Elsternwick, Rebecca Tran Nguyen, who's at the Chemist Warehouse in Cheltenham, David Wong at McKinnon Pharmacy & Post Office or Geoffrey Kirschner at Ormond Amcal Pharmacy.”
“Despite the boasts of the Prime Minister, who comes in here occasionally with his Medicare card and says, 'No matter who you are in this country, no matter where you go, you never need anything more than that', I'm afraid the lived reality of Australians in just about every corner of this nation is that, if you turn up to a doctor's GP clinic at the moment, you definitely need your Medicare card and your credit card—certainly, in the electorate of Goldstein, that's the reality. Therefore, so many people turn to their community pharmacy and say, 'Is there a way you can provide me with assistance and support?' Increasingly, pharmacies are on the frontline of primary-care need. What they need, more than anything else, is certainty and clarity for their long-term sustainability so that they can invest in their own future.”
“Alright, some pharmacists are doing okay because they studied hard and they put themselves in a position to be able to earn a good income, but that doesn't change the fact that they've made a huge investment in themselves, and, often, they're the very basis of their business. Once you remove them, that community pharmacy can disappear. They're providing a good service not just for themselves but for the community as well. The expectation, increasingly, is that they're providing not just a service on a commercial basis but a public service for the rest of the community, particularly through primary care.”
“Sitting behind any conversation around access to medicines are so many small businesses. When I go around the electorate of Goldstein, and I talk to many of the community pharmacies in Goldstein, what I hear are the aspirations of so many small businesses. Like all small businesses in the electorate and, of course, across Australia, they're facing real and significant challenges in the current economic environment. They face problems around skills and access to labour. They face challenges around cashflow and, of course, they pay energy bills too. Rising energy costs are a challenge. Of course, regulation and tax are challenges too.”
“The only basis you will have long-term hope for the future is if we have a change of government where we get a reckless spend-athon government off the government benches and you see the return of a coalition government that is prudent, responsible and prioritises putting service delivery for Australians first, that makes long-term sustainability of the budget its priority and that puts Australia in a position of strength and economic growth so that we can deliver the dividends to Australians to be able to afford the access to health and education services—and that includes the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme—so that those who are marginalised, vulnerable or in a situation of need are in a position to be able to afford the health services that they so desperately need.”
“It will mean that it will reduce the cost-of-living pressure for millions of Australians so they will be able to fill out their scripts. It will mean that they will find it easier in an environment where they will face less pressure on their cost-of-living choices in the short term, but, because real wages, once adjusted for inflation, have not risen for nearly 15 years, so many Australians will still not be getting further ahead. This is just an adjustment to reflect the reality that Australians are not getting ahead, no matter how much and how hard they work. Yes, it gives hope. But it does not give the long-term, sustainable hope that Australians need so that we can look forward to the future with confidence.”
“We all understand the importance of things like cholesterol medication and other types of statins and the like that are often used by Australians on an everyday basis. But those rarer conditions can often mean not just the slow corrosion of somebody's wellbeing but the very difference between life and death. When those medications are able to be listed because we have a strong economy, a balance sheet and, more importantly, a government that understands that you have the capacity to provide the health services that Australians on the margins need when you have those things in alignment, you build a better nation. This legislation is before the parliament, and, of course, when it gets voted upon—and it will pass—it will be a moment where we reduce the price to access a script to $25.”
“One of the most tragic things was when, during the previous terms of Labor governments, they deprioritised listings of medications on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme because they wanted to prioritise other avenues of the health system to do things like boost the pathways for unions to tax their take at the expense of access to medicines for vulnerable Australians. One of the things that we were proudest to do over that period from 2013 through to 2022 was to increase the volume of medications, often for rarer conditions, for people who were simply left behind by previous Labor governments—rarer conditions that often led, tragically, to a death sentence. There were particular types of cancers or rarer conditions that weren't traditionally part of the mainstream.”
“It's about working with pharmacies, with pharmacists, with their doctors and in particular through primary health care, not just so we get the best health outcomes for patients, though we do manage the best care pathways for patients, but also to reduce the overall cost for the health system and stop the risk over time that people graduate up to the tertiary system and find themselves in hospital. We all win when people take responsibility for their lives and their healthcare pathways and get the best outcome. That's why the coalition has always been such a strong supporter of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. I remember the time I was last in parliament.”
“Only a few generations ago, people might have been taken out by conditions which can now be managed as chronic conditions with support or access to innovative medicines that simply didn't exist only years ago. But the PBS comes at a cost, and we want to support Australians to manage that cost. The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, which is part of a bulk-purchasing arrangement of government, helps millions of Australians every single year afford the medicines they need, where they can go to a simple pharmacy after they've seen their doctor and get a medication dispensed. They can get the support and treatment they need and meet it with a copayment so that they can get the assistance that they need to manage their own care pathway.”
“So we always take a sober, balanced approach to say to Australians, 'We need to make sure that we're meeting you to achieve the best outcome we can achieve for every Australian to advance Australia fair'—for want of a better phrase, without wanting to be twee about it. The current government has said that that price is going to be $25 per script to be able to achieve the best outcome to maximise choice and for people to be able to get access to the medicines they need to manage conditions. The demand is real. Nobody's disputing this. We're living longer, healthier, happier lives. In so many ways, that's a beautiful and wonderful thing.”
“But there is no point in pretending that, as part of the ongoing conversation around what is sustainable for the future of the country, there is not always tension in this debate, because we know there are medicines that don't get listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Not every medicine that's available is listed by the current government, despite their commentary, nor has every drug been listed by every previous government in the past and nor will every treatment option in the future be listed. There are the realities of the costs and the innovative impacts and experimental nature that they may have.”
“At every point along that transaction journey, people are faced with acute choices about trade-offs and priorities in their life. Nobody ever wants to face a moment in their life where the choice is between their health and wellbeing, the longevity of their life and the fullness of their capacity from being able to afford access to medicines and health care. That is always the basis on which this parliament is seeking to debate health legislation—how we empower people to take agency and responsibility for their health and wellbeing and how we find the right balance so that we can make sure that no Australian ever faces that tough choice.”
“I rise to speak on this legislation. It's a great privilege to be able to speak on the National Health Amendment (Cheaper Medicines) Bill 2025. When we think practically about this legislation, I think about it through the lens of the lived reality of so many Australians right now. So many Australians today are struggling with the financial pressure of finding the balance between the cost of their housing, being in a position to afford either their mortgage or their rent and going to the supermarket and being able to fill up a basket of groceries and make choices about whether they're going to be able to pay at the ATM. Then they go on and, of course, make other tough financial decisions about car payments, petrol and essential items, like medicines and going to the doctor.”
“If you've ever been to a pub or to a service station and a bank has fallen short by not providing the services or ATM facilities they might once have, and you see a Next Payments ATM, that might be Timothy Wildash OAM's ATM right there. They also provide a number of other non-cash payment platforms which are available through different formats at things like festivals. So congratulations to all of them. You do us enormously proud in the Goldstein community. Thank you for your service.”
“I congratulate Ms Anne Shipp OAM, who was honoured for service to nursing, and the late Ms Simone Stevenson OAM, who was honoured for service to industrial relations, particularly to asbestos eradication, which is, of course, an enormously important contribution to public life and to making sure that Australians live safe and healthy lives in the workplace—something that I am sure everybody on both sides of this chamber would support, and I'm glad to see members opposite nodding along. And, of course, I congratulate my good friend Timothy Wildash OAM, who was honoured for his service to the cash management industry, another great success story of a local resident who has established a business that has gone on to significant success by providing pathways.”
“Of course, I acknowledge her legacy as a former Labor member of state parliament. I congratulate Mr Derek Jones OAM, who was honoured for service to the community of Beaumaris and, in particular, his work for things like graffiti removal and cleaning up our streets. I also give my love to his wife, Elizabeth. I congratulate Mr Simon Marks OAM, who was honoured for his service to youth.”
“If you know Ego Pharmaceuticals—you would have tried out their hand sanitiser in different parts of the country—it is an incredible business and export success of which we can all be proud. I congratulate Nicole Livingstone AO, who was honoured for her distinguished service to sports development administration, to the promotion of women in sport and to community health, as well. I congratulate Professor Jodie McVernon AO, who was honoured for distinguished service to medical research in the field of epidemiology and infection prevention, to tertiary education and to public health. I congratulate Ms Jennifer Huppert OAM, who was honoured for service to multicultural affairs through a range of community organisations and, of course, to the Jewish community in particular.”
“I want to congratulate all of the recipients of honours in this year's King's Birthday Honours List. Goldstein is blessed with incredible residents who make enormous contributions to our community and who stand up and take responsibility not just for themselves but for others, and they should be rightly honoured every year—not just in the Australia Day Honours but in the King's Birthday Honours as well. I'd like to start by acknowledging and congratulating Anthony Barry AM, who was honoured for his significant service to civil engineering. I also congratulate Alan Oppenheim AM, who was honoured for his significant service to the skin healthcare industry. He's one of the great success stories of the Goldstein community in establishing the company Ego Pharmaceuticals with his wife, Jane.”