Today in question time the Greens Member for Ryan made some allegations of brutatlity by the NSW Police before demanding that the Prime Minister condemn their actions at the Palestine Action Group protest in Sydney yesterday.
Firstly, to the member for Ryan and those in the cross bench who supported you, take a step out of your ivory towers and look at the facts. The individuals that you are defending were not peaceful protesters.
They were individuals intent on defying the court mandated Public Assembly Restriction Declaration who assaulted law enforcement in their attempt to move into a legally restricted zone. Nine have now been officially charged.
You have no concept of how hard it is for the Police under those circumstances.
We had a saying in the police "people only hated the police until they needed them".
Well as far as I'm concerned, if you are intent on breaking the law while assaulting young men and women simply doing their job, then be prepared for consequences and don't cry victim when it happens.
#menandwomeninblue #policearenottheenemy #NSWPolice
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Not all people hate the police Pat.
Ahhh the Greens. The Party that gave us the likes of those trouble makers Lidia Thorpe & Mahreen Faruqi.
On ya Pat! We 100% support the thin blue line! 🇦🇺✊
Well said Pat, a little reminder for the Greens member; I have been where you fear to be I have seen what you fear to see I have done what you fear to do All these things I have done for you. I am the man that you lean upon The man you cast your scorn upon The man you bring your troubles to All these men I've been to you. The man you ask to stand apart The man you feel should have no heart The man you call the 'man in blue' But I'm just a man, just like you. And through the years I've come to see That I'm not what you ask of me So take this badge and truncheon too Will you take it? Any one of you? And when you watch a person die And hear a battered child cry Then do you think that you can be All the things you ask of me. John Barber
Thank you nsw police Keep up the great work
Bravo 👏 well said Pat
What isn't shown, is a protester biting hard down on an officer's hand ....that caused the officer to punch him...he still didn't let go....which earned him another blow....
Well said pat
Thank you Pat for your well said speech. Lola
Completely valid points. Inaction over time has led to an outrage over proper actions. The bar has been set so low that Police are considered to be violent even if they yell at people being anti social or breaking the law. The Courts have ensured that Police are powerless by relaxing laws or issuing warnings or AVOs in circumstances that should see jail sentences. In the Cowper electorate alone the tolerance of anti social behaviour, sweeping social issues under the rug and normalising unacceptable behaviour is hitting home.
I fully support our brave police force - well said & keep up the good work Pat Conaghan MP
They want to play the game be prepared for the consequences!!
Let us pray ploy. They went to cause problems and they received what they deserved. Well done our fine upstanding Police. 👍
Absolutely! The gall to call them “peaceful protesters” when the footage shows a completely different story. 🤯
Totally agree with you Pat she is a typical green moron
Well said mate and thank you for standing tall with our men and women of the force, it’s the only workplace in Australia where the lefties try to make it acceptable to assault a staff member both physically and verbally and quite frankly they deserve better support from our politicians and the media 💙💙💙
Love the "get out of your ivory tower".... Awesome 👍
Well said, Pat. ✔️
Well said Pat
Absolutely well spoken
Well spoken
Well said.
Today in Parliament, I introduced my Bill aimed at protecting our National Flags from burning and desecration.
The Bill was seconded by my friend and colleague Darren Chester MP with the support of the National Party Room and will now be scheduled for debate at the next parliamentary sitting.
Many of you have asked to be kept updated on the Bill's progress and the MPs that vote to support it. I will be able to provide those details in March, once debate resumes.
#dontburnourflag #proudtobeaustralian #RespectMatters
Well done Pat. Full support, I’m glad someone finally stood up and brought it forward. Our community is proud of Australia and our values
We only have one national flag
We will be watching very closely to see the No and Yes voters…their political careers will surely depend on it. This Bill should be above politics and get bipartisan support. 🇦🇺
Yep Pauline tried the same thing and got turned down...
You better call it the Australian flag matey 🇦🇺
National flag Singular only One flag One nation
The White Ensign flag that flies on our Navy ships is one of the biggest flags in ever saw when my husband was in the Navy 20 yrs was a sight to behold sailing out to go to Vietnam packed with Army and Navy,Air Force l ofF the back of HMAS SYDNEY AIRCRAFT CARRIER. 1965 I watched it sail of out the harbour with sadness and with pride. ....... A around War Widow now and theses people causing all the protest it's not helping . Im from Coffs Harbour so thank you Pat for doing this. The Government should be ashamed of themselves for letting this go on. ......
Please don.t let the labour party to ruin The victrian Barricks. My great great grandfather was incharge of Victoria Barracks, 400 staff and had records of all who went to world war 1. . .i am 91 years old . .i have books et
Flag burning again at pro Palestine protest over Israeli prime ministers visit. And on Australia Day caught most people’s attention. Too many instances since it was raised in parliament before but hopefully now with the uproar particularly from Australia Day it will pass.
The Bill was defeated a month ago, what has changed that will change the result?
Party politics? “ my bill”.
Did you support Pauline last year when she fought for this ?
Imagine, just imagine the uproar if someone burned the Aboriginal flag
Great job Pat, this bill should be a no brainer for any Australian politician. 👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Pat Conaghan MP pot calling the kettle black after the last few weeks don't you think.
Good on you at least someone is trying to look after ordinary Australians unlike Our Labour Government
Thank you Pat. I would also like to hope you and your colleagues will put a stop to selling off our military barracks.
Trouble is we have peanuts running the country
Pat do you think Albozo and the greens will let it go through parliament I don’t think so they couldn’t care less who burns our National flag
You need to include that perpetrators will recieve a non negotiable minimum of 5 years in gaol.
Does that include aboriginal flag
5 years’ gaol for desecration of the flag or national monuments.
Good onya Pat.
My Dad went to War2, like Thousands of other Brave Men and Women, they fought for our Country, they were proud to fight for our Flag, my Dad came Home, many did,nt, my Uncle was one. We are Australians and, those who live here should Respect our Nation and Flag.
Yes totally agree with him
🕺💃LACING UP THE DANCING SHOES FOR A GREAT CAUSE🤩
My wife Ilona and I will be hitting the dance floor in March as part of Cancer Council NSW's Stars of the Coffs Coast event.
While my beautiful wife is the picture of grace as a trained dancer, I have two left feet... So, this'll be interesting 😆
But it's all worth it to raise some money for such an important cause.
If you'd like to donate, please click here: bit.ly/4kofw6t
#cancercouncilnsw #starsofthecoffscoast #dancingforcancer #pleasedonate
Pat, I asked some questions about your BILL TO STOP DESECRATION OF THE ANF on the relevant 30 Jan and 02 Feb posts. Without answers, how do you expect anyone to lobby their Federal Member? A Social Media profile for politicians has to be near mandatory these days and must be a game changer in becoming recognised within and beyond your electorate and as for Community Engagement...ok I will stop there I think.
He tore up the dance floor at Kempsey RSL and Buddy’s back-in-the-day. They will be a force to be reckoned with!
Well done Pat and Ilona. Great cause. Ron having been through two cancer battles is always appreciative of those that help. Big supporters. Thanks pat Pat. 🙏💕
That’s great Pat. One of our previous gym owners Jackie won this contest and we were there to support her in the final. Hope we can do the same for you Pat! Good luck! 👍❤️🕺🏻
Goodman ya mate, just pretend those Twinkle toes are back on the Rugby field 💪🏽
Thats great but....don't break her 😂 tootsies..
You’ll be okay Pat just remember One two three lol
I LOVE THIS! Such a great cause and you guys make an amazing team, so i’m sure you will smash the dance moves too!
Have fun and enjoy every minute. Just do what Ilona tells you.
Oh this is the best! Looking forward to your fundraiser, I hope we can make it! 🙏 💃
Good on you Pat just follow your wife you will do well
FUN! Can’t wait 🕺
Yes!! Good on you both, love it 💖
Good luck Pat hope you ace it. Lovexto see Moffe on dancing for Cancer
Good for you Pat. I will be cheering you and Ilona all the way. Thank you for your support.
Good luck to you both.
Love this ... id love to come and watch ...
Thanks for joining us! We are thrilled to have you on board. 🪩⭐🕺
Fantastic 💃🕺 🙌
Welcome Pat Conaghan MP ! ⭐️ Glad to have you on the journey and good luck!
Have a fabulous time, I'm sure you'll enjoy yourselves 💃🕺
Lucky you are absolutely fabulous Ilona Kovach Conaghan
You'll do well.Will be there to cheer you on 👏👏
If you can dance like you could swim you got it Patrick just relax and follow you beautiful wife you will be a star 🌟
INFORMATION SESSION ON LABOR’S NEW GUN LAWS
To all registered firearms owners (or as I like to say “the good, honest, law abiding gun owners!”), we are holding an information session on Labor’s changes to gun ownership.
Where: 83 Amber Way, Kundabung
When: 5pm, Tuesday 17 February 2026
Hope to see you there.
Hello Pat, Thank you for ensuring this is happening. Unfortunately, some of us cannot get there. Will there be a recording available after the session?
Aussies taking it up the 🍑 as usual 🤦♂️
Why do the registered firearms owners have to find out via guest speakers/ online groups/ media releases.....l thought that the reason you include your email/ postal address on your licence details, is to receive information.....?
Maybe you guys could make the trip up water fall way and do one up in Dorrigo
Is there a way of linking in to hear this please
I know I am just an urban woman, but why on earth would anyone need to have more than 4 guns for 'recreational' use or more than 10 for farmers or professionals( am guessing culling pests). You can only use one at a time. I understand different guns are for different purposes, but really??
Is the department of firearms and registration going to be there ... ?? It's a different story depending on who you talk to on the phone
Central QLD 2 gunshops i have spoken have both said pretty much 6months at most after new gunlaws a introduced they will have to close their doors.
Can you do one in Coffs harbour as well?
WA got done first was shit
Instead of having meetings we should be taking them to court
Might be nice to have alot more of these around the state
The thing is don’t serender them you will need them
Wayne Pearce, pity we won’t be here
Greg Johnson Gday Gregory mate well you be home next few days I would like to catch up old mate have a yeah 
Byron
Daniel Edwards
Communist state with no freedom
According to a minister today at an ACTA shooting event nothing is going to change in Victoria as the ex police minister thinks our states gun laws are more than adequate…
Honestly there are thousands out there who have huns and Havnt got a clue on dismantling or maintenance and some don’t even know how to load. Yes yes take the guns off those fkwits
People who hate firearms making firearms laws, yeah that's going to go well
Pat Conaghan MP It is beyond my comprehension that the blinkered and selfish self interest ignores tighter control over dealers, storage and volume of firearms which will prevent the number of dv and suicide. Evidence-based studies show that tighter legislation directly impacts rates of homicide, suicide and domestic violence. Supporters argue that the safety of the community must take precedence over individual desires to own large numbers of high powered weapons. With tightening of mandatory safe storage inspections, gun club memberships, and stricter licensing reduce the risk of weapons falling into the wrong hands . These meetings are putting the cart before the horse with knee jerk reactions on hearsay. Hopefully what information is available will be presented in an unbiased manner. As an ex copper you must be aware of deaths in domestic violence and suicide from a firearm, licensed or otherwise.
When do we get a letter in the mail?They know what we have.
So what is this going to achieve???
Just ignore the changes as a group ask for free legal aid as we all recognize as indigenous and firearms is in our culture and religion insists we go target shooting every Sunday.
I took the chance today to remind the relevant Ministers of the immediate need to fund the Waterfall Way solution.
The solutions are there, we just need the money to get it done and stop the consistent isolation of our Plateau communities.
#FixOurRoads #regionalcommunitiesmatter #waterfallway
I’d like to see the upgrade of eastern dorrigo way. At the moment this road is being used by many trucks, particularly the milk trucks delivering milk to Norco.
Build a new road like the one out over the ocean bypassing the old coast rd south of sydney & bypass the trouble spots
Thank you Pat, and thank you for reminding them that they have brushed the solution under the mat too long.
Good to know. The whole road system linking the tablelands to the coast needs urgent attention. The Armidale/Grafton & Armidale Kempsey Rds are in dire straits & cannot be managed by councils. Thunderbolts Way another example. The Waterfall Way needs an alternate route off the mountain. The Oxley & Gwydir Highways have continual problems. These are all in Nationals territory. Please take the lead & get all the state & Federal members involved & working to fix this.
Good on you Pat! Well said, we definitely need a way forward for these communities
Cunningham hwy is a great example of how to fix waterfall way. It's still undergoing construction.
There absolutely needs to be an alternative for the plateau for when the Mountain road is out of action. But this landslip is in the valley, and is disrupting valley residents as well. A second connection from Dorrigo to the coast is not the whole solution. Gordonville cutting needs serious stabilisation works, or to be bypassed.
Oh good I thought the Nationals had taken their bat and ball and gone home. The pitch could have been improved by making it a Coalition effort.
Maybe ask the Afghanistan government to fund the works I believe there cashed up with Australian tax payers money
Thank you Pat! I have noticed so many anxious people up here in Dorrigo, not being able to get to work and the effect of loosing wages due to the closure, the school children who travel to Coffs Harbour have to depend on parents/friends etc to get to their classes and then witnessing a large bus travelling on the detour route makes them question "why are we being overlooked ?". Dorrigo residents and those from further afield certainly deserve better than this from the Labor State and Federal Governments. Please keep the pressure on them. In closing my rant, I must question why our Premier and our Prime Minister don't appear to have the courage to even visit the Plateau.
Thanks for tabling our community concerns at the federal level. This is a repost of a comment I made earlier on the state members post. I think it makes the case for some serious introspection as to what has gone so wrong over the last 20 years in government with the process of getting the job done. I’m curious as to why a country like Japan, a highly geologically unstable country can carry out repairs to damage significantly worse than waterfall way in a matter of days. 2 cases worth looking at. 1 -The Tokyo sinkhole 30m wide 15m deep surrounded by high rise structures repaired and open to traffic in 7 days. Included major repairs to multiple underground infrastructure services. 2 -150m long subsidence and land slip of a major highway after a magnitude 9 earthquake. 100 % repaired in 6 days. Both are 1st world countries. Both have the required equipment, technology and skills. The cost of labour in Japan is about 40% lower than Australia, but cost really is not the chat here. I think the elephant in the room is the bloated bureaucracies that have no motivation to perform and not serious consequences for a failure to perform. It is unreasonable to expect the community to accept the position of the government on this matter when there are clear examples it can be done better in a comparable situation. The efficiency of government has been in a state of decline for decades, and safety is the main scapegoat used to excuse it. There is no reason these jobs can’t be done in a safe and efficient manner as is readily demonstrated in other parts of the world. It’s simply not good enough.
In the meantime .. and… so there is always an alternative ..how about urgent attention to the other road… every one is feeling desperate
Keep at them Pat. So many livelihoods depend on that Highway. Don't forget permanent upgrade for Summerville Road.
Fix the road through Boggy Creek!
An election is on the horizon! The constituents are pissed off, This problem affects more than one electorate!🤔
Thank you for telling it how it really is.👍
Is the government going to compensate the losses for businesses for loss of trades?
It's hard to get any funding when the NP receives the majority votes and Labor is in government.
Thank you Pat, we need a road that will be safe for our communities between the coast and the new England area and beyond.
Hope that goes better than our efforts in Port Macquarie for the Wrights Road roundabout
Good to see you finally working on something that will benefit the community and not simply annoy the government.
The costs to the local communities must be exorbitant. Just for me to make a one off trip to move my furniture is costing me an extra $1000 by having to divert through Grafton. How are small companies surviving this on a regular basis?
Well said Pat but the coffers are empty. Like you said the minister over the years promised to fix the problem but it never gets the attention it needs Best of luck but there are thousands of miles of roads in this state that need fixing and unfortunately they aren’t in the Sydney area
Yes well done Pat
Good luck with that request, while Labor is in government nothing will happen....as it's not a Labor loving seat....
Question time was designed to allow for questions to be asked of the Government and its Ministers from all sides of the floor.
Questions that constituents wanted to hear the answers to.
But today, Labor chose to use the last Question of the day to ask about internal processes.
That’s how much this Government cares about YOUR questions and concerns.
This was Labor’s biggest burning issue of the day, so important to them they saved it for last!
Questionable priorities from an unaccountable Government taking this country’s eco#Laborfailsr#wrongprioritesl#CanberraBubblee#questiontimefail #QuestionTimeFail
Somewhere out there a tree is working hard to provide the Labour Party with oxygen I think they owe that tree an apology
When was the last time a question in Question Time was actually answered.
Good on you Pat! Give it to them 👏👏👌
Don't take the foot off!
Give that man a cigar.
Dave Waterfield Bev Waterfield . This confirms our thoughts on our governments priorities.
Take it to them Pat, good and hard!
Sounds like there was an audience of one, Pat’s parrot in the background. Are you going to switch to One Nation Pat? Reading the room on your facebook page it seems that is where your constituents want you to go.
Well said mate Too bad the liberals are so weak and so aligned with labour. The sooner Nat’s align with one nation we might have a real opposition
Labour Front bench at work !
I have never watched a Question Time, where an actual question was answered !!! So now I don't watch, for fear I will eventually throw a brick at my TV.!!!!!
Parliament is only kindergarten playtime now.
Pat on you! You need to jump on the selling off of defence property to fund more wasteful spending by Labor. Once these properties have been sold off there is no getting them back. Look at all the government assets sold off by successive governments.
Good on ya, Pat.
You said it, bud!
Pat who?
Any person ( not a politician) who failed at their job like the Treasurer has, would have been moved. And to be fair, the person above him should be moved as well!
Rip it up them Pat!
💯% correct Pat 👍👍
Great work Pat... someone's got to try to make them see the facts.
Great words Pat , right to the point of truth
Dont just talkabout it. Do something about it.
Can't we take a vote of no confidence to the Governor General and doesn't she have to act on it ?
Well said Pat, ✅✅🇦🇺🇦🇺
At least Australia has some good politicians not many but there is hope.
