DIRTY POLITICS SHOULDN’T BE USED TO PASS A BILL
When Labor need to resort to baseless accusations to pass the Digital Duty of Care Bill, you know something smells rotten.
And yesterday, we saw MP after MP from the Prime Minister down claiming that voting against them was a vote against child protections. Pollie after pollie inferred that bringing up reasonable concerns with the overreach of governmental controls contained within the legislation was akin to approving child abuse material.
As a former police officer who had to view such materials as part of my job, that inference truly disgusted me. I don’t believe partisan politics gets much lower than suggestions such as that.
The reason I voted no to this Bill is pretty simple;
Online safety matters.
Freedom of speech matters.
Protecting one should never require us to surrender t#DigitalDutyOfCarea#dirtypoliticsi#freedomofspeechmattersp#OnlineSafetyo#governmentoverreache#censorship #censorship
Pat Conaghan - superb to see you now entrenched as our local federal MP and employing the opportunities that affords you to make our world a better place. You have have won much respect over recent years, not only from Coalition supporters but across the political spectrum. More power to you to continue as our man in the Nationals - the party that cares exclusively for country people. Let's hope the city slickers who've made the "green change" come to understand that fact and offer you their support too. 👌👌👌
Pat Conaghan MP 👏👏👏 What a powerful impassioned speech...you have witnessed & experienced far more than most of the people in Parliament....I felt your passion & feelings in that speech ...Thank you for your voice in Parliament & our local area... Thank you for holding strong to your convictions....Keep up the fight....
Well spoken as hard as that would have been Probably one of the best speech’s ever in the house Labor Must go state and federal Family Christian valves Thanks again Pat
Well said, Pat! Keep up the fight!
Thank you for holding the line Pat 🙏👏👏
Your feelings are palpable. Thank you for so passionately representing us.
So much so Pat that they have once again backed down. Do you think that they may have actually listened to what you had to say?
Great response. Keep this Givernment from excessive control.
Fantastic!!
Well said
Well said!!
Those on the left would barely understand your passion and lived experiences as they mostly come out of university as indoctrinated leftards with no real-life experience, exhit A the prime minister your worship.
Very true and another thing with this Labor government you could not trust them.
Pat, “great speach”here is yet another bill for the “Ditch List” It’s getting pretty long
I am also enraged at the duplicity, deceit and nasty smears this Government throws around at the Opposition. Thank you Pat Conaghan MP for the clarity in calling them out. ✌️
Liebor are using the kiddies to stifle free speech, especially criticism, of their corrupt grubberment!
LABOR IS DETERMINED TO SLASH THE HEALTHCARE REBATE FOR OVER 65s
Labor’s contempt for older Australians is continuing in Parliament, with the Bill to slash the private health insurance rebates for over 65s once again rearing its ugly head, despite being rejected by the Senate and the Australian people.
The arrogance that this displays is unmatched. Once again, older Australians are set to foot the Bill for this Government’s budgetary mismanagement. Labor are determined to force pensioners to choose between food and maintaining their insurance. They are determined to see policies that have been held for decades by responsible aussies lapse due to unaffordability and for those patients to be pushed into our over stretched public system, which in regional electorates have waiting lists years long. All under the banner of ‘generational fairness’. But which we know to be a punishment for getting old.
The Coalition will continue to fight against this policy on behal#fightingforolderaustraliansh#Laborfailsr#handsofftherebatef#healthcareofftherebate #healthcare
Thanks for raising that subject Pat. My wife & I started with private health insurance when we were teenagers. Now in our 80's, we are paying over $6,250 per year and because we are old, the need for private health is at it's highest.
Thank you Pat, lucky we have you on our side .
Thank you for your support in this matter please keep up the fight
Keep up the fight Pat!!
A pollie that is trusted will get my vote every time
Well said! Thank you for your support on this matter Pat Conaghan MP
Yes keep up the fight.... Can't believe they can put it back through when it was voted against...
Thanks Pat. Keep up your great work
Why don't they slash child care subsidies and the baby bonus ? Then we would have true generational equity.
Keep fighting Pat for us thxs👏
Thankyou for fighting for us older Australians. Keep up the good fight, we deserve a fair go at our age
This is so important. Go Pat.
We will struggle even more, but we will try to keep it. At this age we need it more than ever. He will pay off the Greens, I sincerely hope they are too strong.
Thankyou for your support.
Keeping fighting for us over 65 that still try to manage to pay for private health. We are not making the public system hurt as we have are saving the public system by paying big money for private health. Everyone should be made to pay for private health it would help the public system greatly. Keep the public system for those that are really suffering and need it .
I haven’t been able to afford private healthcare ever. This changes nothing for me. If you can afford it great. If you can’t welcome to waiting like everyone else. Private healthcare doesn’t add more doctors or nurses. It drags them away from the public system. So how does this help ?
No one mentions that people with private health insurance have to pay ($470.00) to go to a Private hospital accident and emergency. Most of us have an excess if we are admitted to hospital, in my case it is $500.00.
Please keep fighting for us all
Absolutely!!!
You are absolutely correct
The point I haven't seen raised is that the Medicare rebate levy is from the federal pool of money, slashing this rebate will not negatively effect the federal budget it will add money to the coffers. The state governments budget and health care system will carry the bulk of the burden financially as well the elderly. Retirerees will do out of a private system and utilise an already overstretched state public health system. Pat Conaghan MP
Same😱
Why should wealthy older australians get a discount that no one else gets?
ST PATRICK'S PRIMARY SCHOOL MACKSVILLE ARE IN CANBERRA!
Great to have the opportunity to welcome St Patrick's Primary School Macksville's year 6 cohort to Parliament House today.
Every school that visits has a different set of questions for me, and its always wonderful to know what is top of mind for our young people.
Today we spoke about the recent Gambling Reforms Bill and what it means to 'cross the floor', and I was asked if I was able to get the Bill changes that I had hoped for by doing that.
The answer was no, unfortunately not, and to see the class not only understand what that meant but be genuinely disappointed was really inspiring. They really got it!
Which shouldn't be surprising, because the Year 6 students at St Patrick's undertake mock 'Bills' to pass their 'Senate' (comprised of their teachers and principle), so they know from their own classroom experiences how disappointing a rejection of what you believe is a good policy can be. I commend the St Patrick's teaching faculty for creating the Senate initiative and illustrating how government works to their students. Great to see!
#macksville #YoungLeaders #thenextgeneration #MockParliament #stpatricksprimarymacksville
More interested in their snacks than politics, it seems.
Great work and great questions and answers, but as a former one I have to state the the head of school is a pal i.e. principal, sorry.
Kellie Byrne Judi Cox
PARLIAMENT PAUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE HELEN HAINES
A pause in the usual parliamentary programming yesterday as we collectively acknowledge the horrific events of last week and pay tribute to the one MP unable to make this week's sitting.
A poignant reminder to play the ball, not the person in this place and to strive to set better social standards than what we have seen in recent months.
The ability to debate and disagree respectfully is a fast disappearing art not only in the halls of parliament but in our society as a whole, and that's a race to the bottom in my view.
We can all do better as individuals and as a community.
Wishing Helen a speedy recovery and hoping to see her back here representing her community in coming months.
She will become another powerful advocate in the space for those with a disability now. I hope she has the best support team around her because it will take more than a few months to grieve, process and accept and find herself again but she will be stronger on the other side with more wisdom and insight. I feel like as a collective, we all need to do better to end violence because this is insane behaviour and so much of this can and should have been prevented. We all deserve to feel safe. 🙏🏼
Hypocrites
Two faced
Chop his legs off mungrel. Hold your head high Helen
LOCAL MANUFACTURER HIGHLIGHT: THOMPSON BRUSHES 🔨
Last week, I had the privilege of being able to show off some of our local manufacturers to Senator Matthew Canavan. Because here on the Mid North Coast, we absolutely punch above our weight when it comes to Australian made and owned!
And the team at Thompson Brushes didn't disappoint. Listening to General Manager Damien Mani discuss their range of products and the industries they service was inspiring. Not only is Damien clearly passionately proud of what his team creates, he's defiantly confident when it comes to their quality. And for good reason. The level of testing that each new product undergoes to ensure it outlasts and outplays the overseas competition is phenomenal.
Thank you to Damien and the entire Thompson Brushes crew for the chat, the tour and the advice on how governments at all levels can help companies like theirs to grow. We're bringing that common sense back to Canberra.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!
#proudlyaustralianmade #australianowned #AustralianManufacturing #portmacquarie #thompsonbrushes
Well done, guys!
INTRODUCING THE ‘CASH IS KING’ BILL 2026
Cash is king, and under the Coalition we won’t see it overthrown.
Great to join LeaderSenator Matthew Canavanor Matthew Canavan and Shadow AsKevin Hogan MPrer Kevin Hogan MP at a press conference today to introduce a Bill that will protect cash now and into the future while providing safe guards for small businesses that are unable to accept it.
Currently, supermarkets and petrol stations are covered under the government’s cash mandate and must accept it, but other essential things like medicines and clothing are exempt.
For many older Australians and regional and rural residents, this is an issue.
Our Bill will expand the mandate to all businesses with a turnover of over $10 million.
This is a sensible expansion that protects cash and those Australians #CashIsKingt#protectingcashinaustraliar#cashislegaltenderralia #cashislegaltender
For those wanting more detail, please see Kevin Hogan MP's full release here: www.kevinhogan.com.au/cash-is-king-coalition-bill-would-give-australians-the-right-to-pay-with-cash/
I’m sorry I don’t understand the Duble speak. Cash is legal tender as you just said why does it need to be mandated?
you will try but the labor like wont let you
Good to see some common sense starting to bubble to the top
The 4 Major Banks were issued licences to distribute Cash throughout Australia for the Australian Government, for the Australian Residents to be able to access goods and. They were required to establish a network of Branches throughout Australia for that purpose. It's time for the Australian Government to demand that the Banks MUST ABIDE BY THE LICENSING AGREEMENT OR LOSE THEIR LICENCE.
A lot of people buy online try paying them in cash. Banks are closing branches and teller machines where’s the cash going to come from. Places with cash in tills get robbed and sometimes violently. You may also get robbed online but you won’t get shot. I’m not anti cash but it seems that it’s getting harder to access
It also teaches the young a sense of budgeting and value of their holdings instead of a plastic card.
Accept no restrictions. Cash is and always has been legal tender for all purchases. Cashless =total government control of every aspect of your life.
And for the people living in rural areas, we need the public Post Office Bank especially for older Australian's and small businesses
Same in NewZealand, hard to a ATM machine as well🤔
Put a Hole in the middle of a 5 cent / 10 cent / 20 cent ..... Stg / Silver ..... price of the Day .... wear round your Neck
Sounds like lip service to me! The government doesn’t want cash in the way of our digital prisons
The economy???
I use cash most of the time…let’s all support it
I guess the government aka taxpayers will have to underwrite Amarguards operating costs.
At last! Someone is showing respect to elderly people. People who were not raised in the digital world. Thank you for standing up for those people. I am sure many people throughout Australia heard Macca's comments on Sunday morning on how elderly people are being penalised. Thank you!
I’ve used cash only for decades, glad you guys are catching up and making the point I’ve been doing for decades 👍🏻
If its in their pockets
Cash is legal tender and should be accepted everywhere.
Yes cash is king
That’s great now make sure you keep your word Thank you ,
No cash , no country. Pretty simple really.
Cash rules )
EVERYONE Should be made to Except Cash NO EXEMPTIONS!
Bring back cheque books!
