20 February 2008
In one of its more miserable acts, the Howard government scrapped Labors Commonwealth Dental Health Program on taking power in 1996, which ripped more than $100 million from public dental services. This had an enormous impact on the lives of ordinary Australians in need of dental health care.
19 February 2008
People who are homeless often require help with more than just housing.
19 February 2008
I strongly support this apology. It is a decade late but its lateness makes it all the more welcome.
18 February 2008
First speeches are full of hopes. I hope that on the day on which I last sit in this place I will be able to reread this first speech and recognise its themes in what I will, by then, have done here.
