I wanted to rise to speak to the Senate this evening to acknowledge and welcome the birth of Africa’s 54th state – the new country of South Sudan. May I welcome to the Chamber – members of Canberra’s Southern Sudanese community. I want to thank Abraham and Guem for organising for representatives to come to [...]
Senate Speeches
Australian of the Year Awards
Today I wish to raise the important matter of the Australian of the Year Awards. The National Australia Day Council was established in 1979, known then as ‘the committee’, with a vision to make future Australia Day celebrations truly national and Australia-wide. The National Australia Day Council, NADC, is a not-for-profit government owned company ably [...]
Canberra Centenary
The centenary of the founding of Australia’s national capital is now less than two years away. While the historic month of March 2013 will no doubt be crammed full of community celebrations and commemorative events, I note with real interest that the centenary program, under the guidance of creative director Robyn Archer and her team, [...]
Multicultural Policy – The People of Australia
Australia is a nation built on migration. Each sitting day of parliament we are reminded of this in our acknowledgement of the First Australians, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Acknowledging their custodianship of the land and paying our respects underlines that for the rest of us our path to this country was through migration. I [...]
Australian Services Union Pay Equity Campaign
Before I begin, I would like to acknowledge the contribution by Senator Adams. She is a role model, a survivor herself, and I think she has managed to capture and sum up very well how many of us are feeling in this chamber today in paying our respects to all of the women who are [...]
Immigration and Multicultural Policy
Introduction On 17 September for Australian Citizenship Day, I presided over my first citizenship ceremony as Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Citizenship – it was an inspiring and humbling experience. One young conferee – Maurice Omaset from Uganda had taken time to memorise the pledge – he committed to heart the words that [...]
Bigsteps in Childcare Campaign
As the Labor senator for the ACT I recently had the privilege to see first hand the tremendous and important work childcare professionals do. As part of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union Big Steps in Child Care campaign I worked a day in the life of a childcare worker at the Bruce Ridge [...]
International Women’s Day 2010
Below is the transcription and video of a Parliamentary speech Senator Lundy did for International Women’s Day on March 9th 2010. Transcript: Thank you. Yesterday, we celebrated International Women’s Day on the 8th March. In past years, for International Women’s Day I have highlighted the disadvantages, discrimination and underrepresentation often faced by women. I have [...]
The lead up to the Canberra Centenary
There is no doubt that it has been a very big week for my home city of Canberra. First, it was the satisfaction and delight of vet another premiership (after some nail-biting final minutes) for Lauren Jackson, National Hirst, coach Carrie Graf and the mighty Canberra Transact Capitals—now officially, fittingly, the most successful team ever [...]
New opportunities for open government
Yesterday Senator Lundy gave a speech in Parliament about the new opportunities presented to government with online tools and open community methods. She only got about half way through the speech in Parliament, so we decided to post the whole speech here. Transcript Today I would like to take this opportunity to recognise the ground-breaking [...]
