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Thank you Madame Acting-President. I rise today to speak about the importance of biosecurity in South Australia. I’ve spoken in this place before about the strength and importance of the South Australian agricultural industry. Our $15.2 billion primary industries and agri-business sector generates state-wide employment, and contributes to the South Australian economy. Our State’s success in this industry […]

6 January Letter to editor | Murray Pioneer OVER the Christmas and New Year period we have unfortunately had two Queensland fruit fly outbreaks in the Riverland region. The first outbreak was identified in Renmark West and the second in Monash. Both outbreaks were detected in residential backyard fruit trees. The State Government has immediately […]

More than 12 months have now passed since the first fires of the 2019/20 bushfire season ignited on the Yorke Peninsula. Unfortunately, these fires foreshadowed what would become a long and devasting summer for communities in the Adelaide Hills, Kangaroo Island and across our nation. Each community faced tremendous heartbreak as they processed their loss […]

12 November 2020 Rebecca DiGirolamo | The Advertiser A Liberal MP who says she fears late-term abortions may become routine has been told how rare the procedure is. Routine late-term abortions were among the concerns raised as new state laws to decriminalise abortion inched closer in South Australia on Thursday. The second reading of the […]

I rise today to speak on this bill and to indicate that I will not be supporting it in its current form. As a woman and a mother, there are several elements of the Bill that I find very concerning, first and foremost the removal on gestational upper term limits on the termination of a […]