Policy and Advocacy Speeches

Notice of Motion - Optometry Prescriptions

26th September, 2024. That this House: (1) Notes rural and regional communities struggle with medical professionals. (2) Notes currently topical medications for eyes can be prescribed by optometrists, however they cannot prescribe...

Private Members Statement - Douglas Park Reject Cemetery

24th September, 2024. While I am no longer a councillor, I care deeply for my community and that means caring about the effect of any decision that is made by the council....

Notice of Motion - Wollondilly Police Area Command

19th September, 2024. That this House: (1) Notes that Wollondilly has an exponential population growth with over 30,000 new homes being constructed right now. (2) Notes that there are no plans for any police...

Private Member's Statement - Warradale Men's Shed

17th September, 2024. There is an amazing group of men involved in the Warradale Men's Shed. This group has a rich history. It operates from the old Thirlmere Rural Fire Service shed,...

Notice of Motion - Wollondilly Flood Risks

15th August, 2024. That this House: (1) Notes the Wollondilly Hazards Analysis and Emergency Management Study identified risks to Wollondilly. (2) Notes letters from Wollondilly Council have caused fear by claiming most homes are...

Notice of Motion - Local Councillors Service

8th August, 2024. That this House: (1) Thanks all Councillors for their service who are not standing for election again this year and wish them well for the future. (2) Notes the 29 years...

Private Member's Statement - Wollondilly Shire Council

8th August, 2024. The date of 14 September will mark the end of my time as a councillor on Wollondilly Shire Council—a time that I have enjoyed, but a time during which...

Speech - Coal Mine Subsidence Compensation Legislation Amendment Bill 2024

7th August, 2024. As members know, Wollondilly is a beautiful area. It is the catchment for Sydney at the top of the Bulli escarpment, home to valleys and rolling hills. These hills...

Notice of Motion - Wollondilly Flood Mitigation Studies

19th June, 2024. That this House: (1) Notes the Government gave funding to Wollondilly Shire Council to complete flood mitigation studies. (2) Notes that no direction has been given by the Government...

Notice of Motion - Bowral Hospital Clinical Services Plan

21st June 2024. That this House: (1) Notes the former Government cut funding for the upgrade of Bowral Hospital and removed the second wing from the building work scope announced by the former...

News - Budget 2024-25

18 June 2024 My speech and reaction to the 2024-25 Budget is below. For more information regarding the 2024-25 Budget visit: https://www.treasury.nsw.gov.au/ I rise today to speak on a number of items in...

News - Transport Heritage NSW is now commencing track infrastructure works on the Loop Line between Buxton and Colo Vale

17th June, 2024. Heritage trains will return to Colo Vale for the first time in over 30 years as part of a $14.6 million investment in the Loop Line, a historic rail...

Notice of Motion - Service NSW Centre for Wollondilly

6th June, 2024. That this House: (1) Notes the planned and approved growth for Wollondilly Council will see an increase to the population of at least 90,000 new residents on top of...

Speech - Yerranderie and the National Parks And Heritage Legislation Amendment Bill 2024

4th June, 2024. View Judy's speech calling on the government to return Yerranderie Airstrip to Council ownership, as part of the second reading of the National Parks And Heritage Legislation Amendment Bill...

Private Members Statement - Western Sydney Pumped Hydro

4th June, 2024. Australians are well known for being innovators, often ahead of the curve thanks to our country's unique environment where traditional solutions do not work. That is no more evident...

Private Member's Statement - It's Time to Declare a Southern Highlands National Park

14th May, 2024. In this Private Members Statement, Judy calls on the Government to declare a Southern Highlands National Park: Imagine a continuous tree canopy that stretches over 50 kms, with gorges,...

Notice of Motion - Emergency Services Boundaries

14th May, 2024. That this House: (1) Recognises in regional communities when disaster strikes there is a need to act fast. (2) Notes that historical boundaries often are not in the interest...

Notice of Motion - No Raising of Warragamba Dam Wall

9th May, 2024. That this House: (1) Recognises the commitment from the Government to scrap the plan to raise the Warragamba Dam wall. (2) Notes the significant cost to the budget, environment...

Speech - Being an Independent in NSW Parliament

7 May, 2024. Below is a speech I delivered to workers in the NSW Public Service on the importance of being an Independent in NSW Parliament. Getting elected is an extraordinary achievement for...

Speech - Suspension of Standing Orders: changes to bail conditions

7 May, 2024. I support the suspension of standing orders and do so in the knowledge that everybody plays politics in this place. I really wish they would not. Last week the...

Private Member's Statement - Wollondilly Electorate Cancer Care Services

21 March, 2024. Some might think that 20 years ago on 25 March when my life changed it was because I was told that I was elected to council for the first...

Notice of Motion - Need for a Women's Shelter in Wollondilly

21st March, 2024. That this House: (1) There is an urgent need to fund a women's shelter in Wollondilly, evidenced by the fact that Macarthur Women's Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service receives...

Notice of Motion - Need for an Independent Mine Subsidence Board

14th March, 2024. That this House: (1) Changes to the Coal Mine Subsidence Compensation Act and removal of the independent Mine Subsidence Board has led to mines being judge, juror and executioner...

Private Member's Statement - Renewable Energy

13 March, 2024. With the current cost-of-living crisis, more and more households are choosing to install solar in a bid to reduce their own energy costs, as well as contribute to a...

Notice of Motion - Regional Emergency Services

8th February, 2024. That this House: (1) Recognises extended response times of hardworking emergency services personnel in regional areas. (2) Notes current guidelines restrict emergency entry in emergencies. (3) Calls on the...

Private Member's Statement - The Negatives of Sydney's Second Airport

7th February, 2024. Judy speaks on the restrictions placed on landowners in the Northern part of Wollondilly such as the home of the Osborne family which doesn't have the same protections as...

Notice of Motion - Angels in Our Town

30th November, 2023. That this House: (1) Recognises the long reaching work of Angels In Our Town, a group in the Southern Highlands who recognise first responders, frontline workers, service organisations, and volunteers...

Private Member's Statement - Bowral and District Hospital

28th November, 2023. Delivered at 2.45am, Judy speaks out for the upgrades on Bowral Hospital: The Bowral hospital upgrade is one of poor management. It is not necessarily the current upgrade or...

Speech - Speech - Judy speaks against the extension of appointment of current chairperson of Racing NSW

28th November, 2023. I speak against the Thoroughbred Racing Amendment Bill 2023 as it is currently worded, which extends the period of appointment of the current chairperson of Racing NSW by 24...

Notice of Motion - Biodiversity Offsets and a Southern Highlands National Park

23rd November, 2023 That this House: (1) Recognises the unique environmental assets that Wollondilly and the Southern Highlands has including spectacular high conservation value known as the Boxvale, Nattai, Drapers Creek and Mount...

Speech - Recognition of NSW Paramedics

23rd November, 2023. By leave: I come to this debate with a different point of view to look at the professional recognition that ambulance workers receive. On 30 November 2018 paramedicine became...

Media - Fixing the domestic and family violence crisis

22nd November, 2023. I speak in favour of the public interest debate motion moved by the member for Wakehurst. What a good man he is to move the motion. We are all...

Speech - Committee on Environment and Planning

22 November, 2023. I contribute to debate on the report of the Committee on Environment and Planning on the Minerals Legislation Amendment (Offshore Drilling and Associated Infrastructure Prohibition) Bill 2023. First I...

Private Member's Statement - Stop the Wollondilly Tradie Tax

21st November, 2023. Two out of every three workers in Wollondilly are associated with trades and the labouring and machinery work attached to trades. These tradies are being hit successively with what...

Speech - Menangle Rotolactor Park Opened

21st October 2023 Menangle Rotolactor Park Opened It was my pleasure to open the new Rotolactor park at Menangle. The Rotolactor was an automated circular milking machine. Established in 1952 by Edward...

Notice of Motion - Maldon-Dombarton Line

19th October, 2023. That this House: (1) Recognises the need for rail infrastructure including new projects for passengers and freight. (2) Recognises the growth in Wollondilly and Western Sydney and the connection to Wollongong a...

Private Member's Statement - Wollondilly Electorate Water Harvesting Rights

19 October 2023. This private member's statement is brought to you by the farmers of Wollondilly. Water is essential for growing food in the Sydney Basin, and healthy rivers in the Sydney...

Notice of Motion - Ensure the Cumberland Plains Conservation Plan will protect koala habitat

12th October, 2023. That this House: (1) Recognises the commitment of $48 million to help establish a new National Park along the Georges River between Long Point and Appin for Koala protection committed...

Speech - Koala National Park and Funding Welcomed

22nd September 2023. Koala National Park and Funding Welcomed. As chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Koalas and someone who brought a petition of 20,977 signatures to the previous Parliament, I am...

Notice of Motion - Retrofitting for Environmental Benefits

21 September 2023. Notice of Motion - Retrofitting for Environmental Benefits. That this House: (1) Notes the BASIX Rating point system directs landowners and builders towards best practice building compliance for construction....

Private Member's Statement - Up? Out? Why not together?

20th September, 2023. Private Member's Statement - Up? Out? Why not together? We have heard from the Government on their plans for the roll out of development in the State. The argument...

Notice of Motion - Healthcare And Mental Health Services In Wollondilly

14 Sept 2023. Notice of Motion - Healthcare And Mental Health Services In Wollondilly. Delivered on RUOK? Day, I have asked the Government to provide vital mental health services in Wollondilly to...

Notice of Motion - Mental Health Services in Wollondilly

14th September 2023. Delivered on R U OK? Day, I have asked the Government to provide vital mental health services in Wollondilly to cater for the current and growing population. As an...

Private Member's Statement - Wollondilly Community Groups Funding

13th September 2023. Private Member's Statement - Wollondilly Community Groups Funding. Today I rise to speak on six major community projects that I wish to highlight as in need in Wollondilly. This...

Notice of Motion - Addressing the lack of High Schools in Wollondilly

24th August 2023. Addressing the lack of High Schools in Wollondilly. That this House: (1) Recognises Wollondilly Council area has only one single high school despite having a population of over 50,000. (2) Calls...

Private Members Statement - Picton Bypass today so we don't have Maui in Wollondilly tomorrow

22nd August 2023. In Maui on Tuesday August 8 a perfect storm of dry ground, windy conditions and heat enabled terrible fires to destroy thousands of homes in Maui, Hawaii. The situation...

Notice of Motion - Wollondilly Council called to release Hazards Analysis and Emergency Management Study (HAEMS)

3rd August 2023. "I seek to move that this house: 1.Notes the Wollondilly Council Hazards Analysis and Emergency Management Study (HAEMS) completed by Molino Stewarts presented evidence-based advice to mitigate risk associated...

Private Members Statement - Appin and Wilton Growth Area Lack of Plans Slammed

1st August 2023. "I speak today of the developments and growth that are going to affect Wollondilly. These applications stretch from Wilton to Appin approved by the former Liberal Minister for Planning,...

Notice of Motion - Trains and Timetables of the Southern Highlands Line

29th June 2023. "Rail Time Tabling and Rolling Stock. That this House: (1) Notes the aging status of the diesel trains that service the Southern Highlands, mixed with the inadequate frequency of...

Friends of Koalas - Launch

29th June 2023. To announce the formation of the Parliamentary Friends of Koalas Group, I was joined by Minister for the Environment Penny Sharpe MLC, Sally Quinnell MP, Emma Hurst MLC, Dr...

Parliament Speech - Housing and Productivity Contributions Bill

23rd June 2023. Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Housing and Productivity Contributions) Bill. "I thank the Government for introducing this policy. I also thank the member for Newtown for making her contribution...

Notice of Motion - Ambulance Shortages in Wollondilly

22nd June 2023. "Bargo Ambulance Station. That this House: (1) Notes that Picton ambulance station needs an extra vehicle with four staff members and Bowral also needs an extra vehicle and two...

Private Members' Statement - Bowral Hospital Stage 2

21st June 2023. A call to the Government to deliver Bowral Hospital Stage 2. "Bowral and District Hospital serves the community in a wide area of the Wollondilly Electorate including the Shires...

Notice Of Motion - Bowral Hospital Upgrades

1st June, 2023. That this House: (1) Recognises the importance of Bowral Hospital and the value it brings to the Wollondilly electorate and region. (2) Acknowledges the delays caused by COVID-19 for...

Private Members Statement - Koalas and Profits Dont Mix

31st May 2023. I used my Private Members Statement to address the negative impact that developments such as that at Gilead is having on the vulnerable koala habitat and the last disease...

Notice Of Motion - Conservation Plan Review to Conserve Koala Populations

25th May 2023. "Cumberland Plain Conservation Plan. That this House: (1) Recognises the Cumberland Plain Conservation Plan mentions translocation of koalas some 18 times, but 'conservation' only once. (2) Calls on the...

Inaugural Speech - Learning through community and equality

25th May 2023. The SPEAKER: Before I call the member for Wollondilly, I warmly welcome all who are here in the public gallery to watch her inaugural speech. They include family, friends and Mr Laurie...

Private Members Statement - Wollondilly Community Group Applications Open

24th May 2023. "Today I speak about the silence about the concerns of the people of Wollondilly, in particular the countless volunteers, advocates and those who have given their own time to...

Notice of Motion - Infrastructure Needs of Wollondilly

11th May 2023. "Wollondilly Electorate.That this House: (1) Recognises that the Wollondilly electorate has been taken for granted by the major political parties for a long time, leading to the results in...