I believe in them, just as I believe in us and all that we can yet achieve in this place. This table—or near this table. Our future needs hope. There's a Banjo Paterson poem that makes me think of them: For the locks may bleach, and the cheeks of peach. Newly minted Labor MP Anika Wells has used her maiden speech to paint a picture of a climate change-induced “apocalypse” and argue for the views of millennials to be … We can live in the moment, and in our own moment, and to our own short-term advantage. But one of my friends didn't like any of those. Celeste, you are a reminder every day of how much the future matters and of how much love matters. More millennials need a seat at the table. I am here because I want to live a better life than that. I want to thank the Lilley campaign team, particularly those who lived and died by the count in that warehouse in Zillmere. Our imaginations, if we let them, take us into the future and allow us to build it. July 22, 2019 - 21:08-- Admin. In my time in the private sector as a workers comp lawyer I assisted and represented people who had been injured at work. Like the present, it too will be made of an uncountable number of complex and interlocking details. For Australia’s youngest female MP, it’s all about the numbers. But there is, of course, more work to do. I hope everything I put you through feels worthwhile! When Skye's family was told that she would need a walking frame, they were told to wait for the NDIS to source one. The first can either remedy the second or enable it—that's up to us. Celeste was two when Australians voted and she did not care about the election, but I cared about the world that I want for her. Our imagination and our capacity to render the planet the unlivable. We wouldn't let her, and she wandered off. Until then, they had thought that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats and decency would prevail. I thank the House. While giving the speech in parliament, Wells can be heard losing her breath as her twin babies kicked, while discussing issues that affect new parents and working mothers in … In my time in the private sector as a workers comp lawyer I assisted and represented people who had been injured at work. I am here because I want to live a better life than that. I thank the House. I was born while this building was being constructed. The work this House does shapes lives now and long into the future. He was first elected in the 2019 Australian federal election.. In my hospital bed in Brisbane, I felt like one of them. I am here for Alexina, who lives there now, and for Denae, who works there, with the site now converted to Mercy Community aged care—part of a recent, nation-leading trial for geriatrician led services specialised for acutely unwell age-care residents. It was news until it stopped being news just hours later. And we need to do that by actually being relevant to them, having their interests at heart and acting accordingly. Labor’s first-time candidate, Anika Wells, waved at peak-hour drivers on busy Sandgate Road on Monday morning to thank voters for their support, which helped her narrowly win the seat in Brisbane’s north. We need to be a parliament and a community that does more for our Ninja Turtles, that values difference and includes it. I am determined to be a good ancestor, but I only have now to be one. This reinforced something that I already knew to be true: not everyone who has a go gets a go. This reinforced something that I already knew to be true: not everyone who has a go gets a go. I have high hopes. And I am here for the people who arrived just in time to see Tidelands—the first all-Australian Netflix series filmed in Shorncliffe last year. His party is the Liberal National Party of Queensland and he sits with the Liberal Party in federal parliament.. Both our First Nations and our nation's scientists value collaboration in a shared pursuit of higher knowledge. Life is not that simple or that reliably benevolent. I didn't meet Sasha but I met her parents. Celeste was born three weeks early and underweight, and as I lay there with her in one arm and an IV in the other, finally giving me the treatment I needed, I saw coverage of the women's marches in America that had happened a few days before. Lilley MP Anika Wells impassioned first speech calling for fairer world . I want to thank the people for Lilley for the trust they have placed in me. While the rest of the developed world went under that juggernaut, policy decisions made in this place pulled Australia out of the way. She didn't play; she opted out. Or, we can choose not to imagine. Millennials have grown up with our own keen sense that the apocalypse is always possible. We need to convince them that this place is relevant to them, has their interests at heart and will about accordingly. I didn't meet Sasha but I met her parents. Our First Nations people are the world's oldest astronomers. We can shut out the cries for help; we can shut out the evidence that calls for change. The SPEAKER: Before I call the honourable member for Lilley, I remind the House that this is the honourable member’s first speech and I ask the House to extend to her the usual courtesies. More millennials need a seat at the table. I am here for the people of Lilley who grew up in St Vincent's orphanage in Nudgee, a significant number of whom are still dealing with the effects of the abuse they suffered there. She didn't play; she opted out. I want to thank my blood brothers, Adam and Kym, and my brothers in arms, Mitchell and Jared. More recently still, in the 42nd and 43rd parliaments my predecessor as the member for Lilley, Wayne Swan, in his role as Treasurer, took Australia through the global financial crisis as the only developed nation not to experience a recession. We are the generation of 9/11, of school shootings and of the global financial crisis. I was born while this building was being constructed. We also are not great at making space for people who don't fit. I am here for the people in Lilley who have been in the electorate long enough to remember when the Shorncliffe Pier bathing sheds were used by the Sandgate Ladies Life Saving Club, the first women's lifesaving club in Queensland. We are not as good as we should be at fighting disadvantage sensibly and collaboratively and with regard to the evidence of what works and what does not. Sasha is a member of the stolen generations, and I want to be part of a parliament that does better by Sasha and that continues the work of the Rudd government to own up to and addresses wrong, that closes the gap and that enables an Indigenous voice to parliament on Indigenous terms. Too little credit is given for that. We are the generation that has not brought about, but that is witnessing, a growing extinction event as species after species disappear forever at a rate unprecedented in human history. It has looked likely for some time that we parliamentarians will be trapped here in Canberra for the day itself, so I took the opportunity a few weeks ago to visit with parents at My Time Geebung. Both Indigenous knowledge and modern Western science strive to understand how our world works. Skye gave me perspective. We cannot leave the future to fend for itself. — Anika Wells MP (@AnikaWells) February 19, 2020 Fox Sports Australia later changed the headline to: "Wife dies hours after her children were killed in car inferno lit by league player father". When I was at school and my friends and I used to play handball by the tuckshop, there were four squares, and they were labelled Ace, King, Queen and Joker. I am here to be me. Anika Wells, 34, Australia's youngest female MP - Labor. Anika Wells, who replaced former treasurer Wayne Swan in the Queensland seat of Lilley at the federal election, says her role as a workers' compensation lawyer has shown her otherwise. Our First Nations people are the world's oldest astronomers. Six days after the election, as the count continued, I attended the Kalinga Park Sorry Day ceremony. Wayne Maxwell Swan (born 30 June 1954) is an Australian politician who is National President of the Labor Party.He was previously the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Deputy Leader of the Labor Party from 2010 to 2013, and the Treasurer of Australia from 2007 to 2013. Sasha gave me perspective. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian TFW the government is … Turning our boys into great men is a journey of a million steps too. In 2016, 20 weeks into my pregnancy with Celeste, I became ill. Scientists and artists and parents and children have been here for millennia. To all the little wolf cubs, Harriet and Alby and Archie and Ivy and Charlie and Anna and Rafi and Sebby and Abigail and Gwenny and Margot and Macsen and Arianwen and our littlest cub Maxwell: just like Moana, one day you are going to look around and realise happiness is right where you are. In the days after the election, when the count was close and nothing was decided, many people reached out to me saying how tough that must be. Now is the cornerstone the future is built on. Anika currently serves on the Joint Standing Committee for Northern Australia; the House of Representatives Committees for Privileges and Members’ Interests and as Deputy Chair for Publications. Connect with Ms Anika Wells MP Email Anika.Wells.MP@aph.gov.au Social media. Ms Flint is not the first Australian politician to have publicly called out sexism. It must never be beyond us to get the long term right, too. I resolved then not to take that arc for granted anymore. But here in this place we have the privilege of shaping the now that will decide the long future. Anika Wells, who replaced former treasurer Wayne Swan in the Queensland seat of Lilley at the federal election, says her role as a workers' compensation lawyer has shown her otherwise.
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