About David
David served in the Australian Defence Force for over 22 years. An Army pilot, he flew helicopters and fixed wing aircraft and was the Senior Flying Instructor at the School of Army Aviation in Queensland.
Graduating as an experimental test pilot from the Empire Test Pilots’ School (UK), he finished his full time career in Defence as the Commanding Officer of the RAAF Aircraft Research and Development Unit.
Elected to the House of Representatives as the Member for Wakefield (SA) in 2004, he served in the Parliament until 2007. David continued to fly as a test pilot and ran a small business working in the Defence and Aviation sectors prior to being elected to the Senate in 2010, 2016 and again in 2019.
In the (45th) Parliament, David was sworn as the Assistant Minister for Defence.
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Australia has three energy goals: cheaper power, consistent power, and cleaner power.
We won’t achieve this under Labor’s ideologically driven ‘renewables only’ policy, but we can achieve all three with a balanced energy mix that includes renewables, gas and zero-emissions nuclear energy.
Research by independent global organisations like the OECD and IEA, and the lived experience of nations around the world, shows that including nuclear in an energy mix drives down the cost of power.
An independent analysis by Frontier Economics found that the Coalition’s balanced energy mix offers a cleaner, cheaper, and more consistent alternative to Labor’s renewables-only plan—saving Australians up to $263 billion compared to Labor’s approach.
The Coalition has a plan for affordable and reliable electricity (link in comments). ... See MoreSee Less
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Read more: www.australianeedsnuclear.org.au/
What rot - what impact will the Coalition’s pipe dream nuclear plans have on the price of power - unambiguously it will make power more expensive (as indicated by CSIRO and other studies) and it will delay investment in renewables which are the real workhorse of a clean grid. A with only 4% of our power needs produced by nuclear in about 20 years time how is it going to add to reliability? We are all going pay!
Nuclear. Get it done. End renewables.
This week, I spoke at an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Adelaide.
Both Australia and Israel benefit from our strong trading partnership, and we have cooperated closely on intelligence and security matters over the years. The Australian Defence Force has benefited from Israeli technology, and Israeli security capabilities on more than one occasion have helped thwart terrorist attacks against ADF personnel in the Middle East and saved Australian lives at home.
Since Hamas’s murderous terrorist attacks in Israel on 7 October 2023, the Albanese government has failed to provide the moral clarity which distinguishes the lawful from the lawless, which differentiates civilisation from barbarism, and which discerns the good from the evil.
This weakness of the Albanese Government over the past three years has harmed Australia’s long-standing bi-partisan friendship with Israel.
At a time when democracies around the world are under increasing pressure, from revisionist totalitarian states, we need to work to maintain and deepen our relationship with free and democratic nations like Israel. ... See MoreSee Less
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how on earth did Wong vote against Israel and think for 1 minute we would agree
It was good to join Zane Basic, Liberal Candidate for Mayo, at Victor Harbor this week hearing from locals about the pressures they face under the Albanese Government.
I valued the opportunity to discuss the research by independent global organisations—such as the OECD and IEA—that inform and support the Coalition's plan to change the trajectory of our energy system by including nuclear in the generation mix.
International experience shows that this approach leads to lower prices and increased reliability.
Whether its cost of living or national security, we need a Dutton Coalition Government to get Australia back on track. ... See MoreSee Less
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Learn more: www.liberal.org.au/our-plan
Pleased to join my Senate colleagues and retiring Member for Grey, Rowan Ramsey, MP on the weekend as part of a panel to discuss a range of policy issues—including energy, defence, and national security.
The event was organised by the Jamestown branch and Tom Venning, the Liberal Candidate for Grey. ... See MoreSee Less
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