House debates
Tuesday, 26 May 2015
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Employment (1 speech)
As of today, there are over 800,000 Australians who are unemployed. This is an appalling waste and it is a crisis. It is also over 800,000 reasons for a plan from this government for the jobs of...
- Fibre to Football (1 speech)
This year, the fibre has been put back into football! Thanks to the efforts of Australian Wool Innovation, AFL teams have begun to sell jumpers and other merchandise made from Australian Merino...
- Budget (1 speech)
This government claims its second budget is about jobs. In my community, where we are losing jobs because of the automotive closures and flow-ons, and youth unemployment is growing, we would...
- Pacific Motorway M1 (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the M1 motorway between Brisbane and the Gold Coast and, in particular, the bottleneck that runs from the Gateway Motorway merge to the Logan Motorway—and I see...
- Budget (1 speech)
The now Prime Minister went to the last election mischievously and deceitfully claiming that the economic challenges we faced had nothing to do with the global situation but everything to do with...
- Battle of Crete (1 speech)
Seventy-four years ago this month, Australians and Cretans fought alongside each other against an oppressive Nazi regime despite overwhelming odds. I was deeply honoured to have been able to...
- Indi Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
I am very pleased to welcome into parliament today students, teachers and parents from Dederang, Tawonga and Mount Beauty primary schools—three beautiful schools nestled in the beautiful...
- Bonner Electorate: Road Traffic (1 speech)
I rise today with extremely good news for commuters who travel between Brisbane and Redland City in and around my electorate of Bonner. Traffic congestion on certain roads between Brisbane and...
- Australian Labor Party: Jobs for the Future (1 speech)
Aside from the fact that this year's budget is fundamentally unfair, one of its problems is its lack of vision for the future. In many areas of the budget, we see funding dropping off after two...
- Braddon Electorate: Community Sport (1 speech)
Community sport is so important for the north-west, west coast and King Island communities. It is where athletes, families and communities come together week-in week-out to meet with friends and...
- Education (1 speech)
Last week I spoke to several oil and gas industry executives, and they told me of their concerns about the need to train more science, technology, engineering and mathematics graduates. They...
- Infrastructure (1 speech)
The people of the Central Coast deserve a future where they can live and work locally, so today I rise to call on the Labor Party to support this really important vision—a vision shared by...
- Employment (1 speech)
In the budget we saw one figure that really jumped out at all of us: unemployment is increasing. Next year, the year after—in fact, unemployment in this country is the highest rate it has...
- Jodi Lee Foundation (1 speech)
On Friday and Saturday I joined 300 tutu-clad people who hiked 80 kilometres of the Heysen Trail through South Australia's Copper Country from Kapunda to Burra to raise funds to support the Jodi...
- Department of Agriculture (1 speech)
Twenty great jobs in the biotech industry in Bunbury have been lost following a problematic investigation by the Department of Agriculture. I am deeply concerned that the department is drawing...
- Harrington, Mr Ray (1 speech)
I rise today to commend an outstanding farmer, innovator and inventor, Ray Harrington, who recently won the gold medal in the smart agriculture category of the prestigious Edison Awards in New...
- Newcastle Electorate: Employment (1 speech)
My community of Newcastle is desperately in need of jobs. Since the Abbott Liberal government was elected, unemployment has climbed to decade-long highs—peaking at more than 10 per cent and...
- Hasluck Leadership Award (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the 2015 Hasluck Leadership Award winners. Last week, I held a workshop where year 11 students in Hasluck competed in a range of public speaking and leadership...
- Employment (1 speech)
Australia has a very long history of innovation and invention. We in this chamber know that Australians invented spray-on skin, wi-fi and the black box. These are parts of our history that many...
- Hinkler Electorate: Carina Speedway (2 speeches)
I rise to inform the House of the reincarnation of the Bundaberg Motorsports Complex-Carina Speedway. The last meeting was held there in June 2006, but I am sure you can hear it, Madam...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
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I inform the House that the Deputy Prime Minister will be absent from question time for the remainder of this week as he attends the International Transport Forum in Germany. The Treasurer will...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (15 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Labor welcomes the Treasurer's commitment last night to talk to the states about removing the GST on women's sanitary products. Therefore, will the Prime...
- Northern Australia (8 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer inform the House how the government is helping the people of Northern Australia to develop new economic opportunities? How will the budget help...
- Budget (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. According to the Liberal Party, NATSEM is Australia's foremost modelling consultant. Given that independent NATSEM modelling shows that a typical family will...
- Agriculture (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture. Minister, I am so pleased to see the commitment by the government to decentralisation—in particular, the decision to relocate three regional...
- Budget (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Given the Treasurer was forced to apologise for calling new mums double-dippers on national television last night and given the Treasurer's own budget papers...
- Superannuation (7 speeches)
Yesterday during question time the Treasurer said, 'We have absolutely no plans to change super.' Last night, when asked about superannuation, the Treasurer said, 'We've got to look at the future...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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Before I call the member for McMillan, I wish to advise the House that we have in the gallery today the federal council of the Isolated Children's Parents' Association, and we make you most...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Employment (10 speeches)
I am with the school that thought the Prime Minister was always right. My question is to the Assistant Minister for Employment. Minister, will you update the House on how the budget improves the...
- Superannuation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Two weeks ago the Prime Minister said: There will be no changes to super. But last night in a discussion about changes to superannuation, the Treasurer said:...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister advise the House on the action the government is taking to stop young Australian women and girls from being radicalised and...
- Fuel Prices (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the fact that the government's petrol tax hike raises $19 billion over the next decade. Why does the Prime Minister think that improving the...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Justice. Will the minister advise the House what steps the government is taking to tackle violent extremism in Australia?
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's own budget papers, which show the cost to the budget of superannuation tax concessions outstripping the cost of the age...
- Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment. Will the minister update the House on how the government is reducing emissions without the world's biggest carbon tax? What threats exist to...
- Inborn Error of Metabolism (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday I wrote to him about a relatively small number of Australian children who live with a condition called inborn error of metabolism including PKU. It...
- Budget (8 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer. I ask the Assistant Treasurer to update the House on what the government is doing to strengthen the economy and bring government spending under control,...
- Infrastructure (13 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development. Will the minister update the House on action the government is taking to improve infrastructure in my home...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Jobs (15 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Blaxland proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The importance of planning...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 5, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Centenary of Anzac (3 speeches)
On Anzac Day this year we passed that moment when, exactly 100 years ago, our young Anzacs stepped off the boats under a breaking Gallipoli dawn. That moment—and the many terrible ones to...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Medicare (1 speech)
In March 2014, I was informed that the local Medicare office in our community, in Eastgardens shopping centre, would no longer open on a Saturday. The reason given by the minister responsible,...
- International Development Assistance (1 speech)
On a quiet evening such as this, it is important to raise issues that I think do not often get touched on in this parliament. This is something that I think is very important to our standing in...
- Israel (1 speech)
The subject I wish to raise tonight is not one which lends itself to a five-minute address. Just before the budget I travelled to Israel as part of a delegation with the Australia/Israel &...
- Palmer United Party (1 speech)
I think it is appropriate that I review and report to our members what Palmer United has achieved during this term in parliament. We have stopped the GP co-payment. We have stopped the changes to...
- Brorsen, Ted and Lise (1 speech)
They were lovers. I repeat: they were lovers. Ted and Lise Brorsen arrived from Denmark in 1969 with Dorthe and Heidi, with a dream and vision for them and their family. Shaun arrived in 1977,...
- Charlton Electorate: Carbon Price (1 speech)
Tomorrow in Newcastle an end-of-project celebration will be held to mark the successful conclusion of the Energy Hunter program. Newcastle City Council, the Hunter Business Chamber and Hunter...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
I rise today to discuss an issue of great importance to many people I represent, namely the live export trade. As you would know, Mr Deputy Speaker, I represent an electorate in outer...
- Robertson Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
I am pleased to rise today to speak about how this budget is responding to the concerns of people on the Central Coast. One of the biggest issues that are always raised with me when I am out and...
- Marine Rescue Lake Macquarie (1 speech)
On Tuesday, 19 May, I attended a presentation of medals at Marine Rescue Lake Macquarie. Before going into details of that event, I want to say for the record how valuable the work that Marine...
- Gippsland Electorate: Australian Securities and Investments Commission (1 speech)
I appreciate the opportunity to update the House on a community issue within the Latrobe Valley regarding the future of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. It has come to my...
- Suicide Prevention Australia (1 speech)
On Friday, 8 May, I was delighted to traipse down to the Westfield Fountain Gate shopping centre, which is, I think, the second largest shopping centre in this country, for a very special event...
- Ryde District Historical Society, Centenary of Anzac (1 speech)
I rise to inform the House of the wonderful contribution made to the Bennelong electorate by the Ryde District Historical Society. Based out of Willandra, an early settlers cottage, over the last...
- Same-Sex Relationships (1 speech)
Many of my constituents were overjoyed at the overwhelming vote in support of marriage equality in Ireland at the weekend. This means that at least 20 nations support marriage equality, including...
- Family Violence (1 speech)
While I support the member for Grayndler in his call for a conscience vote on same-sex relationships, I will be opposing his substantial position. Darren Chester, the member for Gippsland, and I...
- Canberra Electorate: National Sorry Day (1 speech)
Before I start, I would like to commend the member for Grayndler on his incredibly powerful speech that he delivered just now on marriage equality. I particularly commend him for his discussion...
- National Security: Citizenship (2 speeches)
Today I speak on the issue of citizenship and my strong endorsement of the immigration minister's and the government's determination to act on the need to revoke the citizenship of those involved...
- Bills (0 speeches)
