House debates
Tuesday, 23 June 2015
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Indi Electorate: Environment (1 speech)
One of the defining features of my electorate of Indi is its geography: eight river valleys, snow-capped mountains and over 50 per cent of the water that falls in the Murray-Darling Basin. With...
- Longman Electorate: Green Army Program (1 speech)
It is great to follow the member for Indi, who talked about the next generation of Australians and protecting our environment, because over the last few weeks I have had a great opportunity to...
- Education Funding (1 speech)
Sometimes I think that government members and the frontbench are living in a very different universe to the rest of Australia. Their own budget papers said that there would be $30 billion cut...
- Casey Electorate: Pitch Project (1 speech)
On Monday, 4 May I was pleased to visit Ormond College at the University of Melbourne to meet a number of dedicated students as part of the college's Pitch Project. The Pitch Project enables...
- Education Funding (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about the last few days in this parliament and in the national press. It is a given that everyone in this place, everyone who sits here every day, was involved in the...
- O'Connor Electorate: Karen Community (1 speech)
Today I rise to commend the achievements of the local Karen community in my home town of Katanning. Many of these refugees lived in refugee camps in Thailand after fleeing unrest in their...
- Education Funding (1 speech)
One of the major problems with the Abbott government's budget this year—aside, of course, from the fact that it is still fundamentally unfair—is its lack of vision for the future....
- Murray Electorate: Food (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate more of my electorate's great achievers. This week, a butchery in Numurkah has won the award for the best short-cut bacon in Victoria and the third best in Australia. Shaun...
- Health Funding, Education Funding (1 speech)
Normally, if there were a government document which flagged removing $70 billion out of public hospitals over four years, and which flagged the Commonwealth withdrawing from any funding of public...
- Kokoda Youth Leadership Challenge (1 speech)
I would like to inform the house of another inspiring young woman from Bennelong. Kate Darmody of Denistone has been selected by ClubsNSW as the winner of this year's Kokoda Youth Leadership...
- Budget (1 speech)
The one thing that all Australians know is that the Abbott government is a government of cuts. Add to that the fact that they said one thing before the election and they say another thing after...
- National Security: Citizenship (1 speech)
As I have said before, the first duty of good government is the protection of its citizens. I rise to highlight the government's unwavering commitment to keep Australians safe. There are...
- Budget (1 speech)
There is a big question mark hanging over this government and its Prime Minister. The question mark goes to its purpose, its sense of the role, the point of a Commonwealth government. We have...
- Broadband (1 speech)
The coalition government promised to prioritise fast broadband to the bush, and this week another milestone has been reached. In the tiny village of Wombat near Harden, population 180 residents,...
- Health Funding (1 speech)
When the Treasurer of New South Wales rises to her feet in the state parliament today, she will not have very many kind words to say about this government, because this is the government that is...
- Wannon Electorate: Melville Oval (1 speech)
I would like to lower the tone. I have some very good news I would like to tell the House about today, and I would like everyone to listen carefully. I do not need to yell to make my dramatic...
- Health Funding (1 speech)
In the short time I have available to me I wanted to talk about the difference between rhetoric and reality. We say on the one hand that we support an issue, we want to do our best for that issue...
- Swan Valley (1 speech)
I rise today to welcome the City of Swan and businesses from the Swan Valley to Canberra. The Swan Valley is located east of the Perth CBD. The Swan Valley celebrated its 181st anniversary this...
- Education Funding, Health Funding (1 speech)
Not content with ripping out money from our schools and hospitals in the last budget, we now know that this government has a secret plan to abandon schools of Australia and indeed the hospitals...
- Kogarah Community Sleep Out 2015 (2 speeches)
On Saturday, 11 July, my family and I will be sleeping out under the stars at WIN Jubilee Oval, home of the St George Illawarra Dragons. We will be sleeping out on the field to raise awareness...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Defence will be absent from question time today and tomorrow while he attends the NATO defence ministers meeting in Brussels. The Deputy Prime Minister...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Hospitals (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Did the Prime Minister's own department circulate a Federation green paper that provides an option that would see the Australian government cut every single...
- National Security (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Would the Prime Minister update the House on the action the government is taking to strengthen Australia's national security? Mr Perrett interjecting—
- National Security: Citizenship (14 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Last month, when asked if the power to strip citizenship from dual nationals would be exercised at a minister's discretion, the Prime Minister said, 'That is...
- Hospitals (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's department working up options to cut every single dollar of Australian government funding to public hospitals. Given the...
- Community Services (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. Minister, recent changes for emergency relief services, such as Loaves and Fishes in Wangaratta and north-east Victoria, have caused great...
- Gun Control (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Justice and the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Counter-Terrorism. Will the minister inform the House of steps the government is taking to protect...
- Hospitals (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In light of the Prime Minister's last answer, can the Prime Minister please explain to the parliament how it can be sensible or mature to cut every single...
- Budget (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer please outline the importance of sustainable and responsible budgeting? What does this mean for my constituents in Ryan?
- Education Funding (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given the Prime Minister promised 'no cuts to health' but has already cut more than $50 billion from public hospitals, leaving what the president of the AMA...
- Small Business (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business. Will the minister inform the House how small businesses in my electorate of Corangamite can take advantage of the government's budget? How are...
- Health Funding (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's federation green paper that proposes to cut every single dollar from public hospital funding. Isn't this just another way for...
- Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education and Training. Would the minister update the House on the importance to the Australian economy of the international education sector. And how is the...
- Hospitals (16 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's secret plan to cut every single dollar from public hospitals, forcing the states to hit Australians with a new hospital tax.
- Child Care (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. I refer the minister to the report in today's The Daily Telegraph about the previous government's Early Years Quality Fund. What action is the...
- Budget (4 speeches)
My question is for the Prime Minister, and I refer to his previous answer. Prime Minister, some government somewhere printed a document that refers to health and education cuts and says that they...
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (8 speeches, 1 comment)
I have got a real question. My question is to the Minister for Communications, and I refer the minister to the airing by the—
- Education Funding (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister's $30 billion school cuts will leave schools around the country an average of $3.2 million worse off, including schools like Alstonville...
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister update the House on the steps the government is taking to create a more sustainable Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme to ensure the...
- Education Funding (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, this year's budget locked in $30 billion of cuts to schools. That is the equivalent of sacking one in seven teachers at Narre Warren North...
- Superannuation (5 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer. Will the Assistant Treasurer update the House on how the government is providing security to all Australians saving for their retirement? Are there any...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Thank you, Madam Speaker, I do wish to make a personal explanation.
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Ravenshoe Accident (5 speeches)
Madam Speaker, I want to express condolences on behalf of the parliament to the people of Ravenshoe following the accident at the bakery and cafe—to the loved ones of those involved and the...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Documents are presented as listed in the schedule circulated to honourable members. Details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Health and Education Funding (28 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable Leader of the Opposition proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Shipbuilding Industry (1 speech)
I rise on this occasion of very sad news. Developments in the last few hours have revealed that Forgacs shipbuilding in my home Hunter region will be laying off another 160 workers from their 450...
- Renewable Energy (1 speech)
That was a disgraceful performance by the member for Charlton, who well knows his government did not order one ship in six years. If you want to know how to engineer a valley of death in...
- Ethanol (1 speech, 1 comment)
I have seen some great deceits in my time, in 41 years in parliament, but the deceit on ethanol really gets the prize. I have never seen such a concerted effort of public lying as I have seen on...
- Northern Australia (1 speech)
It is an exciting time to be a north Australian. Last week I proudly stood beside the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister Robb, Minister Joyce and a number of my...
- Parramatta Electorate: Higher Education (1 speech)
We all think we live in the best electorates; but, when it comes to education, I really do. I doubt that there is another electorate in the country where people are as committed to lifting...
- National Security: Citizenship (2 speeches)
I rise to speak on the critically important issue of national security. The harsh reality of modern times is that the world is often more dangerous. Since last September, we have seen two home...
