House debates
Tuesday, 18 August 2015
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties I present the committee's report entitled Report 152: Treaty tabled on 16 June 2015. Report made a parliamentary paper in accordance with...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Vietnam Veterans Day (1 speech)
Today is Vietnam Veterans Day. Today we commemorate the Battle of Long Tan. In 1966, it was the largest single-unit battle fought by Australian troops in Vietnam. Today we also remember and...
- Day, Mr Jason (1 speech)
I rise to speak about Jason Day and his fantastic win in the US PGA championship on the weekend. Just to give some background about him: Day married his wife, Ellie, in 2009 and they are now...
- Health Care (1 speech)
For two years the Abbott government has engaged in an unprecedented attack on the ability of Australians to access affordable health care. The freeze on the Medicare Benefits Schedule rebate,...
- O'Connor Electorate: Ngunytju Tjitji Pirni Aboriginal Corporation (1 speech)
I take this opportunity today to update the House on an Indigenous health issue in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, a major regional centre in my electorate of O'Connor. In response to a series of...
- Health Care (3 speeches)
This government's cuts to health and hospitals across the nation have been devastating, especially in regional and rural areas. We have seen cuts to hospital funding and dental care—and we...
- Hasluck Local Sporting Champion Grants (1 speech)
The Hasluck Local Sporting Champion Grants kicked off in Hasluck last week. I had the privilege of presenting 11 local sporting champions with certificates to recognise their excellence in their...
- Health Care (1 speech)
When it comes to health, government members are just not listening. They are not listening to the Australian people. In particular, they are not listening to the 10,000 Scullin constituents who...
- Influenza (1 speech)
Yesterday's meeting of the Parliamentary Friends of Medicine discussed adult vaccination and the cost of avoidable disease in adults. Despite a childhood vaccination rate over 90 per cent, the...
- Health Care (1 speech)
I rise in the chamber today to speak about health and about how Australia is changing before our eyes. We have had two years of this government—two years of good government, so claims the...
- Mackellar Electorate: Fight on the Beaches (1 speech)
Cancer has touched so many Australians either directly or indirectly. As patron of a local charity in my electorate of Mackellar, Fight on the Beaches, it was my privilege to attend the second...
- Health Care (1 speech)
The Abbott government's changes to the general practice incentives program for after-hours services are yet another attack on Medicare and access to affordable healthcare for all Australians....
- Loddon Murray Community Leadership Program, Northern Mallee Leadership Program (1 speech)
Deputy Speaker, if you look up in the gallery you will see the Loddon Murray Community Leadership Program. You will also see the Northern Mallee Leadership Program. These are young men and women...
- Health Care (1 speech)
The one thing that Australians know is that you cannot trust the Abbott government. You particularly cannot trust the Abbott government when it comes to health. Before the election, the Abbott...
- Victoria: Public Holidays (1 speech)
This will be boring, Mr Deputy Speaker Scott. I am always fighting for small business in Victoria. The Age's Josh Gordon, on 17 August, wrote that businesses are urging the state government to...
- Medicare (1 speech)
I rise to talk about Medicare—a great Australian institution. After the rejection of their $7 GP tax three times—and who could forget Joe Hockey comparing it to two middies of...
- Bruce Highway (1 speech)
This week I will be launching the Boost the Bruce campaign in relation to the Bruce Highway. The Bruce Highway is the biggest traffic carrier throughout Queensland. More than 100,000 vehicles use...
- Medicare (1 speech)
I give my congratulations to you, Mr Speaker. One of the greatest challenges faced by those of us who live in rural and regional Australia is the maintenance of access to affordable healthcare...
- Film (2 speeches)
On 9 August, Fairless, a film celebrating a country town legend, was premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival. The film features a Shepparton cycling great and dairy farmer, Steve...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Bangkok: Terrorist Attacks (3 speeches)
I deeply regret to inform the House that there was a vicious attack in Bangkok last night. A bomber or bombers struck near the Erawan Shrine, which is a popular tourist location. The attack was...
- Vietnam Veterans Day (2 speeches)
I have another statement on indulgence, Mr Speaker. Earlier today, many members attended a service to mark Vietnam Veterans Day. As the House would know, over 60,000 Australians—Army, Air...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Leader of the House will be absent from question time today to attend to a family matter. The Minister for Industry and Science will answer questions in the Education...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Abbott Government (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is it not the case that the Prime Minister's series of disastrous captain's picks continues to completely paralyse this government?
- Environment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on how the government is acting to protect jobs against extreme green 'lawfare', whilst ensuring the highest...
- Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Dyson Heydon AC, QC yesterday confirmed he accepted an invitation to speak at an event, knowing full well that it was organised by the Liberal Party when he...
- Economy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline how the government is working to create a strong and prosperous economy by acting against 'lawfare'? What challenges does the...
- Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In an extraordinary statement yesterday Dyson Heydon AC, QC again failed to rule out addressing Liberal Party events in the future.
- Infrastructure (6 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development. Will the minister advise the House of action the government is taking to encourage new...
- Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption (7 speeches)
Mr Speaker—
- Mining (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry and Science. How will the government ensure that the Carmichael Mine in my electorate of Maranoa and other major projects of this nature can go ahead...
- Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In the past week the Prime Minister has repeatedly defended Dyson Heydon AC QC by referring to comments made by Julian Burnside QC. Is the Prime Minister...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
We have present in the gallery today the former member for Hasluck, Mr Stuart Henry.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Employment (21 speeches)
I have a real question about jobs and opportunities.
- Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In the past week the Prime Minister has repeatedly defended Dyson Heydon AC, QC, by referring to comments made by Julian Burnside QC. Is the Prime Minister...
- Iraq and Syria (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister update the House on the conflict in Syria and Iraq and the threat that it poses to our national security? What is the...
- Infrastructure (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade. Andrew Forrest said that the Western Australian government's refusal to build a key rail corridor set Western Australian mining back 23 years. Every inch...
- Workplace Relations (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, who is representing the Minister for Employment today. What action is the government taking to ensure fair workplaces and support for honest...
- Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Attorney-General. In question time on Thursday, after being asked specifically about when the Attorney or his office was first aware that Dyson...
- 457 Visas (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister outline the importance of the 457 visa program and why it is important that its integrity is maintained?
- Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption (18 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Last year the Prime Minister said: … you appoint someone of Dyson Heydon's standing because you trust to his judgment and I'm very happy to put...
- Small Business (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business. Will the minister update the House on how the government is supporting small business to create jobs and are there any threats to the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Jobs and Infrastructure (36 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Perth proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government failing to...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (8 speeches)
I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Human Rights Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, I present the committee's report entitled Human rights scrutiny report: Twenty-sixth report of the 44th parliament. I ask leave of...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Shultz, Mr Albert John (7 speeches)
When we lost Alby Shultz we lost one of the most colourful, engaging and sometimes irascible members of this House. He was, of course, the longest-serving member for the federation seat of Hume....
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 8, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Centenary of Anzac (23 speeches)
I rise to speak in support of the Prime Minister's motion. On Anzac Day this year we commemorated a particularly significant anniversary. On 25 April 100 years ago two divisions of the Australia...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Srebrenica Remembrance (1 speech)
When we know of past atrocities we have a duty to recall them and to remind the world of them and their implications. If we let historical crimes slip into the stream of forgetfulness, then not...
- Hasluck Electorate: Shipbuilding (1 speech)
Recently I was privileged to visit the Australian Marine Complex at Henderson in my home state of Western Australia and to tour the world-class facilities that are operating in that...
- Indi Electorate: Agriculture (1 speech)
Tonight I am pleased to speak about some of my favourite topics—food, farming, agriculture, education and research, and the end game: strong, sustainable, prosperous rural communities alive...
- Forde Electorate (1 speech)
It is always wonderful to rise in this place and take the opportunity to talk about many of the good things that are happening in my local community of Forde. Today, with Vietnam Veterans Day, we...
- Global Peace Index (1 speech)
I rise in the House today to speak briefly about the recent release of the Global Peace Index for 2015. Members may or may not be aware of the Global Peace Index. It is an attempt to measure the...
- Government Policies (2 speeches)
From time to time 'vision' is raised by commentators, usually as a criticism against politicians, yet this slap is quickly replaced by issues of the day—juicy morsels substantiated by...
