House debates
Wednesday, 21 October 2015
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 35 of the Selection Committee relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday, 9 November 2015. The report will be...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That consideration of business intervening before order of the day No. 6, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
We have present in the gallery former member for Bradfield, former minister and former Leader of the Opposition, Brendan Nelson. Welcome. Honourable members: Hear, hear!
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Valedictory (13 speeches)
When I first spoke in this chamber on 10 September 1996, my very first words were: I am in Canberra today because I want to make a contribution to the future of Australia. I believe I have made a...
- Reference to Federation Chamber (3 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I ask leave of the House to move a motion to enable further statements on indulgence on the retirement of Mr Hockey to be made in the Federation Chamber.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Broadband (1 speech)
I have a lot of very angry constituents—I have thousands of very angry constituents who were let down by this Liberal government last week when it released the latest three-year rollout...
- Gilmore Electorate: Waminda (1 speech)
I have a group called Waminda in the Shoalhaven. They run an iconic program called Dead or Deadly, which could be significantly reduced if we cannot find funds for them. Faye Warner has been...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
Right now in my electorate a 19-year-old boy who I will call Ali, though that is not his real name, is preparing for his VCE exams at Salesian College in Chadstone. Just a few minutes ago, he...
- Deakin Electorate: Centre for Regional Knowledge and Innovation (1 speech)
It is wonderful to be able to highlight the forthcoming opening of the Centre for Regional Knowledge and Innovation at Ringwood, which has been completed as part of the $665 million redevelopment...
- United Nations Day (1 speech)
This evening I will attend a flag raising ceremony at Old Parliament House to celebrate United Nations Day and the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the UN. United Nations Day is...
- Motor Neurone Disease (1 speech)
Last year I lost a close friend to motor neurone disease—one Brad Drewett, a brilliant man and a loving husband and father—at the peak of his life. To suffer motor neurone disease is...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
As much as some people in this House might deny it, climate change is one of the most serious issues facing the world today, and if we do not act now it will soon be too late. The countries that...
- McHappy Day (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to thank our local community for getting behind a number of recent charitable events. On Saturday, McHappy Day was celebrated in a number of McDonald's...
- Muslim Community Radio (1 speech)
Today I would like to congratulate Muslim Community Radio 2MFM on receiving the SBS People's Choice Award for its campaign Together Standing Against Extremism and Racism. 2MFM is a multicultural...
- Australian Search Dog Framework (1 speech)
I rise to inform the House of a commitment made and a commitment fulfilled by this government today. Out on Federation Mall this morning the Minister for Justice and I announced the important...
- George Warfe Elementary School, Papua New Guinea (1 speech)
Kamiatum in Papua New Guinea is a small village that during the Second World War was just inland from the Japanese coastal base of Salamaua. In March 1943, the Imperial Japanese Navy occupied the...
- Barton Electorate: NSW Grandparents Day (1 speech)
This Saturday is the 2015 NSW Grandparents Day. This is a wonderful initiative by the state of New South Wales which encourages each and every one of us to recognise and celebrate the vital role...
- National Week of Deaf People (2 speeches)
(): Ms Owens simultaneously delivered her speech in Aus tralian Sign Language I was pleased to celebrate National Week of Death People recently on Saturday in Parramatta at the deaf festival....
- Bonner Electorate: Broadband (1 speech)
Today, I rise to speak yet again on broadband internet in my electorate of Bonner. I am extremely pleased to have much better news for my constituents following the NBN's release of its new...
- Newcastle Electorate: Meet the Mob Interviews (1 speech)
Last week, Meet the Mob celebrated its 100th interview in a live broadcast on 1233 ABC Newcastle from the Wollotuka Institute at the University of Newcastle. In the words of its creator, 1233...
- Broadband (1 speech)
There is great news for the people of Dunkley: NBN will be available to all of our premises by the end of 2017. That is such exciting news, because under the Labor rollout it would have taken a...
- Kingsford Smith Electorate: International Students Beach Soccer Tournament (1 speech)
On 27 September I was pleased to attend the New South Wales Police's international beach soccer tournament on Coogee Beach in the Kingsford Smith electorate. Hosted by the Eastern Beaches local...
- Campaign for Australian Aid (1 speech)
Last Thursday I had the opportunity to attend the Campaign for Australian Aid local SA action group information evening at the Holdfast Bay Bowls and Croquet Club. Campaign for Australian Aid is...
- Bolton, Professor Geoffrey (1 speech)
A much loved and true public intellectual, Professor Geoffrey Bolton, died last month in Perth at the age of 83. Geoffrey had a special connection with the electorate of Perth being a North Perth...
- Central Coast Chamber of Commerce and Industry Awards (1 speech)
Small and medium businesses are the lifeblood of the Australian economy, as we all know. That is no different in the magnificent electorate of Braddon. On Saturday I had the pleasure of attending...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection will be absent from question time for the remainder of this week. He is attending the Putrajaya International Security...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Family Payments (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Today the Liberal government has announced new changes and cuts to family payments. With regard to the Prime Minister's announcement today, just how many...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on key government decisions to build growth opportunities in the world's largest and most dynamic markets to...
- Family Payments (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is it true that a grandparent carer with a 15-year-old in their care will be about $2½ thousand a year worse off because of the government's proposed...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon representatives from the Kurdistan Regional Government, led by the honourable Falah Mustafa Bakir, minister for foreign...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Trade with China (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade and Investment. Will the minister advise the House on the importance of bringing the historic free trade export deal with China into force?
- Family Payments (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is it still Liberal government policy to cut paid parental leave for 80,000 new parents each year?
- Government Advertising (2 speeches)
My question is to the Special Minister of State. It is about government advertising in rural and regional Australia. Minister, it is important that all people have access to government knowledge...
- Trade (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister update the House on how the coalition's economic diplomacy agenda is helping Australian businesses gain greater access to...
- National Broadband Network (19 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Last night in Senate estimates it was revealed that the government has already ordered 1,800 kilometres worth of copper to make its second-rate nbn work....
- Trade (5 speeches)
I welcome McAuley Catholic College from Grafton to question time today. My question is to the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. Will the minister update the House on how the four...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I would like to inform the House we have present in the gallery this afternoon the honourable Stephen Mullighan, South Australian Minister for Transport and Infrastructure. On behalf of the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Broadband (17 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Before the last election, the Prime Minister promised that he would build his second-rate version of the NBN for 29½ billion dollars. The NBN corporate...
- Child Care: Jobs for Families Package (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on how the government's $3.5 billion Jobs for Families package will help families to work, save and invest? How is the...
- Broadband (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Before the last election the now Prime Minister promised that all Australians would have access to internet speeds of 25 megabits per second by the end of...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the recipients of the Prime Minister's science prizes. On behalf of the House, I extend a welcome and congratulations to...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Family Payments (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. Will the minister advise the House how the new Families Package is fairer to all Australians? How will this benefit families, particularly in...
- Innovation (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Recently, the Prime Minister said: Our government is committed to an innovative Australia. Innovation nation. They are nice words, but can the Prime Minister...
- Superannuation (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business and Assistant Treasurer. Will the minister explain what action the government is taking to ensure Australians have more choice with their...
- Research and Development: NICTA (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Last year the now Prime Minister took the German Chancellor to NICTA, Australia's flagship IT research agency, in my electorate of Sydney. Why has the Prime...
- Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development. Will the minister update the House on the delivery of key infrastructure projects in my home...
- Marriage (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's support for a plebiscite on marriage equality and I ask the Prime Minister: will the national result of the plebiscite be...
- Defence Procurement (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Materiel and Science. Will the minister advise the House how Australian industry, in partnership with the Australian Defence Force, is seeking...
- Budget (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. When asked this morning when the government would come back to surplus, the Treasurer gave—for him—a detailed and specific answer: 'In the future,...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the following from occurring: (1) Government business having precedence from 7.30 pm to 9.30...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Reference (1 speech)
I present a schedule showing the allocation to committees of annual reports of government departments and agencies. The schedule read as follows— ( The report was not available at the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Broadband (14 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 Prime Minister’s...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (1 speech)
I move: That the resolution agreed to earlier this sitting be amended to extend the House sitting until 10 pm. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Sydney Electorate: Barangaroo Reserve (1 speech)
Not so long ago, I took my son to visit the new Barangaroo headland reserve in my electorate of Sydney. It is the most beautiful new nature reserve at the heart of Sydney, a reconstructed...
- Lindsay Electorate: Small Business Awards (1 speech)
Wednesday, 7 October saw the small business awards in the Panthers marquee in Penrith. It was a wonderful event, and it is also wonderful to support local small business. Two-thirds of the...
- Fowler Electorate: Mingyue Lay Temple (1 speech)
Last Sunday, I attended the 34th anniversary of the founding of the Mingyue Lay Temple, the Chinese Buddhist temple located in Bonnyrigg, in the heart of my electorate of Fowler. In fact, the...
- Page Electorate: Coal Seam Gas (1 speech)
Coal-seam gas has been a contentious issue in the Northern Rivers for the past 45 years. At times it has been very polarising and at times very unifying. In late 2012 I started to get inundated...
- Gambling (1 speech)
Last night I watched the ABC program Ka-Ching! Pokie Nation and it reminded me just how much impact poker machines have in Australia, how we as a federal parliament have failed to address that...
- Hinkler Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
Well-maintained roads are incredibly important in any community but particularly in regional areas where distances are vast and infrastructure is prone to flooding. They are part of our social...
- Australia-New Zealand Relationship (1 speech)
Throughout our history New Zealanders have shown a great deal of generosity in sharing their cultural icons, achievements and creations with us Aussies. Some might even suggest that we have shown...
- Cowper Electorate: Broadband (1 speech)
Last week nbn co announced the latest three-year rollout to accelerate the development of a superfast broadband service across the country and, in particular, in my electorate of Cowper. This...
- Domestic and Family Violence (2 speeches)
I want to take this opportunity to speak about domestic and family violence today, as Reclaim the Night will be held in my electorate next Friday night. Reclaim the Night is an annual campaign to...
- Homelessness (2 speeches)
In early September I ventured out in the early hours of a Saturday morning to Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School in Gladesville. The school's Winter Sleepout had taken place the...
- Broadband (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about more news on the National Broadband Network. On Friday the three-year plan for the NBN was released with much fanfare. However, I discovered that there was very little...
- Cowan Electorate (1 speech)
The suburb of Ballajura on the east side of Cowan is the most populated suburb in the electorate. There are five primary schools: Ballajura Primary School, Illawarra Primary School, South...
- Perth Electorate: Broadband (1 speech)
Suburbs with some of Australia's poorest broadband are still not in the Turnbull government's planned rollout of their second-rate NBN. Last week nbn put out its latest three-year rollout plan,...
- Dobell Electorate: National Science Week (1 speech)
Members of this House would be familiar with the many events that took place around Australia as part of National Science Week. The CSIRO, as part of a national effort to promote National Science...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the Public Service pay negotiations that have been dragging on for more than 18 months, creating uncertainty and stress for the 150,000 public servants across Australia. The...
- Australian Paper (1 speech)
I was about to come into this constituents statements debate today and read out the extensive list of achievements that have been part of my activities as the federal member for...
- Wakefield Electorate: 7th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (1 speech)
It was my great honour on 1 September 2015 to attend the 50th birthday of 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, at Horseshoe Lines at RAAF Base Edinburgh in my electorate. The 7th Battalion...
- Moore Electorate: West Coast Institute (1 speech)
I formally recognise the important contribution made to our local economy by the vocational education and training sector within the Joondalup Learning Precinct and advocate for continued strong...
- Diabetes (1 speech)
Around 140,000 Australians suffer from type 1 diabetes. The cause of type 1 diabetes is unknown, there is no known method of prevention and there is no cure. Management of type 1 diabetes...
- Solomon Electorate: Mr Kevin Kadirgamar (2 speeches)
Tomorrow night being 22 October, the National Golden Gavel and Australian Young Lawyer awards night will be held in Melbourne. I am delighted to advise the House that an amazing young lawyer from...
