House debates
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 37 of the Selection Committee relating to the consideration of private members' business on Monday, 30 November 2015. The report will be printed in the Hansard for today and...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
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(): I inform the House that I have received a copy of a resolution passed by the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia on 23 September 2015 relating to marriage equality. The text of the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1 speech)
Deputy Speaker, 114 years ago in 1901—the first year of Federation—the federal member for Coolgardie, Hugh Mahon, moved a motion calling for a royal commission into the treatment of...
- Solomon Electorate: Palmerston Men's Shed (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the great work that the Palmerston Men's Shed does in my electorate of Solomon. Earlier this month I visited the Men's Shed and had the opportunity to meet with the...
- Moreton-Rankin Unity Shield (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the second Moreton-Rankin Unity Shield. It is good that the member for Rankin is here to hear this speech. We are not quite the Sheffield Field but the Moreton-Rankin Unity...
- Moore Electorate: Sorrento Surf Lifesaving Club (1 speech)
Sorrento Surf Lifesaving Club is planning for a major redevelopment of its clubhouse to accommodate the steady growth in its membership to 1,638 members and to support the development of junior...
- Moreton-Rankin Unity Shield (1 speech)
There was a moment in the Moreton-Rankin Unity cricket game a couple of Sundays ago where I thought I was facing a young Curtly Ambrose, but instead I was actually facing the member for Moreton...
- Canning Electorate: Sport (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the inaugural City of Mandurah Sports Awards 2015, which I recently had the pleasure of attending in my electorate of Canning. These awards celebrate individuals and...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate this place and other parliaments around our country that are bringing domestic violence against women and children out of the shadows on this important day, White...
- Corangamite Electorate: Innovation (1 speech)
I rise to celebrate another investment in jobs and advanced manufacturing in Corangamite, this time under our $29.5 million Geelong Region Innovation and Investment Fund, or GRIIF. While the...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
Today, 25 November, is White Ribbon Day, Australia's observation of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The campaign works through primary prevention initiatives,...
- Page Electorate: Hiscock, Mr Jacob (1 speech)
I would like to acknowledge Jake Hiscock today. Jake is a local Lismore mechanic, for Lismore Car Repairs. This year, Jake received the apprentice of the year award from Wollongbar TAFE. As part...
- Textile, Clothing and Footwear Industry (1 speech)
The Parliamentary Friends of Aussie Fashion police are out in force today. They are checking labels to make sure that we have been buying local goods and supporting local designers. I am pleased...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
This year we have seen the issue of domestic violence rise to the top of local and national media and to the top of Australians' minds. All people should be able to live free from violence. I...
- McEwen Electorate: 2015 Whittlesea Show (1 speech)
As you would know, Mr Deputy Speaker, the Whittlesea Show is one of the best regional shows in Victoria. It was held on the first weekend of November this year. It was its 156th year of...
- 2015 Tasmanian Export Awards (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate the winners of the 2015 Tasmanian Export Awards. The Exporter of the Year Award went to Reid Fruits, a business in my electorate. They were also the recipient of the...
- Disability Services (1 speech)
Recently, I met with Irene McMinn, Mark Hoarau and Janne Bidenko from the DeafBlind Association, an advocacy group for people with afflictions such as Usher syndrome—people who are legally...
- Perth Airport (1 speech)
Today I want to update the House on the recent opening of the new domestic T1 terminal in my electorate of Swan at Perth Airport. This is part of an overall upgrade of Perth Airport that will see...
- White Ribbon Day (1 speech)
A few moments ago Bendigo's walk for White Ribbon Day, an international day for the elimination of violence against women, ended. This year over 600 people gathered at the Bendigo Town Hall and,...
- Perth Freight Link (1 speech)
I wish to update the House with exciting news relating to an infrastructure project of major importance in my electorate and in the plans of this government—namely, the Perth Freight Link....
- Indi Electorate: Benalla RSL (1 speech)
I would like to welcome to parliament today members of the Benalla subbranch of the RSL. Doug Williams is the Benalla rep on the Indi Centenary of Anzac Day committee. He accepted my invitation...
- White Ribbon Day (2 speeches)
That we in this country actually have to have a White Ribbon Day should appal every man in this country. That we have the tragic victim of domestic violence, Rosie Batty, as our Australian of the...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
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I thank you, Mr Speaker. I wish to inform the House that the Minister for Vocational Education and Skills will be away from question time today attending to a personal matter and that the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Domestic and Family Violence (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. On average, in Australia every week one woman is killed by their partner or ex-partner. This is a national crisis. Will the Prime Minister join with me to...
- Goods and Services Tax (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, a second-year hairdressing apprentice earning only $22,000 per year has already lost $1,000 this year and will lose $2,700 over the next two...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon Ms Khawaja, a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan. On behalf of the House, I extend her a very warm welcome....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Violence Against Women and Girls (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister update the House on Australia's commitment to international efforts to end violence against women and girls?
- Goods and Services Tax (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, you say you want to have a conversation about taxation in Australia, and that is your right. So let's talk about modelling by AUSVEG, as...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the leader of the New Zealand opposition, Mr Andrew Little MP, and Mr Phil Goff MP. On behalf of the House, I extend a very...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Foreign Investment (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Chinese government companies control ports of Newcastle and Darwin, and they are seeking to control the port of Cape Preston in the Pilbara and the port of...
- Competition Policy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the government's response to the Harper competition policy review? How important is it that Australia's governments work...
- Taxation (5 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer to his previous answer and I also refer to the now Treasurer's statement in parliament in 2009: … so we put forward a constructive proposal to...
- Economy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science. Will the minister update the House on the challenges facing innovators and entrepreneurs across all sectors of Australia's economy?
- Climate Change (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will Australia's annual carbon emissions in 2020 be higher or lower than this year?
- Agriculture (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. Will the minister inform the House how innovation and technology are transforming Australian agriculture, and how does this...
- Climate Change (14 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is it correct that today's updated greenhouse gas data confirms that, after dropping by eight per cent during the last Labor government, Australia's carbon...
- Hume Electorate: Green Army Projects (2 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister for the Environment. With another Green Army project winding up successfully in my electorate of Hume, could the minister outline how the government is...
- Broadband (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Under the Prime Minister's stewardship the cost of his second-rate version of the NBN has already nearly doubled to $56 billion and the time frame for...
- Research and Development: Commercialisation (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry, Science and Innovation. Will the minister inform the House how the government's industry programs will assist the commercialisation of research and...
- Parliament: Integrity (3 speeches)
My question is to the Special Minister of State. I refer to the minister's answer yesterday. How does the minister respond to the following words contained in an AFP search warrant, which I quote...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (2 speeches)
My question is from Andrew Playford from Ballina, who has sent this question via my Facebook page. He asks: could the minister please update the House on the full implementation of the National...
- Parliament: Integrity (2 speeches)
My question is again to the Special Minister of State. I refer to the minister's answer yesterday. How does the minister respond to the following words contained in an AFP search...
- Veterans (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs. Mr Trevor Lawrence, a volunteer veterans pension and welfare officer, has raised with me that Dobell currently has 2,642 DVA clients. He...
- Parliament: Integrity (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How can the Special Minister of State retain responsibility for integrity in government when an AFP search warrant states—and I quote in part: 'between...
- Climate Change (20 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment. Minister, I have been holding a number of community forums in my electorate, and many of my constituents in Braddon are very keen to know if...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Documents are presented as listed in the schedule circulated to honourable members earlier today. Details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent further statements on the terrorist attacks around the world being made at the conclusion of today’s...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Turnbull Government (17 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Isaacs proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The importance of integrity...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present report No. 9 of 2015, Referrals made August 2015. Report made a parliamentary paper in accordance with standing order...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Terrorist Attacks around the World (17 speeches)
I rise to speak on indulgence in response to the Prime Minister's statement on the recent terrorist attacks around the world. Overnight, we have heard again of yet more attacks—in Tunisia...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Goods and Services Tax (1 speech)
When the GST was introduced by the Howard government, Prime Minister Howard was adamant that it would never, ever increase beyond 10 per cent. A senior caller on ABC radio in Perth in 2001 asked...
- Taxation, Superannuation (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk on this adjournment debate in relation to tax as well, as it happens. I know there is a discussion that the Australian community and the parliament is having at the moment...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
Many members of this chamber grapple with the best way to respond to the international refugee crisis. In 2015, for the first time since the Second World War, the number of refugees, asylum...
- Tasmania: Timber Industry (1 speech)
Tonight I want to tell Kelly Wilton's story—the story of a long-term family of the Derwent Valley. It gives me pleasure to tell the story, which is part of the fabric of my state of...
- Fowler Electorate: Community Services (1 speech)
I regularly speak about the extraordinary cultural diversity in my community. In fact, Fowler is the most multicultural electorate in the whole of Australia, with nearly 70 percent of its...
- Western Australia: Roads (2 speeches)
In September I was joined by the member for Canning, Andrew Hastie, the then Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, Premier Colin Barnett, and the local Belmont MLA, Glenys Godfrey, in my electorate of...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- McEwen Electorate: Aveo Retirement Village (1 speech)
It was an absolute pleasure to be invited to open the final stages of Aveo Retirement Village in Sunbury when I returned home after the last sitting week. It was also a great pleasure to...
- Road Safety (1 speech)
I take the opportunity this morning, as we approach the festive season and the extended holiday period, to encourage Australians to consider the opportunities to explore regional Australia over...
- Shortland Electorate: Christmas (1 speech)
Christmas is a very special time. It is a time when family and friends come together, it is a time when the community joins together and it is a time when we as members of parliament have a...
- Percy, Ms Jackie, and El Wakil, Ms Sharon, Clarke, Ms Emma (1 speech)
I am here today to acknowledge the efforts of a few inspiring community members from my electorate of Stirling. Local resident Jackie Percy and her sister Sharon El Wakil have been able to raise...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
Many of my constituents have contacted me over the past months, concerned by the recent reports of animal cruelty and mistreatment by some in Australia's live export trade. Many of these same...
- Calare Electorate: headspace (1 speech)
I have to say I am thrilled to speak about the new headspace which is set to open in Orange early next year. It will bring the total number of headspace sites across the country to 100 centres,...
- Christmas (1 speech)
At this time of year, many of us are spending extra money, buying Christmas presents, celebrating the end of the year with our colleagues, friends and families, and planning office Christmas...
- White Ribbon Day (1 speech)
Today is White Ribbon Day, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. I am an ambassador, and each year we restate our oath: I pledge never to commit, condone or remain...
- Forum for Dialogue Among Nations (1 speech)
The success of Poland has been commented on by many people. Since the end of the Cold War, unfortunately for people in Ukraine the national income per capita has remained virtually the same,...
- Moore Electorate: North West Metro 2015 Small Business Awards (1 speech)
The Joondalup Business Association held the North West Metro 2015 Small Business Awards, showcasing the achievements of local entrepreneurs at a gala dinner held at the Joondalup Resort Hotel on...
- Scullin Electorate: Multiculturalism (1 speech)
On Sunday the news brought into households around Australia had some confronting images courtesy of a group that calls itself Reclaim Australia. They brought to towns across the country a protest...
- Page Electorate: Sport (1 speech)
Teenage driver Nikky Youngberry completed a sensational passing move to steal the show at the Castrol Edge Lismore Speedway on Saturday night. Youngberry took out the junior sedan feature race...
- Newcastle Electorate: GP Access After Hours (1 speech)
GP Access After Hours is an innovative, highly valued model for delivery of comprehensive, high-quality after-hours primary health care to the community of the lower Hunter region, including my...
- Hinkler Electorate: Employment (1 speech)
I am angry. I am absolutely fed up with people who are talking down my region. Confidence breeds confidence. As far as I am concerned, I am raising my family in the greatest region in the...
- Blair Electorate: Centenary of Anzac (1 speech)
This year, people across Ipswich and Somerset have remembered and reflected on events 100 years ago: the first Anzac Day and the tumultuous years of the First World War. This Sunday, on 29...
- Flynn Electorate: Liquefied Natural Gas (1 speech)
Today, I want to praise the gas industry for the benefits it has given to my electorate of Flynn and which it will continue to give for at least the next 25 years. Two major announcements last...
- Corio Electorate: Geelong Western Public Cemetery (1 speech)
In August 2011, I spoke to this place about the significance of our heritage in our local cemeteries. When you visit these places and read the headstones, you see lives that have been lived,...
- Solomon Electorate: Mental Health (1 speech)
Last month I held a mental health roundtable, to hear directly from stakeholders about some of the issues and concerns that they have in their sector and how they relate to the Territory. I would...
- Glebe Street Fair, Newtown Festival (1 speech)
One of the great pleasures of being a member of parliament is the opportunity to participate in celebrations in our local community. This month I had the opportunity to go both to the Glebe...
- Transgender Day of Remembrance (2 speeches)
On Friday, 20 November, people around the world stopped to commemorate the 16th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. In more than 20 countries, people remembered those who have died as a result...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics Committee; Report (1 speech)
I rise to speak in relation to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics report that was tabled a few days ago, Review of the Reserve Bank of Australia Annual Report 2014. A...
