House debates
Tuesday, 1 March 2016
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Electoral Matters Committee; Membership (1 speech)
I have received a message from the Senate informing the House of the appointment of senators as participating members of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters for the committee's...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That the order of the day No. 2, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Animal Welfare (1 speech)
Today World Animal Protection released a report calling for national leadership in animal welfare. It highlights the repeated exposes of animal cruelty involved with live baiting in greyhound...
- North Coast Combined High School Girls Cricket Team, Pacific Highway (1 speech)
I would like to acknowledge the North Coast Combined High School girls team that recently won the New South Wales state cricket championships. The girls went through the competition undefeated,...
- Indi Electorate: Bright (1 speech)
Today I would like to talk about the superbly named town of Bright. I would like to acknowledge the chamber of commerce and thank them for their wonderful hospitality on Wednesday, 17 February. I...
- Petrie Electorate: Bald Hills Memorial Hall (1 speech)
The Bald Hills Memorial Hall was erected almost 100 years ago, back in 1920, in memory of the soldiers from around Bald Hills who served in World War I. The hall was a place of friendships and...
- Rural and Regional Health Services (1 speech)
Many choices by this government are hurting regional areas. I often say that National Party choices hurt. In health, some of these choices and some of these cruel cuts have been very harsh. Let...
- HMAS Tobruk (II) (1 speech)
The HMAS Tobruk (II) served our nation proudly for 35 years. Her motto was: faithful and strong. It would be indeed disrespectful, and shameful perhaps, to see this part of our heritage and our...
- Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (1 speech)
The evidence that Cardinal Pell has been giving to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has stirred the emotions of hundreds of thousands of Australians across...
- Airport Noise (1 speech)
I appreciate the shadow minister's call to my call yesterday. If you land in Perth you land in my electorate of Swan. There is one particular flight in my electorate that causes great angst to...
- Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (1 speech)
You could not pick up The Age this morning and not be absolutely moved by the most extraordinary act of courage I have ever seen. These brave, beautiful men from Ballarat are in Rome currently to...
- Stronger Communities Program (1 speech)
I wish to update the House on the success of the Stronger Communities Program and the positive difference it is making in my electorate of Tangney. The Strong Communities Program is designed to...
- Rare Cancers (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on behalf of one of my constituents, Gerry Hodges, whom I spoke with yesterday from Daw House Hospice. Gerry has been diagnosed with a rare cancer in his stomach. It has...
- Liquor Licensing (1 speech)
In Townsville we are looking for jobs and we need every one of them. That is why it was so disappointing that the Queensland Labor government, with the crossbenches, voted to support the lockout...
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1 speech)
Australians should be enormously proud of the achievements of our science community and its role in detecting gravitational waves for the first time in human history. I acknowledge the work of...
- Veterans (1 speech)
Since 1999 we have lost 46 Australian servicemen on active duty in foreign fields. In the same period we have lost 239 returned servicemen who have taken their own lives on home soil. In the last...
- Sport (1 speech)
It is my sad duty, on behalf of the member for Dunkley and the member for Fowler, to report the cricket score from the match between the Press Gallery and politicians on Sunday. Mr Ewen Jones...
- Queensland: Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1 speech)
In the great state of Queensland there really is palpable concern about the lockout laws that are the sum total of the Queensland government's response to alcohol-fuelled violence—nothing...
- Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (1 speech)
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has been proceeding with its important work since 2013. The Australian people are rightly horrified by what it has...
- Durack Electorate: Boundary Redistribution (1 speech)
I am pleased to rise in the House today to welcome the new towns which have been added to Durack following the boundary redistribution in Western Australia. The shires of Bruce Rock, Westonia,...
- Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (1 speech)
Right now, the media is dominated by the royal commission into child sexual abuse. The horrific abuse of children has shocked and saddened all of us. The cruelty, negligence and indifference of...
- Flynn Electorate: Liquefied Natural Gas (2 speeches)
This weekend will see the opening of yet another gas plant on Curtis Island in Gladstone in the seat of Flynn. The project is expected to supply LNG for the next 20 years. It has cost something...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Taxation (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Today in the coalition party room the former Prime Minister challenged the current Prime Minister over his lack of economic leadership.
- Media Ownership (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on how the government is reforming Australia's media laws to embrace the challenges of the new economy? How is this...
- Taxation (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Today, the former Prime Minister has shirt-fronted the current Prime Minister over his lack of economic leadership. Will the current Prime Minister take up...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I would like to welcome two former members of this House, Mr Bill Taylor, the former member for Groom, and Jackie Kelly, the former member for Lindsay. Welcome back to the House. Honourable...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (3 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer advise the House on the importance of investment and innovation in supporting Australia's transition to a more diversified economy, and is the...
- Taxation (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday during Senate question time the Attorney-General, representing the Prime Minister, said, 'It has always been the position of coalition governments...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I welcome in the gallery this afternoon the Hon. David Hodgett, a member of the parliament of Victoria and Deputy Leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party. Honourable members: Hear, hear!
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Education Funding (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Safe Schools program has been stopping bullying around the country, and has helped many young people feel that they fit in. Prime Minister, is your...
- Taxation (7 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. Will the Deputy Prime Minister outline what impact proposed changes to capital gains tax arrangements...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Just before I call the member for Lindsay, we have just had join us on the floor of the House a parliamentary delegation from New Zealand, led by the honourable Ruth Dyson. On behalf of the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Arts: Film and Television Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister update the House about how Australia's creative industries are driving jobs, economic growth and promoting Australia's...
- Taxation (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In 2012 the now Prime Minister gave a speech in parliament promising to oppose legislation 'on the basis that it is retrospective'. Why won't the Prime...
- Research and Development (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science. I refer the minister to the GE global innovation barometer. How does this survey reflect the government's national innovation...
- Taxation (29 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday in question time both the Prime Minister and Treasurer refused to explain what the Treasurer meant when he referred to 'excesses in negative...
- Defence White Paper (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and the Minister for Defence Materiel. Will the minister explain how the defence white paper and the Defence Industry Policy Statement...
- Taxation (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Treasurer has reportedly explained to a Liberal backbench committee what he considers to be the excesses of negative gearing. Does this government have...
- Environment (5 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment.
- Taxation (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Since last Thursday, the Prime Minister has failed on four separate occasions to explain what he considers to be the excesses in negative gearing. He has...
- Hughes Electorate: Crime (3 speeches)
My constituency question is for the Minister for Justice. Can the minister update the House on what the government is doing to take the profit motive out of organised crime and to protect local...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit report No. 24 of 2015-16 entitled Performance audit—Early Intervention Services for Children with Disability: Department of Social Services. Ordered...
- 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.
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (6 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, under standing order 105(b), I ask that you write to the Minister for the Environment seeking reasons for the delay in answering a question in writing. The question, which seeks...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Housing Affordability (25 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for McMahon proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The failure of the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Trade Training Centres (5 speeches)
We know that this Prime Minister says one thing and does the complete opposite, but what has come to light when it comes to the opening of trade training centres is that it is not just the Prime...
- Regional Development (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the plan to develop regional Australia, which many in my party have committed their political careers to. We all think that the iPhone and the computer make us pretty smart,...
- Local Government (1 speech)
Tonight I would like to take the opportunity to acknowledge, thank and honour members of local government—the staff, the councillors and the communities that provide the foundation of...
- Budget (1 speech)
I rise to advocate on behalf of prudent Australians who work hard, save and invest their earnings over a lifetime to provide for their financial security in retirement. I refer to the...
- Education Funding (1 speech)
In the bubble of Parliament House it is all too easy to forget that sometimes the things we say in this building have consequences for people in our community. After a particularly depressing...
- Cowper Electorate: Safer Streets Program (1 speech)
Tonight I want to throw my support behind a campaign by communities in my electorate to create safer streets in the Macleay Valley. The Macleay Valley is a wonderful place. In fact, I would say...
