House debates
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Privilege (1 speech)
On 13 September, I made a statement to the House on the seizure of a range of material by the Australian Federal Police following the execution of a search warrant in Parliament House on 24...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Privileges and Members' Interests Committee; Reference (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, I thank you for the consultations and the way that you have been deliberating over this issue of great significance to the House. I move: that: (1) the House Standing Committee of...
- Membership (1 speech)
I have received two messages from the Senate informing the House of the appointment of senators to certain joint committees. As the list is a lengthy one, I do not propose to read the list to the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- headspace (1 speech)
Today marks 10 years since headspace was first funded by the federal government. Six months ago headspace Greensborough opened in my electorate. It has been a very busy six months. In that time...
- Greyhound Racing (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate the New South Wales state government for seeing common sense and reversing the ban on the breeding, owning, training and racing of greyhounds. A sign of true leadership is...
- headspace (1 speech)
I rise today to join the member for Jagajaga in highlighting the great work being done by headspace across this country, and particularly in my electorate of Lalor, where the headspace facility...
- Marriage (4 speeches)
It is an important day—Bowman having had a survey on same-sex marriage now four times in the last three years—that the exposure draft finally comes to this great House. Isn't it...
- Australian Women in Agriculture (1 speech)
All members of this parliament would understand how important succession planning is, and there is no industry for which this is more important than agriculture. I am proud today to welcome to...
- Capricornia Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
Families and small businesses are doing it tough in the Queensland city of Rockhampton. We can create thousands of jobs around Rockhampton within two years, but the Labor Party once again is...
- Batman Electorate: Preston Market (1 speech)
In every community there is a building or a place that is not just part of the landscape but it is part of the culture and is often much loved as an expression of the community itself. In the...
- National Headspace Day (1 speech)
On 14 September 2016, I delivered my maiden speech to this House. I spoke of my father's death by suicide some 20 years ago. I had not been adequately prepared for the effect that this story...
- Canberra Electorate: National Broadband Network (3 speeches)
The ACT election is this Saturday and I wish all Labor candidates the very best of luck.
- Maranoa Electorate: Waltzing Matilda Centre (1 speech)
The Waltzing Matilda Centre in Winton, Queensland, is a tourism landmark dedicated to the story behind the song of our famous Banjo Paterson's Waltzing Matilda, and the only museum in the world...
- Richmond Electorate: Volunteers (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate the Northern Rivers 2016 Volunteer of the Year and Adult Volunteer of the Year, David Steward. David is from Byron Bay, and he was rightly recognised for his really...
- Australian Rail Track Corporation (1 speech)
One of the most significant infrastructure policies of the Turnbull coalition government is the Melbourne to Brisbane inland rail project. It is particularly important to our electorate of Groom....
- Automotive Industry (1 speech)
At 9.30 am on 7 October 2016 the Ford plant in Broadmeadows in Victoria ceased production forever. At that moment some 400 jobs were extinguished. The full impact to those companies down the...
- Natural Gas Projects (1 speech)
Australia Pacific LNG—namely, ConocoPhillips and partners—yesterday announced that the second train on its Curtis Island plant has entered into production. This milestone represents...
- Moreton Electorate: McGeoch, Ms Rosie (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate Moreton constituent Rosie McGeoch from Yeerongpilly. At an age when perhaps some of us might consider putting our feet up, Rosie decided to go last weekend to the...
- Sunshine Coast Airport (1 speech)
I want to bring to the attention of the House an exciting new project on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, and that is the upgrade of the Sunshine Coast Airport—an upgrade to make it a...
- National headspace Day (1 speech)
I acknowledge in the gallery today a couple of local champions from community, Tilly and Bev, who have come here from Logan City. Today we are wearing green wristbands because it is the first...
- Mental Health Week, Gympie Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival (1 speech)
This week is Mental Health Week. It is important that everyone takes care of their mental health through exercise, diet and relaxation as well as through social, sporting and creative activities....
- National headspace Day (1 speech)
I also wish to acknowledge National headspace Day and the work this organisation does in my electorate of Solomon, in the Northern Territory. For the 12 months from June 2015 to June 2016, more...
- Prostate Cancer (2 speeches)
Over 20,000 men in Australia are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year. Indeed, prostate cancer kills more men than breast cancer does women; yet awareness of the deadly statistics remains...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Siddons, John Royston (1 speech)
I inform the House of the death on 22 September 2016 of John Royston Siddons, a former senator. John Siddons represented the state of Victoria from 1981 until 1983 and from 1985 until 1987. As a...
- Shadow Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
For the information of the House, I present a revised list of the shadow ministry. The document read as follows— SHADOW MINISTRY LIST 11 October 201 6 Each box represents a portfolio except...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Medicare (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister stand by his promise that he made the day before the election that no Australian will pay more to see a doctor because of his...
- Economy (5 speeches)
My question is—
- Medicare (21 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's previous answer. Is it seriously the position of the government that the Prime Minister's credibility on Medicare was...
- Rural and Regional Services (14 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. Will the Deputy Prime Minister update the House on how the government is helping rebuild stronger...
- Marriage (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Australian of the Year and mental health expert Professor Patrick McGorry has warned that a plebiscite on same-sex marriage is a dangerous thing to do that...
- Child Care (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. It is a question about the provision of child care in rural, regional and remote Australia. What is the government's commitment to families who live outside...
- Budget (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on how the government is managing the successful transition of the Australian economy? In particular, how will the Enterprise...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Just before I call the member for Grayndler, we will pause for a second and the Leader of the House will cease interjecting. I would like to inform the House that we have present this afternoon...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Tourism (8 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Tourism. I refer to the minister's comments of 31 August 2016 when he told the House that the increases in the passenger movement charge were …...
- Small Business (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services. I remind the minister that small business is the lifeblood of the local economy in my electorate of La Trobe. Will the minister...
- National Broadband Network (2 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Prime Minister. On 28 October 2014 the now Prime Minister told the parliament that one of the big changes he would be making in relation to the NBN would be 'upgrading HFC...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the Australian Political Exchange Council's 10th delegation from the Philippines. On behalf of the House I extend a very warm...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Small Business (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business. Could the minister update the House on our Ten Year Enterprise Tax Plan and the effects it will have on small business in Australia and, in...
- Broadband (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Almost a year ago in this House, the former Liberal member for Cowan spoke about poor internet coverage in the Cowan electorate. Speaking about the suburb of...
- South China Sea (2 speeches)
My question is to the foreign minister. Will the minister explain to the House the importance of clarity and consistency on policy in the South China Sea, and is she aware of any alternative...
- Budget (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. The final budget outcome for 2015-16 was dumped out late on a Friday afternoon two weeks ago. If a projected deficit of $4.7 billion for 2015-16 warranted a...
- Border Protection (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister update the House on action taken by the government to make our community safer, including the cancellations...
- Attorney-General (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Attorney-General. Nearly 24 hours have passed since the minister took on notice questions about whether the Attorney-General had misled the Senate...
- Australian Submarine Corporation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. Will the minister update the House on today's announcement in relation to the ASC? How will the restructure of the ASC enable the government...
- Attorney-General (4 speeches)
My question is again to the minister representing the Attorney-General. I refer to the legal services direction relating to the Solicitor-General. Can the minister please explain to the House how...
- headspace (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. With today being the inaugural headspace day, would the minister update the House on the important work this organisation does, and...
- 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.
- Parliamentary Office Holders (0 speeches)
- Speaker's Panel (1 speech)
Pursuant to standing order 17(a), I lay on the table my warrant nominating the honourable members for Cunningham and Newcastle to be members of the Speaker’s panel to assist the chair when...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Broadband (20 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Greenway proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The government’s...
- 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: Report 7 of 2016. Report made a parliamentary paper in...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 5, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and congratulations on your election. Today, I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet, the Ngunawal and Ngambri...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016, National Cancer Screening Register (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I rise today to speak on the National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016 and the National Cancer Screening Register (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016. As someone new to...
- Statements by Members (1 speech)
Thank you, Deputy Speaker. On indulgence, I wish to correct the record. During the 90-second statement I made today, I incorrectly said that one of my constituents, Rosie McGeoch from...
- National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016, National Cancer Screening Register (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016; Second Reading (1 speech)
The original question was that this bill be now read a second time. To this the honourable member for Ballarat has moved as an amendment that all words after 'that' be omitted with a view to...
- National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016, National Cancer Screening Register (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016; Consideration in Detail (6 speeches)
by leave—I move opposition amendments (1) to (3): (1) Clause 26, page 22 (line 16), omit "The Minister", substitute "(1) The Minister". (2) Clause 26, page 22 (lines 16 and 17), omit "a...
- National Cancer Screening Register Bill 2016, National Cancer Screening Register (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Plebiscite (Same-Sex Marriage) Bill 2016; Second Reading (11 speeches)
Labor wants to achieve marriage equality in the fastest, least expensive, least harmful way possible. That is why Labor is calling for a free vote in parliament. That is why we will oppose this...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Plebiscite (Same-Sex Marriage) Bill 2016 (1 speech)
Thank you very much, and I thank the member for Whitlam for being so generous. As I said earlier in the second reading debate on the Plebiscite (Same Sex Marriage) Bill 2016, gay and lesbian...
- Dunkley Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
During the recent election, I announced with Minister Paul Fletcher the $4 million Dunkley rail plan. As part of this plan, $2 million has been allocated to cost and plan the electrification and...
- Dudley, Mr Geoffrey, Hill, Mr Mike (1 speech)
I attended the memorial service for Geoff Dudley on 5 August. Geoff passed away peacefully in his sleep on 24 July , and I rise to speak in his memory and in honour of his life. On behalf of the...
- Calare Electorate: Bathurst Bushrangers AFL Club (1 speech)
The Central West of New South Wales has a rich bushranging history, from Ben Hall to Jessie Hickman, who was known locally as the 'lady bushranger'. But tonight we celebrate the exploits of the...
- Far North Queensland (1 speech)
There have been three deaths in three weeks on construction sites. This government is pressing ahead with—and this is the only word I can use—the oppression of a particular union that...
- Leichhardt Electorate: Cairns Aquarium and Reef Research Centre (1 speech)
I rise tonight to highlight a wonderful project that is currently under construction in my electorate: the Cairns Aquarium and Reef Research Centre. By April 2017 Cairns will have a $54 million,...
- Australian Public Service: Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to place on the record two things: my deep and abiding respect for Australia's Commonwealth public servants, in particular those who work so hard to support people in...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Live Music Industry (1 speech)
Live music has provided the soundtrack for the lives of Australians for a very long time, and live music is now going through an extraordinarily challenging transition, with the advent of...
- Galhos, Ms Kerry (1 speech)
Today I would like to share with the House the tremendous efforts of the Beenleigh Tennis Club and their support for a rising young tennis star, Kerry Galhos. Beenleigh Tennis Club is one of our...
- Broadband (1 speech)
I just want to say a few words about internet speeds and internet connection in the electorate of Lilley and the northern suburbs of Brisbane. Earlier this year, I was contacted by residents of a...
- Menzies Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to highlight the increasing traffic congestion in Melbourne generally and in my electorate of Menzies in particular. Increasing traffic is not surprising, because Melbourne...
- Parsons, Ms Georgina, Bundian Way (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to express my sympathy for the recent loss of Georgina Parsons, an elder of the Walbanga Yuin people, who was better known as Aunty Coope. Aunty Coope was a talented...
- Dunkley Electorate: Mornington Main Street Festival (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on a very important date in the calendar of many people in my electorate of Dunkley. For the past 20 years local residents have flocked in their thousands to the main street...
- Calwell Electorate: Oromo Youth Australian Football Club (1 speech)
I would like to congratulate players from my local Oromo Youth Australian football club, who last month competed in the Oromo Sport Federation's 20th anniversary soccer tournament in the United...
- Mallee Electorate: Migration (1 speech)
In my opinion, the people I represent are some of the most compassionate and fair-minded people you will find in Australia. They call a spade a spade, and they accept people. It is a very...
- Macquarie Electorate: Western Sydney Airport (1 speech)
If you had build a new piece of infrastructure—in fact, probably the biggest single piece of infrastructure you can imagine—the worst way to do it would be to look at the rules that...
- McMillan Electorate: Wonthaggi Seed Bank and Community Nursery (2 speeches)
I never cease to be amazed by the environmental warriors across the whole area of Gippsland. On Wednesday 5 October, I had the pleasure and privilege of attending the opening of the Wonthaggi...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Broadband (1 speech)
Deputy Speaker, I feel aggrieved. Many residents in the electorate of Blair, reaching through most of Ipswich and all of the Somerset region of south-east Queensland, also feel aggrieved in terms...
- Forced Marriage (1 speech)
I rise today to raise the very important issue and the ongoing challenge posed by forced marriages in Australia and, in particular, forced marriages relating to children in our community. The...
- Building and Construction Industry (1 speech)
Can I give a big hello to the Bowen Hills branch of the Australian Labor Party, who are listening in tonight. I know the members of the branch, like many other people, saw just over five months...
- International Day of the Girl Child (1 speech)
Tuesday, 11 October, marks International Day of the Girl Child, a day created in 2011 to champion girls' rights and to address the unique challenges that girls face around the world. While we...
- Australian Electoral System (1 speech)
The focus of my grievance concerns how we treat our young people, and the systemic failures by our institutions to protect them and support their full participation in our democratic processes....
- Type 1 Diabetes (2 speeches)
Today I would like to speak on one of the most serious health issues this country faces—type 1 diabetes. I would like to share the personal stories of some of my constituents who have type...
