House debates
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 2 of the Selection Committee relating to consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday, 17 October 2016. The report will be...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That order of the day No. 1, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Address by the Prime Minister of Singapore (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
On behalf of the House I welcome, as guests, the President of the Senate, the Hon. Stephen Parry, and honourable senators to this sitting of the House of Representatives to hear an address by His...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Chifley Electorate: Woodcroft Lake Festival, Chifley Electorate: Ted Noffs Foundation (1 speech)
Today I want to take the time to draw special attention to the Woodcroft Lake Festival, which is fast becoming a tradition. Every year, around September, locals gather to celebrate what is great...
- Robertson Electorate: Rio de Janeiro Olympic and Paralympic Games (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate the talented sportsmen and sportswomen from the Central Coast that represented us so well at the recent Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio. Athletes who appeared in...
- Macarthur Electorate: Road Safety (1 speech)
Roads and complacency are a deadly mixture. Over 1,200 Australians still die annually on our roads. Alarmingly, the number of lives lost actually rose by 6.9 per cent in the year to August 2016....
- Durack Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
Today I am very pleased to speak about two recent visits to schools in my electorate—one in Derby and one in Geraldton—and the new facilities that these schools have recently been...
- Indi Electorate: Glenrowan Improvers (1 speech)
Colleagues, I draw your attention to the students in the gallery from Wangaratta West Primary School. Could you please say hello. Hello everybody. Welcome to parliament. It gives me great...
- Strzelecki Track (1 speech)
Today I want to speak about the Strzelecki Track, a 450-kilometre inland trail connecting Lyndhurst at the northern tip of the Flinders Ranges to the Birdsville and Strzelecki tracks, both...
- Bali Attacks: 14th Anniversary (1 speech)
On this day 14 years ago an unspeakable act of terror was perpetrated on innocent people, many of them Australian, who were enjoying a night out in a bar at Kuta Beach in Bali—202 people...
- Banks Electorate: Panania Anglican Church (1 speech)
On 19 September I attended a very interesting forum at the Panania Anglican Church in my electorate. I met with parishioners and we discussed a wide range of very important cultural,...
- Yom Kippur (1 speech)
Today I would like to send my best wishes to Jewish Australians who are today marking Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar and is a day of atonement. Its origins lie...
- Deakin Electorate: Neighbourhood Watch (1 speech)
Last week was Neighbourhood Watch Week, so I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank all the hardworking and underappreciated volunteers from Neighbourhood Watch for the work...
- National Rugby League (1 speech)
The NRL grand final took place on Sunday, 2 October. A number of games were held that day. I rise today to congratulate the Illawarra Cutters for their recent win over the Burleigh Bears 54-12 in...
- Forde Electorate: Parklands Christian College (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to highlight the outstanding fundraising efforts of the students at Parklands Christian College at Park Ridge. The students, teachers and parents travel...
- Nurses (1 speech)
Yesterday I attended the launch of the Australian College of Nursing white paper, titled 'Nurses are essential in health and aged care reform'. Nurses are amongst the most highly-regarded and...
- Bonner Electorate: Bayside Electrical Services (1 speech)
Today I rise to speak about a stalwart of the Wynnum community that sadly has shut its doors after 60 years of service. It is with great sadness I announce that Bayside Electrical Services is no...
- Parramatta Electorate: Sydney Fiesta Cultura (1 speech)
On the Labour Day long weekend I attended the Sydney Fiesta Cultura, one of the many activities of the Philippine Australia Sports Club, known as PASC. PASC is the oldest Filipino association in...
- Polished Man Campaign (1 speech)
Today, I rise to talk about a cause that is near and dear to my heart, and that is violence against children. Data provided by the World Health Organization and the Australian Institute of Family...
- Broadband (1 speech)
I regularly hear complaints from residents and businesspeople in my electorate about the poor quality of the internet service accessible at their homes and offices. And so it was especially...
- Western Australia: Bushfires (1 speech)
I rise today to update the House on a significant development in my home state of Western Australia—one that will re-establish a dedicated rural bushfire service. The most recent bushfire...
- Lindsay Electorate: Disability Services (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the importance of social inclusion in our communities, and I would like to mention the important work being done through the Touched by Olivia Foundation, or TBO, by John...
- Victoria Government (3 speeches)
I would like to follow on from the comments by the member for Deakin and bring to the attention of the House the disgraceful behaviour of our state Labor government in Victoria and their complete...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the chamber this afternoon His Excellency Tshering Tobgay, Prime Minister of Bhutan, accompanied by the ambassador to Australia, and also the Honourable...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Medicare (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Immediately after the election, the Prime Minister said he had learned a clear lesson about his cuts to Medicare. What lesson did he learn? What policies did...
- Singapore (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, will you advise the House on the importance of trade and investment to the government's national economic plan—specifically, on the...
- Medicare (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. After the election, the Prime Minister said that he had learnt a lesson, a very clear lesson, about his attacks on Medicare. So, why hasn't the Prime...
- Australia-Singapore Defence Relationship (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry, representing the Minister for Defence. Will the minister update the House on Australia's defence relationship with Singapore? How does the...
- Marriage (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Mental health expert Professor Patrick McGorry has warned that a plebiscite will harm people's mental health. Has the Prime Minister obtained any other...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I would like to inform the House that we have present, this afternoon, in the gallery a delegation from Sri Lanka, led by the Sri Lankan State Minister of Defence and accompanied by the Sri...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- South Australia: Infrastructure (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. South Australia has 11.8 per cent of the nation's local roads and seven per cent of the population; however, we receive less than...
- Trade with Singapore (4 speeches)
Mr Speaker—
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
We have a lot of visitors on this important day. I wish to inform the House we have three former members present in the gallery: the Hon. Jim Lloyd, former minister and former member for...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Yesterday the chairman of CEDA said, 'There is no believable end to the deficit in sight.' He also said that revenue measures 'are the only realistic way to...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer please update the House on how the government is moving to help employers to invest and grow their businesses? How will our proposals for small...
- Budget (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer to the Treasurer's previous answer. Why is the Treasurer refusing to listen to CEDA, the Grattan Institute, the International Monetary Fund, Moody's and...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services. How will our enterprise tax plan proposals for small business and income tax cuts for individuals help grow the economy and...
- Budget (11 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. It is now three years since this government took office. When will the government take responsibility for blowing out the 2015-2016 deficit by over eight times in...
- South China Sea (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister advise the House on why it is crucial to have a strong and coherent position on important geostrategic and international...
- Renewable Energy (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In July 2011 the Prime Minister said that 100 per cent of stationary energy will need to come from clean sources by the middle of the century. Prime...
- Agriculture Industry (15 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. As the Deputy Prime Minister knows, dairy and horticulture are major industries in the Golden Valley...
- Marriage (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the member for Warringah's comments that it is good to be popular. Given the Prime Minister's plebiscite is almost as unpopular as his government,...
- National Security (14 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister update the House on the importance of Australia's strong and consistent border protection policies? Is the...
- Attorney-General (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Has the Prime Minister sought advice from his department about the current conflict between the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General, and does the...
- Cyber Safety (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Justice and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Counter-Terrorism. Will the minister update the House on how the Australian Federal Police are educating...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Documents are presented in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Full details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Department of Parliamentary Services, Parliamentary Budget Office (1 speech)
Pursuant to section 65 of the Parliamentary Services Act 1999, I present the annual reports for 2015-16 of the Department of Parliamentary Services and the Parliamentary Budget Office. Ordered...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Renewable Energy (49 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Port Adelaide proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (1 speech)
I have received a message from the Senate informing the House that Senator Williams has been discharged from the Joint Standing Committee on the National Broadband Network and Senator Hanson has...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That order of the day No. 3, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (6 speeches)
Before I call the honourable member for Tangney, I remind the House that this is the honourable member's first speech, and I ask the House to extend to him the usual courtesies.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- International Tax Agreements Amendment Bill 2016 (3 speeches)
I thank the honourable member, and the honourable member will have the opportunity to continue her remarks at a later hour. Earlier today, the question on a second reading amendment moved by the...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the International Tax Agreements Amendment Bill 2016 being restored immediately, and proceedings being...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Bali Attacks: 14th Anniversary (1 speech)
Today marks 14 years since the tragic Bali bombings that took place in Kuta killing 202 people, among them 88 Australians. Through it was not an attack experienced on our soil, it was an attack...
- Brisbane Electorate: The Broncos Leagues Club (1 speech)
I rise today to dedicate one of my first speeches in this parliament to the importance of the local organisations, clubs, associations and groups in the electorate of Brisbane, and to pledge my...
- Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (1 speech)
This is a speech about institutional responses to child sexual abuse—in particular, the response of the school that I attended—and a statement in support of the boys who were...
- Science and Innovation (1 speech)
A myth often told about Australia is that our wealth and success was built on the sheep's back. But we all know that while we may literally be the lucky country our fortune has derived not from...
- Same-Sex Marriage (1 speech)
I want to speak tonight on the way forward for marriage equality after this week's decision by the Labor Party not to support the proposed plebiscite put forward by the Abbott-Turnbull...
- Boothby Electorate: Oaklands Rail Crossing (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, during my election campaign I was proud to be able to join the Prime Minister to announce that the Turnbull coalition government would commit $40 million dollars towards fixing the...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Tweed Hospital: MRI Licence (1 speech)
I call on the Turnbull government to urgently commit to a full Medicare MRI licence at the Tweed Hospital. Recently, the government rejected an application by Queensland Diagnostic Imaging for...
- Calare Electorate: Light the Night (1 speech)
I wish to draw the attention of the House to the fact that, last Friday night, the Orange community came together in Cook Park to unite in hope and raise funds to support families with blood...
- South Australia: Floods (1 speech)
Recently we had terrible storms in South Australia, with some 80,000 lightning strikes and severe blackouts. I was in my house in the Barossa Valley on that night and it was like being thrown...
- Dawson Electorate: Sugar Cane Industry (1 speech)
I rise to highlight an issue of urgent concern in my electorate, which covers the two largest sugar-growing districts in the nation. All sugar mills in the Burdekin are owned by the Singaporean...
- Mayo Electorate: Men's Sheds (1 speech)
I recently had the great opportunity and privilege to be invited to visit the Victor Harbor Men's Shed. Men's sheds are wonderful community organisations that provide men of all ages the chance...
- Banks Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
This morning I would like to reflect on a number of important community organisations in my electorate that are doing great work in my area. Recently, I attended the 37th annual Lugarno Lions...
- Cyprus (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about a wonderful event I attended on the weekend in my electorate and to pay tribute to those people that organised the event—that was the Cyprus Community Festival,...
- Medicare (1 speech)
I have a view—some may call it ideological—that regardless of people's politics the main thing I am most proud of as an Australian is that, in times of crisis such as ill health,...
- Marriage (1 speech)
The Turnbull government's proposed same-sex marriage plebiscite is a gross waste of money by a government that bemoans a 'budget emergency'. This plebiscite was never about achieving justice and...
- Victorian Parliament (2 speeches)
It is my hope that today brings an end to one of Victoria's saddest political periods: hopefully the vacant position that exists in the Victorian Legislative Council—and has existed for the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
