House debates
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 3 of the Selection Committee, relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday, 7 November 2016. The report will be...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (13 speeches)
I move: That, in respect of proceedings specifically on the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014, so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the following...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
I recently met with Canberra families living with type 1 diabetes. 'We worry about grades, we worry about bullying—all the normal things a parent worries about,' they told me. 'But we also...
- National Carers Week (1 speech)
Today I rise to reflect on the enormous contribution carers make to our nation. I would also like to inform the House of how Bonner will be celebrating its local carers this National Carers Week....
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the National Disability Insurance Scheme. After much work, Labor created the scheme, as support services were clearly not meeting the needs of Australians living with...
- Fallas, Ms Patricia (1 speech)
I rise today to pay tribute to Patricia Fallas for her herculean 50 years of service to Meals on Wheels in the Mount Gambier community. Volunteers play a critical role in helping shape our...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
The National Disability Insurance Scheme, a Labor initiative, has offered hundreds of thousands of people with a disability in our country a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to access supports that...
- Forde Electorate: Canterbury College (1 speech)
Today, I would like to give a shout out to all the students at Canterbury College, at Waterford, and highlight some of the students' recent achievements. Firstly, I would like to commend the 23...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
Just like this government does not get workplace safety, just like this government does not get the importance of maintaining strong guns laws and just like this government does not get the...
- Corangamite Electorate (1 speech)
I am very proud to be part of the government which is focused on delivering a positive economic plan to grow jobs and a strong economy. In Corangamite, we are delivering in spades. I want to talk...
- Petition: Upper Murray 2030 Vision Plan (1 speech)
It gives me great pleasure today to table a petition on behalf of residents of the Upper Murray community of north-east Victoria. The petition read as follows— To the Honourable, the...
- Carers (1 speech)
As this is Carers Week, I asked my community to tell me of their stories. I wish to honour all carers, but especially Juanita Blomberg. This is what she wrote: My story began on 1 September 1973,...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
It gives me great pleasure to rise in Carers Week to speak on the importance of the NDIS to this country. The NDIS is the biggest reform in this country since Medicare, and for the people whose...
- East West Link (1 speech)
As traffic in Melbourne gets worse by the week, I want to reaffirm this government's commitment to the desperately needed East West Link project and remind the House that $3 billion in federal...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (2 speeches)
This week, Carers Week, we have legislation for an NDIS 'special fund', which is no doubt a euphemism for 'budget cut'. And today we have the social services minister, Christian Porter, seeking...
- Day for Daniel (1 speech)
On a fateful day in December 2003, a Sunshine Coast boy set out from his home to catch a bus to the shops in order to buy Christmas presents for his family. He was a son, a brother, a grandson, a...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
I rise with my colleagues today to talk about the NDIS and this government's culpability. It is a truth that Labor builds and the coalition tears down. It is an absolute truth. We see it with...
- Huxley, Mr Dane (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to Mr Dane Huxley, the former Chief Executive Officer of Mildura Base Hospital. He is a man who recently passed away. His funeral is on Friday. He has been instrumental in...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
Bruce Bonyhady is a man widely regarded as the father of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Put simply, the NDIS would not exist without Bruce Bonyhady. He has been the chairman of the...
- Harness, Mr James 'Jim' (1 speech)
) ( ): I rise today to commemorate the life of World War II veteran and long-term resident of Albany, former British Royal Navy Signalman James Harness. Just over two months ago, I joined Mr...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (2 speeches)
There would not be a National Disability Insurance Scheme without Bruce Bonyhady. There is no-one more committed, no-one more experienced, no-one more knowledgeable. Bruce Bonyhady's two amazing...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Gun Control (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. With a heightened terror threat, there is just no way that any serious coalition government—any government in the tradition of John Howard—should...
- Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment Bill 2014 (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister advise the House on the importance of registered organisations and trade unions being accountable to their members? How does the...
- Gun Control (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. It is reported today that the member for Warringah has said there was 'no way on God's earth' he would have allowed eight-shot Adler guns to flood into the...
- Building and Construction Industry (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How does small business contribute to Australia's building and construction sector? What is this government doing to tackle the corruption and lawlessness in the...
- Gun Control (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday in the House the Prime Minister said in relation to the Adler shotgun: It is not a temporary ban. It is permanent. It is set in stone. But this...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Before I call the honourable member for Indi, I would like to inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon Mr Jeffrey Feltman, the Under-Secretary-General for Political...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business. The Australian Bureau of Statistics forward work program for 2016-17 includes a statement from the Australian Statistician that the ABS will not...
- Building and Construction Industry (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry representing the Minister for Employment. Will the minister outline to the House the government's commitment to ensure that employer and...
- Gun Control (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. This morning it is reported that the member for Parkes has backed calls for the importation of the Adler shotgun, saying: I'm hoping we can still get this...
- Visa Cancellations (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister update the House on the steps the government is taking to make Australian society safer, including through...
- Gun Control (9 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Does the Deputy Prime Minister support lifting the import ban on the Adler shotgun for use in Australian agriculture? Was his department consulted on...
- Infrastructure (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Will the minister update the House on the government's record $50 billion infrastructure investment program, including projects in...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
It has been drawn to my attention that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the former member for Eden-Monaro area and a former minister, the Hon. Gary Nairn.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. I refer to the gap between the government's infrastructure rhetoric and its action. In the 2014 budget the government...
- Building and Construction Industry (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science. I remind the minister that yesterday the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry executive officer, James Pearson, warned...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. The Treasurer claimed that this year's budget was 'an economic plan, not just another budget'. Given the centrepiece of the Treasurer's so-called plan, a $50...
- Tourism (9 speeches)
My question is to my Gold Coast colleague, the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment. Will the minister outline how the restoration of the rule of law to the construction industry will...
- Defence (15 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. I refer to evidence given by the Minister for Defence in Senate estimates today and ask: given the Minister for Defence was unable to answer...
- Building and Construction Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business. Will the minister update the House on how the government's Australian Building and Construction Commission and registered organisations bills...
- Administrative Appeals Tribunal (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Just days before the caretaker period, the Attorney-General announced 37 new appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. During Senate estimates...
- Private Health Insurance (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. Will the minister inform the House of what the government is doing to ease pressure on private health insurance premiums for constituents...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (2 speeches)
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.
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit reports for 2016-17, report No. 20,Performance audit—The management, administration and monitoring of the Indemnity Insurance Fund:Department of...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Pursuant to section 65 of the Parliamentary Service Act 1999, I present the annual report of the Department of the House of Representatives for 2015-16. Ordered that the report be made a...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a personal explanation.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Turnbull Government (35 speeches, 1 comment)
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 collapse of the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- VET Student Loans Bill 2016, VET Student Loans (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016, VET Student Loans (Charges) Bill 2016; Second Reading (8 speeches)
Without doubt, reform of the sector is essential. Labor understands this and this is why the government has essentially copied Labor's policies. If only it had acted so much sooner, billions...
- VET Student Loans Bill 2016, VET Student Loans (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016, VET Student Loans (Charges) Bill 2016; Consideration in Detail (9 speeches)
by leave—I move opposition amendments (1) and (2) together: (1) Clause 6, page 4 (after line 2), insert: alternative dispute resolution processes means procedures and services for the...
- VET Student Loans Bill 2016, VET Student Loans (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2016, VET Student Loans (Charges) 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.
- VET Student Loans (Consequential Amendments 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.
- VET Student Loans (Charges) 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 (9 speeches)
I am pleased to speak in continuation in the debate on the Plebiscite (Same-Sex Marriage) Bill 2016. As I said in my previous contribution before we were interrupted, I do not understand why we...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Mental Health (1 speech)
Last week we celebrated Mental Health Week and this week we celebrate National Carers Week. In 2016 the World Mental Health Day theme is 'Dignity in mental health—psychological and mental...
- Capricornia Electorate: Rookwood Weir (1 speech)
Families and small businesses are doing it tough in the Central Queensland city of Rockhampton. Capricornia faces a major jobs crisis due to the coalmining downturn. Resources will never be the...
- Veterans (5 speeches)
I rise tonight to raise a number of issues in my shadow portfolio area of veterans affairs. It has been my absolute privilege and pleasure since taking over this portfolio in July to have met...
- Berowra Electorate: NorthConnex (1 speech)
I rise to draw attention to the excellent work being done by the Turnbull government in building the NorthConnex road project in my electorate of Berowra. The NRMA says Pennant Hills Road is one...
- Lindsay Electorate: Nepean Hospital (1 speech)
I rise to draw attention to the impact of recent health and hospital cuts on ordinary Australians, particularly those in my electorate of Lindsay. Since the Liberal government came to power, we...
- Maranoa Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise to speak tonight on the government's commitment to building infrastructure, particularly in regional and rural Australia. There is no better example of that than my electorate of Maranoa....
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Jobsupport (1 speech)
Jobsupport was established in 1986, initially as a demonstration project under the Disability Services Act, to prove that people with moderate intellectual disabilities can successfully...
- Taxation (1 speech)
It was Winston Churchill who said: … for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. As absurd as this...
- Lalor Electorate: Werribee Irrigation District (1 speech)
I have risen and spoken on numerous occasions about the need to prioritise water security in the south-west of Victoria. I have done this specifically calling on the federal government to make a...
- Capricornia Electorate: Rookwood Weir (1 speech)
Families and small businesses are doing it tough in the central Queensland city of Rockhampton. Capricornia faces a major jobs crisis due to the coalmining downturn. Resources will never be the...
- Taxation (1 speech)
Last week I spoke about BHP's tax evasion and the use of a Singaporean tax shield. On 17 October, Matthew Stevens in the Australian Financial Review made the comment that because BHP was a large...
- Berowra electorate: Indian Community (1 speech)
Today I rise in the chamber to acknowledge and honour Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, to be celebrated on 30 October. In my electorate of Berowra, we are blessed with a strong and active...
- Age Pension (1 speech)
I rise to speak on behalf of 700,000 pensioners who will be left waiting anxiously in the lead-up to Christmas before learning whether they will have their pension payments cut or will lose them...
- Maranoa Electorate: Wild Dogs (3 speeches)
I rise today to speak on the important issue of wild dogs in my electorate of Maranoa and the important role our federal government is playing in tackling this scourge that is affecting many...
- Victorian Regional Cities Delegation Visit to China (1 speech)
I would like to acknowledge the Minister for Foreign Affairs. My constituency statement today is about the sister relationship between my town of Wangaratta and China. A delegation consisting of...
- Groom Electorate: Oakey Army Aviation Centre (2 speeches)
I take this opportunity to comment on the beautiful township of Oakey in my electorate of Groom. It is a place where I spent a good part of my early childhood: as a boy from a local farm, it is...
- Bills (0 speeches)
