House debates
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
(): I present report No. 4 of the Selection Committee, relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday, 21 November. The report will be...
- Membership (2 speeches)
I have received advice from the Chief Government Whip nominating members to be members of certain committees.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Peres, Mr Shimon (8 speeches)
Shimon Peres, who passed away on 28 September in Tel Aviv, was one of Israel's best known and most loved public figures. Peres's public life spanned six decades, including time as Israel's...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Braddon Electorate: Agriculture Industry (1 speech)
I rise to talk about the fact that I wrote to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources on the issue of farm household allowances. While I thank the minister for...
- Outback Queensland Tourism Awards (1 speech)
People working in outback tourism do an outstanding job of boosting tourism and helping our drought-affected communities build resilience. Today, I would like to acknowledge the winners of the...
- Reclaim the Night March (1 speech)
Every year, on the last Thursday night in October, the women of the Hawkesbury march to Reclaim the Night. The main street of Richmond is closed to allow a few hundred women, children and—I...
- Bennelong Cup (1 speech)
Today is the first sitting Wednesday in November. That means tomorrow is the start of the Bennelong Cup. So come one, come all, to the Great Hall at 10.30 tomorrow morning to watch the world's...
- Mayo Electorate: Youth Forums (1 speech)
As the member for Mayo, one of my priorities is to listen to the voices of young people. A fortnight ago, I hosted my own youth forum, and last Saturday night I attended Saturday Nite Live, a...
- Groom Electorate: Highfields (1 speech)
I wish to draw to the attention of the House the thriving community of Highfields just north of Toowoomba on the Darling Downs in Queensland. This community has a growing population, roughly...
- Sally Fitzgibbons Foundation (1 speech)
On 28 October, I attended the Celebration of Australian Women in Surf at Manly, hosted by Sally Fitzgibbons to raise funds for the Sally Fitzgibbons Foundation. The event highlighted Australia's...
- Racial Discrimination Act 1975, Member for Barton (1 speech)
In my maiden speech, I said: If you share our common Australian values, whether your heritage is from over the seas or you are an Indigenous Australian, if you look forward not backwards and if...
- Lindsay Electorate: Bushfires (1 speech)
Last Friday, 4 November, my community faced large bushfires that threatened lives and homes in Londonderry, Llandilo, Berkshire Park and Cranebrook, near Penrith. Thanks to the amazing and...
- Flynn Electorate: Infrastructure (3 speeches)
The North and South Burnett regions in my electorate of Flynn are home to some of the most fertile agricultural land in the country. With our new free trade agreements, agriculture is set to be a...
- Burt Electorate: Armadale Police Station (1 speech)
Last month I joined more than a hundred Burt residents rallying for the Armadale police station to be re-opened for public access 24/7 and for improved policing services for our community....
- Fairfax Electorate: Sunshine Coast Business Awards (1 speech)
The big news over the last week is not the US election but rather the annual Sunshine Coast business awards. There is no region in Australia whose economy is better primed for growth than...
- National Library of Australia: Trove, Leigh, Acting Sub-Lieutenant Kristy (1 speech)
Trove has digitised 200,000 newspapers in the four months since the federal election. It is important work and an impressive figure. I congratulate all involved. But, as any student of history...
- Tourette Syndrome (1 speech)
I wrestled over raising Tourette syndrome in my maiden speech, but I decided not to as I wanted that to focus on policy and I believed that this topic warranted its own speech. This is the first...
- Turnbull Government (1 speech)
I rise today, on US election day, hoping, with many of my colleagues and with women around the world, that the US will deliver its first female president at the end of the day's count. This is a...
- Barker Electorate: Mid Murray Council (1 speech)
Last week I was thrilled to tour the Mid Murray Council area of my electorate. The communities of Mannum and Morgan are strong river communities with exciting projects on the go. During my visit...
- Dobell Electorate: Carers (1 speech)
At listening posts across the Central Coast I was humbled to meet so many people who care for others in my community. At my listening post in Woongarrah, I met Diedre, whose adult daughter lives...
- Durack Electorate: Road Infrastructure (1 speech)
Recently I announced that the Turnbull government has committed to upgrading the Cape Leveque Road, which will unlock the tourism potential of the beautiful Dampier Peninsula in my electorate, as...
- Remembrance Day (1 speech)
This week leading up to Remembrance Day has been a significant one for our veterans and our serving men and women. I have spoken about my recent trip as part of the ADF Parliamentary Program and...
- Western Australia: Dairy Industry (2 speeches)
I want to talk about Graham Manning, who is a dairy farmer and my neighbour in the south-west of Western Australia. I have worked with and for the industry for many years. Graham faced his...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science will be absent from question time today for personal reasons, and the Minister for Defence Industry will answer questions...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Attorney-General (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Senate inquiry into the legal services direction issued by the Attorney-General. Can the Prime Minister confirm the Senate inquiry found, 'The...
- National Security (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the importance of new policies to secure Australia's border and the consequence of alternate policies?
- Attorney-General (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. On 19 October the Prime Minister defended the Attorney-General's 37 new appointments to the AAT saying, 'I have no doubt that all the persons appointed were...
- Immigration (2 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 further bolster Australia's robust border...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Members on my left and right, just before I call the next question I would like to inform the House that we have present in the chamber this afternoon Her Excellency Menna Rawlings, the British...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Attorney-General (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's previous answer. Is the Prime Minister aware that the Attorney-General's 37 new appointments to the Administrative Appeals...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Just before I call the member from Melbourne, we have a number of distinguished visitors with us today. I would also like to welcome the Premier of South Australia, the Hon. Jay Wetherill, to the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Since the election you have attacked renewable energy and defended coal, you have proposed permanent bans on refugees coming to Australia seeking our help,...
- Immigration (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister advise the House on the dangers of trivialising border security, and of the ongoing need to send clear signals to people smugglers...
- Day, Mr Bob, AO (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Training said that the $1.84 million grant to a college linked to former Senator Day:...
- Backpacker Tax (6 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. Is the Deputy Prime Minister aware of any proposals that would treat foreign agricultural workers...
- Day, Mr Bob, AO (12 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. I refer to the previous answer from the minister in relation to the $1.84 million grant to a college linked to former Senator Day. Given that this...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the importance of developing policies that return the budget to balance and grow the economy? How is the government...
- Day, Mr Bob, AO (17 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Did the north-west college linked to Bob Day receive the amount they asked for, or did the government give this organisation linked to Bob Day more than they...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the chamber this afternoon the Australian Political Exchange Council’s 24th delegation from the People’s Republic of China, led by Ms Wang...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Working Holiday Maker Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business. Will the minister inform the House why the implementation of the government's working holiday-maker reform package is important for Australian...
- Day, Mr Bob, AO (2 speeches)
The Prime Minister has praised the action taken by his Special Minister of State in August 2016 to investigate Bob Day's eligibility to sit in the Senate. Given that the Special Minister of State...
- Registered Organisations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence, Industry, representing the Minister for Employment. Will the minister outline why registered organisations need to be regulated to ensure that employer...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. It has been revealed today that the New South Wales Liberal government has lobbied credit rating agencies to defend their AAA rating in anticipation of the...
- Perth Airport (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment. Will the minister explain how the development at Perth Airport will support Austria's tourism industry and create jobs and...
- Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. Minister, speaking about Donald Trump this morning, you said—and I will try to quote accurately: 'What people say on the...
- Energy Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Energy. Will the minister update the House on the government's response to the closure of Hazelwood power station at Morwell in the Latrobe...
- Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. I again refer to his comments this morning and note that, on 2 March 2015, the then secretary of his department sent a letter...
- Hazelwood Power Station and Mine (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, representing the Minister for Regional Development. What steps is the government taking to support the Hazelwood Power Station...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Language (1 speech)
I want to refer to an earlier ruling I have made. As members are well aware, I have today during question time twice moved on from a question and an answer where members did not refer to other...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report Nos 24 and 25 of 2016-17 (1 speech)
(): I present the Auditor-General's Audit reports for 2016-17 entitled Audit report No. 24 National Disability Insurance Scheme—Management of the transition of the disability services...
- 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.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Rural and Regional Services (33 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Hunter proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government failing rural...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- United States Elections (1 speech)
I am incredibly pleased to rise tonight after listening to the member for Griffith, and in the company of the member for Greenway and the member for Gorton—all great feminists. Tonight I...
- Goldmining (1 speech)
Congratulations to the member for Lalor. That was an outstanding speech. I have the pleasure tonight to speak on an industry that has existed in this country for some 165 years and had a profound...
- Communications (1 speech)
Tonight I want to talk about the importance of accessibility in communications. It is self-evident that communications services are essential to our way of life. Consider for a moment what it...
- Remembrance Day (1 speech)
We cannot steer a proper path for our future if we disregard our past. Friday is the 11th day of the 11th month; it is Remembrance Day. And on the 11th hour of that day every year, Australia...
- National Broadband Network (1 speech)
'Very, very frustrating'; 'Endless problems causing great stress and problems'; 'I have no idea how the elderly, those who live alone or with a disability will ever manage. Something needs to be...
- Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (1 speech)
Sometimes in the different roles we take on as parliamentarians we have the rare privilege to visit other countries to see the work of our government in delivering foreign aid, where it is being...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Comprehensive Cambodian Peace Agreement (1 speech)
I take the opportunity today to rise to celebrate the 25th anniversary a couple of weeks ago of the Comprehensive Cambodian Peace Agreement, known as the Paris agreement. Australia, as people...
- Capricornia Electorate: Rookwood Weir (1 speech)
I rise today to call on local councils across central Queensland to state their opinion on the proposed Rookwood Weir near Rockhampton. I am fed up with the lack of encouraging support for the...
- Local Council Elections: New South Wales North Coast (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the great results for Country Labor in our recent local government elections on the New South Wales North Coast. I will begin with the Byron Shire, where Country...
- Hume Electorate: Camden (1 speech)
Today I would like to pay a tribute to the Camden community in my electorate and mention a couple of great things that are underway locally. Team Kermit is a fantastic initiative supporting more...
- Shortland Electorate: Telecommunications (1 speech)
Since being elected to parliament three years ago, I have been actively campaigning to improve communications across the Lake Macquarie and Central Coast region. I am pleased today to provide an...
- Petition: Telecommunications (1 speech)
I rise today to table a petition on behalf of Katharine Marsh, a young woman from a farm near Kojonup in my electorate over O'Connor. I know Katharine is watching this morning so hello to...
- Melbourne Electorate: Muslim Schoolchildren (1 speech)
So much of the debate about Pauline Hanson and hate speech has been in the abstract but the impact of words is real. I want to read to the parliament some of the letters that I have received from...
- Australian Food Allergy Foundation, Watts, Mrs Margaret, Sandringham Foreshore Association (1 speech)
I would like to start by commending the spirit of the mentions by the member for Melbourne about everybody's responsibility to stand up to racism and marginalisation of others, and to make sure...
- Turnbull Government (1 speech)
I rise today in this place to speak about the Turnbull government's election commitment to the City of Townsville, and the fact that we would be the recipient of the first City Deal. However, on...
- Friendship (2 speeches)
Today I rise to talk about friendship. Nearly seven years ago, my mother rang me rather early, at about 5.30 in the morning, with an incredulous tone in her voice about a ridiculous news report...
- Wakefield Electorate: Wine Industry (1 speech)
It is my great privilege to talk a little bit about the Wine Industry Suppliers Australia, which is present in my electorate. Obviously, the wine industry is a particularly important industry for...
- Brisbane Electorate: Infrastructure Planning (1 speech)
A few weeks ago, I was very pleased to have the Prime Minister visit Brisbane to discuss the government's economic plan and our city's infrastructure. I am delighted to report that the Turnbull...
- Perth Electorate: Small Business (1 speech)
It is with great pleasure that I rise today to address this place on a subject that is very close to my heart: small business. I do so with particular reference to a very vibrant and constructive...
- Sunshine Coast Infrastructure (1 speech)
On 26 October, I hosted the federal Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Darren Chester MP, on the Sunshine Coast to show him some of our growing region's major infrastructure priorities....
- Dairy Industry (1 speech)
Colleagues, today I would like to draw your attention to a notice that is on the Notice Paper in my name about the dairy industry and accessing farm household support. We have got a real problem....
- Corangamite Electorate: National Redress Scheme (1 speech)
On Sunday it was my great pleasure to meet up again with Vlad Salokovic from Geelong. Vlad is one of many thousands of people who were abused in an institution. In Geelong there were around 13...
- Western Sydney Airport (1 speech)
The Minister for the Environment and Energy has on his desk the final EIS for the proposed Western Sydney Airport. I have spoken in this chamber about the fact that the EIS pushes virtually every...
- Chisholm Electorate: Cultural Diversity (1 speech)
I am proud to represent the people of Chisholm as part of the Turnbull government, which has always maintained a warm embrace of multiculturalism. Chisholm is the third most culturally diverse...
- Bendigo Electorate: City of Greater Bendigo (1 speech)
Over the last few weeks, as in many towns across Victoria, we in Bendigo have gathered to engage in our local elections for the City of Greater Bendigo. I want to take a moment today to...
- Forde Electorate: Beenleigh Town Square (2 speeches)
I recently had the pleasure of attending a great community event called Straight Outta Beenleigh. The event was held at the Beenleigh Town Square and it brought together many local organisations,...
