House debates
Thursday, 10 November 2016
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Reference (1 speech)
I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works for...
- Publications Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the report from the Publications Committee sitting in conference with the Publications Committee of the Senate. Copies of the report are now being placed on the table. Report—by...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister's Literary Awards, City of Fremantle TAG Hungerford Award (1 speech)
I would like to acknowledge the winners of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards announced this week. As someone who has given writing a go at various times and is the representative of an...
- Remembrance Day (1 speech)
I rise today to speak of Remembrance Day tomorrow, for each one of us will be commemorating Remembrance Day at the 11th hour on 11 November. It is a most important moment for all of us. Recently,...
- Wyong Hospital (1 speech)
There will be a debate in the New South Wales parliament today on the future of Wyong Hospital. It is a debate that the Baird government did not want and would not allow but now has to have. More...
- Temporary Sponsored Parent Visas (1 speech)
In contrast to many other countries, one of the great success stories in Australia over many decades has been the ease with which we have been able to integrate new migrants and their families...
- Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination (1 speech)
Tomorrow on Remembrance Day the Rockingham community will welcome home the 192 service women and men who have spent the last months on deployment aboard HMAS Perth in the Middle East. On Sunday I...
- Forde Electorate: Park Ridge State School (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the students at Park Ridge State School for taking out the Goethe Verse Speaking Competition for the seventh year in a row. A contingent of...
- Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination (1 speech)
I rise in this place today to talk to an incredibly serious issue that the Turnbull government is silent about but which I will not be. This week we saw the PFAS investigation and management...
- Fisher Electorate: Maleny Dairies (1 speech)
I rise to inform the House of a home-grown local business success story that has become an icon on the Sunshine Coast. Employing 50 locals and producing 190,000 litres of fresh Maleny milk...
- Lyons Electorate: Beaconsfield Mine and Heritage Centre (1 speech)
Most Australians will remember the Beaconsfield Mine and Heritage Centre in my electorate from its days as a working mine. It is the site where, on Anzac Day 10 years ago, Larry Knight tragically...
- O'Connor Electorate: BLAST Youth Group (1 speech)
Last Friday night the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Senator Nigel Scullion, and I had an absolute blast when we were invited to join Linden Brownley and his BLAST youth group at Maku Stadium...
- Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination (1 speech)
Tomorrow in Darwin I will be meeting with veterans and their families. Not only is it Remembrance Day, it is also an important opportunity for me to speak with those members of our community...
- Sutcliffe, Ms Audrey Jean (1 speech)
Today we honour Goldstein resident and centenarian, Audrey Jean Sutcliffe. Known by her second name, Jean was one of Goldstein's modest souls, despite her lifetime of service. During the Second...
- Local Council Elections: Victoria (1 speech)
It gives me great pleasure to report to the House on some very productive and positive news from north-east Victoria, regarding the local government elections that have recently taken place. The...
- Molyneux, Mr Cyril (1 speech)
It is with great sadness that today I rise to speak of Mr Cyril Molyneux, a long-term resident in my electorate of La Trobe who recently passed away at the age of 98. At the outbreak of the war...
- Western Australia: Craft Beer (1 speech)
Tomorrow marks the start of the 15th annual WA Beer Week—a celebration of WA's burgeoning craft beer scene featuring dozens of events across Perth and Western Australia. I am sure many in...
- Hearing Impairment (1 speech)
Hearing loss and deafness affects over 3.5 million Australians, or the equivalent of one in six. With our population ageing, that number is predicted to increase to possibly one in four...
- Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination (1 speech)
Today I advise that I have submitted notice of a motion to be debated in this House calling on the Turnbull government to immediately address the toxic PFAS contamination around RAAF bases in...
- Grey Electorate: South Australian of the Year Awards (1 speech)
I am pleased today to speak about some fine young winners who live in my electorate. The South Australian nominees for the Australian of the Year awards were annonced this week, and I am...
- Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, this afternoon you have heard from the members for Herbert, Brand, Solomon, Paterson and now me, the member for Lingiari, about the contamination from the legacy of aqueous film...
- Remembrance Day (2 speeches)
Tomorrow at 11 am we mark the 98th anniversary of the Armistice, the end of that bloody, terrible conflict now known as World War I. This year we particularly remember those Australians who died...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- United States Election (2 speeches)
This morning I spoke with President-elect Donald Trump and offered the Australian government's congratulations on his election victory. Mr Trump spoke warmly and admiringly of Australia and...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
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I inform the House that the Treasurer will be absent from question time today for personal reasons. The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services will answer questions on his behalf. The...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. This morning on social media the member for Hughes said, in response to Donald Trump's plan to cancel the Paris Agreement on climate change: 'Paris is...
- United States Election (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the US presidential election and what this means for Australia's longstanding strategic partnership with the...
- Climate Change (15 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How can the member for Hughes possibly remain the chair of the coalition committee on the environment and energy when he is promoting a position which...
- Foreign Affairs (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister update the House on the importance of working constructively and managing relationships with significant security and...
- Trade with United States (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday, speaking about the US election, the Minister for Foreign Affairs said: I do not expect there to be any change to the Australia-US Free Trade...
- Dairy Industry (6 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources around the dairy support program. Minister, there are over 100 dairy farm families who live in the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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It is my pleasure to inform the House that we have present in the chamber this afternoon a delegation from Hungary, led by the president of the republic, His Excellency Mr Janos Ader. On behalf...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- United States of America (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment. Will the minister update the House on the importance of a strong relationship with the United States?
- United States Election (6 speeches)
My question is to the foreign minister. Can the foreign minister please advise they House why in her previous answer she did not refer to the Deputy Prime Minister describing Donald Trump's...
- Defence Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the
- United States Presidential Election (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Liberal Party's delegate to the United Nations, Senator Cory Bernardi, has lauded the election of Donald Trump as 'a movement against the establishment...
- Australian Defence Force (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Personnel. Will the minister update the House on how Australia's Defence Force personnel are helping to build deeper ties with United States?
- Automotive Industry (15 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. This morning when asked about the policies the government has put in place that saw auto jobs lost in South Australia, the Deputy Prime Minister said, 'There...
- United States Election (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer. Will the minister please update the House on the importance of the strength of Australia's long and prosperous economic relationship...
- Turnbull Government (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Speaking about the US election this morning, Senator Ian Macdonald said, about Queenslanders at the last election: 'They also thought in Tony Abbott they had...
- United States Election (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister update the House on the importance of cooperation with the United States on border security, particularly...
- Attorney-General (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Attorney-General's humiliating backflip on the legal services direction just before question time. Given this backflip follows the...
- Global Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Justice and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Counterterrorism. Will the minister update the House on Australia's counterterrorism and law enforcement...
- Day, Mr Bob, AO (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Minister representing the Minister for Education and Training has repeatedly claimed that the $1.84 million grant to a college linked to Bob Day went...
- Working Holiday Maker Program (3 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 what efforts the government is making to ensure a...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Dairy Industry (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, I wish to add to an answer about the $35.5 million in Dairy Recovery Concessional Loans that the member for Indi asked about. Loans for 67 farmers have been approved across the...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources (6 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I remind you that during 2014 I asked a question of the Minister for Agriculture about drought relief. He provided an answer but subsequently changed the Hansard of that answer.
- 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.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Inequality (33 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable the Leader of the Opposition proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The need for the...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- National Library of Australia: Council Membership (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the National Library Act 1960, this House elects Mr Leeser to be a member of the Council of the National Library of Australia and...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Accounts and Audit Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, I present the committee's report entitled Report 459: Annual report 2015-16. Report made a parliamentary paper in...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Animal Welfare (1 speech)
The greyhound racing fiasco in New South Wales once again highlights the difficulties that can occur, both for government and industry, when animal cruelty is ignored. In 2006, the Howard...
- Petition: Western New South Wales Integrated Cancer Care Centre (2 speeches)
I rise to table a petition from residents of Western New South Wales. The petition read as follows— This petition of concerned citizens of the Federal electorate of Parkes and wider...
- Infrastructure: Public Transport (1 speech)
In Fremantle and in metropolitan areas around Australia we face some common and interrelated challenges. Urban sprawl has meant that people seeking new and affordable housing are often pushed to...
- Deakin Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
As the member for Deakin I see it as a very important role that I improve the local infrastructure for my area. I want to update the House and update my electorate on some of the progress we have...
- Youth Unemployment (1 speech)
All of a sudden the Deputy Prime Minister has found a voice on youth unemployment. He has found a voice and is saying, 'What about young workers? What about young people looking for jobs?' Let us...
- Forde Electorate: Government Funding (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to speak about some of the positive actions that the coalition government has been taking over the past few years in my electorate of Forde. It is a...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- United States Presidential Election (1 speech)
In the 240-year history of the American republic, no candidate has ever before been elected president without previous military, executive or legislative office. Elections determine power, not...
- Local Council Elections: Victoria (1 speech)
I too came to speak about elections—municipal elections in this case. The beauty of democracies like Australia and United States is that periodically people get to decide who their...
- Lee, Ms Mary (1 speech)
I want to speak about an amazing Territorian who recently passed away in Darwin. Mary Lee was born Mary Cubillo in the 1930s. During her life she survived the bombing of Darwin, which took the...
- North Sydney Electorate: Remembrance Day (1 speech)
Tomorrow our nation will pause, as we have done every year for nearly a century, to remember those men and women who served Australia in times of war. In my own electorate, our RSL sub-branches...
- Fremantle Electorate: Port School (1 speech)
My electorate of Fremantle, like all electorates, can be considered on one view as a network of school communities. Schools are a particular focal point. They serve a special function, and our...
- Cassidy, Ms Kerri (1 speech)
It is with great pride and honour today that I am able to stand here and represent the ongoing dedication and commitment of one of my La Trobe constituents, Kerri Cassidy. Kerri Cassidy has...
- Taxation: BHP Billiton (1 speech)
Rampant tax evasion is now a structural cause of political polarisation and growing inequality, globally and within our country. It is a huge part of the trashing of public faith and legitimacy...
- Education, Brisbane Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
I rise today to highlight this government's commitment to education. While the federal government of course does not run any schools, the fact is that this government is committing more to school...
- Gellibrand Electorate: Women's Circus (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate the Women's Circus in Footscray in my electorate on their 25th anniversary and acknowledge the important work that they have done for our community. The Women's...
- Remembrance Day (2 speeches)
Tomorrow is Remembrance Day, and all over Australia Australians will be moved to remember, honour and respect those Australians who made the ultimate sacrifice for our great country. The 11th...
- Millman, Mr Simon, Royal Perth Hospital (1 speech)
I rise to talk about part of my electorate and one of my constituents whom I am very proud to call a very fine friend. Yesterday, the entire world watched the US democratic system provide an...
- St Stanislaus' College (1 speech)
It is with great pleasure that I congratulate those students from St Stanislaus' College in Bathurst who were recently announced as student leaders for 2017. The announcement was made during the...
- Brand Electorate: HMAS Stirling (1 speech)
In my first speech in this parliament on 11 October, I mentioned an offbeat theory which postulated that David Bowie was the glue that held the universe together. Given the significant electoral...
- Banks Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
On Saturday, 29 October I attended the 18th Bankstown Children's Festival. It was great to attend the festival again this year and to be a part of the activity. The children's festival was...
- Lindsay Electorate: Singing Out Strong Women's Choir (1 speech)
On the evening of Thursday, 3 November I was welcomed to a performance by a local choir called Singing Out Strong, or SOS. The SOS choir was originally formed for women who are victims of abuse...
- Arnison, Miss McKinley, Page Electorate: Community Organisations (1 speech)
McKinley Arnison is an 11-year-old athlete that excels in the water and on the land. What makes her results even more outstanding is that she competes with cerebral palsy. Her medical condition...
- Nuclear Disarmament (1 speech)
I rise to address the issue of nuclear disarmament. On 27 October, the United Nations adopted a crucial and important resolution to convene a UN conference in 2017 to negotiate a legally binding...
- Kendall, Professor Mark, Nanopatch (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to congratulate Professor Mark Kendall, who last night received the CSL Young Florey Medal at the Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes' dinner here at...
- Deepavali, Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (1 speech)
I would like to thank the Hindu Council of Australia for organising, once again, an excellent event in Parliament House on Monday night to celebrate Deepavali, the Festival of Lights. I...
- Murray Electorate: Ministerial Visits (2 speeches)
Next week in the electorate of Murray it is going to be a very, very busy time, as I welcome two ministers and an assistant minister. On Monday next I am going to be hosting Darren Chester, the...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Schools (1 speech)
A few nights ago here in the parliament, I had the pleasure of attending the Australian Primary Principals Association life membership presentation ceremony. I was reminded once again that...
- South Australia: Electricity Infrastructure (1 speech)
There are a few things I think we tend to take for granted in Australian life. We tend to take for granted our clean, safe drinking water, we tend to take for granted our fresh, unpolluted air,...
- Global Security (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the critical issue of countering violent extremism for our national and international security, particularly in light of international events that may or may not pose...
- Calare Electorate: Small Business (1 speech)
The spirit of enterprise is alive and well in the Calare electorate. Today, I would like to mention just a few of the many successful small businesses in our region. They are vital to regional...
- Lindsay Electorate: National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the National Disability Insurance Scheme and the difference it is making to the lives of people with a disability in my electorate of Lindsay. The NDIS is something Labor...
- Migration (1 speech)
Business migration to Australia is one of the best methods of attracting investment capital into our economy by people who are prepared to reside in Australia, bring their financial assets with...
- Turnbull Government (1 speech)
Many members in this place have been feeling a sense of deja vu these past few months. This Prime Minister, who so many Australians thought would lead or hoped would lead a reformist government,...
- Child Safety (1 speech)
I rise to note some troubling statistics. International comparisons of drowning rates are indicating that Australia has the second-worst recorded in the world for toddler drownings. Each year in...
- Leyonhjelm, Senator David (1 speech)
On 29 September, National Police Remembrance Day, the nation paused to remember police officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty and to honour all serving members of our police...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the importance of workplace relations reform in Australia for our nation, its workers, children and our democracy. The Australian public must look askance and wonder why this...
- Broadband, Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards (1 speech)
Many of my constituents continue to struggle to access broadband internet. The age and standard of much of the infrastructure means that services in my electorate are limited, even if they are...
- See Poy, Mr Herbert 'Junior' (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge the life of a local legend, Herbert 'Junior' See Poy, who passed away on 21 October at the age of 85. Junior was born on 2 May 1931 to a well-known Innisfail family...
