House debates
Thursday, 24 November 2016
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Privileges and Members' Interests Committee; Report (1 speech)
As the Chair of the Standing Committee of Privileges and Members' Interests, I present the report from the Committee of Privileges and Members' Interests concerning an application from Mr...
- Economics Committee; Report (5 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Economics, I present the committee's report, incorporating dissenting reports, entitled Review of the four major banks: first report, together with the...
- Economics Committee; Reference to Federation Chamber (1 speech)
I move: That the order of the day be referred to the Federation Chamber for debate. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (1 speech)
On Monday I was privileged to meet with representatives of Micah Australia who were here campaigning for greater action on climate change in the Pacific. Asia and Pacific nations are on the...
- Barker Electorate: Storms (1 speech)
I rise today to speak of the devastation to crops, orchards and vineyards in the Riverland that occurred recently. On the afternoon and evening of Friday, 11 November, a severe supercell...
- Pabari, Mr Taj (1 speech)
I want to tell the House and the nation beyond about a remarkable CEO who has had a bit to do with my electorate. He is the co-founder of a global software company. What makes him a bit different...
- Durack Electorate: South Beach Rescue (1 speech)
I rise to speak today on the exceptional courage displayed by four young boys from the town of Dongara in my electorate who saved the life of an elderly fisherman in rough seas off the coast at...
- Broadband (1 speech)
A few moments ago, right there, the Prime Minister was bragging and slapping himself on the back and talking about what an amazing job he has done with rolling out the National Broadband Network....
- Diabetes (1 speech)
I am very pleased to be the co-chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Diabetes and, last evening, I assisted the Parliamentary Friends of Eye Health and Vision Care in hosting an event to support...
- Western Sydney Airport (2 speeches)
It is unthinkable that Western Sydney Airport might open unsupported by an integrated and fully functioning rail network. The Sydney Morning Herald published an article this morning that...
- Berowra Electorate: Hills District Mums (1 speech)
Last week I was privileged to have a meeting in Beecroft with a dynamic new community group in my electorate, the Hills District Mums. Hills District Mums is a Facebook group. It is a fantastic...
- Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination (1 speech)
Ever since news broke that chemicals from legacy firefighting foam may have contaminated the areas surrounding RAAF Base Williamtown and the Oakey Army Aviation Centre, the Turnbull government...
- Crime (1 speech)
Last week I was very pleased to join with the mayor of the Maroondah City Council, Councillor Tony Dib, to announce that we are going ahead with the government's $435,000 commitment to improve...
- Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination (1 speech)
The Turnbull government has failed the people of Williamtown and Salt Ash. It has failed people whose homes, bodies, businesses and babies have been contaminated by firefighting chemicals that...
- Forde Electorate: State Emergency Service (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the volunteers at the Logan State Emergency Service, including local controller Jim Ferguson, for placing first in the 2016 South Eastern...
- Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination (1 speech)
Following the member for Paterson's excellent contribution, I rise to talk about the devastating financial impact that the contamination around RAAF Williamtown is having on the residents of...
- Sunshine Coast: Trade (1 speech)
The coalition government is unashamedly focused on growing Australia's economy. In a world that is more interconnected than ever, Australia's future prosperity will rely heavily on our ability to...
- Victoria: Crime and Policing (3 speeches)
I rise today to put on the record a few facts about what is going on in Victoria and what was going on in Victoria under the former Liberal government. Day after day I sit in here and I listen to...
- Robertson Electorate: Copacabana Community (1 speech)
This coming Saturday the community of Copacabana is invited to a morning tea at eleven o'clock at the Allagai Bay Cafe to discuss local issues and to hear updates on some major election...
- Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination (1 speech)
My heart goes out to people in electorates where homes have been contaminated by firefighting chemicals. The information coming out, including from the member for Paterson, is...
- O'Connor Electorate: Returned Servicemen (1 speech)
Last week I met a remarkable ex-serviceman, Brian, an Afghanistan veteran doing great work in my electorate of O'Connor and beyond. Brian was discharged from the SAS on medical grounds after...
- Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination (1 speech)
I want to thank my colleagues who have spoken today. That is what good local members do; they stand up for their communities when times are tough. I have had the privilege, through the member for...
- Small Business (2 speeches)
It was my pleasure to attend the launch of the Shop Small campaign here on Tuesday evening. I would like to thank Minister McCormack and my colleagues for spreading the message on just how...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Working Holiday Maker Program (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Today, the Senate has delivered a humiliating defeat to the government on the backpacker tax. Will the Prime Minister now accept the sensible compromise...
- Economy (5 speeches)
Thank you, Mr Speaker. I saw that you missed the member for Wakefield out. My question is to the Prime Minister.
- Working Holiday Maker Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister explain to the House why he would prefer to have an internationally, uncompetitive backpacker tax rate of 32½ per cent instead of...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House we have present in the gallery this afternoon a delegation from Nepal led by the Hon. Dr Mahat, Minister for Foreign Affairs. On behalf of the House, I extend a very warm...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Working Holiday Maker Program (24 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. Will the Deputy Prime Minister explain to the House why it is important for hardworking Australian...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
It is my pleasure to also welcome to the House three former members: Mrs Karen McNamara, the former member for Dobell; Mrs Natasha Griggs, the former member for Solomon; and Mr Stuart Henry, the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Pensions and Benefits (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment. My constituent Rick is 63 years of age. He was unemployed. He was on Newstart and registered with MAX Employment. He...
- Current Account Deficit (14 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on how the government is reducing deficit and arresting debt by returning the budget to balance? Is the treasurer aware of any...
- Turnbull Government (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to reports that the former Prime Minister, the member for Warringah, is having a range of policy ideas costed by the Parliamentary Budget Office. Has...
- Trade (4 speeches)
My question is to— Mr Pyne interjecting—
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Before I call the member for Sydney, I would like to inform the House that we have present in the southern gallery this afternoon a delegation of 35 Australian and Indonesian leaders visiting...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Liberal Party (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I ask the Prime Minister: is the Prime Minister aware that the publisher of the former Prime Minister's book has said, 'I expect Tony to make the case for...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry, representing the Minister for Employment. Will the minister explain why it is important to exercise good judgement in making decisions about...
- Medicare (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. After the election, the Prime Minister admitted there was some fertile ground in relation to the government's policies on Medicare. On 11 November, the Prime...
- Australian Building and Construction Commission (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. Will the minister outline to the House why the Australian Building and Construction Commission is important for delivering new health and...
- Intellectual Property (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. A few moments ago, the Prime Minister referred to the targeting of old people. Yesterday in question time, the Prime Minister was unaware that this...
- Law Enforcement (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister update the House on steps the government has taken to remove dangerous outlaw motorcycle gang members from...
- Murray-Darling Basin Plan (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. There was an emergency meeting between the Prime Minister and the South Australian Liberal leader today. Given the South Australian Liberal leader has today...
- Trade Union Joint Police Task Force (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Justice. Will the minister update the House on the work of the Trade Union Joint Police Task Force? How is the task force tackling the threat of corrupt...
- Broadband (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In 2013, the Prime Minister promised every Australian household would have access to the NBN by the end of this year. Is the Prime Minister at all concerned...
- Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Urban Infrastructure. Will the minister explain to the House the significance of the government's response to the Infrastructure Australia 15-year plan? How...
- Prime Minister (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In question time yesterday, in answer to a question from the member for Gorton, the Prime Minister said he had no choice over his investments in 7-Eleven,...
- Sunshine Coast Airport (3 speeches)
My constituency question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Will the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport update the House on recent developments at the Sunshine Coast...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 27 of 2016-17 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit report No. 27 of 2016-17 entitled Performance audit:Reef Trust: design and implementation: Department of the Environment and Energy. Ordered that the report...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Documents are tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Full details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Inequality (18 speeches, 1 comment)
Mr Speaker has received a letter from the honourable member for Fenner proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government's...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I propose the question: That the House do now adjourn.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (1 speech)
As a representative of one of Australia's most multicultural electorates, I rise to condemn the government's latest plans to weaken Australia's laws that prevent racist hate speech. The...
- Robertson Electorate: Arts (2 speeches)
I rise to update the House on how the coalition government will continue to deliver for families and businesses in my electorate of Robertson and how we are fighting to ensure that key projects...
- Medicare (1 speech)
A worthy note! I rise today to talk about how the Turnbull government's reckless mismanagement of our healthcare system is hurting real Australians. The issue I want to focus on today regards the...
- South Australia: Proclamation Day (1 speech)
This year my home state of South Australia celebrates its 180th birthday. I hope that my fellow South Australians will join me in marking this occasion on 28 December, which is our Proclamation...
- Lindsay Electorate: Nepean Hospital (1 speech)
I rise today to speak once again about Nepean Hospital and the urgent need for this government and the New South Wales Liberal government to commit to the desperately needed stage 4 hospital...
- Domestic and Family Violence, Geelong Star (1 speech)
Before I make my contribution on an important environmental and recreational fishing issue I want to refer to the speech by the member for Lindsay yesterday. I want to commend her on her bravery...
- Lalor Electorate: Softball (1 speech)
I rise today to inform the House of a great sporting event that happened in Lalor across the last fortnight. On Friday, 4 November, I had the privilege of sitting down with three local young...
- Page Electorate: Leukaemia Foundation UGLY Bartender of the Year (1 speech)
Every year, bartenders across Australia help the Leukaemia Foundation by showing us their UGLY, which stands for 'understanding, generous, likeable you'. These people are all helping people who...
- Essential Energy (1 speech)
I endorse and adopt the comments by the member for Corangamite in relation to the Geelong Star fishing vessel. Everybody is glad to see the back of it. My region had exactly the same issues on...
- Bell, Ms Kaitlin (2 speeches)
Earlier today, this chamber was fortuitously full of women. I was outside checking my phone, where I was reading the speech I am about to make about an inspirational young woman from my...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
It has been almost 170 days since I last knocked back a VB. Why am I sharing my drinking habits with the Federation Chamber? You might ask that question. The reason I have boycotted my favourite...
- Australian Awards for University Teaching (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge the work that people do in our community of Capricornia, specifically those who teach at university and the young people who carry out projects under the Green Army...
- Wakefield Electorate: 1st Armoured Regiment (1 speech)
It was my great pleasure last Friday, the 18th, to go out to RAAF Base Edinburgh to join with A Squadron 1st Armoured Regiment to celebrate the 99th anniversary of the Battle of Cambrai. The...
- Australian Defence Force Parliamentary Program (2 speeches)
I rise today to speak about the Australian Defence Force Parliamentary Program. I recently returned from the Middle East, where I had the privilege to witness firsthand the work of our soldiers,...
- Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (1 speech)
The Prime Minister often speaks of Australia as being the world's most successful multicultural society, and he is right to do so. I agree with the Prime Minister, but unlike him I am committed...
- Deakin Electorate: School Fetes (1 speech)
It is a great opportunity for me today to highlight one of the most satisfying parts of our job and that is, obviously, not always being here in Canberra but back home in our electorates and...
- Hindmarsh Electorate: West Beach Road (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on behalf of some long-suffering residents who live in my electorate, in West Beach and mainly on West Beach Road, which is a thoroughfare from Tapleys Hill Road through to...
- Allen, Inspector Corey, Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate Inspector Corey Allen of the Queensland Police Service on the instrumental role he has played in the Smart Start project which yesterday received the silver award in the...
- Family Matters Report (1 speech)
My electorate, Herbert, has a very high Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, and achieving the recommendations of The family matters report is critical to my community. The Herbert...
- Australian Football League Country Game (2 speeches)
Yesterday I had the opportunity to host Kevin Sheedy here at Parliament House. The former coach and all-time AFL great was in parliament to meet with Barnaby Joyce and help promote his next...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- National Security (2 speeches)
Most of us will recall where we were on 9-11. That event was so far from Australia but it hit hard at home as we felt the world turn. Overnight, international conversation shifted. When I...
- Annual Investment Statement (1 speech)
Can I say that the third annual statement on international investment in Australia, which was presented to the House yesterday by my colleague the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment,...
- National Security (2 speeches)
The Australian Labor Party understands the important of cybersecurity to a nation. The security and protection of our nations, our institutions and our shared beliefs is a goal shared by all...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Vietnam: Human Rights (1 speech)
I rise to bring to the House's attention a string of human rights violations in Vietnam involving the detention of three prominent activists and bloggers: Ms Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, Mr Nguyen Van...
- Corangamite Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
It is my great pleasure to rise and celebrate the many wonderful schools in the Corangamite electorate and the incredible work that they are doing in the community. I visit, of course, like all...
- Homelessness (1 speech)
Homelessness in Australia is increasing rapidly. In 2011, the census found that over 105,000 Australians were homeless—an increase of a massive 17 per cent since the previous census. As we...
- Gulmarrad Public School, Cooper, Mr George, Grafton Historical Society, New South Wales Rural Fire Service (1 speech)
The Gulmarrad Public School near Maclean turned 125 recently, and hundreds turned out to celebrate. Today the school has 201 enrolled students across eight classes. The celebration included many...
- Blair Electorate: Disability and Seniors Services (1 speech)
Australian disability activist and comedian, Stella Young, who tragically died too soon, said: I want to live in a world where we don't have such low expectations of disabled people that we are...
- Trade (1 speech)
I rise to update the chamber on the activities within the trade portfolio, particularly in areas of regional Australia. Mr Deputy Speaker Hastie, I am sure that you, as a proud Western...
- Tasmania: Fish Farming, Geelong Star (1 speech)
Well, from rock lobsters to salmon! As the holiday season looms before us, can I just say this to all in the chamber and to the many millions of viewers who are no doubt watching this broadcast:...
- Petrie Electorate: Moreton Bay Boat Club (1 speech)
It is wonderful to be here to speak today, and I want to talk a little bit about a local not-for-profit club in my electorate: the Moreton Bay Boat Club at Scarborough. The Moreton Bay Boat Club...
- Macquarie Electorate: Homelessness (1 speech)
As we mark White Ribbon Day this week we have been reminded of the precariousness and vulnerability of those who have to leave the home they know to flee to safety or who simply have no permanent...
- Renewable Energy (1 speech, 3 comments)
The cost of living and job security is very important to the Australian people, but too often in the last decade we have seen those opposite and their state counterparts introduce energy policy...
- Migration (1 speech)
I want to express my concern to the parliament about the remarks earlier this week of the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Mr Peter Dutton. I was surprised and saddened when in...
- Dunkley Electorate: Environment, Dunkley Electorate: Renewable Energy, Dunkley Rail Plan (1 speech)
I know I am biased but I truly believe that my electorate of Dunkley is the most beautiful electorate in Australia. The residents in Dunkley truly have it good, with the best of the country, the...
