House debates
Tuesday, 7 February 2017
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Centrelink (9 speeches)
I seek leave to move the following motion: That this House: (1)acknowledges that Centrelink has, since late 2016, been sending out numerous incorrect notices relating to debt recovery – by...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Tasmania: Black Tuesday (1 speech)
In the late spring and early summer of 1966, Tasmania experienced wet weather followed by hot, dry conditions that turned lush green growth into a crisp golden brown. The addition of a hot...
- Boothby Electorate: Oaklands Crossing (1 speech)
The Oaklands rail crossing issue has plagued residents in my electorate of Boothby for over 40 years. Thanks to my hard work and that of Corey Wingard MP, the state member for Mitchell, the...
- Member for Dawson (1 speech)
Russia has a long history of exploiting useful idiots in the West, harnessing their blind ideology to obscure unpleasant truths. Unfortunately, the Russians seem to have found another polezniye...
- Fisher Electorate (1 speech)
As parliamentarians, it is our privilege and our duty to represent the views of our constituents in this place. The foundation of that critical work is a constant process of listening and...
- Centrelink (1 speech)
I rise today to condemn this government for its incompetent and cruel response to the Centrelink debt recovery debacle. I rise today to defend those in my electorate who have found themselves...
- Robertson Electorate (1 speech)
It is an absolute honour to be back here in this House. I will never forget the faith and the confidence that the people of my electorate have placed in me as their member for Robertson. From...
- Centrelink (1 speech)
Well, it is time for the human services minister and the Prime Minister to admit that their robo-debt system has been an unmitigated disaster. Over 40 per cent of the letters that have been sent...
- O'Connor Electorate: Indigenous Rangers Program (1 speech)
I rise today to update the House on a new program this government has committed to that will deliver real jobs for Aboriginal people in my electorate of O'Connor. The Indigenous Rangers program...
- Centrelink (1 speech)
I also rise to call on the government again to admit that they have made a mistake with Centrelink and with the robo-Centrelink debt recovery program. The minister's comments this morning go...
- Hakin, Ms Thalia (1 speech)
Today I would like to join the Goldstein community in grieving for the tragic loss of Thalia Hakin, in the recent Bourke Street carnage that shocked Melbourne in January. In moments of raw...
- Centrelink (1 speech)
This government fails to understand or does not wish to understand the stress and anxiety it is imposing on ordinary Australians—ordinary workers who are doing the right thing to obtain...
- Victoria: Law Enforcement (1 speech)
Sadly, Victoria is becoming a lawless state where youth gangs have more rights than the community they terrorise. As a former police officer, it is awful to see this happening and especially to...
- Gold Coast Airport: Chemical Contamination (1 speech)
I call on the Turnbull government to ensure there is complete transparency with the investigation into potential PFAS contamination at Gold Coast Airport. In July, Airservices engaged an...
- North Sydney Electorate: Australia Day (1 speech)
Each Australia Day, communities in my electorate gather to celebrate all that makes us such a wonderful nation. At the centre of those celebrations are the citizenship ceremonies arranged by our...
- Centrelink (1 speech)
The Turnbull-Joyce government stands condemned for its treatment of Centrelink clients: the elderly, the sick, students, and people in genuine need of assistance. The government must restore...
- Bennelong Electorate: Korean and Chinese Cultures (1 speech)
Last Saturday, I had the envious honour to be a guest judge for the annual Lunar New Year Cooking Competition in the heart of my wonderfully diverse electorate of Bennelong. With the Lunar New...
- Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (1 speech)
I want talk about one of the strongest women I have ever met. Leonie Sheedy is one of seven siblings who were sent to 26 different institutions during their childhood. Leonie's brother Anthony...
- Corangamite Electorate: Land 400 (1 speech)
Today I raise serious concerns about the Andrews Labor government's decision to base the Land 400 project at Fishermans Bend in central Melbourne should Victoria win this lucrative defence...
- Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2 speeches)
Every truth revealed by the royal commission into child abuse is sickening: thousands of crimes; the number of offenders and institutions involved; the average age of the...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Bourke Street Tragedy (3 speeches)
I seek the House's indulgence to speak about the tragic events of 20 January in the Bourke Street mall in Melbourne. On behalf of our parliament and the Australian people, I send our heartfelt...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Gorman, Mr Russell Neville Joseph, Trood, Professor Russell Brunell (1 speech)
I inform the House of the deaths of Russell Neville Joseph Gorman, a member of this House, and Russell Brunell Trood, a former senator. Russ Gorman died on 3 January this year. He represented the...
- Deveson, Ms Anne Barbara, AO (3 speeches)
Mr Speaker, on indulgence, I rise to acknowledge the passing of Anne Deveson AO on 12 December at the age of 86, and I extend our condolences to her son Joshua and her granddaughter Odessa, who...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Tasmania: 50th Anniversary of Black Tuesday Bushfires (4 speeches)
As members will know, today is the 50th anniversary of the horrific 1967 Tasmanian bushfires, which killed 64 people, injured 900 more and destroyed countless thousands of livestock, buildings,...
- Reference to Federation Chamber (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That statements on indulgence on the Bourke Street tragedy; the deaths of former member Russell Gorman, former Senator Trood and Anne Deveson; and the 50th anniversary of...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I table a revised ministry list. I seek leave to have the list incorporated in Hansard. Leave granted. The document read as follows— TURNBULL MINISTRY 24 January 2017...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Child Sexual Abuse (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Australians have been shocked and sickened by the crimes that have been revealed through the royal commission into child sexual abuse, including yesterday's...
- Energy Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister advise the House on how the government is backing hardworking Australians? And what is the government doing to help Australian...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. It is a matter of record that 34,000 full-time jobs have been lost in the last year, that underemployment is close to a record high and that wages are...
- Economy (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister advise the House what the government is doing to support the household and small business budget? How will the government's energy...
- Climate Change (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Energy Market Commission modelling shows that an emissions intensity scheme would save consumers $15 billion on their power bills, but within hours of...
- Economy (3 speeches)
I have a question to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on how the government is securing Australian jobs and lifting wages for hardworking Australians? In a globally competitive...
- Climate Change (7 speeches, 1 comment)
The Prime Minister's former energy adviser Danny Price said that the Prime Minister's refusal to even consider an emissions intensity scheme: Shows a lack of spine … By doing this, it means...
- Telecommunications (7 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Over Christmas, thousands of my constituents endured several days without power, phones or internet after storms damaged electricity infrastructure. In the...
- Live Animal Exports (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. Will the minister update the House on how the live cattle trade is supporting jobs in regional...
- Centrelink (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Tasmania's Liberal Premier Will Hodgman has said the flawed Centrelink data-matching system needs to be fixed, and Liberal Senator Eric Abetz has said...
- Electricity Infrastructure (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Energy. He would be well aware that my electorate of Grey bore the brunt of last September's power outages in South Australia—Port...
- Centrelink (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Anne Foley is a 67-year-old pensioner who received a Centrelink debt recovery notice for around $36,000. As a result, Centrelink cut off Mrs Foley's pension,...
- Building and Construction Industry (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry, representing the Minister for Employment. Will the minister outline how industrial relations reform supports the creation of jobs for...
- Turnbull Government (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister agree with the member for Warringah that, 'The first duty of the leader is to keep the party together'? How is that going?
- Trade (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister update the House on how the government is promoting Australia's national interests and strengthening our bilateral...
- Coalition Government (4 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Today's print media runs comments from numerous members of the PM's own government airing grievances about the internal workings of the Liberal Party,...
- Employment (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister update the House on steps the government is taking to ensure foreign workers are a supplement to and not a...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Parliament House: Security (1 speech)
Members will recall that on 30 November last year protestors disrupted proceedings here in the chamber in question time that necessitated the suspension of proceedings in the House, and on the...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Reports Nos 29 to 36 of 2016-17 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit reports Nos 29 to 36 for 2016-17. Details of the reports will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings. Ordered that the reports be made parliamentary papers.
- 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.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
I move: That leave of absence from today until 26 February 2017 be given to Mr Hawke for parental leave purposes. Question agreed to.
- Days and Hours of Meeting (1 speech)
I present a chart showing the revised program of sittings for 2017. Copies of the program have been placed on the table. I ask leave of the House to move that the program be agreed to. Leave...
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
I move: That leave of absence from 7 February 2017 until 8 May 2017 be given to Ms Rowland for parental leave purposes. Question agreed to.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Turnbull Government (20 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Perth proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government's failure to...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Centrelink (1 speech)
In accordance with standing order 133, I shall now proceed to put the question on the motion moved earlier by the honourable member for Denison, on which a division was called for and deferred in...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Standing Committee on Infrastructure, Transport and Cities; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Infrastructure, Transport and Cities, I present the committee's report entitled Harnessing value, delivering infrastructure: inquiry into the role of...
- Standing Committee on Infrastructure, Transport and Cities; 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.
- Electoral Matters Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, I present the committee's report entitled The 2016federal election: interim report on the authorisation of voter communication, and...
- Economics Committee; Report (4 speeches)
On behalf on the Standing Committee on Economics, I present the committee's report, incorporating dissenting reports, on the inquiry into home ownership, together with the minutes of proceedings....
- 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)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (3 speeches)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 18, government business, be postponed until the next sitting.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Centrelink (1 speech)
Today I rise to talk about a big issue that is concerning my electorate: this government's mismanagement of Centrelink. Every single day, my office has been flooded with complaints about...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
In recent weeks we have seen, again, the tragedy of domestic and family violence in the headlines. The murder of Gold Coast mother Teresa Bradford by her estranged husband, while he was out on...
- Northern Territory: World War II projects and commemorations (1 speech)
I rise in the House to provide an update on a couple of relevant World War II events and projects that are happening in my electorate of Solomon in the Top End. The first concerns the status of...
- Brisbane Electorate, Turnbull Government (1 speech)
I rise to mark a victory in the campaign against Labor's lockout laws in Queensland. The Queensland Labor government has finally backflipped and it has scrapped its lockouts. Brisbane will get to...
- Northern Territory: Radio Services (1 speech)
The decision by the ABC to cease operation of the shortwave radio services in the Northern Territory is both irresponsible and ill informed—and, I might say, just plain wrong. Senator...
- Mackellar Electorate: B-Line Bus Service (2 speeches)
There are two bridges out of my electorate. One is a drawbridge, which can be used in times of national emergency such as the election of a Labor government, and the other, the Roseville Bridge,...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Bendigo Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
Thousands of school students across my electorate started back at school last week, all excited. There were some nervous parents at the school gates as well. But one of the things that really hit...
- Swan Electorate: Australia Day (1 speech)
It is great to be back in Canberra for the first sitting day of the year. One of the highlights of the summer break is getting to spend time in the electorate with the people we represent. One of...
- Petition: Telecommunications (2 speeches)
I rise today to reiterate an issue which is very important to the people of my electorate. In the previous parliament, my predecessor, the former Liberal member for Braddon, presented a petition...
- Renewable Energy Target (1 speech)
Firstly, I would like to note the change we have here of the artwork in the Federation Chamber. It is very pleasing to have Billy Hughes, whom my seat is named after, standing behind me as I give...
- Medicare, Centrelink (1 speech)
Over the summer recess my office has been flooded with constituents concerned about Medicare and the payment system and also with people who have been issued with debt recovery notices from...
- Capricornia Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to update the House on several significant projects that the Liberal-National coalition has invested in to improve community infrastructure in the town of Yeppoon and the...
- Wakefield Electorate: Holden (1 speech, 2 comments)
On 13 January this year Holden announced their closure date of 20 October. While we expected a date to be announced, these announcements are always shocking to those in the local community and to...
- Youngcare, Specialist Disability Accommodation Initiative (1 speech)
I recently visited a house set up and operated by Youngcare in Wooloowin, in my electorate, along with the Youngcare CEO, Anthony Ryan, and the Queensland deputy opposition leader Deb...
- Community Legal Centres (1 speech)
Across Australia, community legal centres provide support every day to some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people facing what is often one of life's most difficult legal challenges and...
- Dunkley Electorate: headspace Frankston (2 speeches)
Since my election as the member for Dunkley, I have been contacted by many Dunkley residents who have raised with me their thoughts and needs with respect to mental health and the needs of those...
- Corio Electorate: Centrelink (1 speech)
Daniel, a constituent of mine from Central Geelong, received in September last year a $5,600 debt issued to him by Centrelink. He was already under financial strain and about to get married. He...
- Berowra Electorate: Chinese and Korean Communities (1 speech)
I rise today and wish you a happy new year—not just a happy new year in the sense of the Australian calendar but also a happy Lunar New Year, which is what I want to talk about today. The...
- Griffith Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
I rise to advise that on the weekend over the break we held the ceremony for the 2017 Griffith Australia Day Awards, the 18th annual Griffith Australia Day Awards. They were instigated by my...
- Pitman, Mr Mitchell (1 speech)
This year's far North Coast winner of ABC's Heywire is Mitchell Pitman. He is a 17-year-old boy from Leeville, who has faced many challenges. Born eight weeks premature and with cerebral palsy,...
- Gellibrand Electorate: Centrelink (1 speech)
I am pleased that parliament has returned today and we have this opportunity to make a constituency statement about an issue that has been affecting, I think, all MPs over the summer break, and...
- Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (1 speech)
This week the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse began its final public hearings into the Catholic Church. It should be remembered that the royal commission is...
- Abortion (1 speech)
I rise to warn against Australia following the path Donald Trump has taken on foreign health aid. This is an issue that matters to a lot of people in my electorate, and has been raised with me....
- Victoria: Crime (1 speech)
Deputy Speaker Hastie, I know you are one of those people who are particularly concerned about making sure that we have a safe and secure and crime-free society. That is why I want to take the...
- Whitlam Electorate: Australia Day Awards, Yeo, Mr Philip, OAM (1 speech)
We have built a prosperous and successful multicultural nation in Australia, one of the most successful multicultural nations in the world, and on Australia Day we recognise how the wonderful...
- Organ and Tissue Donation (2 speeches)
My constituency statement has to do with Zaidee's Rainbow Foundation, which is a foundation that was formed after the death of Zaidee Turner, a seven-year-old girl from Shepparton who died in...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That orders of the day Nos 1 to 6, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I rise today to alert the House and raise a grievance in relation to a growing trend in Australia where employers are applying to the Fair Work Commission to terminate enterprise agreements. They...
- Hazelwood Power Station (1 speech)
Deputy Speaker Hastie, this is the grievance debate, where members get the opportunity to bring issues of importance to the nation, to their state or to their constituency, and I put to you today...
- Northern Territory Football League (1 speech)
Over the last week and a half I attended a number of events to do with the football teams in the Northern Territory that have reached their centenary. These football clubs are a massive part of...
- Energy Affordability (1 speech)
I would like to use this opportunity to talk about gas and electricity pricing and availability within my electorate and, in fact, the majority of Victoria. As we have seen, there has been an...
- Australian Defence Force (1 speech)
Tonight, I rise to speak about some of the issues that have been raised with me by our serving men and women but also about some of the issues raised by their families. Mr Deputy Speaker Hastie,...
- Queensland: Sugar Industry (2 speeches)
It has been two months since we were last in this place. Two months ago, I spoke about the ongoing dispute between cane growers and the miller Wilmar. It was a matter of great urgency then, and...
