House debates
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 8 of the Selection Committee, relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday, 20 March 2017. The report will be...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Member for Fowler (8 speeches)
On indulgence, Mr Speaker—and the Manager of Opposition Business might wish to comment as well.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Cregan, Associate Professor Patrick Charles, AM (1 speech)
Associate Professor Patrick Cregan AM was a brilliant surgeon, teacher and natural leader. He was a passionate advocate and a dedicated father, husband, friend and colleague. In January this...
- O'Connor Electorate: School Leadership (1 speech)
I rise today to give a big shout-out to two amazing independent public school principals in my electorate of O'Connor. I congratulate Maxine Augustson, of Mount Lockyer Primary School, and Kerry...
- Tasmania: Health Care (1 speech)
I spoke recently in the Federation Chamber to acknowledge the achievements of St.LukesHealth. It was recently recognised by Roy Morgan Research in its 2016 Customer Satisfaction Awards and was...
- Sugar Industry (1 speech)
It is a great pleasure to stand here today to formally put on the record my opposition to a push by technocratic think tanks and various others for sugar taxes. I fundamentally do not believe...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I rise in this place to discuss the Fair Work Australia decision to cut penalty rates. Nearly 700,000 Australians will have their penalty rates cut, losing up to $77 a week. In Townsville, around...
- Red Balloon Day (1 speech)
I rise to speak about Red Balloon Day, which we acknowledged yesterday. From its humble beginnings in Geelong in 2014 Red Balloon Day has become national initiative, aimed at honouring and...
- Macquarie Electorate: SES Awards (1 speech)
I had the privilege of attending the presentation of annual awards for the State Emergency Services of the Blue Mountains last week. The SES works closely with the local police, as well as with...
- North Sydney Electorate: Haven Valley Scenic Theatre (1 speech)
Our national capital is linked to parts of my own electorate through the visionary hands of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney Griffin. Just as they shaped Canberra as the bush capital, so...
- Burt Electorate: Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital (1 speech)
Colin Barnett's Liberals have failed Western Australia on health, and people across my electorate are suffering as a result. Cuts at Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital have seen surgery slots...
- Fisher Electorate: University of the Sunshine Coast (1 speech)
The University of the Sunshine Coast in my constituency is emblematic of the transformation that is going on throughout our region. Like the Sunshine Coast as a whole, the university is growing...
- Water (3 speeches)
The current government has for seven years and two elections promised the development of water in northern Australia. There is not a shovel load of concrete across a gutter in all of North...
- Melbourne Traffic Congestion (1 speech)
I rise again in this place to highlight the issue of traffic congestion in Melbourne. Indeed, the latest data shows that traffic congestion has risen by four per cent in the past year alone. The...
- Medicare (3 speeches)
Because of our physical human frailties—and I can see that some of us in this place are human—we cannot take health for granted. When people are sick or infirm, they need support to...
- Chisholm Electorate: Multiculturalism (1 speech)
Hundreds of children at Pinewood Primary School in Chisholm, who reflect the diversity that make Chisholm the third most culturally diverse electorate in Australia, proudly sang our national...
- Western Australian State Election (1 speech)
Well, well, well! Another day goes by—another tale of woe insofar as Colin Barnett and the state Liberal government go, as we march towards the election on 11 March, just around the corner....
- Telecommunications (1 speech)
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is currently doing an inquiry into domestic mobile phone roaming. I have farmers in my patch who are carrying two phones: an Optus phone and a...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
The recent decision by the Fair Work Commission to cut penalty rates in retail, fast food, hospitality and pharmacy awards will have a devastating impact on low-paid workers. On behalf of...
- Aged Care: Carinya Aged Care Korumburra (1 speech)
I speak about our aged care heroes: Carinya Aged Care Korumburra—Max Hall, President; Rob Francis, Finance/Treasurer; Cindy Nicholas, CEO; Nina Kraskov, Noel Hopkins, Ian Wilson, Rod...
- Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (1 speech)
Messing around with the Racial Discrimination Act is an ideological obsession for the Liberal Party. But the more they talk about it, the more it makes you wonder: what exactly do they want to be...
- Visiting Delegation (2 speeches)
I have two very special guests in the gallery today, amongst many: Marillyn Hewson, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Lockheed Martin; and Retired Commodore Vincenzo Di Pietro....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday in question time, the Prime Minister said that he supports the decision to cut penalty rates. Today's national accounts confirm that corporate...
- Economy (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on today's national accounts and the importance of a strong economy for households and businesses? Are there any...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. This morning at Senate estimates, the Secretary of the Treasury was asked whether the decision to cut penalty rates would create more jobs. The secretary said,...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is also to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on Australia's national accounts for the December quarter? What do today's national accounts mean for the Australian...
- Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has said that he supports the decision to cut penalty rates. So will the Prime Minister please advise the 700,000 Australians who rely...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Before I call the member for Kennedy, I would like to inform the House we have present in the gallery this afternoon the honourable Fran Bailey, the former member for McEwen and a former...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the minister for migration. The Daily Telegraph in October 2014 reported that Young in New South Wales is the unofficial Muslim capital of the outback. With a population of...
- Defence Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. Will the minister outline to the House how the national accounts reflect the role defence industry plays in creating jobs for hardworking...
- Turnbull Government (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. This morning on Adelaide radio the Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources said: … the overall decision of this commission, which I have...
- Cotton Industry (8 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. Will the Deputy Prime Minister outline to the House the significant contribution Australia's cotton...
- Workplace Relations (15 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Have any ministers disclosed potential conflicts of interest in relation to the government's response to the recent Fair Work Commission decision, as...
- Cybersecurity (5 speeches)
My question is to the Will the Minister inform the House about the current arrangements on the provision of power in our cybersecurity defences? Is he aware of any occasions where the defences...
- Workplace Relations (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's recent visit to the electorate of Gilmore and the member for Gilmore's statement yesterday that it is a gift for our young...
- National Security (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister update the House on recent steps to ensure the security of Australia against the threat of terrorism, both here...
- Workplace Relations (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday during question time, the Prime Minister finally confirmed he supports the decision to cut penalty rates. The Prime Minister's support for cutting...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Justice and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Counter-Terrorism. Will the minister update the House on the terrorism charges laid against an Australian...
- Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given the Prime Minister's statement yesterday that he supports the decision to cut penalty rates, can the Prime Minister confirm that his colleague the...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister update the House on action the government is taking to ensure Australia's migration program does not...
- Workplace Relations (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister accept that he has the power to stop the Fair Work Commission decision of last week?
- Centrelink (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Human Services. Will the minister inform the House how much money has been recouped for hardworking taxpayers from the government's welfare fraud and compliance...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- 75th Anniversary of HMAS Perth (2 speeches)
This day 75 years ago, the HMAS Perth was sunk in the Battle of the Sunda Strait. There were 681 sailors, airmen and civilians on the Perth; 353 were killed in the battle; and four of those who...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (16 speeches)
I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Turnbull Government: Health Care (17 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Ballarat proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: 'The Government’s...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- International Women's Day (1 speech)
With International Women's Day just around the corner on 8 March, I would like to reflect on this year's theme: be bold for change. A lot has changed in my electorate for women,...
- Electricity Infrastructure (1 speech)
I spoke in this place in November of last year about the energy crisis facing my home state of South Australia in the wake of what was a devastating, state-wide blackout that not only affected...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
Every day it becomes clearer that this is a government whose prime motivation is protecting and advancing the narrow interests of corporations and billionaires and unpicking the social contract...
- Robertson Electorate: Medical Workforce (1 speech)
Families in my electorate on the Central Coast deserve to be able to access a local GP nearby when they are sick and when they need to see one. I rise to speak about this important issue tonight...
- Holt Electorate: Legal Aid (1 speech)
I rise tonight to discuss threats to the work of essential community organisations in my electorate such as the Casey Cardinia Community Legal Service, the Peninsula Community Legal Centre, the...
- O'Connor Electorate: Flooding (1 speech)
I rise tonight to update the house on the efforts to repair damage caused by flooding in Western Australia last month, particularly in my electorate of O'Connor. The impact on entire state has...
- Goldstein Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
Thank you for the opportunity to adjourn this debate, and particularly to start by thanking the wonderful attendance today from the student delegations from my electorate, particularly from...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Parramatta Electorate: Community Legal Centres (1 speech)
We all remember the dreadful 2014 Abbott-Hockey budget but many would not know that in the middle of all the other punitive cuts was a 30 per cent cut to community legal centres to take place on...
- Bradfield Electorate: Australia Day (1 speech)
Australia Day was very significant in the electorate of Bradfield, as it was around the country. Some eight constituents received a Medal of the Order of Australia, and I want to acknowledge...
- Workplace Relations (3 speeches)
There has been no greater asset to Australia than the Australian trade union movement, both in protecting wages and conditions and in service to the country. We saw this best through the accord...
- Bangerang Nation (1 speech)
I wish to acknowledge the Ngunnawal people, the traditional owners of the land on which this parliament meets, and pay my respect to elders past and present. There is a Bangerang cultural centre...
- Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital (1 speech)
I am pleased to announce to the parliament today that from 6 March the Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital will begin a three-month trial of having an overnight doctor. This is...
- HMAS Perth (1 speech)
Seventy-five years ago today Australia was marred with the loss of 350 lives during the fierce sinking of HMAS Perth. In the days before the Battle of Sunda Strait, the American, British, Dutch...
- National Cervical Screening Program (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the government's bungling of the life-saving Cervical Screening Program. This is the program that, of course, was tendered to Telstra Health. This is something that...
- Boothby Electorate: Seacliff Recreation Centre (1 speech)
Last week I visited the Seacliff Recreation Centre to meet with the wonderful centre volunteers and to see how our coalition government community grant has helped the centre do what it does best...
- Community Legal Centres (1 speech)
Last year the National Association of Community Legal Centres held their annual conference in Fremantle, and it was a privilege to be in the company of people from around Australia who undertake...
- Calare Electorate: Gulgong Show (2 speeches)
I often tell people that if you want to know what country communities are all about then come and have a look at a country show. It is show season in central western New South Wales at the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights; Report (53 speeches)
In December last year my parliamentary colleagues in the Joint Standing Committee on Human and Rights and I began a series of public hearings, visiting every capital city of the nation and tasked...
- Governor General's Speech (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
When I was interrupted by the adjournment last night I was reflecting on the Hunter region, the place I have lived all my life, and more particularly reflecting on the change I have seen in the...
