House debates
Thursday, 23 March 2017
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- New South Wales: Gosford By-Election (1 speech)
The Gosford by-election is in full swing. This will be the first chance for New South Wales voters to have their say on the new Premier and health minister. Labor's candidate, seven-time...
- Chisholm Electorate: Crossway LifeCare (1 speech)
It was my great pleasure to attend the opening of the new LifeCare centre at Burwood East on Sunday afternoon. The new centre is described as Crossway's 'heart response' to those struggling in...
- Perth Electorate: Lifeline Brunch (1 speech)
On Sunday just gone, something wonderful happened in the middle of my electorate. On Central Avenue, the wonderful and larger-than-life Vince Garreffa and his lovely wife Anne hosted the 21st...
- Australian Democracy (1 speech)
One of the best parts of my jobs is meeting young Australians and going into the schools and talking to them. And these are things that I tell them: the Parliament belongs to them; this is the...
- Macquarie Electorate: Legal Aid (1 speech)
Did you know that even with current funding levels, 160,000 people are turned away every year from community legal centres because they simply do not have the resources to help. Turned away, and...
- North Sydney Electorate: Lavender Bay (1 speech)
A priority for me since my election to parliament has been the protection of our harbour environment and its foreshores. It is a passion that I share with local residents and why I have been...
- Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (1 speech)
Multicultural communities around Australia are uncertain and they are anxious. They are uncertain about whether this government cares about them, and they are anxious that their basic human right...
- Trade with China (1 speech)
It gives me great pleasure to rise and inform the House that, as we stand here in our nation's capital, in the parliament, in the Great Hall at this very moment is a formal welcoming reception...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
Labor, as the author of the NDIS, is committed to its success, but there are problems and they should not and cannot be ignored. Today, for the second time, the Newcastle Herald has reported on...
- Dawson Electorate: Employment (1 speech)
The $500 million Mackay Ring Road stage 1 project will create 600 jobs for concreters, plant operators, drivers, labourers and many more. The project will turn around a lot of dirt, a lot of...
- Green, Mr Bryan (1 speech)
Last Friday the former Tasmanian state Labor leader and member for Braddon, Bryan Green, retired after 19 years of service to the Tasmanian people. Bryan was first elected in 1998, and I first...
- Banks Electorate: Yeramba Lagoon (1 speech)
Yeramba Lagoon at Picnic Point is in a completely unacceptable condition and has been for a number of years. The lagoon, which was previously enjoyed by locals, is now a marshy wasteland. It is...
- New South Wales: Floods (1 speech)
For the last two weeks, the Illawarra has battled wild weather. After a week of being hit by hard, heavy-hitting rain we had flash flooding, which resulted in road closures, public transport...
- Murray Electorate: Disability Services (1 speech)
Last Friday I had the opportunity to visit Echuca and to visit Community Living & Respite Services' new project that is getting built in Eyre Street, Echuca. It is a $1.1 million residential...
- Queensland: Business (1 speech)
As this government does not appear to have a plan for jobs in regional Queensland and specifically my electorate of Herbert, I have taken up the challenge myself. Since taking up this role last...
- Foley, Mrs Dorothy (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about my constituent Flying Officer Dorothy Foley— service number 500454—who sadly passed away earlier this month at the age of 97. Mrs Foley, formerly Maroney,...
- Northern Territory Government (1 speech)
I want to acknowledge that the Northern Territory Treasurer, Hon. Nicole Manison MLA, will be in Canberra over the next couple of days. Nicole is a brilliant woman, a great minister and a good...
- Mossman Botanic Garden (1 speech)
My wife, Yolonde, and I are both very proud to be new members of the Mossman Botanic Garden, a unique project in the world of botany and conservation. Mossman Botanic Garden began an incredible...
- London: Attacks (1 speech)
I rise today to express my condolences for those killed this morning outside Westminster, to share my hope that those injured recover quickly and to admire the character of Londoners as they...
- Energy (1 speech)
) ( ): Following the Prime Minister's visit to the Snowy Hydro scheme last week, I visited South-East Queensland's equivalent, the Wivenhoe Power Station. I went there last week. It is a pumped...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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Members, given the tragic events overnight in London, you will understand that I have invited the British High Commissioner, Her Excellency Menna Rawlings, to join us on the floor of the House...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- London: Attacks (3 speeches)
This morning, Australians woke to the shocking news of a terrorist attack at Westminster—an attack on the parliament, on police, on citizens. It was an attack on parliament's freedom and...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Child Care (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Today, Early Childhood Australia said of the government's childcare changes: 'We call on the Senate to block the bill today unless there is an amendment to...
- Trade with China (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister advise the House on the importance of the visit by the Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang, to Australia? How will the Premier's visit...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. This week the Prime Minister and his Treasurer have repeatedly refused to confirm whether their centrepiece $50 billion handout to big business is still in...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Justice. I refer the minister to the tragic terror attack in London today. I feel an attack on London is an attack on us. Minister, what actions have the...
- Taxation (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. The government continues to keep cuts to pensions as government policy and in the budget, despite repeated failed attempts to get them through the parliament. Why...
- Youth (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In 1978 former Prime Minister Fraser appointed the first minister for youth affairs. Successive prime ministers from that date until 2013 appointed youth...
- Budget (21 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on how the government is acting to responsibly manage the budget on behalf of hardworking Australians? What barriers exist to...
- Child Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. Will the minister update the House on how the government is ensuring hard-working Australian families will be supported with better,...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. As the Treasurer aware that just a few hours ago the member for Dunkley said that the $50 billion handout to big business has 'his full support'. Why is the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Before I call the member for Bonner, I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon Mr Patrick Secker, the former member for Barker. On behalf of the House, I extend a very...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on actions taken by the government to support the household budget by keeping electricity prices down and childcare...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the $50 billion business tax cut be in your budget?
- Energy (5 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 the impacts increasing power prices are having on...
- Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. This morning the Deputy Prime Minister has given an extensive interview to Fairfax papers about the watering down of protections against racist hate speech,...
- Energy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Energy. Will the minister please update the House on action the government is taking to reduce energy cost pressures for hardworking...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Submissions to the Fair Work Commission on the penalty rates decision are due by 4 pm tomorrow. Will the government's submission ask the Fair Work Commission...
- Veterans (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs. Will the minister inform the House of any support he is aware of for children of current and former members of the Australian Defence Forces...
- 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.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
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I have received a letter from the honourable member for Port Adelaide 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)
- Lindsay Electorate: Community Services (3 speeches)
The community that I represent—I come in here often and I feel like I am bragging about it—is wonderful. We are generous, family-minded and fair. We love Western Sydney and we are...
- Energy (1 speech)
It is fitting that we end this sitting week with the topic that is foremost in the minds of the people in the Murray electorate—the cost of electricity and the cost of gas. The Nationals...
- Herbert Electorate: Water Security (6 speeches)
I rise in this place again and I stand here again to talk about the critical need for the Turnbull government to act immediately on Townsville's water security. I am tired of Townsville being...
- Leichhardt Electorate: All Saints Anglican Church, Erub (1 speech)
I rise here today as the member for Leichhardt and the member for the wet tropics in the real tropical capital of Tropical North Queensland—Cairns, of course. I am here to talk about...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
The decision of the Fair Work Commission to cut Sunday penalty rates for as many as 700,000 hardworking Australians was as shocking as it was unprecedented. In the past month, I have received so...
- Small Business (2 speeches)
This is not the first time I have risen in this House to speak on behalf of small business. I might just mention in passing right from the outset that the response to the former speaker's...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Songkran, Passover, Theravada (1 speech)
I extend Labor's best wishes to everyone celebrating Songkran, Thai new year. Over three days in April, people visit Buddhist temples to perform the ritual of merit making by making offerings to...
- Suicide (1 speech)
On this day, 23 March, in 1775, a man named Patrick Henry proclaimed, 'Give me liberty or give me death,' in a speech to Virginian troops joining the US Revolutionary War. Death for some in our...
- Lyons Electorate: Australian Rules Football (1 speech)
Congratulations to the member for Gilmore. That was a good speech on a very important issue. I rise today because Tasmania has always punched above its weight when it comes to Australian Rules...
- Diabetes (2 speeches)
Just a short report to the parliament on the success of the diabetes testing day conducted by Pathology Australia in conjunction with the Parliamentary Friends of Diabetes yesterday, right here...
- Macquarie electorate: International Women's Day (1 speech)
International Women's Day is an opportunity to celebrate, and events in my electorate of Macquarie demonstrated to me the enormous commitment many people have made to ensure that women are more...
- Child Care (1 speech)
I wanted to talk quickly about the childcare bill we have in the parliament—the Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Jobs for Families Child Care Package) Bill. I am pleased to see the...
- Braddon Electorate: Manufacturing (1 speech)
In my first speech, I spoke about how the people of Braddon are resilient in tough times, how we get on with the job and—as I have seen as the federal member—produce world-class,...
- Forde Electorate: St Philomena School (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to share with the House my recent visit to St Philomena School at Park Ridge, where I was invited to officially open the school's new science and art...
- JobAccess (1 speech)
I am delighted to take this opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate a recent success and international recognition. On 22 February, the Australian government's JobAccess service received an...
- Muir, Mr Ali (2 speeches)
I rise to acknowledge the life of Ali Muir, a great Territorian who served his country in the Army during the Vietnam War and was a football legend in Darwin. He was a great man. We had a funeral...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Energy (2 speeches)
Mr Deputy Speaker, 2016 was the hottest year on record, and last decade was the warmest ever. Climate change is getting more and more urgent. If we do not take action now, our children will pay...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
Today I want to expose a number of myths—four myths actually—that the Liberals use to justify cutting their unfunded corporate tax cut of $50 billion. The first myth is that cutting...
- Wright Electorate: Infrastructure (2 speeches)
It gives me great pleasure to be able to stand and talk about the achievements of this government. And there is no more appropriate time to speak about the achievements of this government at this...
- Energy (3 speeches)
Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I want to speak this afternoon about electricity. The focus has been on South Australia and what has become the rolling disaster of electricity supply in...
