House debates
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
- Business (0 speeches)
- Federation Chamber (1 speech)
I advise the House that the Deputy Speaker has fixed Wednesday, 10 May 2017, at 10 am, as the time for the next meeting of the Federation Chamber, unless an alternative day or hour is fixed.
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Interference with Parliament (1 speech)
At the end of the autumn sittings, on 29 March, the Manager of Opposition Business asked me a question in relation to a Senate Committee of Privileges report on Search warrants and the Senate. I...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister; Attempted Censure (4 speeches)
I seek leave to move the following motion: That: That the House: (1) notes the Prime Minister: (a) is cutting $22 billion from schools to pay for his $50 billion big business handout, including...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Illicit Drugs (1 speech)
Shortly after my election, I heard from an anxious mother seeking advice on how to deal with her ice addicted 17-year-old son. She was afraid of her son's violent episodes and told me that she...
- Budget (1 speech)
Tonight is budget night, and as the member for Canberra I have come up with a wish list for the Treasurer. Wish 1: ditch the decentralisation plan. It is a thought bubble that has morphed into...
- Forbes, Mr John (1 speech)
I wish to inform the House of an amazing night that the Rochester community had last Friday. It was the same week that Murray Goulburn announced it was going to close its dairy processing plant...
- National Broadband Network (1 speech)
Just this morning, I was stunned to receive an email from David, who lives in the suburb of Wheelers Hill in my electorate. I have been helping him for some weeks to get the phone and NBN...
- DANII Foundation (1 speech)
For the last four years, the DANII Foundation has been knocking on politicians' doors to raise awareness of a technology that prevents type 1 diabetics dying in their sleep as a...
- MV Rushcutter (1 speech)
On Sunday morning, we commemorated the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea with a ceremony at the USS Peary Memorial on Darwin's Esplanade. Known as the 'battle for...
- Indigenous Affairs (1 speech)
I rise today to highlight one very important program that will be a part of the budget delivered here tonight. Last week, I was joined by the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Nigel Scullion, and...
- Top End IDEAS FEST (1 speech)
I want to draw to the House's attention a terrific initiative, the Top End IDEAS FEST, hosted last month by our friend and colleague the member for Solomon. It was the first ever community-led...
- Williams, Mr John (1 speech)
I stand here today to recognise a truly outstanding member of my community. John Williams is a kindergarten teacher and assistant principal at Wheeler Heights Public School in Collaroy Plateau....
- Herbert Electorate (1 speech)
I rise in this place today proud to stand with Labor. On Tuesday, 2 May 2017, the Leader of the Opposition, Bill Shorten, and I stood at the Ross River Dam in Herbert electorate to announce...
- Brighton Districts and Old Scholars Football Club, Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
I would like to congratulate the Brighton Bombers football club on their White Ribbon Day event held on Saturday, 29 April. It was an honour to address the players, their families and spectators...
- McLachlan, Mr Dave (1 speech)
This evening there is going to be a lot of talk about creating jobs, but today I am asking for the support of this parliament to save a bloke's job. The guy's name is Dave McLachlan. He is a...
- Murray Darling Medical School (1 speech)
I rise to provide an update to this House on the push for the Murray Darling Medical School. The Murray Darling Medical School aims to train doctors in the bush for practice in the bush. It is...
- Battle of the Coral Sea (1 speech)
A moving ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea and unveil commemorative street signs was held on the weekend at South Maroubra in our community. The event was...
- Western Australia: Roads (1 speech)
I welcome the announcement by the Prime Minister that the federal budget contains $2.3 billion in road and rail funding for Western Australia—in particular, $145.8 million that will be...
- Oxley Electorate: Broadband (1 speech)
I rise in the House today to bring to the attention of the House the poor and failing record of this government when it comes to the NBN in the southwest of Brisbane. Time and time again we have...
- Veterans (1 speech)
On Sunday, the government announced $133 million to fund gold cards for surviving participants in the British Commonwealth Occupation Force and the British nuclear testing program. This is big...
- Broadband (1 speech)
Bendigo is home to some very innovative manufacturers—manufacturers like Industrial Conveying (Australia), who have designed systems that big businesses like Arnott's, Schweppes, Qantas and...
- Manufacturing (1 speech)
Tonight our budget will be all about growing the economy, investing in jobs and in our future. I am delighted that, as announced yesterday, our government is investing $100 million for an...
- Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (2 speeches)
Tonight I will be studying the budget hard to determine how much the Deputy Prime Minister is going to spend on the relocation of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority to...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services will be absent from question time until 22 June. She will be represented in question time today by the Minister for Social Services and by the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why is the Prime Minister choosing in tonight's budget to cut $22 billion from schools to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and big business?
- Battle of the Coral Sea (3 speeches)
My question is also to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on recent commemorations of the Battle of the Coral Sea and the importance of a US-Australia alliance?
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that, despite all the cuts since this government was elected and despite all the years this government has wasted on wrong...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on how the government's policies are delivering opportunity, security and fairness so that all Australians,...
- Schools (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to a report from the ABC where the principal of St Clair public high school in Western Sydney says the government has 'wiped out' the funding...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I would like to inform the House we have present in the gallery this afternoon the former member for Hasluck Mr Stuart Henry. Welcome back again on behalf of all members. Honourable members:...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Infrastructure (2 speeches, 1 comment)
Minister for the Environment and Energy, you are aware of Hells Gate dam: irrigation, baseload power, Townsville water supply earning $3,000 million a year; the Galilee coal rail line, earning...
- Agriculture Industry (8 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 action taken by the government to ensure the...
- Schools (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why did the Prime Minister is his last answer refer to funding as 'consistent' when his own briefing document reads, in relation to the funding standard,...
- Global Security (5 speeches)
I have an intelligible question for the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
- Education (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why does the Prime Minister refuse to acknowledge that his school plan represents a $22 billion cut over 10 years, when that is exactly what his government's...
- Defence Procurement (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. Will the minister update the House on the government's national defence industry project that guarantees the future security of the nation and...
- Schools (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Reverend Anthony Fisher, the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, has said of government education policy: … the government's new "capacity to pay...
- Migration (10 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 strengthen the integrity of our migration and...
- Schools (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Isn't it true that, because of this Prime Minister's $22 billion of cuts to schools, only one in seven public schools will reach their Schooling Resource...
- Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Energy, representing the Minister for Education and Training. Will the minister advise the House how the government's wide-ranging education...
- Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Why is the government creating an infrastructure financing unit in the Prime Minister's own Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and...
- Australian Federal Police (12 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 action taken by the government to ensure that the...
- Gambling (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Urban Infrastructure, representing the Minister for Communications. Will the minister update the House on the government's changes to gambling advertising? How...
- Climate Change (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Last night on Four Cornersthe Prime Minister's former energy adviser Danny Price referred to an emissions intensity scheme, which is Labor's policy, and...
- Veterans (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs. Will the minister inform the House how the government is enhancing services and support for veterans and their families?
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Schools (1 speech)
The honourable member for Sydney asked me about when schools would be at the Schooling Resource Standard and I advised her that, by 2027, the Commonwealth will be funding the government schools...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Budget (1 speech)
I ask members to remain in the chamber. We have some housekeeping matters to deal with. It is a special day and week, as you know. The Deputy Prime Minister almost made it out! I want to go...
- Parliament: Dispatch Boxes (1 speech)
I would also like to make another short statement. Today marks 90 years since the Australian Parliament met here in the national capital for the first time at provisional Parliament House, or Old...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Reports Nos 46, 47 and 48 of 2016-17 (1 speech)
I present the following Auditor-General's performance audit reports for 2016-17 entitled Audit report No. 46, Conduct of the OneSKY tender: Airservices Australia; Department of Defence, Audit...
- 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)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That standing order 31 (automatic adjournment of the House) and standing order 33 (limit on business after normal time of adjournment) be suspended for this sitting....
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
I move: That leave of absence from 9 May 2017 until 22 June 2017 be given to Ms O'Dwyer for parental leave purposes. Question agreed to.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Schools (22 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable the Deputy Leader of the Opposition proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (1 speech)
I ask leave of the House to make a statement on behalf of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit concerning the draft budget estimates for the Australian National Audit Office and the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Documents (1 speech)
For the information of honourable members, I present the following documents in connection with the budget 2017-18: Budget strategy and outlook 2017-18 Budget measures 2017-18 Federal Financial...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the House do now adjourn. Question agreed to. House adjourned at 20:10
