House debates
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Hansard: Amendment of Record (3 speeches)
by leave—I move: That the first two sentences of the question from the Member for Moreton as recorded on page 10,408 of the Hansard for Wednesday, 24 September 2014 be amended to read:...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Oxley Electorate: Forest Lake History (1 speech)
Recently I had the honour of attending the official book launch of Before Forest Lake, by Vicki Mynott, a local resident, as part of the Richlands, Inala and Suburbs History Group. History buffs...
- Adani Coalmine (1 speech)
(The Labor Party is suffering from some kind of identity dissociative disorder. There was a time when they knew who they were and even what they stood for. Now they tell us stuff like 'we are us'...
- Al Harbiya, Ms Zynab (1 speech)
On behalf of my local Iraqi community I want to express my condolences to the family of Zynab Al Harbiya—the 12-year-old Australian girl who was killed in Iraq while visiting her sick...
- Banks Electorate: Padstow Rotary (1 speech)
Last Sunday I attended the 60th anniversary celebration of Padstow Rotary, and it was great to be there to celebrate with the club. Padstow Rotary is one of the great organisations of the Banks...
- Vocational Education and Training (1 speech)
Late last Thursday night while most Australians slept, over 15,000 Australian students were sent text messages telling them their apprenticeships and courses had been suspended. Careers...
- Dunkley Electorate: Mornington Football Club (1 speech)
On 21 May 1892, the footballing community experienced one of the greatest tragedies in the history of our game. Fifteen men of the Mornington Football Club lost their lives during a freak storm...
- Australian Rugby Union: Western Force (1 speech)
As a proud, sports-loving Western Australian—as is the member for Perth, here—I call on Rugby's governing bodies to hear the cries of Western Force fans and to keep our proud club...
- Murray Electorate: Aged Care (1 speech)
This coming Friday I will be welcoming back to Murray the Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Indigenous Health, the Hon Ken Wyatt. Minister Wyatt will be visiting four of our aged-care...
- Australian Federal Police: Hobart Airport (1 speech)
In question time today I will ask the Prime Minister to urgently reinstate the permanent Australian Federal Police presence at Hobart Airport. Those officers were controversially withdrawn in...
- Aspire to be Deadly: Beyond Sports Global Award 2017 (1 speech)
Last week I congratulated Cairns Hockey and the Aspire to be Deadly program for being nominated for a Queensland Reconciliation Award. Today I would like to add to this by announcing that Aspire...
- Western Australia (1 speech)
For those who are playing this at home, let's try a little quiz. What do the members for Curtin, Stirling, Pearce and Hasluck and senators Cormann and Cash have in common? I will give you a hint:...
- Brisbane Metro (1 speech)
Yesterday the Brisbane City Council unveiled its business case for the Brisbane Metro. It aims to improve bus travel times right across Brisbane by addressing a critical bottleneck across the...
- Lalor Electorate: Young People (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on behalf of young people in the electorate of Lalor, some of whom are fast becoming disillusioned with the world and their place in it. They care critically about the...
- Lighthouse to Lighthouse Juvenile Diabetes Fundraiser (1 speech)
On Sunday I had the pleasure of seeing off Gordon Robb and Bridget Hansen on the start of their epic Lighthouse to Lighthouse charity event for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, a...
- Men's Sheds (1 speech)
Men's Sheds are terrific. Today I want to congratulate Salamander Men's Shed, the 2322 Men's Shed at Beresfield and the Raymond Terrace Men's Shed for receiving funding under the National Shed...
- Blackwood Action Group (1 speech)
I recently attended the Blackwood Action Group's public meeting and I want to acknowledge the wonderful volunteers who work so hard to look after the Blackwood area. Established in 2009, the...
- Broadband (1 speech)
For the love of all things sacred, members on this side of the House are calling on the government to do something to help users of the NBN who are paying for a product that they are simply not...
- Murray Darling Medical School (1 speech)
The push for the Murray Darling Medical School continues, with its aim of training doctors in the bush for practice in the bush. The big urban universities continue to oppose the Murray Darling...
- National Broadband Network (1 speech)
Tasmanian telco Launtel is making Launceston Australia's first one-gigabit city. That is something that my friend, the member for Bass, is particularly excited about. He has not been able to wipe...
- Australia-Singapore Relationship (2 speeches)
The Australia Singapore Exchange Conference is being held in Perth this Friday, with delegates from Singapore travelling to Western Australia to network with representatives from the WA business...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Liberal Party's 2016 election policy document promised 'lower taxes for families'. So how is it fair that the Prime Minister has kept his promise for...
- Small Business (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline to the House how the government is acting to deliver lower and more competitive taxes for hardworking Australians running small...
- Taxation (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How is it that, under this Prime Minister, millionaires will get a tax cut on 1 July, but the very next day, a Sunday, ordinary workers will face a pay cut...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I am pleased to inform the House we have present in the gallery this afternoon the Greek Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Terens Nikolaos Quick, and the ambassador for Greece. On behalf of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Australian Federal Police (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, the Australian Federal Police were withdrawn from Hobart Airport in 2014, even though the 2007 Glasgow Airport attack forewarned us of the...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment. Will the minister update the House on how the government's small business tax cuts are supporting tourism businesses in my...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The member for Leichhardt has pointed out to me that we have present in the gallery this afternoon Dr Eric Goosby, the Special Envoy for TB with the UN. On behalf of the House, I extend a very...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, how many Australians earning $60,000 will have to pay more tax so that the Prime Minister can give a single millionaire a tax cut of $16,400?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
On indulgence, I would like to welcome the Deputy Foreign Minister of Greece and the ambassador in the Greek language.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, on indulgence, I also would like to welcome the deputy foreign affairs minister from Greece, on behalf of myself, the opposition and the member for Calwell, who is of Greek descent....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to his answer just now. Labor's plan to keep the budget repair levy and protect low- and middle-income workers from a tax increase is fairer and...
- Medicare, National Disability Insurance Scheme (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Sport. Will the minister outline to the House how the government is guaranteeing Medicare and fully funding the National Disability Insurance Scheme?...
- Budget (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The National Foundation for Australian Women has warned that some women will be hit with an effective marginal tax rate of 100 per cent because of this...
- Energy (7 speeches, 2 comments)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Energy. Will the minister update the House on how the government is taking a technology-neutral approach to energy policy that will allow...
- Mining (3 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, representing the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia. Will the Deputy Prime Minister outline to the House how the government's approach to...
- Schools (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. A little while ago, the New South Wales Liberal Minister for Education stood up with the New South Wales shadow minister for education, with a union,...
- Global Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry, representing the Minister for Defence. Will the minister outline to the House why the largest military build-up in our peacetime history is...
- Schools (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, how is it fair that under this government public schools get a cut but these elite schools get an increase—SCEGGS, Pymble Ladies'...
- National Security (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister update the House on the importance of maintaining Australia's strong and consistent border protection...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Budget Appropriations (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I refer you to page 432 of House of Representatives Practice and the references there to question and answer sessions during debate on budget appropriations. I ask whether you would...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit performance audit report No. 53 of 2016-17 entitled Indigenous aged care: Department of Health; Australian Aged Care Quality Agency. 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.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Taxation (20 speeches, 1 comment)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for McMahon 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)
- Defence Procurement (1 speech)
My state of South Australia has been on the front line of the economic vandalism that this government has embarked upon during its history, with two prime ministers, three defence ministers,...
- Ryde Area Supported Accommodation for Intellectually Disabled (1 speech)
I would like to speak again about a local organisation called RASAID, the Ryde Area Supported Accommodation for Intellectually Disabled. This group was formed six years ago by 19 local families...
- Sport (1 speech)
On this day of the first State of Origin rugby league match for 2017 I would like to say a few words about sport. Unlike others in this place, such as the member for Murray, Damian Drum, an AFL...
- Deakin University: ALLPlay Dance (1 speech)
Last Friday I had the pleasure of hosting the Assistant Minister for Social Services and Disability Services, Jane Prentice, in the heart of Chisholm at Deakin University in Burwood. Together we...
- Cunningham Electorate: Volunteers (1 speech)
Like, I am sure, many of my colleagues in this place, when we are not here but back in our electorates we are often going out to a variety of groups in our community, participating in special...
- Asia-Pacific Region (1 speech)
An important subject I want to talk about tonight is the stability and security of the broad Asia-Pacific region. When Australia's Defence White Paper was being crafted in 2015 it noted that the...
- National Indigenous Youth Parliament (1 speech)
Last week I witnessed the occasion of the National Indigenous Youth Parliament and I want to speak about how important this initiative is and to thank the organisers of it, including the...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Medicare (1 speech)
Today I rise to talk about one element of this very unfair budget brought down by the coalition, and that is the continued refusal to reverse the Medicare indexation freeze. Residents in my...
- Armenian-Australian Community (1 speech)
I am fortunate to represent in this parliament an electorate which is home to one of our nation's largest Australian-Armenian communities. Those of Armenian heritage reflect all of the best...
- National Reconciliation Week (1 speech)
This week is National Reconciliation Week, a time to reflect on two significant anniversaries in Australia's recognition journey: 50 years since the 1967 referendum; and 25 years since the...
- O'Connor Electorate: Aged Care (1 speech)
I rise today to give a big shout-out to those working in the aged-care sector throughout my electorate of O'Connor. I am proud to say that I have visited almost every aged-care facility in my...
- Mayo Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
One of the things that I enjoy most about being a member of parliament is having the great privilege of visiting schools in my electorate and then meeting again with students when they come to...
- Mallee Electorate: Broadband (1 speech)
I want to talk about the national broadband network in the electorate of Mallee. The four things that are most important to the people of the Wimmera Mallee are that they can drive on a decent...
- Northern Territory (2 speeches)
Earlier this week, Treasury secretary John Fraser said young people are 'not willing to have a bit of an adventure' and move to Darwin. I think he was referring to the difficulty of getting staff...
- Chisholm Electorate: Monash Medical Centre (1 speech)
I am so proud to rise today to talk about medical research and the Turnbull government's commitment to medical research. Recently, I went to Monash Medical Centre, together with the Minister for...
- Seniors (1 speech)
I rise in this place today to talk about the scourge of elder abuse and a wonderful Townsville flash mob—Seniors Creating Change—whose music and singing are an innovative way to...
- Diabetes (2 speeches)
I rise today to talk about constant glucose monitoring devices, which have now been funded by the government and subsidised for type I diabetes for children under the age of 21. Two years ago I...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That orders of the day Nos 2 and 3, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
