House debates
Wednesday, 14 June 2017
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 12 of the Selection Committee relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday, 19 June and Wednesday, 21 June. The...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
The first of July marks Territory Day. It is when we in the Northern Territory celebrate self-government, which we obtained in the 1978. This year there will be a lot of Territorians who will not...
- Welch, Dr Roger, OAM (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate an award recipient under the Queen's Birthday Honours on the Gold Coast, Dr Roger Welch OAM. Dr Welch has given his life as an ophthalmologist to serving the most...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
This government is out of touch. It is prepared to give millionaires a tax cut of $16,400 on 1 July, whereas the next day people in my electorate will have their penalty rates cut. Over 700,000...
- Migliorino, Mr Giuseppe Pino, AM (1 speech)
The Queen's Birthday weekend is more than just a necessary long weekend in the middle of the year. It is also a time to reflect on those who make our communities such vibrant and welcoming...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I rise today to stand up for the 13,000 people in the seat of Lalor, living and working in my community, who face a penalty rate cut on 1 July. I rise at a time when inequality is at a 75-year...
- Beenleigh Artisan Distillery (3 speeches)
We know, at this time in Canberra, it is rather cool outside. One of the best ways to warm up is to have a rum. Talking about rum, I would like to recognise the efforts of the oldest operating...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
( The clock is ticking to 2 July, when we will see penalty rates cut in Australia. Today I speak for the 10,588 people in the Oxley electorate working in the retail, pharmacy and accommodation...
- Bonner Electorate: Mount Gravatt Men's Shed (1 speech)
This week is National Men's Health Week. The theme this year is 'Healthy Body—Healthy Mind: Keeping the Balance'. It is a great opportunity to raise men's awareness of the benefits of...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
The seat of McEwen will be the second-most impacted seat by this government's penalty rate cuts. Some 8,000 people are about to lose their penalty rates on 2 July while those opposite give...
- Queensland Government (1 speech)
The 2017 Queensland Labor budget is a slap in the face for all people on the Sunshine Coast. The state Labor government has spent the last year doing nothing but complaining, while we have poured...
- Mining (1 speech)
Glencore is an international commodities trader. In Queensland, from the days of Ernest Henry in 1866, when he went to Cloncurry, my home town, and also the forebears of Scott Morrison, our...
- Robertson Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to three outstanding individuals in my electorate of Robertson on the Central Coast who over the long weekend received Order of Australia honours. Ian Robilliard, or Moose,...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
The first weekend in July will tell us absolutely everything we need to know about the Turnbull government. On the Saturday, the PM will give millionaires a $16,400 tax cut. On the Sunday, the...
- Indigenous Rangers (1 speech)
I rise today with a good-news story from my electorate of O'Connor, and to thank the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Senator Nigel Scullion, for his help in saving more than 20 jobs in the...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
On 1 July, millionaires across Australia will get a $16,400 tax cut, while some 700,000 Australian workers will get their Sunday and public holiday pay rates cut. In my electorate, 11,000 people...
- Melbourne: Attacks (1 speech)
Last week, a tragic evil struck our wonderful Goldstein community. Brighton's Bay Street turned from a vibrant shopping village into the scene of a siege, an horrific two-hour hostage incident....
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
On 1 July this year, if you are a millionaire in Australia you will get a $16½ thousand tax cut. But the very next day, 11,630 workers in the electorate of Kingsford Smith will lose...
- Patman, Ms Donalea (1 speech)
I would like to congratulate a local resident of La Trobe, Ms Donalea Patman, for the Order of Australia Medal she received on the Queen's Birthday for her service to animal welfare and, in...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
It is clear now, given the vote yesterday, that on 1 July we will have millionaires getting a $16,400 tax cut, yet on the next day workers in this country will lose money. They will lose money...
- North Sydney Electorate: Hunters Hill Rugby Union Football Club (2 speeches)
Local sporting clubs play such an important role in our communities in bringing people together, encouraging fitness and allowing their players to share their passion for sport. Today I want to...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Energy (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The clean energy target has never been Labor's preferred position, but we are willing to work with the government in the national interest. Will the Prime...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on action the government is taking to guarantee and fund the vital services that Australians rely on such as the...
- Energy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. On 1 July, AGL electricity prices in New South Wales will go up by 16 per cent. With power prices going up, why is the Prime Minister cutting the $365-a-year...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. Will the minister update the House on the importance of fully funding the National Disability Insurance Scheme, and is the minister aware of...
- Energy (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. As the Prime Minister knows, wholesale electricity prices have doubled under the Liberal government. The Australian Energy Council has said: … the lack...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I am pleased to inform the House that we have the President of the Legislative Council of the Parliament of New South Wales, the Hon. John Ajaka, and the Deputy Clerk, Mr Steven Reynolds, with us...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, Australian Textile Mills in Wangaratta is facing a 141 per cent increase in energy costs, and the timber manufacturer D&R Henderson in...
- National Security (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister update the House on why strong borders are a necessary part of our national security framework? And is the...
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that the finance minister told Fran Kelly that 'the price of electricity has been going up in recent times; it's projected to...
- National Security (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister advise the House on why it is important to ensure the integrity of decision making at the highest levels of government? Is...
- Donations to Political Parties (7 speeches)
My question is also to the Foreign Minister. What are the consequences for Australia's standing on the world stage of one of the Liberal Party's biggest donors, mining magnate Sally Zou,...
- Regional Investment Corporation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. Will the Deputy Prime Minister outline to the House how the Regional Investment Corporation will make...
- Immigration (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Can the minister please advise the House whether any coalition MPs have made representations about immigration matters to the...
- Taxation (3 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on how the government is acting to improve integrity in Australia's taxation system? And how is the government's Tax Integrity...
- Donations to Political Parties (16 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I refer to reports that the former minister for trade, Andrew Robb, began working for the Chinese company Landbridge before the last...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry representing the Minister for Employment. Will the minister outline to the House why it is important that employer and employee organisations...
- Member for Fadden (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The member for Fadden was forced to resign after it was revealed that, while he was Assistant Minister for Defence, he promoted a deal between a major...
- Energy (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Energy. I refer the minister to a large manufacturer in my electorate which directly employs 350 people. This business is in danger of...
- Donations to Political Parties (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. If the Prime Minister really opposes foreign donations, why has the coalition voted against banning foreign donations three times in previous parliaments?...
- Child Sexual Abuse (5 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 what the government is doing to protect...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
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Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- 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)
- Energy (21 speeches)
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 need for...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Human Rights Committee; Report (1 speech)
() (): On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights I present the committee's report entitled, Human rights scrutiny report: report 5 of 2017. Report made a parliamentary paper...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (1 speech)
For over 100 years, Australians of all political persuasions have been passionate about the untapped potential of northern Australia, an area of great size, magnificent resources and...
- Murray Electorate: Energy (1 speech)
Whilst Shepparton, my home town, is world famous for its food production—with companies such as SPC and Campbell Soup, the Murray Goulburn and Bega dairy processors, and all of the other...
- Egypt: Coptic Christians (1 speech)
Tonight I want to speak about a special community in my electorate, a community who, over the past years, have endured many tribulations and been forced to helplessly watch the persecution of...
- Woodward, Mr Charles Herbert (1 speech)
I rise tonight to reflect on and to honour my very good friend tourism identity and business leader Charles Woodward. Charlie passed away on 18 May 2017 after a battle with cancer, and I...
- Schools (1 speech)
Needs based funding is making a difference in classrooms across the Central Coast: extra teachers, Indigenous classes, coding, robotics, instructional leadership, speech pathology and extra...
- Cancer Council Queensland (1 speech)
I want to dedicate this time tonight to the work of Cancer Council Queensland and in particular their facility in Herston known as the Charles Wanstall Apex Lodge. Brisbane was very fortunate to...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Department of Immigration and Border Protection (1 speech)
Twenty thousand people—that is the approximate number of residents in Melbourne's south-east who attended the department of immigration office in Dandenong over the past year. Twenty...
- Mackellar Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours (1 speech)
It is an honour to stand here today and offer my congratulations to those who have given tireless service to their community and the nation. As a local member, I am continually astonished at the...
- Chinese-Australian Community (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate the Victorian government on its recent apology to the descendants of nearly 20,000 Chinese-Australian goldminers who were forced to walk 500 kilometres from South...
- Bradfield Electorate: Innovation (1 speech)
I rise to speak about innovators in Bradfield, and I am pleased to say that there is an enormous amount of activity going on amongst businesses and innovators. I recently had the chance to visit...
- Kennedy Electorate: Mining (3 speeches)
This place has been rife with—it is on the news this morning, again, and the Labor people should particularly tune in here—the anti-coal movement. Let's just face it: it is an...
- Boothby Electorate: Rail (1 speech)
I am delighted that my electorate of Boothby will see not one but two major rail projects commenced and concluded in the near future. As my local residents and businesses know, one of these is...
- Kingston Electorate: Port Noarlunga Beach Sculpture (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge the efforts of the Port Noarlunga community in completing a new sculpture at Port Noarlunga beach. My electorate of Kingston is home to many beautiful beaches,...
- Calare Electorate: Portland, Cudal and Blayney Men's Sheds (1 speech)
Last week I visited the Portland, Cudal and Blayney men's sheds. They have each received funding under the 2017 community volunteer grants program. The Portland Men's Shed are receiving $1,500,...
- Duffy, Reverend Frank, OAM (1 speech)
Today I want to pay tribute to Reverend Frank Duffy of Corlette from my electorate of Paterson, who was awarded the Order of Australia medal in the Queen's Birthday honours list this week....
- Edith Cowan University (2 speeches)
Edith Cowan University in my electorate has been named, today, as an academic centre of cybersecurity excellence by the minister for education and the minister for cyber security. The federal...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Before I call the member for Forde, I inform members we have present in the chamber the President of the New South Wales Legislative Council, the Hon. John Ajaka. On behalf of the Federation...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Schools (1 speech)
The Liberal-National government's new education policy is most definitely a con. We only have to go to their own briefing documents that they gave to members of the press gallery that said quite...
- Chisholm Volunteer Awards (1 speech)
If I were asked to name one thing that makes me proud to be Australian it is the volunteering spirit and the fact that Australians across the board always help those in need. Last week, in...
- Energy (4 speeches)
We have heard about the climate wars, but we are in our first ever Finkel fight. What we have is a government that is divided, that is not looking towards the future and that is not capable of...
- Braddon Electorate: Bass Highway, Petition: Bass Highway (1 speech)
I rise to speak on a crucial infrastructure issue for my electorate: the condition of the Bass Highway west of Burnie—in particular, the section between Marrawah and Wynyard and between...
- Richardson, Mr Dennis, AO (1 speech)
I rise tonight to pay tribute to Dennis Richardson, who retired recently from the Australian Public Service after a career spanning almost 50 years. I had the great privilege of serving with...
