House debates
Tuesday, 20 June 2017
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 6, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Mavrogiorgis, Mr Elias (1 speech)
Today I rise to speak on a sad situation, and that is the passing of a stalwart in the South Australian Greek community, Mr Elias Mavrogiorgis. Mr Elias Mavrogiorgis was born on 5 January 1947 on...
- Queensland Government (1 speech)
In the week that the State of Origin hangs in the balance, Queensland has slipped to fifth out of eight in the State of the states report, under a Labor government—behind Tasmania! But it...
- Big Group Hug (1 speech)
Big Group Hug is a fantastic grassroots organisation based in Rosanna in my electorate. It is run entirely by volunteer residents who believe that all children deserve the very best start in...
- Swan Electorate: Bentley Regeneration Project (1 speech)
I rise today— Ms Macklin interjecting— to update the House on the Bentley Regeneration Project within my electorate of Swan—and thanks to the member for Jagajaga for...
- McEwen Electorate: Brain Fitness Conference (1 speech)
On 28 June I am heading out to Diamond Creek East Primary School for their inaugural Brain Fitness Conference. Led by Dr Maria Ruberto, a renowned psychologist with over 15 years of clinical and...
- Hughes Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
Earlier this week, St Patrick's College, a great school in my electorate, at Sutherland, sent out a letter to parents and carers. It stated: The Federal Government has this week to pass the...
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy (1 speech)
Last week I met an amazing Darwin mum and her daughter Aviana. Aviana is a gorgeous, happy and inquisitive almost one-year-old bub. She slept well in her early months and had what her parents...
- Queensland Election (1 speech)
Deputy Speaker, you may well know that Queensland is warming up for an election and endorsed state candidates are out pounding the pavement. I could not be more proud of the state Liberal...
- Education (1 speech)
Not content with ripping $31 million in funding from schools in the Chifley electorate, the Turnbull government is trying to make life even harder for young students aspiring to give back to...
- Agricultural Shows (1 speech)
As the weather starts to slowly cool down in Central Queensland, the show season begins. The traditional country show has been an important part of our rural communities for more than 100 years....
- Brand Electorate: Queen's Birthday Awards (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate two residents of my electorate of Brand in south-western Western Australia who have been recognised in the recent Australian Honours list for the good work they do in...
- Forde Electorate: Queen's Birthday Awards (2 speeches)
Ninety seconds is probably not enough time for what I want to say today about the recipients of OAMs in the Queen's birthday honours list for 2017. My first nod is to the family of Geoffrey Lloyd...
- World Refugee Day (1 speech)
Today, of course, is World Refugee Day, and on World Refugee Day this year we reflect on the report of the UNHCR, which tells us that at the moment there are more displaced people than at any...
- Farrer Electorate: Saluting Their Service Commemorative Grants Program (1 speech)
I rise today to highlight the wonderful ongoing work of the volunteers in my electorate who support the long and proud military history we share right throughout Farrer. As many of you know, the...
- Citizenship (1 speech)
Members will have noted that Labor will oppose the government's proposed changes to citizenship legislation. Labor is committed to any measure that will keep Australians safe and we know that...
- Maranoa Electorate: Birdsville (1 speech)
As we head into the winter break, I want to mention a unique and special event happening in my electorate of Maranoa in case anyone is looking for an outback holiday that will stick with them for...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
John Setka, the Victorian secretary of the construction union; Michael O'Connor, the national secretary of the CFMEU; Sally McManus, the secretary of the ACTU; and RBA governor Philip...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- United Kingdom: Attacks (3 speeches)
Australia's heartfelt sympathy and resolute solidarity is with the people of the United Kingdom with whom we stand today, as we always have and always will, as steadfast allies in freedom's...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Schools (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister finally admit that his schools policy is a train wreck? Public schools hate it, Catholic schools hate it and his government's own...
- Citizenship (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on what the government is doing to ensure that Australian values of freedom and mutual respect are at the heart of...
- Schools (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Today's newspapers report, 'Confidence in Libs lost'. Catholics have officially declared war on government.
- Citizenship (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister update the House on steps the government is taking to strengthen the integrity of Australian citizenship?...
- Schools (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister, and I refer to his first answer. Is the Prime Minister aware that the State School Teachers' Union of Western Australia has issued a statement denying they...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I am pleased to inform the House that we have joining us in the gallery today the 11th Australian Political Exchange Council delegation from the Philippines. On behalf of the House, I extend a...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Energy (2 speeches)
Prime Minister, since deregulation and corporatisation, electricity price increases have escalated from one per cent a year to 17 per cent a year, and NEMMCO claims green charges exceed 20 per...
- Defence Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. Would the minister update the House on what the government is doing to increase our intelligence gathering capacity to support the Australian...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Governor of the Reserve Bank has said: The crisis really is in real wage growth. When there is a crisis in real wage growth, with real wages going...
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the importance of reliable and affordable energy supply for our economy? What steps is the government taking to put...
- Schools (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Catholic educators and parents from the dioceses of Broken Bay are in the public gallery today. The dioceses of Broken Bay have calculated that under the...
- Water (4 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 investment in water infrastructure is...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I want to take the opportunity to inform the House we have present in the gallery a visiting member of the Iraqi parliament, Dr Farah Al-Saraj. On behalf of the House I would like to warmly...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Schools (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In an eleventh hour meeting last night, the Catholic Education Commission warned the education minister that this Liberal government would wear its cuts to...
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Energy. Will the minister update the House and describe the action being taken by the government to ensure an affordable supply of energy...
- Schools (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that, when speaking about the government's $22 billion cuts to schools, Senator Back warned, 'Please don't make me vote against...
- Energy (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment. Will the minister outline to the House the importance of affordable and reliable energy for the Australian wine industry? Is the...
- Schools (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister's policy to cut $22 billion from schools is a complete and absolute shambles. Public schools hate it. The Catholic schools hate it. The...
- Regional Development: Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, the Minister representing the Minister for Regional Development. Will the minister update the House on action the government is...
- Schools (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday in question time, the Prime Minister claimed funding for students with disabilities in Tasmania would not be cut by one-third or $12 million in...
- Budget (3 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the implementation of the government's budget? How is the government delivering in the parliament to meet our commitments...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's performance audit report No. 55 of 2016-17, entitled Effectiveness of the governance of the Northern Land Council: Northern Land Council; Department of the Prime...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
A document is tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Full details of the document will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- (17 speeches)
I have received a letter from the Hon. Deputy Leader of the Opposition proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government's...
- 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 6 of 2017. Report made a parliamentary paper in...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Brand Electorate (1 speech)
I would like, this evening, to take the opportunity to talk a little bit about my electorate in Brand in the southern metropolitan area of Perth. Brand incorporates the cities of Kwinana and...
- Auckram, Mr Ben, Hankinson, Ms Jenny, Page Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours (1 speech)
Ben Auckram is a local boy who is in year 7 at Trinity Catholic College in Lismore. Ben has spina bifida, resulting in him spending most of his young life in a wheelchair, and he has never really...
- Energy (1 speech)
When the government fell in Queensland in 1990, Queensland had the cheapest electricity charges in the world. We all get up here and quote facts and figures, and we can make them work in our...
- Petrie Electorate: Bracken Ridge (1 speech)
I have been thinking a little bit about Bracken Ridge, the suburb where I grew up. I spoke a little last week about the history of Redcliffe after a visit to the Redcliffe Museum with my sons. It...
- Solomon Electorate: Employment (1 speech)
Canberra is a nice place; I do not mind it at all—not at the moment, maybe; it is quite chilly. But maybe I am just a bit sensitive to that, being from the Top End. There are nice days...
- Swan Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to update the House on an infrastructure project within the electorate of Swan, and that is the Forrestfield Airport Link, which is being funded by a GST...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Turnbull Government, Longman Electorate: Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
What a strange and bizarrely mismatched government Prime Minister Turnbull has knocked together. He has the Minister for the Environment and Energy, Josh Frydenberg, who is quite literally living...
- Brabant, Dr John, Carevan Foundation (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to one of my constituents from Albury, a man behind one of Australia's most inspiring community based charity efforts. Local orthodontist Dr John Brabant—who just...
- Capricornia Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
This coming weekend I will be heading back to the Sarina Range, just west of Mackay, to meet with a community that is literally broken, though not in spirit. Cyclone Debbie left the townships...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I have spoken in the House before, raising my concerns that the government continues to support cutting penalty rates and cutting workers' pay packets. It shows that the government is so unfair...
- Maranoa Electorate: Jumpers and Jazz in July (1 speech)
In my rural electorate of Maranoa, a town is not just some dot on the map where you live; it is a place you call home, raise a family, and form connections and relationships with people around...
- Broadband (1 speech, 1 comment)
Since being elected to this place in July of last year, my electorate office has been constantly inundated with calls from constituents about the National Broadband Network. The issues are...
- Tangney Electorate: Sporting Organisations (1 speech)
I rise to highlight the volunteer efforts of two local sporting organisations in my electorate—the Willetton Bowling Club and the Willetton Basketball Association. Volunteers at these clubs...
- Blair Electorate: Agricultural Shows (1 speech)
As any member here from a regional or rural electorate will tell you, nothing brings out country pride and local sense of commitment more than a country show. I am fortunate in the electorate of...
- Wide Bay: Media (1 speech)
In regional communities, local newspaper editors and journalists, radio and television reporters, and community radio hosts hold a very special position of trust, with people relying on them to...
- Macquarie Electorate: Ebenezer Church, Macquarie Electorate: Winter Magic Festival (1 speech)
At the weekend, I got to do something that no other member of this place has done. I was at the 208th anniversary of a church, the oldest surviving church in Australia, Ebenezer Church....
- Robertson Electorate: 5 Lands Walk (1 speech)
This Saturday thousands of families and residents from the Central Coast will come together for the 11th annual 5 Lands Walk. The walk celebrates our Indigenous heritage and multicultural...
- Burt Electorate (2 speeches)
For too long now the people in the seat of Burt have had to put up with being talked down to, criticised and abused. The areas of Armadale and Gosnells in particular have had to put up with a...
- Turnbull Government (1 speech)
Tomorrow is game 2 of this year's State of Origin battle, and indeed tomorrow morning we will see a parliamentary touch football game along similar lines; however, when it comes to the...
- Lindsay Electorate (1 speech)
I did not know that I was coming into the comedy club this afternoon, but that speech from the member for Ryan reminds me of something I saw—which actually was quite funny—down in...
- Victoria: Crime (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to speak about an issue of increasing concern to my constituents in Menzies, namely the increasing levels of crime occurring throughout Melbourne and indeed throughout...
- Dobell Electorate: Schools Kitchen Garden Classroom Competition (1 speech)
From little things big things grow, and that is exactly what I hope will happen in Toukley Public School this year, because Isabelle from Toukley Public School is the winner of my schools Kitchen...
- Goldstein Electorate: Community Groups (1 speech)
As Goldstein's representative, I want to put on the official record some issues that have been raised with me by three community organisations within my electorate: firstly, the Grandmothers...
- Fowler Electorate: Saints Raphael, Nicholas and Irene Greek Orthodox Church (1 speech)
From simple and humble beginnings, meeting in a room provided by Liverpool Hospital, a small group of Greek immigrants with big dreams and a willingness to work hard laid the foundations for the...
- La Trobe Electorate: Queen's Birthday Awards (2 speeches)
I rise to congratulate Queen's Birthday honours recipients in La Trobe. Congratulations to Denis Cunningham AM, from Belgrave, on his work as an enduring and extensive educator who has filled...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Colvin, Mr Mark (7 speeches)
I rise to join with other members of this parliament in expressing my condolences to Mark Colvin's mother and to his family. I did not know Mark Colvin, other than being a follower of his on...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 4, committee and delegation business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Accounts and Audit Committee; Report (6 speeches)
I seek leave to speak again on the report. Leave granted. This report warrants a little airtime. It is a damning report by a government-controlled committee and, indeed, one of the parliament's...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Herbert Electorate: Mental Health (1 speech)
I rise in this place to stand up for veterans, ex-serving personnel and their families in the electorate of Herbert. Herbert is the home to the largest Defence Force presence in Australia, and as...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the falsehoods being peddled by those men and women opposite regarding penalty rates in this country. It must be good to go through life as carefree and unaccountable as...
- Citizenship (2 speeches)
I am very proud that the Labor Party has today announced that it will oppose the Turnbull government's proposed changes to the citizenship test. Let me be clear about this right from the start:...
