House debates
Tuesday, 5 September 2017
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Disability Services (1 speech)
This morning, like many of our other colleagues here, I was privileged to attend the BuyAbility breakfast put on by the National Disability Services initiative. I met with fellow Territorians...
- Durack Electorate: Dowerin Field Day (1 speech)
I would like to talk today about the Dowerin GWN7 Machinery Field Day, which I attended last week. Held over two days, the Dowerin Field Days are recognised as being one of the three largest...
- Werriwa Electorate: Mandaean Community (1 speech)
It was my pleasure to be at the recent opening of the first Mandaean place of worship, known as a Mandi, in my electorate. The purpose-built facility allows those of the Mandaean faith to...
- Flynn Electorate: Wondai Show (1 speech)
Last weekend was the 100th time the Wondai Show was held, although it missed a few years due to drought, depression and war. The first show was held on Wednesday and Thursday in May 1911, a date...
- Rape & Domestic Violence Services Australia (1 speech)
I rise on behalf of the women, the children and the men of this country who have been raped, bashed and traumatised by violence. I rise to share my anger and disgust at the government's...
- Fadden Electorate: WINGS Wellbeing Centre (1 speech)
It's a great pleasure to report to the House that I officially opened the new Headway Acquired Brain Injury Australia WINGS Wellbeing Centre at Molendinar on Wednesday, 23 August, during Brain...
- Indigenous Affairs (1 speech)
On Sunday, Clinton Pryor arrived in Canberra. Clinton is a Wajuk, Balardung, Kija and a Yulparitja man who has walked over 6,000 kilometres from Perth, where he started his journey a year ago....
- Flinders Ranges Art Exhibition (1 speech)
On the weekend I had the great privilege of opening the art exhibition for the painters of the Flinders Ranges at Wilpena Pound. This group has been operating since 2002, and it features nine...
- Mercer, Mr Dean Paul, OAM (1 speech)
I pay tribute to a great Australian, Dean Mercer, who tragically lost his life last week. Dean was not from the community that I represent, but I competed against him for many years and he became...
- Gilmore Electorate: Prime Minister's Visit (1 speech)
I wish to thank the Prime Minister for visiting Gilmore. The first stop was Yumaro Industries, a disability employment provider in Moruya with Mark Brantingham at the helm. Pete Magnus was first...
- Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination (1 speech)
I wish the Prime Minister would come to my electorate of Paterson. Monday marked a very memorable milestone in Paterson. It was two years since the people of the communities of Fullerton Cove,...
- Shailer, Mr Charles Glen (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge the contribution of Glen Shailer, one of the pioneers of the city of Logan. Lynette Shailer honoured her father simply at his eulogy at St Mark's Anglican Church yesterday:...
- Lalor Electorate: Employment (1 speech)
Last week I was pleased to welcome the member for Chifley to the electorate of Lalor. He came down with me to listen to those looking for work in my electorate. We all know and understand in this...
- Mount Gambier Pioneers (1 speech)
Last month I spoke in this place about the tremendous success of CASTEC Rural Pioneers basketball team in Mount Gambier. Today I rise to update the House on their continued success. The last time...
- Employment (1 speech)
Last Thursday I visited the electorate of Lalor at the invitation of my colleague Joanne Ryan, who has become increasingly concerned by the impact of the Turnbull government's failing job...
- Bousen, Mr Edwin 'Ted' (1 speech)
Last week I had the honour of meeting a true local hero, Mr Edwin 'Ted' Bousen. Ted is a 97-year-old resident of Upper Mount Gravatt and a World War II veteran. I want to share his incredible...
- Asylum Seekers (8 speeches)
Last week the immigration minister announced that he would be cutting financial support and housing for up to 400 asylum seekers presently in Australia. He also complained that lawyers who defend...
- Queensland: Bushfires (1 speech)
Unlike the member for Burt, I'm very proud of our emergency services because, when times are tough, we Aussies know how to step up, rally the troops and pitch in to help those in need. Aussies...
- Rape & Domestic Violence Services Australia (2 speeches)
If you've been raped, one thing you don't need is for the most private details of your rape, your assault, to be available to anyone who subpoenas them. What you do want to know is that the...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Bourchier, Mr John William, CBE (1 speech)
I inform the House of the death on 31 August of John William Bourchier, a member of this House for the division of Bendigo from 1972 until 1983. As a mark of respect to the memory of John...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Qualifications of Members and Senators (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Section 64 of the Constitution states: … no Minister of State shall hold office for a longer period than three months unless he is or becomes a senator...
- Energy (5 speeches)
My question is also to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on action the government is taking to ensure that energy is affordable and reliable for households and...
- Qualifications of Members and Senators (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In the last answer, the Prime Minister answered with respect to a different section of the Constitution, so I ask now: has the Prime Minister received advice...
- Economy (2 speeches)
Will the Treasurer update the House on how the government's national economic plan to boost exports, drive investment and build new economic infrastructure is creating better days ahead for the...
- Deputy Prime Minister (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Has the Prime Minister notified the Governor-General that the member for New England will be the Acting Prime Minister in just over 48 hours? If not, why not?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House we have present in the gallery this afternoon a parliamentary delegation from Japan, led by Mr Nukaga. On behalf of members, I extend a very warm welcome to all of you to the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Murray-Darling Basin (2 speeches)
Prime Minister, last week, ABC Lateline aired further allegations of illegal water diversion and capture from the Murray-Darling Basin, this time in Queensland. Given that the serious allegations...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Before I call the member for Chisholm, I also would like to inform the House we have present in the gallery this afternoon the Hon. Don Page, former New South Wales member for Ballina in the New...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Energy: will the minister update the House on action the government is taking to strengthen energy security and maintain energy...
- Deputy Prime Minister (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday the Prime Minister refused to answer when I asked how many executive orders, grants, delegations, appointments and legislative instruments the...
- Energy (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. I refer the minister to media reports that show hospitals in Victoria are struggling to fund vital services due to skyrocketing energy costs. Why is...
- Deputy Prime Minister (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister: for the second time in two days the Prime Minister has refused to answer, when asked, how many executive orders, grants, delegations, appointments and...
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business. Will the minister advise the House on actions the government is taking to put downward pressure on electricity prices for families and small...
- Deputy Prime Minister (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. If the Prime Minister believes there is no doubt about the Deputy Prime Minister's qualifications then why was the matter referred to the High Court?
- North Korea (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister update the House on the steps the government is taking in response to tensions on the Korean peninsula?
- Qualifications of Members and Senators (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister please advise the House on what other occasions his government has referred a matter to the High Court to provide the High Court with...
- Illicit Drugs (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. Will the minister update the House on the government's commitment to identify welfare recipients with substance abuse issues and support them...
- Deputy Prime Minister (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given that the Prime Minister has guaranteed to the parliament that his government is legitimate based upon the strength of the advice from the...
- Pensions and Benefits (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Human Services. Will the minister please update the House on the results of the independent evaluation of the cashless welfare card and the government's plans...
- Deputy Prime Minister (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to his immediate previous answer where he claimed that there's never been the practice of governments to release legal advice. But when there was...
- Workplace Relations (10 speeches)
Thank you very much—
- Business (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (17 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Watson from moving the following motion forthwith: The House calls on the Deputy Prime Minister to stand...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Migration (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister update the House on the importance of maintaining integrity in Australia's migration programs? Why is a...
- 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.
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (14 speeches)
I seek leave to address a misrepresentation.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Western Australia (22 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Perth proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The role of Western Australia...
- 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 9 of 2017. Report made a parliamentary paper in...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Vulnerable Workers) Bill 2017; Consideration of Senate Message (3 speeches)
I move: That the amendments be agreed to.
- Competition and Consumer Amendment (Competition Policy Review) Bill 2017; Second Reading (13 speeches)
The question now is that the amendment be agreed to.
- Competition and Consumer Amendment (Competition Policy Review) Bill 2017; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Education Services for Overseas Students (TPS Levies) Amendment Bill 2017, Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment Bill 2017; Second Reading (2 speeches)
Labor supports the Education Services for Overseas Students (TPS Levies) Amendment Bill 2017. It was Labor that introduced the Tuition Protection Service in response to some of the poor behaviour...
- Education Services for Overseas Students (TPS Levies) Amendment Bill 2017, Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment Bill 2017; Reference to Federation Chamber (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the Education for Overseas Students (TPS Levies) Amendment Bill and the Education Services for Overseas Students Amendment Bill 2017 be referred to the Federation...
- International Monetary Agreements Amendment (New Arrangements to Borrow) Bill 2017; Second Reading (4 speeches)
The opposition is pleased to support this legislation, which supports the International Monetary Fund in its vital functions, particularly in times of economic and financial difficulty and...
- International Monetary Agreements Amendment (New Arrangements to Borrow) Bill 2017; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Product Emissions Standards Bill 2017, Product Emissions Standards (Excise) Charges Bill 2017, Product Emissions Standards (Customs) Charges Bill 2017, Product Emissions Standards (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2017; Second Reading (5 speeches)
It's a great pleasure to speak on this product emissions standards legislation. In doing so, I also do so on behalf of Labor's shadow environment spokesperson, the member for Watson. I can...
- Product Emissions Standards Bill 2017, Product Emissions Standards (Excise) Charges Bill 2017, Product Emissions Standards (Customs) Charges Bill 2017, Product Emissions Standards (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2017; Reference to Federation Chamber (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That the Product Emissions Standards Bill 2017, the Product Emissions Standards (Excise) Charges Bill 2017, the Product Emissions Standards (Customs) Charges Bill 2017 and...
- Electoral and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017; Second Reading (21 speeches)
I rise to briefly address the Electoral and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017. In doing so, I acknowledge the great work of my colleague in the other place, Senator Farrell, who has carried...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Calwell Electorate: Community Hubs (1 speech)
I had the opportunity recently to visit some of my fabulous local primary schools that are part of the broader Community Hubs Network in my electorate. I was accompanied on that visit by the...
- Women's Health Week (1 speech)
This week is Women's Health Week, an annual national campaign to raise awareness of the importance of women's health and wellbeing in Australia. Women's Health Week is led by the not-for-profit...
- Marriage, Health Care (1 speech)
I start by commending the member for Chisholm for raising the important issue of women's health. We are, of course, in Women's Health Week. We have just been at the launch with a number of...
- Housing Affordability (1 speech)
I would like to talk about the role of inquiries in this place and the role of political debate. When we commit in standing committees—bipartisan committees—to undertake an inquiry,...
- Afghan-Australian Community (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about the Afghan-Australian community. On Tuesday, 22 August, I was delighted to attend the Afghan Independence Day celebrations at the Springvale Town Hall. On the night,...
- Domestic and Family Violence (3 speeches)
One day a lady came to see me in my office in Swan Hill. She told me she wanted to see me about child care. Instead, when the door was shut, she explained that she was having to flee an abusive...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
One of the major concerns in my electorate of Richmond is the ever-increasing and disturbingly long delays in the processing of age pension claims. The delays are a major concern affecting age...
- Mallee Electorate: Medical Workforce (1 speech)
The people who live in the Wimmera Mallee are very fair minded, decent people. I always say it is not unreasonable for them to able to drive on a decent road, make a mobile phone call, have good...
- Shipping (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about Australian seafarers in my electorate of Bass. Tasmania has a proud history of merchant seamen servicing our island coastline and is home to many fly-in fly-out...
- Swan Electorate: Lathlain Park, Swan Electorate: Manufacturing (1 speech)
Last week I had the pleasure of having the Assistant Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, Craig Laundy, the member for Reid, in my electorate of Swan. It was a big day for the assistant...
- Northern Territory: Economy (1 speech)
This afternoon I'd just like to place on the record some of the important sectors in my electorate of Darwin and Palmerston in the Top End of Australia, the northern capital of our country; some...
- Capricornia Electorate: Local Industry Capability Plan (1 speech)
When the Shoalwater Bay military upgrade was announced, I promised our business community that I would be fighting to make sure that local industry would benefit. Just last week, the Minister for...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
The hallmark of the Turnbull government is letting large multinational corporations take advantage of hardworking Australians, cutting wages and putting employees at risk—all in the name of...
- Schools (1 speech)
We in Queensland continue to work very hard on better elucidating the progress that schools are achieving. This is a very important metric that is currently submerged in very basic My School data...
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Special Broadcasting Service (3 speeches)
I rise to speak for the over 15,000 Australians who have signed a petition urging crossbench senators to reject the moves to undermine the ABC and SBS as part of negotiations with the Turnbull...
- Yeltsin, Mr Boris Nikolayevich (2 speeches)
This month marks 28 years since one of the great but little known turning points of world history. It happened in September 1989, when Boris Yeltsin, the then newly elected member of the Soviet...
- Elections (1 speech)
For far too long, conservatives have suggested that Australia's young people simply aren't politically engaged, that they are apathetic and that they don't care about politics. We're told that...
- McPhee, Ms Anna (1 speech)
Too many people don't get the recognition they deserve. Even today, despite the wonders of modern medicine, too many people are cut down in their prime. Today I rise to pay tribute to Anna...
- Newcastle Electorate: Women (1 speech)
It is a great pleasure to rise again in this chamber. Tackling inequality is central to the work of Labor. It sits at the very core of our being and is a focus of all our policy pursuits in this...
- Page Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
Every year, thousands of dance academies around the world send audition tapes to Disneyland and Universal Studios in Hollywood in the hope of becoming one of the select few who are invited to...
- Cambodia (1 speech)
More than 25 years ago the Paris Peace Accords brought to an end some of the most awful periods of genocide and warfare in modern history, particularly in Cambodia. The Paris Peace Accords, in...
- Coptic Christians (1 speech)
I was privileged to welcome to my electorate His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, on his first visit to Australia, to open a new Coptic church, the...
- Mercer, Mr Dean Paul, OAM, Seay, Mr William Samuel, OAM (1 speech)
Last Monday was a very sad day for my electorate. On that day we lost two wonderful people—one who'd grown up as a young man and then left our region to go onto the national stage, and the...
- Goldstein Electorate: Sport (1 speech)
It is a great pleasure to be able to get up and celebrate the wonderful activities in the Goldstein electorate as the blossoms come out and the trees in the sun show the wonder of spring. It's...
- Turkey (1 speech)
I wish to speak of my deep concern over the dissolution of democracy and human rights we are witnessing in Turkey today. Turkey has been, throughout most of the 20th century, a beacon of...
- Queensland: Mining (2 speeches)
Today I want to talk about the Queensland black coal industry. Queensland has a rich and enviable history when it comes to black coal. Blair Athol, probably one of the oldest coalmines in central...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Everingham, Hon. Douglas Nixon 'Doug' (5 speeches)
I speak today on a condolence motion for Dr Douglas Nixon Everingham, who was born on 25 June 1923 and died on 24 August 2017. I didn't know Dr Everingham personally, but he had a significant...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
I rise to speak on an issue of grave concern. Rape and Domestic Violence Services Australia, RDVSA, which has been providing trauma counselling to 1800RESPECT clients since its inception by the...
- Middle East (1 speech)
I'd like to speak about my recent experiences in Palestine. I will say from the outset that I have always been a strong fan and very impressed with the story of Israel, from what I've seen, and...
- Parramatta Electorate: Riverside Theatres (1 speech)
In Parramatta we have a theatre known as the Riverside Theatres. There are three theatres in all: the main theatre, Lennox and Rafferty's. It serves our community well. It's about 30 years old....
- Pension and Benefits (1 speech)
I'm sad to announce that I don't really have a great grievance! I'm more happy than anything this evening. That's because, last Thursday, the Minister for Social Services, Alan Tudge, tabled the...
- Broadband (1 speech)
Tonight, I rise in the parliament to brief the parliament, but also on behalf of the residents in the Centenary Suburbs of Brisbane, which I proudly represent here, to raise their concerns about...
- Gold Coast (2 speeches)
I rise to reflect not just on the tragedy of the deaths at the Gold Coast theme park Dreamworld but also on the challenges the industry has had moving forward, growing and getting back on its...
