House debates
Monday, 23 October 2017
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Responses (1 speech)
Ministerial responses to petitions previously presented to the House have been received as follows:
- Statements (1 speech)
Last week was particularly busy for the Petitions Committee, with the receipt of a record number of paper petitions for this parliament. All 40 petitions on this report are paper petitions, 31 of...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- White Ribbon Day (14 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that 25 November 2017 is White Ribbon Day (WRD), the United Nations' symbol of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women; (2)...
- Kosciuszko, General Tadeusz Andrezei Bonawentura (7 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) acknowledges that: (a) 15 October 2017 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Tadeusz Kosciuszko; and (b) on 22 June 2016 the Polish Sejm (the lower chamber of...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Social Services Legislation Amendment (Better Targeting Student Payments) Bill 2017; Second Reading (2 speeches)
The Social Services Legislation Amendment (Better Targeting Student Payments) Bill 2017 has now been debated in the second reading stage. I thank all members, including members opposite, for...
- Social Services Legislation Amendment (Better Targeting Student Payments) 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.
- Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 2) Bill 2017; Second Reading (5 speeches)
The Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 2) Bill 2017 deals with two issues—choice of fund and closing the salary sacrifice...
- Treasury Laws Amendment (Improving Accountability and Member Outcomes in Superannuation Measures No. 2) 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.
- Medicare Levy Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Fringe Benefits Tax Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Income Tax Rates Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Superannuation (Excess Non-concessional Contributions Tax) Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Superannuation (Excess Untaxed Roll-over Amounts Tax) Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Income Tax (TFN Withholding Tax (ESS)) Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Family Trust Distribution Tax (Primary Liability) Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Taxation (Trustee Beneficiary Non-disclosure Tax) (No. 1) Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Taxation (Trustee Beneficiary Non-disclosure Tax) (No. 2) Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Treasury Laws Amendment (Untainting Tax) (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Nation-building Funds Repeal (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017; Second Reading (6 speeches)
I rise to speak on the Medicare Levy Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017 and related bills. Here we have a situation where a government which professes to be a...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Petition: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (1 speech)
I seek leave to table a petition from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons to the Prime Minister, signed by more than 50 organisations in civil society. Leave granted. This...
- Cyclone Debbie (1 speech)
In March this year, Cyclone Debbie caused major damage to homes, businesses and farms in Proserpine, the Whitsundays, Bowen and Mackay. At the time, insurance companies and the Insurance Council...
- Walsh, Ms Deborah Margaret (1 speech)
Last Friday, a remarkable woman left this world. Deborah Margaret Walsh lived a good life that was not long enough, but her years on this earth were full of love, determination and passion. Deb...
- Banks Electorate: Local Government (1 speech)
A very important matter is about to come before Canterbury Bankstown Council, and that is the issue of the former Bankstown Council's plans for tens of thousands of additional high-rise units to...
- Whitlam, Hon. Edward Gough, AC, QC (1 speech)
Last Thursday in this place, the member for New England quoted the former member for Werriwa and Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Whilst I'm not going to be anywhere near as articulate or...
- Boothby Electorate: Somerton Surf Life Saving Club (1 speech)
On Saturday I had the pleasure of attending the Somerton Surf Life Saving Club open day and season launch. It was an action-packed afternoon with hundreds of volunteers and members in attendance....
- Broadband (1 speech)
Last week, the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman released its annual report for 2016. The report further revealed the extent of the failure of the Turnbull government's second-rate NBN. There...
- Rural and Regional Health Services (1 speech)
The Liberal National coalition government has committed to vastly improving the health outcomes for rural and regional Australians. The Assistant Minister for Health, David Gillespie, is driving...
- Energy Supplement (1 speech)
On Friday, around 60 pensioners joined the member for Jagajaga and me at a community forum to discuss the government's changes to pensions. Concerns about the government's plans to axe the energy...
- Defence Equipment: Explosive Protective Equipment (1 speech)
Yesterday morning, before I flew to Canberra, I put on an advanced bomb suit, the same type that our service men and women use in explosive ordnance disposal teams across the Middle East. But the...
- Burma: Rohingya People (1 speech)
I recently met with members of the Bangladeshi community who live in my electorate and in the electorate of my next door neighbour, the member for Rankin. We're working on this issue together. I...
- Barker Electorate: Relay For Life (1 speech)
I rise to speak on Relay For Life, the largest cancer fundraising event in the world. Relay For Life brings communities together to recognise and celebrate those who have overcome cancer or who...
- Petition: Rohingya People (1 speech)
A few weeks ago, a group of esteemed and highly-qualified community members sat around the meeting table in my electorate office in Logan City, and in the member for Moreton's office in...
- Dunkley Electorate: Small Business (1 speech)
I rise today in response to statements made in the state parliament by the member for Frankston, Mr Paul Edbrooke, about both me and the small-business minister. Mr Edbrooke, instead of listening...
- Broadband (1 speech)
Seriously, like all Australians and businesses, I cannot believe that the Prime Minister is blaming Labor for the way in which he has messed up the rollout of the NBN. Businesses and households...
- Westcourt Wines, Melbourne Cup: Westcourt (1 speech)
In 1917 Australia was able to briefly put aside the grief and trauma of the First World War for the running of the Melbourne Cup. As it did then and continues to do to this day, the race brought...
- Walk Together (1 speech)
Last Saturday, 21 October, the Walk Together for freedom took place across 26 cities and regional centres. Walk Together is an initiative of welcome to Australia and a celebration of our...
- Moore Electorate: Joondalup Health Campus (1 speech)
I welcome the announcement over the weekend by the Prime Minister that the federal government is providing $13 million in funding over 10 years to Telethon Kids Institute and the Joondalup Health...
- Upper Murray 2030 Vision Plan (2 speeches)
We all know that regions are strengthened when government at all levels partners with industry and community to develop integrated plans with lasting impact. Today, I would like to congratulate...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
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The Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment will be absent from question time this week as he's attending the Future Investment Initiative in Saudi Arabia. The Minister for Health and Minister...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Broadband (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister's second-rate copper NBN is creating a digital divide across Australia, with the one side of some streets getting first-rate fibre, while...
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on how the government's energy plan will guarantee reliability so that hardworking Australians and businesses get...
- Broadband (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Today the Prime Minister's hand-picked NBN CEO, Bill Morrow, said about the NBN: It's too early to tell whether or not it's a success or a failure. In the...
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer advise the House how the National Energy Guarantee provides certainty for hardworking Australians and businesses? How does the government's...
- Broadband (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. We are now in the fifth year of this government and for years the Prime Minister has made a choice, first as communications minister and now as Prime...
- Asylum Seekers (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Minister, on 14 September you told parliament in question time that about 200 asylum seekers found not to be refugees would...
- Energy (2 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is for the Minister for the Environment and Energy. Will the minister update the House on action the government is taking to put downward pressure on power bills and how our guarantee...
- National Broadband Network (3 speeches)
My question is for the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister promised Australians that his second-rate copper NBN would be fast, affordable, sooner. Given we now know his second-rate copper NBN is...
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture, Water Resources, Resources and Northern Australia. Will the Deputy Prime Minister update the House on actions the government...
- Broadband (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Industry Conveyancing Australia employs over 90 people in my electorate. It's less than five kilometres from the CBD and needs very fast internet to share 3D...
- Energy (12 speeches, 4 comments)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry, representing the Minister for Employment. Will the minister update the House on how the government's commitment to guaranteeing an affordable...
- Turnbull Government (2 speeches)
My question is to Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that, under his government, power prices have never been higher, pensioners will lose their energy supplements, weekend workers...
- National Security (2 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 protect Australian families from criminal gang...
- Government Grants (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. When asked about the decision to contract out the announcement of $15 million of government grants to One Nation, the Prime Minister said: … grants of...
- National Security (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Will the minister update the House on action the government is taking to further strengthen the security at Australian airports?...
- Water Safety (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Building the south Rockhampton flood levy would protect 1,200 homes and reduce insurance premiums for Rockhampton households by up to $400 a year....
- Second Battle of El Alamein: 75th Anniversary, Battle of Beersheba: 100th Anniversary (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs. Today is the 75th anniversary of the Battle of El Alamein, and next week we will see the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Beersheba. Will...
- 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.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Medicare Levy Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Fringe Benefits Tax Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Income Tax Rates Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Superannuation (Excess Non-concessional Contributions Tax) Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Superannuation (Excess Untaxed Roll-over Amounts Tax) Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Income Tax (TFN Withholding Tax (ESS)) Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Family Trust Distribution Tax (Primary Liability) Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Taxation (Trustee Beneficiary Non-disclosure Tax) (No. 1) Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Taxation (Trustee Beneficiary Non-disclosure Tax) (No. 2) Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Treasury Laws Amendment (Untainting Tax) (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017, Nation-building Funds Repeal (National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding) Bill 2017; Second Reading (36 speeches)
Again we see this government talking about cutting taxes when it's going to increase taxes on every single working Australian earning more than $21,000. In fact, what this government is going to...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
Today I rise as a reminder to those on the opposite side of the House that workers who work on weekends and after hours are doing it tough and have been doing it tough since 1 July, when this...
- Schools (1 speech)
I'd like to speak today about the wonderful work that the chaplains do in our schools in Queensland, and, I suppose, to take a little bit of a trip back down memory lane to when I was the parent...
- Broadband (5 speeches)
This is a speech I'd rather not be giving, but unfortunately I rise today to speak about the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman's 2016-17 annual report and its really damning findings. I could...
- Bonner Electorate: Bonner Seniors' Expo (1 speech)
I wanted to share an exciting event coming up in my electorate. Next month I'm going to be holding the very first Bonner seniors expo at the Waterloo Bay Leisure Centre. It will be on from 10.00...
- Inter-Parliamentary Union (2 speeches)
Last week I had the honour of participating in the 137th assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union as a delegate from the Australian parliament in company with two colleagues from the other...
- Mental Health (1 speech)
Between 24 September and 9 October 2017 I was asked to take part in the presiding members' study tour, which was to focus on mental health. I was accompanied by Senator Rachel Siewert, who was...
- Robertson Electorate: Energy (2 speeches)
West Street at Umina Beach is one of the busiest spots on the Central Coast on a Saturday morning. It's a bustling hub on the peninsula and you can always tell what matters to local residents and...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Broadband (1 speech)
Last week we saw the release of damning figures about customer complaints regarding the NBN. In April we heard the Minister for Communications say that 2017 would be the year of the consumer....
- Goldstein Electorate: Connor's Run 2017 (1 speech)
It is just such an incredible privilege to represent the people of Goldstein in this place. I know you, Deputy Speaker Buchholz, share that about your community as much as I do. But what makes me...
- Luciano, Mr Michael (1 speech)
A couple of months ago, I spoke in this place about a constituent of mine, Michael Luciano. Michael is 13 and has severe global delay, epilepsy and cerebral palsy. It seems that, like a lot of...
- Sunset Soaring Club, Eryldene Foundation and Trust (1 speech)
I rise to speak about two organisations in my electorate that are quite different in character and in purpose. The first of them is the Sunset Soaring Club, which originated with a group of model...
- Industrial Foundation for Accident Prevention, Headspace Fremantle (1 speech)
Mental Health Week, which took place earlier this month, was an opportunity to acknowledge the prevalence and relative normality of mental ill health; to recognise that all of us will have...
- Life Expectancy (1 speech)
We often see reports throughout our news media that create the impression that life on this planet is getting a lot worse, that we're polluting the planet and here in Australia we're making it...
- National Week of Deaf People (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge National Week of Deaf People. Specifically, I would very much like to acknowledge the work of groups such as Deaf Australia, Can Do Group—which is in my...
- Calare Electorate: Lions Clubs (1 speech)
This year the world celebrates the centenary of Lions Clubs. The Lions boast 46,000 clubs worldwide with over 1.6 million members. Their centenary is an incredible milestone. As I travel around...
- Australian Federal Police Bravery Awards (2 speeches)
I would like to draw the attention of this place to an Australian Federal Police bravery award awarded to two counterterrorism officers targeted in a frenzied attack by teenage jihadist Numan...
- Australian Defence Force Parliamentary Program (2 speeches)
Earlier this year I participated in the Australian Defence Force Parliamentary Program by attending the Army's Combined Arms Training Centre, which includes the School of Artillery and the School...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Endometriosis (11 speeches)
I seek leave to amend the motion relating to endometriosis in the terms in which it appears in the Notice Paper. Leave granted: I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) one in ten Australian...
- New Colombo Plan (9 speeches)
I move: That this House (1) acknowledges the success of the New Colombo Plan (Plan); (2) recognises that the Plan will have supported more than 30,000 Australian undergraduates to live, study and...
- Immigration Detention (8 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) the planned closure of the regional processing centre on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea (PNG) on...
- Elephant Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn Ban (18 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) welcomes and congratulates the Government for banning the importation of African lion hunting trophies and its participation in helping end the practice of canned...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Remembrance Day (1 speech)
Remembrance Day this year is going to be a very special commemoration—100 years since Beersheba and the Light Horse and 75 years since Kokoda. I'll be spending the day down at Marysville...
- Calare Electorate: Mullion Creek Public School (1 speech)
Four years ago, Mrs Sharon Cloete introduced a robotics program to Mullion Creek Public School. Since robotics became part of the school curriculum in 2013, the students have competed in the...
- Petition: Climate Change (1 speech)
I rise to table the community climate petition as approved by the Petitions Committee. On 2 August this year, a group of committed climate advocates from my electorate met at my office to present...
- Murray Electorate: Energy (1 speech)
) ( ): As a proud representative of the Murray electorate, and a member of the Turnbull-Joyce government, I welcome the announcement of the National Energy Guarantee by the Prime Minister and the...
- Braddon Electorate: Burnie Ten (1 speech)
Yesterday, the city of Burnie in my electorate on the north-west coast of Tasmania held the Burnie Ten. This running race has a successful history of over 25 years. This year's Burnie Ten was...
- National School Chaplaincy Program (1 speech)
I want to talk about the National School Chaplaincy Program. It was not been funded for 2018, and I want to advocate for funding into 2018. I have a lot of high schools across the electorate of...
- Wills Electorate: Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I rise to speak again about the struggle of the hardworking maintenance workers at Esso in Victoria employed by contractor UGL. UGL workers at Esso Gippsland have now been on the picket line for...
- Brisbane Electorate: Palliative Care (1 speech)
Last week, the federal government announced some extra funding for palliative care, specifically to improve the quality and accessibility of palliative care. Some of the new funding will go to...
- Werriwa Electorate: Carers (1 speech)
Last week this parliament celebrated carers and our appreciation for the work carers do every day in our communities. There are 2.7 million unpaid carers in Australia today, putting in 36 million...
- Swan Electorate: Mincon (1 speech)
Mincon are a fabulous company in my electorate. I joined Mincon for their 40th anniversary celebrations and the opening of their new manufacturing facility in Welshpool, an industrial area in my...
- Fenner Electorate: Belconnen Magpies (1 speech)
As patron of the high-flying Belconnen Magpies, I rise to acknowledge some of those who received awards at the club's annual event. In the Rising Stars category, this year the Rising Stars fought...
- Veterans (1 speech)
As an MP, I'm frequently approached by other veterans seeking help with the transition to civilian life. Often they tell me that their biggest struggle is translating the skills they learned in...
- Cambodia (1 speech)
In September I spoke in this chamber on the arrest of Mr Kem Sokha, leader of the Cambodian opposition party, the CNRP, on charges related to a speech he gave here in Australia. Mr Sokha is set...
- Gretals Australia Pty Ltd (1 speech)
We're very lucky in Dunkley to have a number of brilliant innovators, and with each one that I visit I am more and more impressed with our local talent, skill and ability to innovate. Recently I...
- Wrap with Love (1 speech)
I rise in the parliament today and hold one knitted square. It is a knitted square that was made with much love, just like the 9.8 million squares that have made up 440,000 blankets sent to over...
- Marriage (1 speech)
A fracas broke out in the 'city of islands' over the weekend, when two constituents had the temerity to place an 'It's okay to vote no' sign on the external glass window of a state Labor MP in...
- Refugees (1 speech)
Last Saturday I joined hundreds in walking together through Melbourne's CBD to say 'Welcome' in an event organised by the fantastic people at Welcome to Australia. We walked through the city to...
- Boothby Electorate: Brighton Calisthenics Club (1 speech)
I would like to congratulate the Brighton Calisthenics Club, which formally celebrates its 60th birthday this week. The club began in 1933, closed during World War II and was re-established in...
- Hunter Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
In the last few days, I have had two wonderful experiences with the good people of Branxton in my electorate. On Saturday morning I joined the preschool community for the celebration of 30 years...
- Page Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I would like to congratulate the Richmond Valley Council for working closely with the private sector to encourage investment and, very importantly, the creation of local jobs in the Richmond...
- Alta-1 College (1 speech)
Today I and the member for Moore had the pleasure of hosting four students and two teachers from Alta-1 College in Western Australia. Alta-1 is an alternative care school that provides an...
- Redcliffe City Junior Cricket Club (1 speech)
It is often said that being the test captain of the Australian Cricket Team is second in stature to that of the Prime Minister. Whether you play in your backyard or at a local club on a Saturday...
- Beattie, Ms Linda Ann, Yallop, Ms Neta May, OAM (1 speech)
I rise today to pay tribute to two extraordinary women who have sadly left this earth: Neta Yallop and Linda Beattie. Both women were extremely important to the electorates of Barton and...
- Baha'i Faith (1 speech)
I was honoured to accept an invitation from the Joondalup Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Baha'u'llah at a service held at the...
- North Queensland Cowboys (1 speech)
I come from Cowboy country. I just do not have enough time to do real justice to the mighty Cowboys. The 2017 season has been both inspirational and challenging. We lost our...
- McKay, Mr Brett (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate a teacher in my electorate—Mr Brett McKay from Kirrawee High School—who last week received the Prime Minister's prize for...
- Preston, Mr Neil (1 speech)
I'm very sad to report to the parliament that our region lost a wonderful gentleman, Neil Preston, last week. I got to know Neil very well during his time as Greenacres chief executive. He was a...
- Baha'i Faith (1 speech)
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the prophet-founder Baha'u'llah, according to the Baha'i faith. On 15 October, I was fortunate enough to join the local Baha'i community to...
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
Madam Deputy Speaker Claydon, I want to take you back to 2004, when the member for Wentworth was elected to this parliament. It was also the time when the Queensland government, under Peter...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Holden (9 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) acknowledges the important role Holden's workforce has played in Holden Australia's history including when it: (a) was established in 1856 by James Alexander Holden...
- Women's Leadership Initiative (12 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) welcomes the announcement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs at the United Nations General Assembly on 22 September 2017 of the Women's Leadership Initiative...
- National Carers Week (9 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) 15 to 21 October 2017 is National Carers Week and that it is estimated that there are 2.7 million carers who provide care and support to a family...
- Illicit Drugs (15 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) illicit drugs can cause untold harm in our communities and on our streets; and (b) the Government: (i) is committed to targeting the supply, demand,...
