House debates
Thursday, 8 February 2018
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Orders of the Day (1 speech)
I declare that the Federation Chamber order of the day relating to the Treasury Laws Amendment (Enterprise Tax Plan No. 2) Bill 2017 is returned to the House for further consideration. Ordered...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Intelligence and Security Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, I present the committee's report entitled Review of the listing of Islamic State Khorasan Province and the re-listing...
- Privileges and Members' Interests Committee; Report (1 speech)
In accordance with standing order 216, on behalf of the Standing Committee of Privileges and Members' Interests, I present the Report concerning the registration and declaration of members'...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits — Budget and Other Measures) 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 (Enterprise Tax Plan Base Rate Entities) Bill 2017; Second Reading (2 speeches)
Firstly, I'd like to thank the members who've contributed to this debate on the Treasury Laws Amendment (Enterprise Tax Plan Base Rate Entities) Bill 2017. The amendments in this bill will...
- Treasury Laws Amendment (Enterprise Tax Plan Base Rate Entities) Bill 2017; Consideration in Detail (2 speeches)
I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill and I move government amendment (1): (1) Schedule 1, item 2, page 3 (line 18) to page 4 (line 13), omit section 23AB, substitute:...
- Treasury Laws Amendment (Enterprise Tax Plan Base Rate Entities) 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.
- Migration Amendment (Skilling Australians Fund) Bill 2017, Migration (Skilling Australians Fund) Charges Bill 2017; Second Reading (9 speeches)
The original question was that the bill be now read a second time. To this the honourable member for Blair has moved as an amendment that all words after 'That' be omitted with a view to...
- Migration Amendment (Skilling Australians Fund) Bill 2017, Migration (Skilling Australians Fund) Charges Bill 2017; Consideration in Detail (7 speeches)
by leave—I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill and move government amendments (1) and (2) together: (1) Schedule 1, item 12, page 6 (line 8), before "The", insert...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Herbert Electorate: Employment (1 speech)
I stand in this place today to make it crystal clear that I will always fight for jobs for the people of my electorate of Herbert. My position on Adani has always been very clear: it must stack...
- Forrest Electorate: Piacentini & Son (1 speech)
I want to congratulate Piacentini & Son—Kim in particular. He has driven the design, manufacture and sale of the company's Panther series II 360T low-loader innovation for the mining...
- Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
I think it's safe to say that the one thing that we can all agree on in this place, no matter where we sit, is that when we are out in the community we constantly hear from mums and dads and from...
- Tangney Electorate: Australia Day (1 speech)
It was great to celebrate Australia Day this year. I celebrated Australia Day with a fantastic Australia Day breakfast at the Rossmoyne Shelley foreshore, a breakfast put on by the Rossmoyne...
- Moreton Electorate (1 speech)
Constituents know they can say g'day to me everywhere, and so they should—they're my boss. So in May this year I will spend six days methodically walking around my electorate of Moreton...
- Queensland: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I, like my Team Queensland LNP colleagues, am proud to be part of a government that is investing record amounts of money into infrastructure in Queensland. But we can't afford to be victims of...
- Tasmania: Health Care (1 speech)
Tasmania's hospital system has been in crisis since the coalition's horror budget of 2014, which cut $1 billion from Tasmania's health system, and the first budget of the state Liberal government...
- Veterans (1 speech)
I have spoken here before about the recent veterans ministerial statement, the first ever warts-and-all frank assessment of how we're doing in supporting our ex-service personnel. I concluded at...
- Indi Electorate: Railways, Indi Electorate: Telecommunications (1 speech)
Colleagues, when I was speaking to my electorate over summer asking them what issues I should address when we came back to parliament there were two priorities: the north-east train line and...
- Iszlaub, Mr Percy (1 speech)
I stand today to honour a great leader, Percy Iszlaub, of Wondai. He passed peacefully this week, just two days after his 92nd birthday. He'll be put to rest at 1 pm on Friday, 9 February at...
- National Broadband Network (4 speeches)
I expect a general sympathetic groan of despair in once again having to rise to decry the farcical, wasteful and growing disaster that is the NBN. In my community and in my electorate office...
- Barker Electorate: Limestone Coast Wig Library (1 speech)
I rise to inform the House about a community initiative that has spread from one region in my electorate to another, an initiative I'm proud I can play a small part in. Last Friday night I was...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
The Social Services portfolio has had four ministers in four years, a revolving door of ministers, with each new minister failing to address the ongoing issues with the National Disability...
- Education (1 speech)
As we all know, in recent weeks and right now, right around the country our children and our young adults are returning to school. From preppies to university and from primary to...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
Here are some facts particularly for the member for Hinkler, the previous speaker. The new childcare package of the Turnbull government—of which he is a part—will see nearly 300,000...
- Clontarf Foundation (1 speech)
On Tuesday I had the very great pleasure of catching up with Gerard Neesham. I met him many years ago with the great member for Canning Don Randall, who unfortunately has passed now. Gerard was a...
- Tasmania: Biosecurity (1 speech)
Yesterday this House heard the L-plate agricultural minister make a dill of himself in his first question time outing. When asked about the emergence of fruit fly in northern Tasmania and the...
- Fadden Electorate: STEM Education (1 speech)
The government's committed to ensuring that young Australians have the skills they need for our future workforce in the increasingly important STEM disciplines—science, technology,...
- Darwin City Deal (1 speech)
Two hundred and fifty-seven days ago, a federal government representative came to Darwin and signed an MOU with the Northern Territory for a city deal. That's nine months ago—since then,...
- Safer Internet Day (2 speeches)
We've all heard 'don't be a tosser', and we know what it means. If someone is caught throwing rubbish onto a road, a path or into bushland, they're ashamed and embarrassed. Let's make 'don't be a...
- Party Office Holders (0 speeches)
- The Nationals (1 speech)
I inform the House that the honourable member for Capricornia has been appointed the Nationals Chief Whip and the honourable member for Page has been appointed the Nationals Whip.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Indigenous Affairs (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. A review by the Close the Gap Campaign Steering Committee has found that this government has effectively abandoned the Closing the Gap strategy. Given this...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on how the government's plan for lower business taxes is driving jobs, investment and economic growth for...
- Indigenous Affairs (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the government rule out giving up on any of the seven existing Closing the Gap targets? And why is the government making it harder to achieve Closing...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the importance for governments of developing and implementing sensible and consistent economic policies to drive economic...
- Housing (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister today commit to renewing, in full, the National Partnership on Remote Housing which expires in June this year, or is the Prime...
- Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Will the Deputy Prime Minister outline to the House how this government's infrastructure investment...
- Taxation, Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Despite company profits increasing by 20 per cent last year but average wages for Australians only growing by just two per cent, every member of this...
- Murray-Darling Basin (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. Will the minister update the House on the importance of delivering the Murray-Darling Basin Plan on time and in full? Is the...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
Thank you, Mr Speaker. My question is to the Prime Minister. Every member of this government today voted five times to give big business a $65 billion tax cut. Why is the Prime Minister...
- Trade (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment. Will the minister update the House on the real benefits that Australian workers and businesses are seeing from the coalition's...
- Taxation (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, every member of this government, including the member for Gilmore, voted five times to give big business a $65 billion handout. And, if the...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry, representing the Minister for Jobs and Innovation. Will the Minister update the House on action the coalition government is taking to generate...
- Taxation (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given the strong endorsement the Prime Minister has given to his corporate tax cuts, will he commit right now to taking his $65 billion of big corporate...
- Health Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister update the House on the action the coalition government is taking to support the health of all Australians, including my Redlands City...
- Employment (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. When will the government lower deeming rates for part-pensioners?
- National Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister update the House on the importance of a strong and consistent approach to the national security agenda, and how does this...
- Werriwa Electorate: Infrastructure (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Urban Infrastructure. Will the government ensure that, on the day of its opening, rail access will be available at Western Sydney Airport, along the north-south...
- Welfare Reform (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. Would the minister inform the House about the action the government is taking to assist welfare recipients with drug, alcohol and gambling...
- Tasmania: Hospital Funding (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. According to the AMA's Public Hospital Report Card, since this conservative government came to office the average wait time for elective surgery in Tasmania...
- Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (3 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. Will the Attorney-General update the House on action the government is taking to implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small and Family Business, the Workplace and Deregulation. Fair Work Australia terminated a Work Choices agreement struck by Laundy (Exhibition) Pty Ltd because...
- Child Care (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Energy, representing the Minister for Education and Training. Will the minister update the House on how many families across the country...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
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Mr Speaker, I seek to make a personal explanation.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Charities (29 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Fenner proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government undermining...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Holt Electorate: Australia Day awards (1 speech)
I wanted to rise tonight here in this place to talk about an exceptional group of people and organisations that I honoured on Australia Day as part of the 14th annual Holt Australia Day awards...
- Illicit Drugs (1 speech)
It's appropriate that the minister for law enforcement is in the chamber to hear this speech. The use of drugs in Australia costs our economy $4.4 billion a year. This cost is made up of not only...
- Politics (1 speech)
This has been one of the most emotional weeks that I've seen in politics in my 7½ years in this place, a tough week for people on both sides of the House, where the personal has melted into...
- Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
This week we've seen the Productivity Commission's report expressing concern about competition in our banking sector. What better example of lack of competition in our banking sector than what...
- Van Stuivenberg, Mr Hank, Bartolo, OAM, Mr George (1 speech)
We returned to parliament after the Christmas period. I know many of us in our communities will have had the opportunity to celebrate with locals who received awards around the Australia Day...
- Energy (1 speech)
I would just like to take this time to make the Australian public aware of some of the radically higher prices that Australian consumers are paying for electricity compared to what is available...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (1 speech)
The growing crisis in aged care is a disgrace, and we must speak out and not accept this as okay. The latest figures that I've seen reveal that more than 100,000 Australians are now languishing...
- Dental Health (3 speeches)
Continuing the health theme this morning: as I have alluded to earlier in the week, there is an absolute refusal from the Queensland government to sign up to the national partnership agreement...
- Macquarie Electorate (1 speech)
From gymnastics to touch football, equestrian sports to ice-skating, our young athletes in Macquarie, the Hawkesbury and the Blue Mountains are smashing their goals in their beloved sports. I was...
- Queensland: Health (3 speeches)
You may be somewhat over the sight of me at this point of time in the morning, but I did want to extend on my comments on dental health to talk about the bigger picture of Queensland health and...
- Herbert Electorate: Drought (1 speech)
Over the summer break, I conducted a survey in my electorate of Herbert where I asked local residents what the most important issue was for them. Of the 722 respondents, the No. 1 issue, by an...
- Harris, Mr David (1 speech)
So many of us spend our lives trying to avoid danger. We make decisions based on which option will have the least chance of danger, and we often worry about whether our decisions will be the...
- Hotham Electorate: Cost of Living (1 speech)
Over summer, I held a number of mobile offices around my electorate and I wanted to report to the House today there was one issue that came up again and again when I spoke to families and the...
- Employment (1 speech)
I want to quickly talk about the success of the PaTH program for young people and encourage members in this place to embrace it in their electorates. I recently got a letter from Nicola Saad in...
- Gorton Electorate: Gorton Young Leaders Awards (1 speech)
Last year I once again celebrated the achievements of some outstanding young leaders from Melbourne's west with the annual Gorton Young Leaders Awards. I established the Gorton Young Leaders...
- Petition: Carmichael Coal Mine (2 speeches)
I rise today to present a petition from a number of my constituents in the electorate of Farrer regarding Adani's Carmichael mine proposal. This is a very important and emotional issue for many...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Walker, Mr Ronald Joseph, AC, CBE (8 speeches)
I rise to pay my respects following the passing of Ronald Joseph Walker AC, CBE, otherwise known as Mr Melbourne, a man who was celebrated in life and will be mourned in death, a friend to many...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation (1 speech)
At the end of last year an important new Australian educational institution was launched. That is the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation. I was proud to be present at the launch, not only as...
- Western Sydney Rail (1 speech)
I rise today to once again support Western Sydney Rail. I do so because it is an essential component of improving liveability and boosting productivity and job creation in Western Sydney. At...
- Murray-Darling Basin (1 speech)
I'm rising to discuss the most important issue in the electorate of Farrer, which is the Murray-Darling Basin Plan and the games that the Labor Party is playing in an effort perhaps not to derail...
- Mayo Electorate: Aged Care (1 speech)
Today I wish to speak about aged care in my electorate. Mayo is the oldest electorate in South Australia and the eighth oldest in the country, with a median age of 46 years. Over 22 per cent of...
- Tangney Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the Murdoch Drive Connection. This $100 million project comprises the extension of Murdoch Drive, south from Farrington Road, to provide connections to the Roe Highway...
- Canberra Electorate: Broadband (1 speech)
Curtin is a suburb that is between five and 10 kilometres from Parliament House. It's a suburb in which a friend of mine lives. He was on the phone just recently to Telstra complaining about his...
