House debates
Tuesday, 13 February 2018
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Membership (1 speech)
I have received messages from the Senate informing the House of the appointment of Senators to certain joint committees: That senators be discharged from and appointed to committees as follows:...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Lunar New Year (2 speeches)
On Friday the 16th we will celebrate entering a new year—the lunar new year. We will leave the year of the rooster and enter the year of the dog. This is pretty good, because I was born in...
- Housing Affordability (1 speech)
I was here—with your dad, by the way, Mr Deputy Speaker—in 1991 under the Keating government when Gerry Hand moved some legislation through the House that ended up having a very...
- Petition: Climate Change (1 speech)
I rise to present a petition from Micah Australia signed by 135 Novocastrians. It calls on us to act on the 'severe and urgent threat that climate change poses to health, wellbeing and security...
- Mallee Electorate: Indigenous Affairs (1 speech)
Ten years ago in this place I watched the apology on the TV. We talked about the stolen generation. My parents watched it as people who had worked with Indigenous people in the seventies, when...
- Household and Personal Debt (1 speech)
The reckless conduct of payday lenders has gone on long enough. Families, young people and pensioners are being ripped off by loan sharks who are exploiting an industry which preys upon...
- Graham, Mr Matt (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate the Central Coast's own Matt Graham, who overnight became the first Australian to win a medal at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. In minus 11 degree temperatures, Matt,...
- Energy (1 speech)
It's time. That is a great Labor phrase. It's time for this government to start governing in the nation's best interests and to cease serving its own. I sacrifice a lot to come into this place,...
- Lonsdale Street Greek Festival (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about last Saturday evening, which was abuzz with Greek diaspora in the heart of Melbourne at the 31st Lonsdale Street Greek Festival. Together with the Minister for Finance...
- Milang (1 speech)
Milang is a small town on the Lower Lakes. As a community, its fortunes have fluctuated with the flows of the Murray. Today it is a community that is still recovering from the millennium drought....
- Hollands, Dr Margaret (1 speech)
I rise to recognise the contribution Dr Margaret Hollands of Orbost has made to the health services of East Gippsland over several decades. At the age of 83, Margaret is now retired but, along...
- Disability Services (1 speech)
Emelia is seven years old. Emelia suffers from brittle bone syndrome. Emelia has been waiting for the NDIA to approve modifications to her family's home so that she can have some independence and...
- Mining Industry (1 speech)
A new component of the visitor market to North Queensland is criminal tourism. You see, we have unwanted visitors, mostly capital city uni students taking publicly funded holidays to impose their...
- Employment (1 speech)
While most of Australia is transfixed with what's going on with the Deputy Prime Minister, something happened in this chamber yesterday that people should be aware of. Those opposite voted...
- Dunkley Electorate: Frankston Waterfront Festival, Dunkley Electorate: Queen's Baton Relay (1 speech)
This past weekend Frankston hosted the 19th annual Waterfront Festival. The stunning weather complemented the multiple live music stages, market stalls, food trucks, beer garden, rides and...
- Wills Electorate: Strathmore Secondary College (1 speech)
I recently visited Strathmore Secondary College in my electorate, where I took a tour of the school's facilities, including the very impressive Victorian Space Science Education Centre. I got to...
- Leichhardt Electorate: Chinese Lunar New Year (2 speeches)
I rise today to speak about one of the most important cultural festivals in the Cairns and Far North Queensland calendar. Now in its 15th year, thousands of locals, domestic visitors and...
- Roberts, Mr Bill (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to and say farewell to Mr Bill Roberts who passed away aged 92 on Sunday night. Bill Roberts was chairman and mayor of the Murgon shire for 28 years and earned an OBE for...
- Nick Xenophon Team (1 speech)
The Nick Xenophon Team love doing deals with the Liberal Party. The Nick Xenophon Team did a deal to cut funding to South Australian schools by $210 million. The Nick Xenophon Team did a deal...
- Mackellar Electorate: Terrey Hills Public School (2 speeches)
In December last year I was invited to attend Terrey Hills Public School's presentation day to celebrate their students' achievements in 2017. What a fantastic year it was for them. The students...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Just before I call the Prime Minister, I inform the House that we have present in the gallery today former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his wife, Therese. On behalf of the House, I extend a...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Indigenous Affairs (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In 2015, the Prime Minister and I tasked the Referendum Council with consulting Indigenous Australia on their preferred form of constitutional recognition....
- Taxation (2 speeches)
Will the Prime Minister update the House on how the government's plan for lower taxes will benefit families and businesses, including in my electorate of Dunkley? Is the Prime Minister aware of...
- Deputy Prime Minister (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to reports on Sky News that the Prime Minister has been ringing National Party members to gauge support for the Deputy Prime Minister. Does the Prime...
- Taxation (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer please update the House on how the government's enterprise tax plan is benefitting small- and medium-sized businesses and their hardworking...
- Ministerial Staff (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister stand by statements from his office that clause 2.23 of the Statement of Ministerial Standards was not breached with respect to the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have joining us in the gallery this afternoon the Hon. Gerald McCarthy, a minister in the Northern Territory government, and Mr Gary Higgins, the Leader of the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Closing the Gap (4 speeches)
Prime Minister, surely there's a disconnect between apologies and realities: Australia's population, two per cent Indigenous; prisons, 27 per cent Indigenous; life expectancy, 82, but 71 for...
- Transport Infrastructure (6 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 the coalition government's investment in road...
- Deputy Prime Minister (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister satisfied that the Deputy Prime Minister's allocation of a staffing position, first in the ministerial office of Senator Canavan, then...
- Defence Industry (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. Will the minister outline to the House how the government's investment in defence industry projects like the Joint Strike Fighter will...
- Ministerial Staff (2 speeches)
My question's to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister explain the definition of 'partner' for the purposes of clause 2.23 of the Prime Minister's own Statement of Ministerial Standards?
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Can the minister update the house on the United States resettlement program? Can the minister also inform the House how the government's strong...
- Deputy Prime Minister (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. While the allocation of certain staff has been delegated to the National Party, the enforcement of the Prime Minister's Statement of Ministerial Standards is...
- Small Business (2 speeches)
I'm afraid my question's pretty mundane. My question is to the Minister for Small and Family Business, the Work Place and Deregulation. Will the minister update the House on action the coalition...
- Infrastructure (7 speeches)
Thank you Mr Speaker. My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. I refer to the coalition government's budget papers and the final budget outcome...
- Infrastructure Investment Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities. Would the minister update the House on how the coalition's Infrastructure Investment Program is helping to drive investment in...
- National Road Toll (10 speeches)
My question is again addressed to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure. I ask the Deputy Prime Minister why, at the very time the national road toll has been increasing,...
- Cashless Debit Card (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. Will the minister update the House on the cashless debit card and the government's plans to expand its operation into new regions? How has the...
- Northern Australia Beef Roads Program (3 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Deputy Prime Minister, why do the budget papers show that, of the $80 million allocated to the Northern Australia Beef Roads Program, less than half...
- Health Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister update the House on how the Turnbull government's investment in South Australia's health care is benefitting patients? Is the minister...
- English, Mr Simon William 'Bill' (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, today the leader of the National Party has resigned. I understand he's also a New Zealander named Bill English. Would the Prime Minister,...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
I seek leave to make a personal explanation.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Health Care (23 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Ballarat proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government making...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That orders of the day Nos 6 and 7, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Tasmania (1 speech)
I want to talk tonight a little bit about how the Turnbull and Abbott governments and the Hodgman government in Tasmania are really letting our state down. One of the first acts of the federal...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
I'm excited to see the introduction of the NDIS in parts of my electorate this year and in the whole of my electorate by the middle of next year. Last month, I had the pleasure of welcoming to my...
- Energy (1 speech)
Power prices are going up and it's no coincidence that it is happening at the same time as the companies that run our electricity network, generate our electricity and sell it to us are making...
- Stronger Communities Program (1 speech)
It takes something special to make me dance in public, yet that's what I found myself doing recently when I visited Sunshine Butterflies disability support service at Cooroibah to announce more...
- Kiribati: Climate Change (1 speech)
There's been much reflection in this place in the last week about morality and ethics. It's been on the front page of the papers for the last week. I want to use my time today to say that I think...
- Motherhood (2 speeches)
There is no greater responsibility in this world than that of parenthood, and the ultimate of all is motherhood. One may well ask: what do I know about motherhood? Well, as a 43-year-old man, not...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Franklin Electorate: Stronger Communities Program (1 speech)
Over January, I had the great opportunity to go around and visit some of the community organisations in my electorate that have been funded under the Stronger Communities Program. I think that...
- Conquest, Mr Bryan Joseph, McLucas, Mr Tom, OAM, BEM, Bitcon, Mr Richard 'Dick' (1 speech)
Today I pay tribute to three members of the Bundaberg community who all, sadly, passed away last month. Bryan Conquest was a boy from the bush and a pillar of the Bundaberg community. Bryan...
- Fenner Electorate: Transport (1 speech)
I have good news and bad news. The good news is thousands of hardworking Canberrans may soon have a quick and easy way to get to work. But the bad news is the coalition is trying to stop it. I'm...
- Cashless Debit Card (2 speeches)
After a long hard-fought campaign, the Australian Senate last night approved legislation which allows the trial of a cashless debit card to go ahead in the Goldfields. Months of uncertainty have...
- Longman Electorate: National Broadband Network (1 speech)
The National Broadband Network, if it had been done right, had the capacity to be the most amazing piece of infrastructure, to change lives and to build livelihoods. But, instead, we've got a...
- Riverland and Mallee Vocational Awards, Penola Bypass (1 speech)
Last Friday, I attended the annual Rotary Club of Berri Riverland and Mallee Vocational Awards night. How we work and the jobs we do are significantly changing, and it's vitally important that we...
- Australia India Youth Dialogue (1 speech)
It was my pleasure to be part of a delegation to the Australia India Youth Dialogue in Delhi and Mumbai earlier this year. I was joined by 14 Australian delegates and 15 Indian delegates who came...
- Western Australia: Shark Conservation (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the latest noise and headlines concerning shark numbers in Western Australia. We Western Australians love the beach. We have some of the best surf in the world, the best...
- Parramatta Electorate: Parramatta Female Factory Precinct (1 speech)
I would like to acknowledge today as the 10th anniversary of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology to the stolen generations on behalf of the Australian government. In doing so, I want to talk...
- Flynn Electorate: Rookwood Weir (2 speeches)
Water infrastructure is just as essential to the agricultural industry and life in regional centres as it is to big cities. Without affordable water, our nation comes to a grinding halt. Water...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Closing the Gap (6 speeches)
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker Andrews, for the privilege and opportunity to speak on this matter in the Chamber today. I don't intend to give a long speech but simply to acknowledge, as many other...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Cunningham Electorate: Disability Services, Cunningham Electorate: Aged Care (1 speech)
There are two matters I would like to talk to the House about tonight on behalf of local constituents. The first one is in relation to Australian disability enterprises. In January I had the...
- Energy (1 speech, 2 comments)
Deep down, even the Greens understand that solar and wind are not the answer for lowering emissions if you want reliable power. When unreliable power blacks out vast parts of the country, or a...
- Mental Health (1 speech)
As we gear up for the state election in a little over two weeks in Tasmania, both Liberal and Labor are talking big about mental health. But in fact it's being overlooked once again. Yes, both...
- Dunkley Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
Many of my previous speeches in this place have focused on the importance of infrastructure in my peri-urban electorate of Dunkley. I came into the election with an ambitious infrastructure...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
In the grievance debate this evening I want to draw the attention of the House to concerns my constituents have raised with me about the impact of the NDIS as it's rolled out across the country...
- Energy (2 speeches)
Far North Queensland is sick and tired of being treated as a cash cow when it comes to paying for electricity. The Queensland Competition Authority has warned the state-owned regional electricity...
