House debates
Thursday, 10 May 2018
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Appropriations and Administration Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Appropriations and Administration, I present the committee's report No. 15: Budget Estimates 2018-19. Report made a parliamentary paper in accordance with...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Orders of the Day (1 speech)
I declare that the Federation Chamber orders of the day Nos 1 and 2, government business, relating to the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer) Bill 2017 and the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Reference (1 speech)
I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works for...
- Register of Members' Interests (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
As required by resolutions of the House, I table a copy of the Register of Members' Interests volume 6 for the 45th Parliament.
- 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 ASIO's questioning and detention powers: review of the operation,...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Australian Capital Territory (Planning and Land Management) Amendment Bill 2017; Second Reading (2 speeches)
As the very proud and privileged member for Canberra, I am pleased to speak on the Australian Capital Territory (Planning and Land Management) Amendment Bill 2017 today. When the average...
- Australian Capital Territory (Planning and Land Management) Amendment 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.
- Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer) Bill 2017, Telecommunications (Regional Broadband Scheme) Charge Bill 2017; Second Reading (18 speeches)
I will pick up from where I left off yesterday in the debate on the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer) Bill 2017 and the related bill, with just some of the 490...
- Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer) Bill 2017, Telecommunications (Regional Broadband Scheme) Charge Bill 2017; Consideration in Detail (1 speech)
I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill, and I ask leave of the House to move government amendments (1) to (13), as circulated, together. Leave granted. I move amendments (1)...
- Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer) Bill 2017, Telecommunications (Regional Broadband Scheme) Charge 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.
- Telecommunications (Regional Broadband Scheme) Charge Bill 2017; Consideration in Detail (1 speech)
I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill and move government amendment (1) on sheet HV220, as circulated: (1) Clause 19, page 15 (after line 9), after subclause (3), insert:...
- Telecommunications (Regional Broadband Scheme) Charge 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.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- National Compact on Permanent Migration (1 speech)
I rise to recognise the National Compact on Permanent Migration that was recently signed by a wide range of Australian trade unions, businesses and civil society groups. The diverse signatories...
- Forde Electorate: Floods (1 speech)
Last April, scenes across Logan were nothing short of devastating. One life was lost and more than 200 homes destroyed when the Logan and Albert Rivers flooded as a result of the rains brought on...
- Ramadan (1 speech)
This time next week, Muslim communities in Australia and around the world will begin a month-long fast during the holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan, the ninth month in the Islamic lunar calendar, is...
- Taxation (1 speech)
I support lower taxes and I support the lower taxes outlined in the budget by the Treasurer on Tuesday night. Over 66,000 people in my electorate on low and medium incomes will benefit...
- Budget (1 speech)
In its recent budget, this government has again dudded Victoria, this time in water infrastructure: the National Water Infrastructure Development Fund—no money for Victoria, despite putting...
- Fisher Electorate: EndED House (1 speech)
Fisher businessman Mark Forbes has a bold vision: to create, build and operate Australia's first specialist residential facility for the treatment of eating disorders, right in my electorate of...
- Macquarie Electorate: Environment (1 speech)
I have just had the privilege of meeting three students taking part in the Rotary Adventure in Citizenship: Jordan Goehner-Drewe, Marnie Larden and Isabelle Carolan, who are up in the chamber...
- Robertson Electorate: National School Chaplaincy Program (1 speech)
I rise to speak about some fantastic news for my electorate of Robertson in regard to the National School Chaplaincy Program. This program provides vital pastoral care services to thousands of...
- Housing Affordability (1 speech)
Housing affordability and accessibility are key concerns for many Australians, but shamefully they were barely mentioned by the government in this week's budget. Indeed, the housing situation is...
- O'Connor Electorate: Budget (1 speech)
I want to update the House on what the government's budget means for the hardworking Australians in my electorate of O'Connor. The 61,173 people in O'Connor will see tax relief in the next 12...
- Vietnam War (1 speech)
This weekend we'll be observing the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of Coral and Balmoral during the Vietnam War. On 12 May 1968 the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the Royal Australian...
- Leader of the Opposition (1 speech)
Both people and principles are disposable to Bill Shorten. Many know him as a shady, faceless figure plotting the execution of two Prime Ministers in the shadows of Canberra's Chinese...
- Myopia Awareness Week (1 speech)
Next week marks the beginning of Myopia Awareness Week. Myopia, or short-sightedness, affects over a third of Australians. A recent study of teenagers found a doubling in cases of myopia over the...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
I would like to quickly turn the clock back to Channel 9's 60 Minutes program on live sheep exports, which showed sheep and lambs dying on the putrid closed decks of the Awassi Express due to...
- Budget, Illawarra Rail Line (1 speech)
The member for Cunningham and I would like to warmly welcome over 50 people who have made the long trip to Canberra from the Illawarra today to listen to Labor's budget reply speech. They have...
- Bennelong Electorate: Armenian Community, Bennelong Electorate: Anzac Day (1 speech)
Just as the Anzacs were bravely storming the cliffs of Gallipoli, the day before, on 24 April 1915, the Ottomans started rounding up their own Armenian population, eventually forcing them to...
- Nakba Day (1 speech)
Today I'd like to bring to the attention of the House the importance of 15 May, a significant day to many Palestinians. In April 2017 I travelled to Israel and Palestine to commemorate the charge...
- Menzies Electorate: Budget (1 speech)
This week's budget contains much good news for many of my constituents in Menzies. Up to 60,000 taxpayers in Menzies will benefit from the low- and middle-income tax relief in this upcoming...
- Canberra Electorate: Budget (1 speech)
There was plenty of bad news in this week's budget for Canberra, yet again. There were cuts to Public Service jobs in the thousands, yet again. There were cuts to our national institutions, yet...
- Chisholm Electorate: Box Hill RSL (2 speeches)
The Anzac spirit exemplified by our service men and women on the beaches at Gallipoli, on Flanders fields, in the Pacific, in Vietnam and in other conflicts continues to shine with the very...
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Taxation (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday the Prime Minister, his Treasurer and his Minister for Finance failed eight times to tell the Australian people the total cost of corporate tax...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on how the government is building a stronger economy with lower taxes and more jobs for Australian workers? And is...
- Taxation (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Given the Treasurer has now had 24 hours to confirm the answer, I ask: what is the total cost of the corporate tax cuts over 10 years from 1 July this year, both...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline to the House how the budget is responsibly delivering a stronger economy and lower taxes for Australians? Is the Treasurer aware of any...
- Taxation (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. This morning The Australian newspaper reports economist Saul Eslake says the total cost of corporate tax cuts over 10 years from 1 July this year, both...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline to the House how the government is continuing to deliver responsible budget management? How is the government guaranteeing essential...
- Taxation (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. For the last two days, the Prime Minister, the Treasurer and the finance minister have repeatedly refused to tell the Australian people the total cost of...
- Qualifications of Members and Senators (3 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. Will the Attorney update the House on whether the recent High Court judgement in the Gallagher case set a new test under section 44 of our Constitution?
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Given the Treasurer refuses to provide the updated costing of his corporate tax cuts, will he at least say whether it's higher than the figure he stated last...
- Defence Industry (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. Will the minister update the House on the government's commitment to renewing our defence capabilities? Why is it important to have a...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that, on Sky News today, the CEO of the Grattan Institute said the government's income tax scheme includes 'a small tax cut for...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister update the House on the importance of strong and consistent border protection policies? Is the minister aware of any risks...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer to Grattan Institute modelling into the government's personal income tax scheme released a short time ago. Can the Treasurer confirm that $15 billion of...
- Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Will the Deputy Prime Minister update the House on recent announcements of nation-building, job-creating...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that, under his tax plan, a nurse who earns $50,000 will have the same marginal tax rate as a lawyer who earns $200,000 a...
- Superannuation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services. Will the minister update the House on the action the government is taking to ensure Australians' superannuation is protected,...
- Budget (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why was the Prime Minister willing to separately legislate different stages of the government's corporate tax cuts but unwilling to do the same for tax cuts...
- Health Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister outline to the House how a stronger economy enables the government to subsidise life-changing medicine for over 3,000 breast cancer...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Aged Care. Before the budget, Australians were told the government would axe the cut to the energy supplement, announce 20,000 new home care places and invest...
- Queensland: Transport Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities. Will the minister update the House on how the government is delivering on its record $75 billion investment into transport...
- Aged Care (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Aged Care. I refer to his previous answer. Can the minister confirm that funding for residential and home care has been combined into a single line item in the...
- Great Barrier Reef (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Energy. Will the minister update the House on the government's investment in the Great Barrier Reef and how it is securing a stronger and...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I would like to welcome Mr Bill McLellan and his wife, Kathy, and Mr Harry Northwood and his wife, Marietta. Bill and Harry served Australia in Vietnam and fought in the Battle of Coral/Balmoral...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Battle of Coral/Balmoral: 50th Anniversary (3 speeches)
Mr Speaker, on indulgence—we acknowledge and honour the two Vietnam veterans who are joining us today—Bill McLellan, who has joined us with his wife, Kathy, and Harry Northwood, who...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Budget (1 speech)
I have a short statement about some housekeeping matters for this evening with respect to the Leader of the Opposition's budget reply speech. As I outlined on Tuesday, the usual courtesies of...
- 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.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Budget (16 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Sydney, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 5, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2018-2019; Second Reading (1 speech)
My fellow Australians, as I listened to the government's fifth budget on Tuesday night, I knew immediately we can do better than this, the people of Australia deserve better than this and a Labor...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Child Care (1 speech)
I've been visiting childcare centres in my electorate, from Blaxland to Blackheath and across the Hawkesbury, including Pitt Town preschool; Richmond preschool, which had its 41st birthday last...
- Gold Coast Commonwealth Games (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the recently completed and I must say very successful Commonwealth Games that took place on the Gold Coast. This was an opportunity to showcase not just the Gold Coast but...
- Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination (1 speech)
I stand here today to register on the parliamentary record my utter disgust with the Turnbull government's continued treatment of my constituents trapped in a toxic PFAS plume emanating from RAAF...
- Budget (2 speeches)
This week's federal budget was a congestion-busting one for the Sunshine Coast that will let people keep more of their own money, strengthen our local economy and give older Australians more...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
Senior Australians who have worked hard all their lives to make our country great are being neglected by the Turnbull government. The government are holding older Australians in a vice grip. On...
- Budget (1 speech)
I'm pleased to speak about the 2018 budget and outline our plan for a stronger economy, including tax relief; encouraging and rewarding hardworking Australians and backing business to invest and...
- Werriwa Electorate: Infrastructure, Williams, Uncle Steve (1 speech)
On many occasions I've raised in the House the dearth of infrastructure in my electorate of Werriwa in the south-west of Sydney: substandard NBN, the need for road and rail upgrades to cope with...
- Murray-Darling Basin Plan (1 speech)
I rise this morning with a particular eye on a very important part of my electorate. Tomorrow and Saturday, at the Griffith showgrounds, it will be my great pleasure to be back at the Riverina...
- Budget (1 speech)
Two days ago, we saw the delivery of a budget which is very underwhelming and has quite dramatic impacts on the people of the Northern Territory. There are a couple of positive elements, which...
- Black Rock Life Saving Club, Sandringham Yacht Club (2 speeches)
The iconic Black Rock Life Saving Club has faithfully served the Goldstein community for 89 years. After a lengthy fundraising effort, I would like to congratulate the club on securing the...
- Pensions and Benefits (2 speeches)
I rise in complete exasperation on behalf of Mr Johnson, who lives with his wife in Noble Park in my electorate, and the tens of thousands of Australians stuck in similar situations. Mr Johnson...
- Budget (4 speeches)
I'm excited today to talk about what this budget means for the electorate of Dunkley. Firstly, we have budgeted $225 million to see the electrification and duplication of the Frankston rail line...
- Robertson Electorate: Volleyball, Budget (1 speech)
I am delighted to rise this morning to speak about the players, teams, coaches and volunteers involved in the sport of volleyball in my electorate of Robertson, on the Central Coast. Phil...
- Budget (3 speeches)
You know, lots of people are standing up and having their few minutes' say on the budget, and I think it's going to continue, because the more and more we unpack of this shocker budget, the more...
- Murray-Darling Basin Plan (1 speech)
The electorate of Murray is home to some of the most diverse and productive agricultural regions of anywhere in Australia, and right at the heart of the Goulburn Valley is irrigation. The...
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1 speech)
Over 80 per cent of Australians trust the ABC and over 84 per cent trust the ABC's news and current affairs. Three quarters of Australians have contact with the ABC every week. In my family, four...
- Banks Electorate: Community Groups (1 speech)
On Sunday, 6 May, I attended the St George Touch Association's presentation night to present the Banks Outstanding Sporting Achievement Awards. I want to thank the club president, Scott...
- Centrelink (1 speech)
Tuesday night's unfair budget confirmed where the government's priorities lie. The government will take an axe to Centrelink, while giving a cut of $80 billion to big business. The government...
- Budget (1 speech)
I rise to speak about our budget from Tuesday night and its effect on the people of my electorate of Hinkler. Mr Deputy Speaker, you may not know, but according to the Australian Local Government...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
Shortly after I was first elected to parliament in September 2013, I stood in the House to speak about the deep concerns that I have about the live export industry. Since then, I've continued to...
- Budget (1 speech)
It's my great pleasure to rise and speak about our wonderful budget, handed down on Tuesday night, which is very much focused on delivering lower taxes, more local jobs, a stronger economy and...
- Gellibrand Electorate: School Leaders Forum (1 speech)
One of the most rewarding parts of my job is spending time with young people in my electorate and talking with them about our democracy and the role that we can all play in creating change in our...
- Page Electorate: Lismore Thistles Soccer Club (1 speech)
I want to congratulate the Lismore Thistles soccer team, which, in its 60th anniversary year, last month won the Far North Coast ANZAC Cup Premier League division. It was the third time in six...
- WestConnex (1 speech)
I rise again to express concern at the lack of proper planning by the New South Wales government for the WestConnex project. This project has been characterised by bad planning and incompetence,...
- Chisholm Electorate: Sport (1 speech)
My electorate of Chisholm is home to many fantastic sporting clubs, all of which make valuable contributions to the local community every day. Recreational and community sport provides...
- Pensions and Benefits (2 speeches)
It is with great pleasure that I rise today. I received this text message from my indomitable staff member Margaret, in my Perth office, in northern Tasmania yesterday. I'll read it out, with...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That order of the day No. 1, Committee and delegation business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
At the completion of this speech, I'll be heading to the launch of the Labor women's budget statement. One of the key areas of policy leadership is in our commitment to support victims of...
- Grey Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
What a great budget and what a great spend on infrastructure. How pleased I am that the government has decided on investing $160 million to co-partner with the new Marshall state government in an...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
The community is well and truly sick to death of the inaction over live animal exports. What we saw a few weeks ago on 60 Minutes was just another episode of many episodes. It was not an isolated...
- Budget (1 speech)
I'm pleased to inform the Chamber and my community on the northern Gold Coast that the Turnbull government has delivered in this budget for those living on the Gold Coast. This is a budget that...
- Australian Vietnamese Community (1 speech)
The 30th of April is a date that is very significant not only for millions of Vietnamese people around the world but also for many Australians, including myself, who have witnessed the...
- Gilmore Electorate: Budget (1 speech)
It's not often that you have the opportunity to put on record a great delivery for the electorate that you represent; however, this is just such an occasion. The budget of 2018, due to good...
