House debates
Tuesday, 22 May 2018
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Broadband (1 speech)
Prime Minister Turnbull's NBN rollout has become a multitechnology messy morass. Before the 2013 election the then opposition leader, the member for Warringah, a well-known socialist, and his...
- Far North Coast Baseball Association (1 speech)
Last weekend, for the first time in competition history, the Far North Coast Baseball Association's senior league team competed on their home field in Lismore after qualifying for the 2018...
- Page, the Hon. Ernest Thomas (Ernie) (1 speech)
I pay tribute to Ernie Page, who lost his ongoing battle with cancer on Sunday. Our community, our state and our party have lost a public servant of the highest order. Ernie did his trade as an...
- Dividend Imputation (1 speech)
I rise to make Corangamite pensioners and self-funded retirees aware of Labor's terrible plan to deny people on a low taxable income a tax refund from share dividends. This would mean that, if...
- Lyons Electorate: Home Care Packages (1 speech)
Ron and Maureen live in Dodges Ferry in my electorate. Maureen suffers early onset dementia, and she was classified some time ago as requiring level 4 home care. Unfortunately, there are no level...
- National Volunteer Week (1 speech)
National Volunteer Week celebrates the spirit of volunteering and the efforts of more than six million Australians who willingly give of their time to our community. Margaret Court Community...
- La Mama Theatre (1 speech)
It's sad to report that the beloved La Mama Theatre in Carlton was destroyed by fire last Saturday morning. Despite the efforts of 50 firefighters who attended the blaze, the fire gutted the...
- Queensland: Water Pricing (1 speech)
In a world where water and power prices continue to rise, and we have a Labor Party doing very little about it, we now have in Queensland water prices being determined by a state Labor government...
- La Mama Theatre (1 speech)
I rise to join with the member for Wills to express my sympathy and support to Liz Jones, a national treasure, who has been at La Mama for as long as any of us can remember. It was with sadness...
- Murray Darling Medical School Network (1 speech)
Sometimes in politics you get the chance to be involved in something than can make a true and lasting difference to local communities. The recent announcement in the federal budget of the...
- North Queensland: Infrastructure (1 speech)
In the 2013 election campaign the LNP raised great hopes for we one million Australians living in North Queensland by committing to a $500 million water development fund and the Northern...
- Budget (1 speech)
I want to talk to the people of Petrie about the good news in the economy. The government has a plan for jobs and growth. We've seen that there's been a million jobs created in the last five...
- Youth (1 speech)
I think all of us would agree it's always a joy when you have schools visit parliament and you speak to the students about their experiences, what they're learning and how democracy works. But I...
- Small Business (1 speech)
On the back of last week's announcement that this government has helped business create one million jobs since 2013, last week I met with a great small business called Geoscan in my electorate of...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
Since working on the Middle East desk in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in the late nineties, I've been aware of the concerns of Australians about live sheep exports. Since being...
- Drought (1 speech)
I rise to bring to the attention of the House the increasing issue of drought. The drought is now progressing. It has been an insidious drought. Drought creeps up on people in such a way that...
- National Volunteer Week (1 speech)
() (): I'm pleased to formally launch the 2018 Newcastle Volunteer Service Awards in the Australian parliament today as part of National Volunteer Week. This will be the fifth time that I've...
- Hughes Electorate: Moorebank Materials Recycling Facility (1 speech)
I would like to share with the House some great news for the residents of Georges Fair in my electorate and, in fact, all the residents of Western Sydney, with the announcement that the proposed...
- National Volunteer Week (1 speech)
Yesterday marked the beginning of National Volunteer Week, so we celebrate the contribution of all our nation's volunteers, who give their time and their skills to their community. Like the...
- Canning Electorate: Career Readiness for Young Parents (2 speeches)
Last week I was pleased to host the Minister for Social Services in Canning to announce the Career Readiness for Young Parents initiative. This is an exciting new program that has the potential...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. On 28 March, the Prime Minister said about his entire corporate tax giveaway: We will be committed to it today and we'll be committed to it at the next...
- Budget (5 speeches)
I have a question to the Prime Minister on that same theme. Will the Prime Minister update the House on how the budget is building a stronger economy and guaranteeing the services Australians...
- Taxation (3 speeches)
My question's to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that his government has made a secret deal with Senator Pauline Hanson's One Nation political party to ensure the passage of...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on how the budget is delivering for North Queensland and Central Queensland, including for families in my electorate of...
- Taxation (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister now tell the Australian people the details of his secret deal with Senator Pauline Hanson to ensure the passage of his big-business...
- Migration (2 speeches)
Prime Minister, are you aware that there are 1.4 million temporary visa workers in Australia, the highest in the OECD? In fact, 3.6 million workers—half the entire Australian...
- Budget (12 speeches)
My question is to Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline to the House how the government is delivering essential services and infrastructure for regional Victorians, including in my electorate of...
- Infrastructure (4 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...
- Budget (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to previous answers concerning the government's secret deal with Senator Pauline Hanson. In its budget two weeks ago, did the government account for...
- Health (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister outline to the House how a stronger economy enables the government to invest in the health of Australians and does the minister know...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's previous answers. Is the Prime Minister seriously claiming the Australian people don't have the right to know the details and...
- Employment (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 how the government is helping hardworking Australians...
- Turnbull Government (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that since the last election the government has gifted Senator Pauline Hanson an attempt to weaken race hate laws, a...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Minister, could you update the House on the importance of strong and consistent border protection policies, and, Minister, are you aware of any...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Turnbull Government, Pauline Hanson's One Nation (8 speeches)
I seek leave to move the following motion: That the House: (1) notes it has been revealed today that the Government has made a secret deal with Senator Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party to...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
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Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have a question pursuant to standing order 105(b). I wonder whether you could write to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, who has failed to reply to questions in...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Budget (35 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Grayndler proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government's ongoing...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Budget (1 speech)
This government's budget shows a blatant disregard for education. This budget attacks child care. This budget attacks four-year-old kinder. This budget means our youngest Australians' educational...
- Corangamite Electorate (1 speech)
It's my great pleasure to rise and discuss tonight the incredible turnaround we have seen in the Geelong regional economy in the almost five years since we were elected in September 2013. At the...
- Trade, Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (1 speech)
I will speak on the NAIF proposals. Having watched politics from the inside over a period of nearly 45 years, I mean no disrespect to the last speaker, but they get up and they tell you how...
- Swan Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
Tonight I rise to speak about the Belmont community centre and upgrades to key roads in my electorate of Swan. I've spoken many times in this House on the need for this project to replace the...
- Indigenous Health (1 speech)
This evening I want to talk about something which causes a great deal of concern to me and, I know, many others, particularly in the health sector. Currently, the rate of Aboriginal people...
- Nuclear Energy (1 speech)
This evening I'd like to talk on the subject of nuclear power. Our nation hosts about one-third of the world's total uranium deposits. We're the third largest producer after Kazakhstan and...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Parramatta Electorate: Ramadan (1 speech)
For my Islamic community in Parramatta—and for communities all around the country—it is Ramadan Kareem. It is once again the holy month of Ramadan, the ninth month on the Islamic...
- Budget (1 speech)
We've just handed down a budget, and in that budget the federal government have put $78.7 billion towards health. I just want to put that into perspective for people: if you take the total gross...
- Herbert Electorate: Palm Island (1 speech)
I stand in this place today proud to represent the Bwgcolman people of Palm Island as their share journey in this, their centenary year of the first forced placement of people on Palm Island. The...
- Budget (1 speech)
What a cracker of a budget! I want to get to selling the million jobs that we've put on since coming— Mr Rob Mitchell interjecting— and I expect to take a lot of interjections from...
- Diabetes (1 speech)
Last week I had the opportunity to chat with an inspirational young advocate from the McEwen community, young Tayte, one of 6,000 Australians aged under 14 living with type 1 diabetes. Tayte...
- Defence Equipment (1 speech)
It may have been a drizzly morning on 14 March in Brisbane, but nothing could dampen the spirits of the Prime Minister, Minister Payne, Minister Pyne and my Queensland colleagues, along with the...
- Budget (2 speeches)
The Turnbull government's latest budget, like every other Liberal budget, has failed the people of my electorate of Gorton. Under this budget, big business gets more but working-class and...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
Recently I attended a candlelight vigil held by the Domestic Violence Action Centre, DVAC, in Ipswich to honour victims of family and domestic violence and to say, along with those attending,...
- Mona Vale Hospital Auxiliary Branch: Gordon, Ms Eileen (2 speeches)
The motto of the Mona Vale Hospital Auxiliary Branch is, 'Let us hold high the lamp of service for the welfare of our hospital.' Eileen Gordon has spent decades as president of the branch, living...
- Bills (0 speeches)
