House debates
Wednesday, 20 June 2018
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 26 of the Selection Committee, relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday, 25 June 2018 and Tuesday, 26 June...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Child Care (1 speech)
It's now less than two weeks until the government's childcare subsidy changes begin—changes that will leave 279,000 Australian families worse off, changes that will leave 2½ thousand...
- YWAM Medical Ships Australia (1 speech)
YWAM Medical Ships Australia do an incredible job providing medical services in highly challenging, remote areas of Papua New Guinea. My beautiful wife, Yolonde, is the first Cairns community...
- Men's Health Week, Men's Sheds (1 speech)
I'm proud to be a men's health ambassador. Last week we celebrated Men's Health Week. To mark the occasion, I was proud to sponsor a men's health expo, which was held in Darwin, down at Raintree...
- Brisbane Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours (1 speech)
It's important to sometimes pause and reflect on the efforts of those who make our country a better place. I wish to recognise some very worthy Brisbane residents who received awards in the...
- North Queensland: Water Infrastructure (1 speech)
We have the extraordinary phenomenon of the federal government going into the third election—this will be their third election—in which they have promised water development in North...
- Friend, Mr Brian, OAM (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to an outstanding member of the Mackellar community, Brian Friend OAM. In 2013 Brian was awarded the medal of the Order of Australia for services to touch football and the...
- Regional Tasmania: Broadband (1 speech)
We've heard a lot about aspiration this week. Well, Vince Cooney has an aspiration. Vince runs a bed and breakfast in the Derwent Valley in my electorate. Vince's aspiration is to run a...
- Seacliff Surf Life Saving Club (1 speech)
On Saturday, 2 June, I attended the Seacliff Surf Life Saving Club presentation night, to mark the end of another successful season. There was plenty to celebrate, with the club having grown to...
- Income Tax (1 speech)
I rise today to condemn this government and its unfair tax plan for Australia. This is an arrogant and out-of-touch government, led by an arrogant and out-of-touch Prime Minister. It is no...
- Blayney: United Hospital Auxiliaries of New South Wales Inc. (1 speech)
This year, the Blayney United Hospital Auxiliary celebrates its 110th anniversary—a truly remarkable achievement for a community organisation. For over a century, the auxiliary and its...
- Western Australia: Darling Range By-Election (1 speech)
There have been a lot of discussions about by-elections in this place. However, there is one that has so far gone unmentioned in Canberra. The state by-election for Darling Range in WA will take...
- Small Business (1 speech)
I want to thank the hardworking small-business owners and operators that came along to my small-business forum in Tangney to share their feedback not only with me but with the Minister for Small...
- International Development Assistance (1 speech)
There are many things to not like about the Turnbull government's budget, but there's one serious act of destruction that has received little attention so far. That, of course, is the ongoing...
- Western Australia: Darling Range By-Election (1 speech)
I was going to talk about how the government has delivered another mobile base station in the town of Waroona, but the member for Burt has raised the by-election of Darling Range, which will be...
- Employment (1 speech)
I thought I'd heard it all in this place, but yesterday I was appalled when we heard the Prime Minister telling a 60-year-old aged-care worker from the electorate of Braddon that they should...
- Alcoa (1 speech)
I rise to raise serious concerns about the botched demolition by Alcoa of its power station in Anglesea. This is the demolition that I asked Alcoa to delay because of the very poor way it had...
- Free Speech (1 speech)
Jarrod Bleijie, formerly Queensland's first law officer in the LNP Newman government, has referred advertising executive and political commentator Dee Madigan to the powerful Ethics Committee of...
- Petrie Electorate: Sport (1 speech)
The revolution of women's sport in Australia has taken over our news bulletins due to the undeniable success of our netball, AFL, soccer, rugby league, cricket and most recently the Commonwealth...
- Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination (1 speech)
I would like to ask all members in the chamber to imagine waking up tomorrow morning and finding through the front page of your local newspaper, through your news feed or maybe from a news person...
- Thomson, Mr Peter AO (2 speeches)
I, along with the member for Corio, the joint chairs of the Parliamentary Friends of Sport, rise today to remember one of Australia's sporting legends. Peter William Thomson passed away this...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Employment (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. When 8,000 Telstra workers lost their job today, the Minister for Urban Infrastructure and Cities shrugged his shoulders and said, 'As a former telco...
- Income Tax (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister outline to the House how the government's plan for lower taxes encourages and rewards enterprise and aspiration, including in my...
- Taxation (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Can the Treasurer update the House on why it's important to have a comprehensive plan for lower, simpler and fairer taxes and how this will help aspirational...
- Income Tax (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that this government has previously told Australians to get ahead, to get rich parents or to get out of town? Just yesterday,...
- Korean War (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I refer to articles on the front page of The Australian newspaper last Thursday, and again on Saturday, centring on secret American Korean War...
- Income Tax (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services. Will the minister update the House on the importance of pursuing tax policies that support aspirational Australians, including...
- Venezuela (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Would the minister update the House on the current economic and political situation in Venezuela? Is the minister aware of any alternative...
- Income Tax (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that he's dealing with One Nation so that an investment banker in a harbour-side mansion earning a million dollars will get a...
- 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 how sound management of the economy and the budget...
- Income Tax (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. What policy commitments or undertakings has the government given to One Nation in return for their two votes in the Senate today?
- 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 how the government is investing in the infrastructure...
- Personal Income (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, what is the median personal income in Australia?
- 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 united approach to combating the scourge of people smuggling? Is the minister...
- Income Tax (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can this arrogant and out-of-touch Prime Minister confirm he's dealing with One Nation so that a banker from Clayfield earning $1 million gets a tax cut of...
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Energy. Will the minister update the House on how the government's action to reduce power prices will benefit families and local businesses...
- Income Tax (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister: Why is this snobbish Prime Minister telling workers, Australians, to get a better job instead of supporting Labor's plan to give 39,000 people in Braddon who...
- Health (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the health minister please update the House on how a stronger economy enables the government to deliver life-changing support services for drug...
- Income Tax (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why is the Prime Minister on the one hand telling working Australians to get a better job but on the other hand blocking Labor's plan to give the 63,000...
- Schools (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister proud that he is the first Prime Minister in Australian history to unite the government, Catholic and independent school sectors...
- Drought (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. Will the minister update the House on measures the government is taking to support farmers in financial hardship during...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Personal Income (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, I will add to an answer. The median of all wages is $53,000 a year whereas, as I foreshadowed, the average weekly ordinary time earnings, as currently stated by the ABS, is $81,640. I...
- 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)
- Income Tax (29 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Sydney proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: This Government's failure to...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Mental Health (1 speech)
I rise tonight to unequivocally state my support for the Australians for Mental Health campaign led by 2010 Australian of the Year, Professor Pat McGorry. Mental ill-health will affect...
- Human Trafficking (1 speech)
I rise to speak on an issue that is perhaps not widely discussed in our public life but is a growing concern and severe problem which deserves our full attention. I'm speaking of modern slavery....
- Australia-Turkey Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Committee (1 speech)
In April this year, at the invitation of the Turkish ambassador, I had the privilege of leading a parliamentary delegation to the Republic of Turkey. The trip was particularly significant as it...
- Western Civilisation, National Security, Energy (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, in 1891 Sir Henry Parkes, the long-serving premier of New South Wales , spoke of Australia becoming one people with one destiny. Parkes, who is now known as the father of federation,...
- Mayo By-Election (3 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I know what a keen student of history you are, and no doubt you will remember, or remember reading about, the time Mick Young regaled this House, telling how the gatehouse at the...
- La Trobe Electorate: Les Twentyman Foundation (2 speeches)
I rise again to speak of my great concerns about the crime wave which has been going through Melbourne, particularly in my electorate of La Trobe. I've raised this on numerous occasions in recent...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital (1 speech)
For the last 12 months I've been waging a campaign to upgrade the emergency department at Bankstown hospital. Bankstown hospital is bursting at the seams, but a particular part of the hospital...
- HMAS Tobruk (1 speech)
I rise to advise the Federation Chamber of the proposed scuttling of HMAS Tobruk in the coming weeks. This is a project which has taken more than five years to come to fruition, but we are nearly...
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
Last week I had the opportunity to meet with pensioners across the Bendigo electorate, first in Bendigo and in Kyneton. They are horrified that this Liberal-National Party government, again are...
- Gilmore Electorate (1 speech)
On 7 June I visited Tuross Head. Deciding to really meet and talk to as many people as possible, I accepted an invitation to meet the members of the Tuross Head Men's Shed. They have converted...
- Prevention of Violence Against Women (1 speech)
Last week in Melbourne, Eurydice Dixon lost her life. Eurydice was walking home from work. The last message she sent to her friend was still on her phone: 'I'm almost home safe.' To Eurydice's...
- Deakin Electorate: Multisports Complex (1 speech)
Earlier this year, I was very pleased to have the opportunity to officially launch construction of the new state-of-the-art multisports complex and netball stadium at HE Parker Reserve in...
- Richmond Electorate: Tweed Hospital (1 speech)
I rise yet again to highlight the mismanagement by the New South Wales Liberal-Nationals government when it comes to their bungled announcement about the site selection for the new Tweed...
- Hume Electorate: Community Safety (1 speech)
Our government's first priority is always to keep Australians safe. The Safer Communities Fund, a $40 million initiative, is just one way we are making this happen. A further $30 million in this...
- Taxation (1 speech)
The Australian public have been listening to us over this week; they're listening to us argue about tax. I have a couple of things to say about the government's tax package, which they've got on...
- Forde Electorate: Bethania Lutheran School (2 speeches)
It's always a pleasure to stand in this space and talk about the great work being done at some of our fabulous local schools. Today, I'd like to focus on what is occurring at Bethania Lutheran...
- Bills (0 speeches)
