House debates
Thursday, 28 June 2018
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Airports Amendment Bill 2016; Second Reading (4 speeches)
I rise to speak on the Airports Amendment Bill 2016. I indicate my support for the amendments that will be moved by the member for Grayndler. I do so because, as you would probably be aware, Mr...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Youth Voices in Parliament (1 speech)
Continuing my Youth Voices in Parliament campaign, I would like to introduce Rebecca, a year 7 student in the Gifted and Talented class at Cumberland High School, who is passionate about the need...
- Page Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
I would like to congratulate Lismore's St John's College Woodlawn netball team, who, this week, won the 24th annual Marist Netball Carnival. The team members were: Sarai Sandral, Georgia Davis,...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
This Sunday, 700,000 Australian workers will again have their penalty rates cut by on average $77 a week. Yet again, the Turnbull government stands by and does nothing and supports this cut to...
- Swan Electorate: St Pius X Catholic Primary School (1 speech)
A few weeks ago I visited a year 6 class at St Pius X Catholic Primary School in Manning, which is in my electorate of Swan. I know they're watching, so a big hello to all the students at St Pius...
- Decentralisation (1 speech)
Today Canberrans are vindicated. They are vindicated by the Select Committee on Regional Development and Decentralisation's report once again, once again, once again showing the relocation of the...
- Petrie Electorate: Sport (1 speech)
This weekend is going to be really exciting for the community of Redcliffe Dolphins football on the Redcliffe Peninsula, because we're opening the eastern grandstand. When I was first elected I...
- Higher Education (1 speech)
'A pinch and a punch for the first day of the month' is a little rhyme that I'm sure all of us heard at some point in our childhood to remind us that a new month was coming and one was finishing....
- Special Broadcasting Service (1 speech)
SBS are currently running an ad showing an elderly couple in bed. The wife turns to the husband and says, 'Can you turn the heater back on; it's pretty cold in here.' The husband then says, 'I...
- South Sudan (1 speech)
On 21 June 2018, the President of the Republic of South Sudan, General Salva Kiir Mayardit, and his former vice-president and current armed opposition leader, Dr Riek Machar Teny, met for the...
- Bowman Electorate (1 speech)
Mine is the only seat in this place that conforms precisely with a city—that's Redland City in outer metropolitan Queensland. There's a bit going on in federal infrastructure in our neck of...
- Turnbull Government (1 speech)
On budget night we heard the Treasurer ask what those opposite had achieved. I thought I would spend a bit of time today talking about what they've achieved. Well, they've managed to give...
- Heart of Australia (1 speech)
Australians who live in rural and remote areas, the outback of this wide, brown land, are often referred to in romantic fashion as 'hard as nails' or 'tough as teeth'. These terms of reverence...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker, there is much commentary about the world being a 24/7 place, and indeed it is true that it's busier than when you and I went to school. But let me tell you what hasn't changed:...
- Berowra Electorate: Scouts Australia (1 speech)
Back in March, I went to the Cherrybrook Movie under the Stars, a wonderful family event organised by the 1st Cherrybrook Scout Group, which is led by the omnipresent and hardworking Stephen...
- Energy (1 speech)
Wholesale energy prices in this country have doubled under this government. We have record-high electricity prices and a record number of energy policies by this hopeless and incompetent...
- Farrer Electorate: Hospitals (1 speech)
I rise to note a very important event tomorrow in my electorate and in my hometown of Albury. After much fanfare and lengthy planning, it will be my pleasure to help open the new Albury-Wodonga...
- Turnbull Government (1 speech)
We've heard a lot of talk about aspiration from the Turnbull government this week. Unfortunately, it's been more like the kind of talk you'd hear around a merchant banker's corporate boardroom...
- Forrest Electorate: Nannup (1 speech)
Nannup is a special town in the South West of Western Australia, officially gazetted in 1890. Its name stems from a word in the Noongar people's language, meaning 'stopping place'. Nannup was...
- Family and Domestic Violence (1 speech)
On White Ribbon Day 2016, I announced that a Labor government would amend the Family Law Act to prevent women in family violence cases from being cross-examined by unrepresented perpetrators of...
- Newton, Mrs Joyce, OAM (2 speeches)
In Fisher, we have a true local hero in the form of Joyce Newton. Joyce has always displayed an energetic commitment to going the extra mile for others in everything she has been involved in....
- Shadow Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
On indulgence—for the information of the House, I present a revised list of the shadow ministry. The document read as follows— SHADOW MINISTRY Each box represents a portfolio except...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Taxation (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why did the Prime Minister abandon his vote on his centrepiece $80 billion handout to big business today? Is this just another failure of this Prime...
- Small Business (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister please outline to the House why it is important to back small and family and medium businesses and not penalise those who seek to...
- Turnbull Government (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Has the government reached any agreements with One Nation within the last 48 hours?
- Taxation (5 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on why it is so important for a strong economy that business can have certainty around taxation and is supported by lower and...
- Pauline Hanson's One Nation (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Has the government reached any agreements with One Nation within the last 48 hours?
- Rail (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport and the Deputy Prime Minister. Minister, my question is on the $235 million Victorian north-east railway line project. In February...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have joining us in the gallery this afternoon Commodore Pritchard, Chief of Defence Staff for Trinidad and Tobago. On behalf of the House I extend a very warm welcome...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Taxation (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 how regional businesses are using tax cuts to create...
- Pauline Hanson's One Nation (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the government reveal the details of its secret deal with One Nation before the 28 July by-elections or after them?
- Business (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services. Will the minister update the House on how the government is working to help small and medium-sized enterprises thrive? Is the...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister update the House on how the government's competitive tax system is supporting businesses to link our world-class education...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Retail, hospitality, fast food and pharmacy workers will have their penalty rates cut again this Sunday. Why does this Prime Minister support cutting the...
- Defence Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. Will the minister outline to the House how the government is creating jobs and supporting workers in defence industry manufacturing and...
- Pensions and Benefits (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister tell 67-year-old Jacqueline, from my electorate of Lindsay in Western Sydney, who is also a grandmother of three, why she's been...
- National Security (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Ms Plibersek interjecting—
- Banking and Financial Services (2 speeches)
Prime Minister, yesterday the royal commission heard about ANZ's treatment of the Handley family, whose farm struggled with drought and fires. ANZ reneged on an agreed overdraft and overcharged...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the. Will the minister update the House on how the government's tax cuts for small and medium businesses are benefitting the economy? And what are the risks to the business...
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday, every government senator including the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia teamed up with One Nation to...
- Queensland: Health Care (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister outline to the House how a stronger economy enables the government to deliver a long-term health plan for the people of South-East...
- Energy (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware The Australian reports today the Nationals have drawn up a set of demands for the Prime Minister headlined by the creation of a...
- Economy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Development, Territories and Local Government. Will the minister update the House on how businesses and workers in regional Australia are benefitting...
- Turnbull Government (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has made a choice to support pay cuts for nearly 700,000 workers and give tax cuts to multinationals. He has made a choice to take $17...
- Aged Care (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Aged Care. Will the minister update the House on steps the government is taking to support aged-care providers to deliver quality aged care and support...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
Thank you. It was lucky he didn't buy a house that way! My question is to the Prime Minister. On Sunday, 700,000 workers will get a pay cut. Does the Prime Minister support the cut to penalty rates?
- National Security (3 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. Will the Attorney update the House on the impact the Commonwealth's changes to call-out powers for the ADF will have for Australia's national security?
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 53 of 2017-18 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit report No. 53 of 2017-18, entitled Cyber resilience: Department of the Treasury; National Archives of Australia; Geoscience Australia. Ordered that the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Government Response (1 speech)
For the information of honourable members, I present a schedule of government responses to House of Representatives and joint committee reports, incorporating reports tabled and details 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.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (1 speech)
I move: That standing order 31 (automatic adjournment of the House) and standing order 33 (limit on business) be suspended for this sitting. Question agreed to.
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
I move: That leave of absence be given to every Member of the House of Representatives from the determination of this sitting of the House to the date of its next sitting. Question agreed to.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Health Care (21 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’s...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Law Enforcement Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement I present a corrigendum to the committee's final report entitled Inquiry into crystal methamphetamine (ice).
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Airports Amendment Bill 2016; Second Reading (1 speech)
I speak in continuation on the Airports Amendment Bill 2016. The lack of consultation is a key fact in anything this Liberal government does. My community knows that too well after the recent...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Iraq (1 speech)
The week before last, I visited Iraq for a two-day trip, and I welcome the opportunity to report to the house. I had wanted to go to Iraq for a long time as a representative of so many Iraqi...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
I rise today to commend the Turnbull government on its introduction into the parliament of the Family Law Amendment (Family Violence and Cross-examination of Parties) Bill, which will, in...
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Special Broadcasting Service (1 speech)
The ABC and SBS belong to every single Australian—and that has been the case from the day that the public broadcasters were established. Since the ABC was launched in 1932, it has been a...
- Dunkley Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
Infrastructure is a critical component of the Australian economy, and a matter of great importance for my constituents in Dunkley. With such a vast country, yet with such density in our cities,...
- Loneliness (1 speech)
Tonight I want to talk about loneliness and propose that we talk more about it in this place, that we work to better understand its consequences and that we do better to prevent it, as...
- Health Care (1 speech)
I confirm for the people in my electorate that health funding continues to go up year in, year out. From 2018 to 2019 health funding from the federal government will increase. From 2019 to 2020...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- The Barunga Statement (1 speech)
On 12 June 1988 during Australia's bicentennial year, Prime Minister Bob Hawke was presented with The Barunga Statement at the annual Barunga cultural and sporting festival at Barunga, about 80...
- Iluka Rowing and Aquatic Club, Ticknor, Mr Sam, Spillane, Ms Ann (1 speech)
I'd like to congratulate the mixed 4s Iluka rowing team, who won their category at the Tweed rowathon this month. The crew were Ethan Davis, Duncan Fisher, Mitchell Johns and Kylie Duff, and...
- Lalor Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
The Werribee skyline has changed of late. The Werribee Mercy Hospital is being completely overhauled, with a multilevel development four floors above the McAuley subacute-bed unit. This is a...
- Pasto, Ms Kirsty (1 speech)
Yesterday in the chamber I spoke about the importance of having facilities in Dunkley that match the calibre of our local sports men and women. Today I want to tell you about one of the people...
- Adult Migrant Education Program (1 speech)
As I know you are well aware, Deputy Speaker Vamvakinou, the Adult Migrant English Program is the Australian government's largest program to assist settlement when people arrive in Australia. It...
- Thomson, Mr Peter William, AO, CBE (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to Peter William Thomson AO, CBE, who sadly passed away this month. Peter lived in my electorate of Higgins and is of course remembered as a champion golfer. He was the...
- Braddon By-Election (1 speech)
I spent last weekend on the beautiful west coast of Tasmania with Justine Keay, Labor's candidate for the seat of Braddon. It was great to be there and to see the warm response to her evident...
- St. George District Athletic Club, St Joseph's Riverwood Sports Club, Picnic Point Public School (1 speech)
) ( ): On Saturday, 9 June I attended the St. George District Athletic Club AGM and annual awards presentation to present the Banks Outstanding Sporting Achievement Award. It's always good to go...
- National Broadband Network, Laugh Your Head Off (1 speech)
I want to raise two issues in this discussion. One is a very important issue for the electorate of Barton, and that's the quality and rollout of the NBN. The National Broadband Network was an...
- Parkes Electorate (2 speeches)
As we speak, the electorate of Parkes is in the grip of a major drought and it is impacting on pretty well all the farmers in the half of New South Wales that I represent. However, it's not all...
- Arts (1 speech)
One of the marks of nationhood is artistic expression that reflects our national culture. This week a delegation came to Parliament House under the theme 'Make it Australian: our stories on...
- Berowra Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours (1 speech)
The Order of Australia is awarded to Australians who have made a significant contribution to the lives of their community or who have made outstanding achievements in their given fields. Since it...
- Charles Darwin University (1 speech)
We all know that Mr Turnbull's coalition government doesn't care about Darwin and the Northern Territory. It was just last week, in fact, that he was shamed by the NT News, who ran a front page...
- River's Gift (1 speech)
It is my great pleasure to rise and celebrate the incredible work of River's Gift, which was founded by Alex Hamilton and Karl Waddell, the parents of River, who tragically died of sudden infant...
- NAIDOC Week (1 speech)
In just 10 days time I'll be joining my community of Newcastle and many other people around Australia to celebrate NAIDOC Week. The 2018 theme is 'Because of her, we can!' This is a fantastic...
- Bionics Queensland (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to raise awareness about a local Brisbane organisation, Bionics Queensland. BQ has been established to advance research and commercial endeavours across the broad spectrum...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
This Sunday is 1 July. It marks a couple of things. I think it's Canada's national day, and it's the first day of the new financial year, but for 12,791 workers in my electorate of Moreton, it...
- Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, NAIDOC Week (1 speech)
Earlier this year the House heard from the Prime Minister about the important work being done by AIATSIS, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. That was one...
- Western Sydney City Deal (1 speech)
I was very interested to learn that in March this year, with much fanfare, we had the announcement by the federal and the New South Wales Liberal governments of a Western Sydney City Deal. I've...
- Calare Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours (2 speeches)
I rise to salute the citizens of Calare named in this year's Queen's Birthday honours list. Adjunct Professor David Goldney has been named a Member of the Order of Australia for his service to...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Citizenship (1 speech)
I've spoken before, and I need to speak again, about the shocking crisis that is the delay in citizenship applications that we're seeing. We've had private members' motions. We've had the issue...
- Superannuation (1 speech)
Earlier this week I spoke here about the personal income tax relief that's going to be received soon by more than 75,000 of my constituents and hardworking and aspiring Australians right across...
- Centrelink (1 speech)
If you want an example of the glaring inequality that's occurring in this country and if you want to see some case studies showing what this government has done in regard to people trying to...
- Dairy Industry (1 speech)
I said in my maiden speech that when it comes to agriculture, big business needs to play fair and farmers deserve to receive a fair price for their product. I also said I was concerned about the...
- Infrastructure (1 speech)
The Turnbull government has failed my home state of Queensland on infrastructure. Ninety per cent of federal infrastructure funding in the budget won't be invested in Queensland for at least four...
- Twin Cities FM (2 speeches)
In contributing to this debate, I wish to draw the attention of the Minister for Communications to the professionalism of my local community radio station, Twin Cities FM 89.7, which services the...
- Timor-Leste (1 speech)
Australia bugged East Timor's cabinet rooms during the 2004 bilateral negotiations over the Timor Sea Treaty. The operation was illegal, unscrupulous and remains unresolved. The perpetrator was...
- Page Electorate (1 speech)
Last week eight students from Maclean Public School had the opportunity to play at the Sydney Opera House. Sabrina Bowly, Hayden Fisher, Leah Jenkins, Sarah Jenkins, Ethan Fisher, Ethan Moore,...
- Eden-Monaro Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
In my time as member for Eden-Monaro, a constant theme of the issues that constituents raise with me has been health and the deficiencies of health in rural and regional areas. It is the No. 1...
- Parliament (1 speech)
As we look to wrap up for the parliamentary recess, I just wanted to take the opportunity to just reflect on the last two years. It's been almost two years since the class of 2016 was elected,...
- Child Sexual Abuse (1 speech)
I rise today for two main reasons, the first being to remind members and, indeed, all elected representatives and community leaders, that it is our most important task to try and protect our...
- Central Queensland (1 speech)
Central Queensland, as many in this place would be surely tired of hearing, is the engine room of our nation's economy. We are home to the fundamental industries that keep our people fed and...
