House debates
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 31 of the Selection Committee relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday, 15 October 2018, and the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics Committee; Membership (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker has received advice from the Chief Opposition Whip nominating a member to be a supplementary member of the Standing Committee on Economics for the purposes of the committee's inquiry...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Australian Parliamentary Delegation to China (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Infrastructure, Transport and Cities, I present the report of the delegation to China from 2 to 6 July 2018, and I ask leave of the House to make a short...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- National Week of Deaf People (4 speeches)
I am pleased to acknowledge the Deaf community in Australia this National Week of Deaf People. This week is a time for all of us to recognise the Deaf community's contributions and culture. This...
- Gilmore Electorate: Shoalhaven Youth Drama Awards (1 speech)
Wow! Member for Parramatta, you're amazing. On 16 September, as patron of the Nowra Players, I was invited to see some of the talented young actors of the Shoalhaven at the annual Youth Drama...
- Vietnam: Human Rights (1 speech)
I congratulate the member for Hotham for arranging a meeting of the Vietnamese community here in Parliament House today to discuss human rights. I particularly welcome Paul Nguyen, the President...
- Deakin Electorate: Football (1 speech)
This coming Saturday, the eastern suburbs will come to a halt when Vermont and South Croydon face off in the Eastern Football League Division 1 grand final at Bayswater Oval. This is a replay of...
- Vietnam: Human Rights (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on behalf of my Vietnamese-Australian constituents in Hotham and the Vietnamese-Australian community Australia-wide. I do so because today we have 100 incredible...
- Windaroo Valley State High School Pi Competition (2 speeches)
Often when we talk about school students and pi, we think of the meat pie, like the famous Yatala pies in my electorate of Forde, but it is another pi that has been the focus of students at...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
Labor has been saying for some time that Australia's aged-care system is a system in crisis. It is a system in crisis because this Prime Minister, as Treasurer, cut almost $2 billion out of the...
- Bonner Electorate: Pathology Services (1 speech)
For most people the word 'pathology' means only one thing, but recently I was shown that it means much more than needles and blood tests. I am proud to have one of Australia's largest pathology...
- Victor Harbor Men's Shed (1 speech)
There are a thousand men's sheds across Australia and many are in my electorate. Men's sheds are doing what men's sheds do best: creating safe spaces for men to connect, to learn, to laugh and to...
- Robertson Electorate: Ettalong Channel (1 speech)
I am pleased to update the House on the matter that I raised in this place last week when I called on the New South Wales government to do whatever it takes to get the dredging of the Ettalong...
- Rockingham Rams Football Club (1 speech)
I've spoken in this chamber before about the wonderful Australian Rules footy team that I get to sponsor in my hometown of Rockingham, the Rockingham Rams. In 2017, I was over the moon to be able...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme, Menzies Electorate: Hanke on Tram (1 speech)
How we treat the most vulnerable in our community is the mark of a compassionate and caring society. This, of course, is the underlying rationale for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, to...
- Dobell Electorate: Marriage (1 speech)
A wedding took place last weekend at the beautiful North Entrance Beach on the Central Coast. It was the wedding of a couple who have been together for 16 years and have three children. The...
- Vietnam: Human Rights (1 speech)
As members of parliament we have a responsibility to stand up against tyranny wherever it exists. Australia is part of an international community that believes in the inherent dignity of the...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
In August last year I stood in this place to raise the stop-work meeting that was occurring for Dorevitch workers supported by the HWU in Victoria. Last week we heard that they have had a serious...
- Ivory Trade (1 speech)
I wish to speak on the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement's inquiry into trade in elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn. I congratulate the chair, Craig Kelly, for his magnificent...
- Women: Economic Security (1 speech)
Older Australian women in this country are the fastest-growing group of people living in poverty and the fastest-growing group of homeless people. Today Labor are announcing our new policy...
- North Sydney Electorate: Lane Cove 12ft Sailing Skiff Club (1 speech)
As a harbourside electorate, North Sydney is home to a number of sailing clubs. They play a wonderful role in encouraging residents, particularly young people, to take to our beautiful waterways....
- Food Safety (1 speech)
I rise to condemn the cowardly sabotage of strawberries and fresh produce that has been occurring in recent weeks. It's disgraceful that someone would intentionally injure people, and that they...
- National Security (2 speeches)
Our Prime Minister has implored us to get aboard and do everything to make our boat go faster. Some time ago our respective leaders met with security officials to work out what to do to counter...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Superannuation (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. On average, Australian women retire with 40 per cent less in their superannuation. That's approximately $113,000 less. Many single women retire into poverty....
- Economy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister advise the House on how the government is standing with Australian families to keep Australians safe and to keep Australians together?
- Superannuation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that this government has hit the retirement savings of Australian women by supporting cuts to penalty rates, abolishing the...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
On indulgence, I should have made this statement to the House earlier: the Treasurer will be absent from question time today, as it is Yom Kippur. I will answer questions on his behalf, and I...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Food Safety (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. As the Attorney knows, my seat is home to many strawberry growers who have been hit hard by recent events. Will the Attorney update the House on steps our...
- Superannuation (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, people earning less than $450 a month don't have to be paid superannuation. This means that many women in low-paid or casual jobs can't build...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have joining us in the gallery this afternoon a parliamentary delegation from the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly. On behalf of the House, I extend a very warm...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Tasmania: Health Care (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, Tasmanians are routinely waiting years to see a specialist and literally dying while waiting for surgery. Congestion at the Royal Hobart...
- Business (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister advise the House how the government is standing with Australian family businesses to keep our economy strong?
- Aged Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care. Is the minister aware of a report that, while visiting a nursing home in May, he conceded the government's $1.2 billion cuts...
- Law Enforcement (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister update the House on action our government is taking to empower authorities to protect Australian families in our community? What...
- Aged Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care, and I refer to his previous answer where he denied blaming the new Prime Minister for hurting the aged-care sector with a $1.2...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Joining us right now on the floor of the House is a delegation from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. On behalf of the House, I extend a very warm welcome to you. Honourable members: Hear, hear!
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Will the Deputy Prime Minister update the House on how the government is...
- Aged Care (8 speeches)
My question is again to the . Minister, has the per resident funding for the complex high-care Aged Care Funding Instrument gone down as a result of the 2016 budget? Mr Rob Mitchell...
- Superannuation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Jobs, Industrial Relations and Women. Will the minister update the House on measures the government is taking to support Australian families by helping working...
- Morrison Government (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has cancelled the scheduled Council of Australian Governments meeting because his government is too busy fighting itself to finalise vital...
- Business (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology. Will the minister update the House on the steps our government is taking to support small and family businesses, creating...
- Schools (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has cancelled the scheduled Council of Australian Governments meeting, because his government is too busy fighting itself to finalise...
- Aged Care (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care. Will the minister update the House on how Australians can have their say through the royal commission into quality and safety...
- Liberal Party Leadership (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. On 21 separate occasions since he became Prime Minister he's failed to answer why Malcolm Turnbull isn't the Prime Minister of Australia. Given that he's had...
- Infrastructure (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Cities, Urban Infrastructure and Population. Will the minister update the House on how our government's congestion-busting infrastructure agenda will relieve...
- Minister for Home Affairs (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Last Wednesday, in answer to a question, the Prime Minister undertook to come back to the House after making inquiries of his department's secretary as to...
- Child Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. Will the minister update the House on action our government is taking to provide child care to Australian families to help parents get back into the...
- Minister for Home Affairs (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why won't the Prime Minister fulfil the commitment he made to the House last week and say whether or not the Minister for Home Affairs excused himself from...
- Drought (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. Will the minister update the House on assistance our government is providing to Australian farming families during this severe...
- 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)
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
I move: That leave of absence for the remainder of the current period of sittings be given to the honourable member for Jagajaga on the grounds of public business overseas. Question agreed to.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Superannuation (24 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for McMahon proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government's failure to...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Mr Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Accounts and Audit Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit I present the committee's report entitled Report 473: Defence major projects report (2016-17): inquiry based on Auditor-General's...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Environmental Conservation (1 speech)
When people talk about environmental protection, too often we only think about the more distant and remote parts of our country. Those more remote areas often are very well deserving of...
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (1 speech)
Australia's engagement with the ten member nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, is of strategic importance, as these nations are being transformed by strong economic...
- Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry (1 speech)
The banking royal commission has so far uncovered truly outrageous tales of corruption and appalling behaviour, including charging the dead, preying on the elderly and the disabled, and...
- Canning Electorate: Peel Health Campus (1 speech)
The City of Mandurah is home to over 80,000 people. It is the heart of Canning. Its population has more than doubled in the last 20 years to become one of the biggest cities in Western Australia,...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
I had a great seniors forum in my electorate recently and I was very pleased to see such a strong turnout of people to the Cannon Hill bowls club to talk about issues of concern to them on the...
- Infrastructure (3 speeches)
I rise to ask a question. It is such a shame that within this nation we have become so timid. We have become so timid and we lack what was once there, what was once the vision of those such as...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Moreton Electorate: Australian Reading Hour (1 speech)
This week I was proud to host, along with Senator Linda Reynolds, the launch of Australian Reading Hour 2018. Senator Reynolds and I are the co-chairs of the Parliamentary Friends of Australian...
- Leichhardt Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rose in this chamber on two occasions last week to call out the Queensland government for its blatant neglect of Far North Queensland. They are starving Far North Queensland of much-needed...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
Labor has been saying for a long time that the aged-care system is in a state of crisis. The government accused us of scaremongering. In fact, it accused us of elder abuse by raising the crisis...
- Corangamite Electorate: Rail Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise today to urge all Corangamite residents to sign a petition, 'Labor's rail fail', on my website, because that's what we are seeing in the Geelong and Corangamite regions. In contrast to the...
- Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme (1 speech)
Colleagues, in 2016 two constituents came to my office—Herb Ellerbock and Jim Hislop—to brief me about their concerns about the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme,...
- Rae, Ms Helen, Two Tails Wines (1 speech)
Today, I would like to acknowledge Helen Rae, who is a wonderful woman who has done much for many students and families in my community. For 19 years Helen has been the principal of Wilson Park...
- Trans-Pacific Partnership (1 speech)
I stand here today to put on record my strong scepticism about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or the TPP, as it is commonly referred to. Labor has tried to make a number of amendments to protect...
- Small Business (1 speech)
Backing small business, which is the engine room of our economy, particularly in regional Australia, is part of our coalition government's plan for a stronger economy and yet more jobs, on top of...
- Dobell Electorate: Broadband (1 speech)
The NBN should be supporting businesses and boosting jobs on the Central Coast and across Australia, but in too many cases it's letting them down. I have heard too many stories of blame-shifting...
- Moore Electorate: Aged Care (1 speech)
The provision of federal government funding for an increased number of aged-care places offering a range of accommodation options to suit a range of residents' needs and choices is an important...
- Morrison Government (1 speech)
It is increasingly obvious to all of us, I'm sure, in our local electorate offices that the dysfunction and the disunity that have been the hallmark of this government over recent times are...
- Mining (1 speech)
I'd like to proudly place on record my support for the Carmichael coal project in Central and North Queensland. I support this project because it will create thousands of local jobs. I support...
- Cabramatta Moon Festival (1 speech)
This weekend I'll be attending the Cabramatta Moon Festival, an event which is held and celebrated annually in my community of Fowler. The event is hosted by Fairfield City Council and provides a...
- Boothby Electorate: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (1 speech)
Last month I was delighted to host Ethan and Kylie Greenfield and Hayden and Andrew Supple here in Parliament House as part of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's Kids in the House event....
- Australian Defence Force Parliamentary Program, Automotive Industry, National Week of Deaf People (1 speech)
Today I rise and acknowledge that in the chamber today we have Captain Alexandra Seagar, a proud member of the ADF and part of the ADF Parliamentary Program exchange program. I, as the son of a...
- Illicit Drugs (1 speech)
After the tragedy of Defqon on the weekend, with the death of two revellers and three others seriously ill in hospital, with hundreds of cases from that festival, there's been an outbreak of...
- Facing North (1 speech)
Facing North is an initiative of the Territory Leadership Network, which is a collaborative arrangement between the Darwin Major Business Group and the Northern Territory government and is hosted...
- Papua New Guinea (1 speech)
Sunday, 16 September, may have been just another day for most Australians, but for Papua New Guinea 16 September represents a momentous occasion in their lengthy history—their independence...
- Youth (1 speech)
A few weeks ago, I joined primary school students from Canberra and authors Beck and Robin Feiner to launch their book If I Was Prime Ministerpublished by ABC Books. To commemorate the launch of...
- Calare Electorate: Bathurst Wallabies Triathlon Club (2 speeches)
More than 5,000 of the best triathletes in the world travelled to Queensland last week to compete in the 2018 International Triathlon Union World Triathlon Grand Final on the Gold Coast, a very...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Committee; Report (2 speeches)
I'm glad to make some remarks on Report 182, from the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, which is titled Oil stocks contracts: Netherlands. This report and the arrangement it puts in place...
