House debates
Tuesday, 16 October 2018
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Racism (11 speeches)
I seek leave to move the following motion: That the House rejects the resolution put to the Senate yesterday which included a white supremacist slogan that is also used by hate groups like the Ku...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Makin Electorate: Tea Tree Gully Football Club (1 speech)
Last month, Tea Tree Gully Football Club won the division 1 seniors SA Football Association grand final, defeating Rostrevor Old Collegians. The win was dedicated to teammate Jon Birkin, who...
- Groom Electorate: Veterans (1 speech)
Veterans are a very important part of the Groom electorate community—the Swartz Barracks, at Oakey Army Aviation Training Centre; Borneo Barracks at Cabarlah, north of Toowoomba; the RSLs...
- Gone Fishing Day (1 speech)
On Sunday, before jumping on a plane to come down here, I attended Gone Fishing Day. Gone Fishing Day was held at the Darwin waterfront this year. Well done to AFANT, the Amateur Fishermen's...
- Bonner Electorate: Lota House (1 speech)
() (): A proposed aged-care development in Lota has united my Bayside constituents like few other issues. I phone-canvassed the area and stopped by the local Manly markets recently and the No.1...
- Skilled Agricultural Workforce (1 speech)
The Liberal-National government is hopeless. Another demonstration of how hopeless they are is their lack of planning when it comes to having a skilled agricultural workforce. We saw the debacle...
- Fairfax Electorate: Cotton Tree Cenotaph (1 speech)
As we approach Remembrance Day 2018, I wish to congratulate the government, together with Dr Brendan Nelson, the Australian War Memorial, the local councils, the not-for-profit groups, including...
- Kennedy Electorate: Diabetes (1 speech)
Of all deaths, 2.3 per cent are attributable to diabetes. There should be four diabetes deaths amongst the people living in the Torres Strait and Cape York, and in the Aboriginal communities of...
- Wide Bay Electorate: Maryborough Special School (1 speech)
Last Wednesday, I was pleased to visit the Maryborough Special School with the Minister for Veterans' Affairs, Darren Chester, to pay tribute to the students and teachers who produced the Stand...
- Canberra Electorate: National Broadband Network (1 speech)
I was recently contacted by Elliot, a member of my community who works in the IT industry, about the NBN in his apartment block. Elliot moved into a new apartment block in Coombs and contacted...
- Flynn Electorate: Mining (1 speech)
In my electorate of Flynn, coal equals jobs and jobs equal growth. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change figures continue to show strong demand for high-quality Australian coal. We...
- 'Girls Take Over Parliament' Program (1 speech)
On 11 October I participated in the Jasiri Australia and Girl Guides 'Girls take over Parliament' program with Amber Micale. As a result, last Thursday, Amber, in her capacity as the acting...
- HMAS Tobruk (1 speech)
On the weekend Minister Leeanne Enoch from the Queensland Labor government announced that HMAS Tobruk would remain on her side in 30 metres of water and that no attempt would be made to right...
- Timor-Leste (1 speech)
Today marks the 43rd anniversary of the murders of two Australian, two British and one New Zealand journalist in the town of Balibo in the early days of Indonesia's invasion of East Timor....
- Barker Electorate (1 speech)
Last Saturday I had the pleasure of hosting the Prime Minister in my electorate of Barker. This is the third time he has visited Murray Bridge, first as immigration minister, then last year as...
- Intersex Awareness Day (1 speech)
Friday, 26 October is Intersex Awareness Day. Intersex Australians are people whose biological sex characteristics at birth are not typically male or female. These people make up the 'I' in...
- Death Penalty (1 speech)
Forty-four years ago this parliament passed legislation to abolish the death penalty for federal or territory offences, and it is 51 years since the last person in Australia was executed under...
- Morrison Government (1 speech)
I would like to join my sentiments to those of the member for North Sydney and thank him for his contribution. It has been three weeks, but the Prime Minister's self-proclaimed muppet show is...
- Forde Electorate: Beenleigh State High School (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate a great school in my electorate of Forde for its outstanding educational and training activities. Beenleigh State High School, led by principal Matt O'Hanlon, has amongst...
- Racism (2 speeches)
It is not okay to adopt white supremacist neo-Nazi mantras in this parliament. It is not okay for 23 members of the Morrison government to endorse white supremacism in this parliament. Those...
- Deakin Electorate: Scouts and Guides (2 speeches)
On a lighter note, one of the great institutions for young people in this country is the Australian Scouting movement, which of course includes Guides. In my electorate of Deakin there are a...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
The Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel will be absent from question time until 3 pm, and the Minister for Defence will answer questions on his behalf.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Liberal Party Leadership (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Liberal candidate for Wentworth said yesterday that he was appalled at the treatment that was meted out to Malcolm Turnbull. Does the Prime Minister...
- Economy (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on how the government's actions to keep taxes low are working to keep our economy strong? What are the risks and...
- Racism (15 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister honestly expecting Australians to believe that an administrative error was to blame for the government supporting a motion which used a...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on how the government's strong economic management, including providing tax relief for small and medium businesses, is...
- Morrison Government (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The government claims its decision to endorse a white supremacist slogan in the Senate was an administrative error. Was it an administrative error when the...
- Asylum Seekers (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Today the crossbench gave notice to introduce a bill to temporarily relocate children from Nauru for medical treatment. Prime Minister, there is an urgent...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. How does strong economic management allow the Australian government to deliver...
- Goods and Services Tax (3 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Can the Treasurer confirm that, when Labor said Western Australia wasn't getting their fair share of the GST, the government denied it and then accepted it; when...
- Economy (2 speeches)
Sorry to detain the member for Isaacs. My question is to the Treasurer. Can the Treasurer update the House on how the government is backing older Australians by providing economic security and...
- Religious Freedom Review (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday, when asked about laws which allow discrimination against LGBTI teachers, the Treasurer said, 'I don't think these laws are right,' and today...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Jobs, Industrial Relations and Women. Will the minister update the House on how the government is helping more Australians to get a job? What are the risks and...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I'd like to inform the House that we have joining us in the gallery this afternoon a parliamentary delegation from the Dominican Republic, led by the President of the Senate, Senator Reinaldo...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Religious Freedom Review (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is refusing to act on removing discrimination against LGBTI teachers until after the government has released the Ruddock report. Why is...
- National Security (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Will the minister update the House on how the government is strengthening Australia's national security through building strong international...
- Israel (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In June when asked whether Australia would follow President Trump and move its embassy from Tel Aviv, the now Prime Minister said: 'No, no, it's not the...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister update the House on how the government is keeping Australians safe through a robust national security agenda? What are the risks...
- Israel (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Secretary of DFAT has said that the US decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem had not been helpful and had made what was already a very, very...
- Defence Industry (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. Can the minister outline to the House how our government is growing Australia's defence industry? What are the risks and what's at stake from...
- Indonesia (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware of reports that Indonesia is reconsidering its trade deal with Australia as a result of the Prime Minister's rushed announcement...
- Health Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister update the House on how a stronger economy enables the government to support, through the listing of new medicines on the PBS,...
- Morrison Government (2 speeches)
My question is to the minister for regional development. Is the minister aware of a report today headed: 'PM walking all over McCormack, Nats say'. The same report revealed that, in an attempt to...
- Education (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology. Will the minister update the House on how the government is promoting the participation of women in science, technology,...
- 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.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
On 22 May I asked you to chase up the minister for immigration on outstanding questions 934, 937 and 941, which were on the Notice Paper from 26 February. No answer has been received. Could you...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Discrimination (29 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable Deputy Leader of the Opposition proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The need to...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Racism (4 speeches)
In accordance with standing order 133, I shall now proceed to put the question on the motion moved earlier today by the honourable member for Watson on which a division was called for and...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Norman, Mr Peter (1 speech)
Fifty years ago today, a young Australian did two extraordinary things. At the Mexico City Olympics Peter Norman won silver in the 200 metres with a time of 20.06 seconds. In the half-century...
- Groom Electorate: Agriculture Industry (1 speech)
) ( ): My region of Toowoomba and the Darling Downs, which makes up the Groom federal electorate, has long been a leader in agriculture and agribusiness. In fact, that's our heritage. It's the...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
Australia is overseeing a medical emergency, and it requires an emergency response. I am proud of the work that the Greens and many in the community have done over many years to call out the...
- Newton, Mrs Joyce, OAM (1 speech)
As members and senators in the Australian parliament, we all come into daily contact with people in our community who go above and beyond to support various community groups and organisations. In...
- Western Australia: Tourism (1 speech)
One of my goals in my time as a parliamentarian is to assist with the transformation of Perth to becoming a world-class city—in other words, to take it from dullsville to Perth-fect, a...
- Newton, Mrs Joyce Ann OAM (2 speeches)
It was with much sadness that I received news last Thursday advising of the passing of Mrs Joyce Newton. Joyce led a full and giving life, a life claimed too early by the cruel ravages of motor...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- McCartney, Mr Charles (1 speech)
I'm really pleased today to talk in this chamber about Margaret River resident Charles McCartney, who contacted my office around four months ago. As we all know, as members of parliament,...
- Immigration Detention (1 speech)
So many hundreds of my constituents have spoken to me of their concerns about the health and welfare of kids on Nauru—sentiments expressed many times since being elected in 2016. I have had...
- Coalmining Industry (1 speech)
Good times are returning to the coal industry, and that's particularly important to my seat of Flynn and the Bowen Basin. Jobs are returning, and coal is now the biggest export from Australia to...
- Pilbara: Mining (1 speech)
Although the Pilbara region is thousands of kilometres from Perth and from Canberra, it is at the heart of Western Australia's economy. To get to work in one of the many Pilbara mines, you'll...
- Castec Rural Pioneers (1 speech)
I've spoken previously in this place about the success of the Castec Rural Pioneers basketball team in Mount Gambier. In fact, last year the team won their third championship in four years. Their...
- Racism (1 speech)
I rise to discuss the rise of the extreme Right in Australia and their activities around the country. I have mentioned before an attack on my electorate office. There have now been three...
- Hinkler Electorate: Anniversaries (1 speech)
I rise to speak about four significant anniversaries that occurred in my electorate in recent weeks. Bundaberg Brewed Drinks had their 50th anniversary—50 years making the famous Bundaberg...
- National Carers Week (1 speech)
As we all know, this week is National Carers Week. With approximately 2.7 million people providing unpaid care for family and friends in Australia this week, I am pleased to be able to recognise...
- Mental Health (1 speech)
It's a sobering fact that almost one in two Australians will experience a mental health condition at some point in their lifetime. For young Australians in particular we know that that challenge...
- Child Care (2 speeches)
I rise today to speak about the government's overzealous crackdown on family day care providers. Let me say from the outset that there's been some dodgy and illegal behaviour in the family day...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- West Gate Bridge (5 speeches)
Today we recall the tragedy of the West Gate Bridge collapse. The West Gate is a bridge that is dear to every Melbournian because, as you drive over the top of this bridge, the marvellous...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Prevention of Violence Against Women (1 speech)
Last February in this place I paid tribute to each and every one of the 49 women who were murdered violently, usually by someone they knew, in 2017. To our great shame, we have already surpassed...
- Page Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
The Glee Hockey Club was established in Lismore in 1928. This year the club is celebrating not only its 90th anniversary but also the retirement of veteran coach Rhonda Mathers, who has called...
- Tasmania: Mental Health (1 speech)
I wish to bring to the parliament's attention the recent report by the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. Just this month they released the report The long wait: an analysis of mental...
- Gippsland Electorate: Health Workforce (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker, you, like me and the member for Cowper, representing regional electorates, are very familiar with the challenges in attracting a regional health workforce. The difficulty in...
- Racism, Payday Loans (1 speech)
There are several issues I'd like to raise tonight in the parliament that, as a result of this government's chaos, division and dysfunction, are having a huge impact on everyday Australians not...
- Corangamite Electorate: Rail Infrastructure (2 speeches)
I am delighted to rise and celebrate Matthew Guy and the Victorian Liberal's bold vision to transform regional rail services in Victoria. This is an incredible plan. High-speed rail for all of...
