House debates

Monday, 22 October 2018

• Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
  • Parliament House (1 speech)
    For the information of honourable members, I present the Presiding Officers' statement regarding the condition of Parliament House.
• Committees (0 speeches)
  • Petitions Committee; Report (1 speech)
    Today I present the 31st report of the Standing Committee on Petitions for the 45th Parliament.
• Petitions (0 speeches)
  • Responses (1 speech)
    I present the following 12 ministerial responses to petitions previously presented:
  • Statements (1 speech)
    Often the committee receives petitions prepared by school students, and it has invited students to participate in a public hearing for its inquiry into e-petitioning. These activities allow young...
• Committees (0 speeches)
  • Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport; Report (5 speeches)
    On behalf of the Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport, I present the committee's Report on the inquiry into the quality of care in aged care facilities in Australia, together with...
  • Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport; Reference to Federation Chamber (1 speech)
    I move: That the order of the day be referred to the Federation Chamber for debate. Question agreed to.
• Bills (0 speeches)
  • Defence (Honour General Sir John Monash) Amendment Bill 2018; Second Reading (4 speeches)
    I move: That this bill be now read a second time. In moving that this bill be read a second time, I acknowledge my colleague the member for Ryan, who will be seconding the bill and speaking to...
  • Migration Amendment (Kids Off Nauru) Bill 2018; Second Reading (4 speeches)
    I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill is very straightforward. In essence, it requires that all children on Nauru be brought to Australia for medical treatment, accompanied...
  • National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Amendment (Timely Publication of Emissions) Bill 2018; Second Reading (5 speeches)
    I move: That this bill be now read a second time. It's been said that climate change is the great moral challenge of our generation and, by the other side of this House, that climate change...
  • National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Small Amount Credit Contract and Consumer Lease Reforms) Bill 2018; Second Reading (4 speeches)
    I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Colleagues, while this bill has a very long title, the National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Small Amount Credit Contract and Consumer...
• Motions (0 speeches)
  • National Apology to Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse; Reference to Federation Chamber (1 speech)
    by leave—I move: That the resumption of debate on the Prime Minister's motion relating to the National Apology to Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse be referred to...
• Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
  • (1 speech)
    On indulgence, those who received the apology today, the victims of institutional child sexual abuse, have waited a long time for what has happened today. In light of today's events, the Leader...
• Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
  • National Apology to Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse (1 speech)
    The Prime Minister and I, and indeed all the members of parliament, had the privilege of meeting survivors, victims and families in the Great Hall and down at Federation Mall. We got to hear some...
• 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.
• Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
  • Centenary of Armistice (1 speech)
    As a courtesy, I want to update members on how Australian Parliament House will be commemorating the Centenary of Armistice. From tomorrow, members will begin to see poppies being installed along...
• Committees (0 speeches)
  • Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade; Reporting Date (1 speech)
    I have received a message from the Senate transmitting the following message agreed to by the Senate: That the time for the presentation of the report of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign...
  • Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse; Reporting Date (1 speech)
    I have received a message from the Senate transmitting the following message agreed to by the Senate: That the time for the presentation of the report of the Joint Select Committee on oversight...
  • Joint Standing Committee on National Capital and External Territories; Report (4 speeches)
    On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on National Capital and External Territories I present the committee's report, entitled Commonwealth approvals for ACT light rail, together with the...
  • Joint Standing Committee on National Capital and External Territories; Reference to Federation Chamber (1 speech)
    I move: That the order of the day be referred to the Federation Chamber for debate. Question agreed to.
• Bills (0 speeches)
  • Defence Amendment (Call Out of the Australian Defence Force) Bill 2018; Second Reading (9 speeches)
    The scourge of terrorism, tragically, seems to be an all-too-common theme in our daily news cycle. That's why Labor supports this bill, because we understand that it is crucial to ensure our...
  • Defence Amendment (Call Out of the Australian Defence Force) Bill 2018; Third Reading (1 speech)
    by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
• Committees (0 speeches)
  • Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse; Reporting Date (1 speech)
    I move: That the House agrees with the resolution of the Senate, transmitted in message No. 443, extending the time for presentation of the report of the implementation of redress related...
• Bills (0 speeches)
  • Shipping Registration Amendment Bill 2018; Second Reading (12 speeches)
    I rise today to speak on the Shipping Registration Amendment Bill 2018. This bill will make minor amendments to the shipping registration process in order to modernise the system. The amendments...
  • Shipping Registration Amendment Bill 2018; Third Reading (1 speech)
    by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
  • Corporations Amendment (Strengthening Protections for Employee Entitlements) Bill 2018; Second Reading (20 speeches)
    I rise to speak on the Corporations Amendment (Strengthening Protections for Employee Entitlements) Bill 2018 and I move: That all words after “That” be omitted with a view to...
• Adjournment (0 speeches)
  • Crimes Against Wildlife (1 speech)
    I rise to raise my voice once again regarding concerns about incidents of brutality against wildlife in Victoria—in Australia—and also overseas. Last month, I gave a speech in...
  • Climate Change (1 speech)
    I rise today to speak on the disaster that is this government's climate change policy. While the rest of the world has accepted that we are experiencing a climate emergency, including those in...
  • Bibi, Ms Asia, Pakistan: Human Rights, International Development Assistance (1 speech)
    Tonight I wish to raise again in this House the case of Asia Bibi, a 53-year-old Christian woman who since 2010 has been facing death row in Pakistan. Her crime? She's alleged to have committed...
  • Tasmania: Health Care (1 speech)
    Tasmania's health system is in crisis. We have elective surgery waiting lists blowing out day after day. People are waiting in pain in our emergency departments. The Royal Hobart Hospital has...
  • Queensland: Health Care (1 speech)
    It's interesting that the topic I'm speaking on tonight is health as well, but I'm going to talk about health in Queensland. There is only one government in Queensland that's cutting health...
  • Immigration Detention (1 speech)
    I would like to take this opportunity tonight to respond to the huge amount of correspondence I have received in my electorate office in relation to the situation of the children on Manus and...
• Statements by Members (0 speeches)
  • Indigenous Soldiers (1 speech)
    Earlier this year grades 3, 4, 5 and 6 students at St. Bernard's Primary School in Wangaratta read the storybook Alfred's War by Rachel Bin Salleh. It's the story of an Aboriginal World War I...
  • La Trobe Electorate: Cardinia Gujarati Association (1 speech)
    Last Saturday I attended an event organised by the Cardinia Gujarati Association in Packenham. It gave me the greatest pleasure to be part of the event, which is a festival of Gujarati folk dance...
  • Symonds, Mr Christopher (1 speech)
    Lake Michigan in the US is a far cry from the humble Inglis River in my electorate on Tassie's north-west coast, but that's exactly where Wynyard local Chris Symonds made his mark recently,...
  • St John, Emeritus Professor David (1 speech)
    I take this opportunity to recognise a University of Queensland success—Emeritus Professor David St John, who is a local Ryan resident. David has been a mainstay of the materials science...
  • Tasmania: Bureau of Meteorology (1 speech)
    It was my privilege to be able to speak to a rally of 150 or so locals about the Bureau of Meteorology's plan to remove local forecasting out of Tasmania. Locals remain very, very concerned about...
  • Bennelong Electorate: Granny Smith Festival (1 speech)
    I'm always proud to represent Australia's capital of innovation. Bennelong is home to our most innovative companies and has given the world such innovations as the cochlear implant and wi-fi. But...
  • Booth-McNeill, Ms Tanieka, Oxley Electorate: Darra Street Festival (1 speech)
    I rise to acknowledge the entrepreneurial spirit of local year 9 student, Tanieka Booth-McNeill, who attends Springfield Central State High School. At the age of 14, she has won valuable...
  • Brisbane: Live Music (1 speech)
    Last month here I raised my concern that Brisbane's live music scene is under threat. The state government is imposing a one-size-fits-all policy that's killing Brisbane's live music industry and...
  • Hunter Surf Life Saving Club: 100th Anniversary (1 speech)
    Today I would like to congratulate the Hunter Surf Life Saving team on the very special milestone of its centenary. One hundred years ago, the First World War had ended and our surf lifesaving...
  • Breast Cancer Network Australia: 20th Anniversary (1 speech)
    This year marks the 20th anniversary since the founding of the Breast Cancer Network Australia, the BCNA, and the inaugural tribute, Field of Women, held here in Canberra in 1998. Just last week...
  • International Veterans Art Exhibition (1 speech)
    This week the inaugural International Veterans Art Exhibition is being held alongside the Invictus Games. This exhibition is the result of over 12 months of planning by a dedicated team of...
  • Toowoomba: Floods (1 speech)
    Just yesterday afternoon Toowoomba endured another significant storm event, with more than 25 millimetres in less than an hour, high winds, trees and branches down causing some damage, and local...
  • Child Sexual Abuse (1 speech)
    This morning in Parliament House several hundred people from around Australia gathered to listen to the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition deliver on behalf of parliament and the...
  • Cunningham, Mr Barry Thomas (1 speech)
    Barry Thomas Cunningham was a Labor member for McMillan from 1980 through to 1990 and then 1993 to 1996. He was a friend of mine, a friend of the family and a friend of the community. In his...
  • Iran: Human Rights (1 speech)
    Three Iranian Kurds—Ramin Hossein Panahi, Zaniar Moradi and Loghman Moradi—were executed last month at Raja'i Shahr prison in Iran. The government of Iran arrested Zaniar and Loghman...
  • Charitable Fundraising (1 speech)
    As it is an electorate with rural areas, Berowra residents have an intrinsic connection with farmers. That's why our government's response to the drought crisis has been welcomed. With an...
  • Broadband (1 speech)
    Feedback is still rolling in about the dismal NBN rollout; and keep it coming, Canberra. I was recently contacted by Ahmed, who lives in Calwell, a suburb that's 14km from where I am standing....
  • Dawson Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
    Stage 1 of the Mackay ring-road, a half a billion project, is already creating 500 jobs in the local economy. But there's more to come. The shorter stages, 2 and 3, will close the loop on this...
  • Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
    Today this parliament issued a national apology to victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse. I must acknowledge the extraordinary work that was done to advocate for the royal...
  • Boothby Electorate: Shaz's Ride to Cure (1 speech)
    Earlier this month, local Boothby resident Adam Beaumont set off from the Brighton Bombers Football club on Shaz's Ride to Cure. Sixteen-year-old Adam lost his mum, Sharon, to pancreatic cancer...
  • Dobell Electorate: Toukley Preschool Kindergarten (1 speech)
    On Saturday I was privileged to join the celebrations for Toukley Preschool Kindergarten's 50th anniversary with my nephew John. Now John's at big school, he was delighted to visit his old...
  • Murray Electorate: East Shepparton Bowls Club (1 speech)
    The East Shepparton Bowls Club in Shepparton is one of the most vibrant sporting clubs of the Goulburn Valley. The club is a completely self-funded, privately-run club with 120 members, who all...
  • Parragirls, Survivors & Mates Support Network (1 speech)
    Today the federal parliament apologised to victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse, some six years after the royal commission was called in 2012 by the then Prime Minister,...
  • Flynn Electorate: Agriculture (1 speech)
    In my electorate of Fynn, we have the potential to be one of the nation's premier suppliers of a broad range of products and produce. The strength of our agricultural production and agri-business...
  • Herbert Electorate: Water (1 speech)
    I have spoken in this place time and time again about Townsville's dire water situation. In fact, I'm beginning to sound like a broken record but I will not give up. Townsville's desperate need...
  • Henderson, Mr Alan (2 speeches)
    I rise this afternoon to acknowledge a resident of Doncaster East in my electorate of Menzies, namely Alan Henderson, who was awarded the Council of the Ageing Senior Achiever Award by the...
• Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
  • Cambodia (7 speeches)
    I move: That this House: (1) notes Australia's proud legacy of working for peace and democracy in Cambodia, led by the work of the former Labor Foreign Minister the Hon. Gareth Evans QC in...
  • Irrigated Agriculture (11 speeches)
    I move: That this House: (1) acknowledges the importance of irrigated agriculture to the Australian economy; (2) notes that:   (a) irrigated agricultural enterprises in 2016-17...
  • Bleeding Disorders (6 speeches)
    I move: That this House: (1) notes that:   (a) 7 to 13 October 2018 is Bleeding Disorders Awareness Week;   (b) haemophilia, the most common bleeding disorder, affects more...
  • Economy (10 speeches)
    I'm very pleased to have the opportunity to contribute to this important debate. I'm particularly pleased that it was the member for Chisholm who put this debate on the Notice Paper. In...
  • Baha'is in Iran (10 speeches)
    I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) the Baha'i community in Iran is subject to a widespread and systematic campaign of persecution; (b) in 2012 and 2015, the House condemned the...
• Adjournment (0 speeches)
  • (2 speeches)
    I move: That the Federation Chamber do now adjourn.