House debates
Tuesday, 27 November 2018
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- South Australia: Hospitals (1 speech)
This week the South Australian Marshall Liberal government announced that $18.9 million will be paid to accounting firm KordaMentha to find $276 million of savings out of the Central Adelaide...
- Page Electorate: OneWave (1 speech)
OneWave is worldwide organisation that draws together the surfing community to promote mental health. The group holds fluoro Fridays each week to raise awareness about mental health. Lisa Nichols...
- Master Builders Australia awards (1 speech)
Over the weekend Master Builders Australia held their annual awards for national excellence in building and construction. I'm very pleased to report to the House that our NT apprentice of the...
- Calare Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
For 160 years, people have been trying to get a road across the Macquarie River at Dixons Long Point in the Central West of New South Wales. An upgraded crossing would deliver a wide range of...
- Centenary of Armistice (1 speech)
It was my great honour to attend the 100th anniversary of Armistice in the electorate of Lindsay on Remembrance Day. The event in my electorate was organised by the Penrith CBD Corporation in...
- Lyne Electorate: Community Groups (1 speech)
It was my great honour and pleasure to meet with the board of the Comboyne Ex-Servicemen's and Citizens' Club at the Comboyne Plateau to announce a $10,000 grant that's going to catalyse a...
- Safety Bay Senior High School: 40th Anniversary (1 speech)
Last week, I attended the 40th birthday celebrations of my old school Safety Bay Senior High School. Safety Bay Senior High School was celebrating 40 years of public education in what was, when...
- Diabetes (1 speech)
There are 130,000 Australians with type 1 diabetes. It is a condition that is growing at the rate of 3,500 patients per year and affects many people in my electorate of Moore. I welcome the...
- Mayo Electorate: Community Service Awards (1 speech)
As we approach the end of the school year, I have spent the last month presenting the Mayo community service awards. The award is conferred to a senior student who has demonstrated a keen...
- Cowper Electorate: Belcher, Ms Rosa (1 speech)
I rise in the House to honour Telegraph Point's oldest resident, Rosa Belcher, who turned 100 on 14 November. Rosa is a great Australian, who was born in Extremadura, Spain in 1918. She emigrated...
- Women in Information and Communication (1 speech)
I'm the proud patron of Women in Information and Communication, or WIC, as it's known, which is an organisation that champions the role of women in the information technology, communications and...
- Canning Electorate: Peel Health Campus (1 speech)
Today marks 210 days since the Peel health rally. On that chilly May night more than 400 people from the Mandurah community stood outside the Peel Health Campus and called on the WA Labor...
- Burt Electorate: FIRST LEGO League Competition (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker Hogan: Everything is awesome, everything is cool when your part of a team … … … We're the same unlike you, you're like me...
- Groom Electorate: Heritage Bank Business Excellence Awards (1 speech)
Earlier this month the Toowoomba Chamber of Commerce hosted the 2018 Heritage Bank Business Excellence Awards at our wonderful historic Empire Theatre in Toowoomba, with the indomitable Lee...
- Mabo, Dr Bonita, AO (1 speech)
Along with all Australians I offer my deepest condolences to the Mabo family on the loss of Bonita Mabo AO. Ninety seconds here can't reflect the enormous achievement she made in her 75 years....
- Australian Public Service (1 speech)
They said that decentralisation would not work. They told us that having a centre of excellence at Armidale with APVMA was not going to come through, but now we have the evidence coming in. We...
- Lalor Electorate: Education (1 speech)
I rise today to give a clear shout-out to the principals, school council presidents leadership teams in the schools across the electorate of Lalor. Over the past four weeks, I've visited the...
- Road Safety (1 speech)
In the First and Second World Wars, over 100,000 Australians lost their lives; every single death a tragedy leaving behind grieving families and friends. Since the end of the Second World War,...
- Prime Minister (1 speech)
() (): After four weeks of crisscrossing the country trying to convince Australians that this guy is authentic—after 20 years in public life, if you've got to convince Australians that you...
- Queensland Children's Hospital (2 speeches)
The greatness of Lady Phyllis Cilento: the only female graduate of her class of medicine in 1919; a lady medical officer in the British colonial service; in 1924 had a private practice in New...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Liberal Party Leadership (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given that his minority government is consumed by division, dysfunction and chaos, was it a mistake for the current Prime Minister to replace Malcolm...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister please explain to the House how a strong economy helps the government to back small business across the country? Is the Prime...
- Prime Minister (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. When Malcolm Turnbull was Prime Minister, the government had a majority in the parliament; the members for Wentworth and Chisholm were government members;...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline to the House how a strong economy helps government deliver certainty and economic security for Australians, including in my electorate...
- Coalition Government (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The former Liberal and now Independent member for Chisholm today confirmed the coup against Malcolm Turnbull was 'led by members of the reactionary right...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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I'd like to inform the House that we have joining us in the gallery this afternoon the former member for Hasluck, Mr Stuart Henry. On behalf of the House, I extend a very warm welcome to you. I'd...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Hobart City Deal (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, yesterday you spoke glowingly of the city deals being struck around the country. But I understand that the Hobart City Deal, as it currently...
- Employment (4 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Transport and Regional Development. Will the Deputy Prime Minister update the House on how a strong economy assists...
- Morrison Government (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The former Liberal, and now independent, member for Chisholm said that the policies of this government have changed: … largely due to the actions of...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Jobs, Industrial Relations and Women. Will the minister update the House on how a strong economy helps the government support women to take control of their...
- Equal Representation (8 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister for Women. Does the minister agree with herself that this Liberal government is widely seen as, 'Homophobic, antiwomen, climate change deniers'? Does she also...
- Health Care (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister update the House on how a strong economy helps the government deliver record funding for hospitals, Medicare and new medicines? How...
- Energy (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that at a time of record high power bills and record low wages growth the former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party has called on...
- Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. Will the minister update the House on how a strong economy helps the government deliver the quality child care and education that young Australians...
- Minister for Home Affairs (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to revelations in the media that the Minister for Home Affairs' ability to cancel criminal visas is being challenged in the Federal Court because of...
- Pensions and Benefits (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families and Social Services. Will the minister update the House on how a strong economy helps the government support Australians through our social security...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (4 speeches)
The Leader of the House, with papers.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Victoria (27 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Corio proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government's cuts to...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, I present the committee's report, incorporating a dissenting report, entitled Report 184: nuclear cooperation UK. Report made a...
- Human Rights Committee; Report (1 speech)
() (): On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, I present the committee's report entitled Human rights scrutiny report: Report 12 of 2018. Report made a parliamentary paper...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Funding and Disclosure Reform) Bill 2018; Second Reading (2 speeches)
I am in continuation. I previously outlined our history, the history of those on this side of the chamber in relation to this issue and, in particular, the foreign donations policy we took to the...
- Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Funding and Disclosure Reform) Bill 2018; Consideration in Detail (3 speeches)
I move: (1) Schedule 1, page 62 (after line 14), after item 45A, insert: 45AA After section 304 Insert: 304A Monthly disclosure of gifts and loans Gifts (1) If, in a calendar month, a political...
- Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Funding and Disclosure Reform) 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.
- Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Bill 2018, Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2018; Second Reading (1 speech)
It's a great privilege to provide the summing up to the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Bill 2018 and the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Consequential Amendments and...
- Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Bill 2018, Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2018; Consideration in Detail (1 speech)
I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill. I ask leave of the House to move government amendments (1) to (4), as circulated, together. Leave granted. I move government...
- Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Bill 2018, Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2018; Third Reading (2 speeches)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time.
- Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2018; Second Reading (1 speech)
The question is that this bill be now read a second time.
- Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2018; Consideration in Detail (2 speeches)
I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill. I ask leave of the House to move government amendments (1) to (127), as circulated, together. Leave granted. I move the government...
- Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2018; Third Reading (2 speeches)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time.
- Social Services Legislation Amendment (Housing Affordability) Bill 2017; Second Reading (4 speeches)
I rise to speak on the Social Services Legislation Amendment (Housing Affordability) Bill 2017. The bill that is currently before the House is yet another example of why this government is not...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Days and Hours of Meeting (12 speeches)
) ( ): I present a chart showing the program of sittings for 2019. Copies of the program have been placed on the table. I ask leave of the House to move that the program be agreed to. Leave...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Economy (3 speeches)
I rise to discuss the issues of gender pay equity. It seems now that the government wants to talk about some improvements in narrowing the gap between men's and women's wages in the country, and...
- Dawson Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
In North Queensland we know a good, reliable source of water is essential to create jobs and to drive the local economy. That's why the Morrison Liberal-Nationals government has committed $3.3...
- National Integrity Commission (1 speech)
Is it any wonder that the Australian public has lost trust in politics and our public institutions? Yesterday, the Morrison government went from opposing a national integrity commission to voting...
- Leichhardt Electorate: Mossman Mill (1 speech)
I rise tonight to highlight a transformational project within my electorate. The Mossman Mill has been a feature in the local landscape for more than a century. In 1897, Annie Rose fed the first...
- Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
I want to use this time this evening to provide a bit of an update for the House on the discussions Labor's been conducting with bank victims around Australia. Labor has been calling for a...
- Brisbane Electorate: Small Business (2 speeches)
There are more than 30,000 small businesses in the electorate of Brisbane, many of them small, family-run businesses. I've spoken about them here before many times because they are the heart of...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Symonds, Mrs Elizabeth Ann, AM (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to the late Ann Symonds. Ann Symonds was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1982 to 1998. She was made a Member of the Order of Australia, an honour...
- Forde Electorate: Crematorium (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to raise an issue in my electorate of Forde which is a concern for the quiet suburb of Bethania in particular, a suburb that is home to young families,...
- South Australian Government (1 speech)
The South Australian Marshall Liberal government has turned its back on the people of Makin. Since being elected, the Marshall government has announced the closure of the Tea Tree Gully TAFE...
- Leichhardt Electorate: Wujal Wujal Community (1 speech)
I rise this evening to highlight an initiative that is achieving amazing results in Wujal Wujal, a small Indigenous community in my electorate. The 51st Battalion, Far North Queensland Regiment,...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
The people I represent want to see action on climate change. They know that rising carbon emissions have affected our climate and that our planet has already warmed significantly as a result of...
- Centenary of Armistice (1 speech)
Mere words cannot do justice to the significance and importance of 11 November 1918. At 11 am on that day the armistice signed by Germany earlier in the morning came into effect. This signified...
- Footscray-Yarraville City Band (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate the Footscray-Yarraville City Band for their successful tour of the United Kingdom, France and Belgium to commemorate the centenary of the armistice that ended World War I....
- Harvie, Mr Jake (1 speech)
Australia's hockey players have always had a great amount of success, and I'd like to tell you about another terrific young athlete and his family, from Dardanup, in my electorate of Forrest....
- Islamic Council of Victoria (1 speech)
Today I rise to support the Islamic Council of Victoria. I would like to recognise the wonderful work they do in servicing our vibrant Islamic community in my home state of Victoria and the work...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
The cranes and high-vis vests on construction sites all over my electorate of Fisher attest to our strong local economy and the jobs we're creating with the support of our government. I was...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Mack, Mr Edward Carrington (Ted) (3 speeches)
I'm a Liberal Party partisan. I believe in our party and its traditions and its values. More than that, as somebody who believes in the institutions of the parliament, I'm a two-party person. I...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Melbourne: Attacks (10 speeches)
I am the member for Melbourne but I was born in South Australia and then grew up and did my high school and university in Western Australia. I love lots of things about Perth and Fremantle, but...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Shortland Electorate (1 speech)
I'm pleased to provide the House with an update on the state of Shortland as we come to the end of 2018. This year has been quite momentous nationally, and it's been a busy one locally. I want to...
- O'Connor Electorate: Cancer Care Services (1 speech)
I use this grievance debate as an opportunity to raise the unresolved issue of a fully funded linear accelerator machine, which will be granted to Albany through the federal Radiation Oncology...
- Broadband (2 speeches)
I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this grievance debate tonight. I welcome the opportunity because I'll be talking about an issue with which I've had a grievance for a very, very long...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
I raise a grievance on behalf of the people who I represent in my electorate. Like you, Mr Deputy Speaker, my electorate is one that has a lot of seniors, a lot of retirees, a lot of pensioners...
- Solomon Electorate: Larrakia People (2 speeches)
In the Top End the wet season is almost here. It has mostly brought heat and humidity so far, but some good storms as well as some good rain. This season is known as the balnba season in the...
