House debates
Monday, 18 February 2019
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Responses (1 speech)
I present 60 ministerial responses to petitions previously presented to the House:
- Statements (1 speech)
There are a number of elements in the petitions that I present today that are noteworthy. This includes a petition that has gathered over 30,000 signatures. I also present a record number of...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Small Amount Credit Contract and Consumer Lease Reforms) Bill 2018; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. It is difficult to fathom why this bill, which seeks to protect vulnerable consumers from the unscrupulous practices of many operators in the...
- Refugee Protection Bill 2019; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Last week in this place humanity triumphed over cruelty and illegality when late Tuesday afternoon the so-called 'medevac' bill passed this place...
- Galilee Basin (Coal Prohibition) Bill 2019; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Unprecedented bushfires in Tasmania, the slow death of the Murray-Darling river system, the flooding of northern Queensland. We are in the middle...
- Coal Prohibition (Quit Coal) Bill 2019; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Australia exports 80 per cent of its thermal coal—80 per cent. That is coal that we use for electricity. Until we stop exporting thermal...
- Banking Amendment (Rural Finance Reform) Bill 2019; Second Reading (4 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. All too often we have heard the stories of farmers who, during drought times or difficult times, are forced into debt and despair. For some,...
- Office for Regional Australia Bill 2019; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. In summary, in presenting this bill I would like to continue my call for the need for an overarching, comprehensive, long-term and non-partisan...
- Reserve Bank Amendment (Australian Reconstruction and Development Board) Bill 2019; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I represent my homeland, where my family have lived for around 120 years. My son is living there now. We got hit with the TB eradication program....
- Export Control Amendment (Banning Cotton Exports to Ensure Water Security) Bill 2019; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I move: That this bill now be read a second time. The Murray-Darling Basin Plan is our greatest river system in Australia and it is in crisis. The river and its communities remember the social,...
- Queensland: Floods (7 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) Townsville has experienced the worst floods in recorded history; (b) Townsville received a year's rainfall in nine days, with 1,134 millimetres...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- National Security (3 speeches)
by leave—Australia's democratic process is our greatest asset, our most critical piece of national infrastructure. Public confidence in the integrity of our democratic processes is an...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Disability Services (1 speech)
Almost two years ago, the Leader of the Opposition, Bill Shorten, called for a royal commission into violence and abuse against people with disabilities. The countless harrowing accounts of...
- Small Business (1 speech)
Last Saturday in wonderful Port Lincoln, on a beautiful day, we held a small business fair attended by about 50 local business people and also by Senator Anne Ruston and local member Peter...
- Canberra Electorate: Drones (1 speech)
A commercial drone operated by Evoenergy was shot down over a rural property. Actually, it was across the weekend; it was that recent. The wariness and distrust of drones by rural property owners...
- International Women's Day (1 speech)
March 8 is a significant date in the calendar of women. It is International Women's Day. It's a reminder to be part of the growing awareness of women around the world. For me, today, this date...
- Lyons Electorate: Energy (1 speech)
When it comes to energy policy, the businesses of Tasmania are voting with their wallets and they're voting renewable. And I'm pleased to say that they're keeping their money in the great...
- Deakin Electorate: Sport Facilities (1 speech)
For six years I've worked very hard to make sure that we're doing everything we can to upgrade our local community and sporting infrastructure. We've been very successful in what we've achieved,...
- Wills Electorate: Moreland Toy Library (1 speech)
Toy libraries are a great resource for parents of young kids. They're cost effective, compared to buying toys, and they let parents target age-specific development needs. That's why I'm so...
- Glancy, Mr Samuel (1 speech)
It's a great opportunity today to give a shout-out to an outstanding young 11-year-old, Samuel Glancy, for the work he's been doing over the past couple of years to raise supplies for local...
- Immigration Detention (1 speech)
It was heartening over the weekend that the response in my electorate to the passage of last week's emergency medical transfers bill was overwhelmingly positive. The people of Wentworth are...
- Bonner Electorate: Volunteers (1 speech)
It's now the third year of my Bonner Volunteer Awards. Nominations are now open for 2019's most outstanding volunteers and volunteer groups. Nominations are open until Friday, 1 March, so I would...
- Household and Personal Debt (1 speech)
It is now 1,291 days since this government announced a review of predatory payday lending practices. That's 3½ years—plenty of time, you would think, to get the legislation and get the...
- South-East Queensland City Deal (1 speech)
The Morrison government's announcement of a city deal for South-East Queensland is a fantastic result for my electorate of Fisher. I'm grateful to the Prime Minister, and the Minister for Cities,...
- Shipping (1 speech)
At a time when the Morrison government boasts about being tough on border protection, it ignores the serious threat to Australian borders of dismantling Australian coastal shipping operations and...
- Robertson Electorate: Coast Opera Australia (1 speech)
I want to acknowledge the arrival of Coast Opera Australia to the Central Coast and the fantastic work done by their artistic director and CEO, Angela Brewer, in promoting opera and the arts in...
- Shipping (1 speech)
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending the naming ceremony of Toll's new Australian flagged and Australian crewed vessel, Tasmanian Achiever II. It's Australia's biggest cargo ship, and,...
- Anti-Semitism (1 speech)
Everybody has a responsibility to stand up against racism and anti-Semitism. Sadly, the year has begun with terrible anti-Semitic attacks in Melbourne, and it's important that we stand up and...
- Broadband (1 speech)
I recently received an email from Paul McLean, a retired software engineer who lost the NBN lottery. He explained it like this: I ended up with a broken internet— The connection was...
- O'Connor Electorate: Radiation Therapy (1 speech)
I'll start today by welcoming Anne Byrne and Ellen Sims, who have come all the way from my home town of Katanning, Western Australia to visit me here in parliament today. Katanning is part of the...
- Murray-Darling Basin (1 speech)
Like a lot of Australians, when I'm on holidays over Christmas I try to switch off from the news, but there was no escaping the appalling enormity of the environmental disaster unfolding in the...
- Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education (2 speeches)
The scandal involving the unlawful leaks to the media of the Registered Organisation Commission raids of the AWU office involving Liberal ministers gets murkier by the day. We learnt today in...
- Shadow Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
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by leave—I table a revised shadow ministry list which reflects Senator Jacinta Collins moving to the National Catholic Education Commission. The document read as follows— SHADOW...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Disability Services (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How can the Prime Minister claim that his government never opposed a disability royal commission, when every government senator voted against one just four...
- Economy (3 speeches)
My question as to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister outline to the House what action the government is taking to make Australia stronger? Is the Prime Minister aware of any alternative...
- Disability Services (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Every government senator voted against a disability royal commission just four days ago. Why won't the Prime Minister just tell the truth and admit that he...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Could the Deputy Prime Minister update the House on the impact on regional...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Children with a disability are waiting months to receive an NDIS plan and the support that they need, with the government's own figures showing an average...
- Banking and Financial Services (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. The mortgage-broking model originated as a disrupter to the market power of the major banks, which were gouging clients. With the government's proposed changes to...
- Economy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the importance of a strong economy and housing market for hardworking Australian families, including in my electorate of...
- Disability Services (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Which government minister directed government senators to vote against a disability royal commission in the Senate last Thursday? Given the Prime Minister...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on how the government's strong economic record benefits all Australians saving for their retirement, including those in my...
- Disability Services (16 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister please confirm that every government senator, including his ministers in the Senate, voted against a disability royal commission last...
- National Security (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister update the House on the benefits of strong and consistent border protection policies? Is the minister aware of any alternative...
- Disability Services (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that: on Tuesday his government knew there would be a vote on a disability royal commission; on Wednesday he had the exact...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. Will the Attorney-General update the House on how weaker border security will impact our justice system?
- Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that two of his ministers refused to provide witness statements to the Australian Federal Police investigation?
- National Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs. Will the minister update the House on how the government's strong border security—
- Small Business (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Last week, the government voted against Labor's 'access to justice for small business' reforms in the Senate. But today, the government is briefing the media...
- Building and Construction Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Jobs and Industrial Relations and the Minister for Women. Will the minister update the House on how the government is acting to safeguard the security of...
- Prime Minister (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Last week, the Prime Minister thumbed his nose at the Nationals and shelved the government's 11th energy policy since 2016 because he has lost control of the...
- Senior Australians (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Families and Social Services. Will the minister update the House on how the government is supporting retirement incomes for pensioners and elderly Australians...
- Morrison Government (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that because he cannot control the parliament, cannot control the National Party and cannot control his own government that...
- Aged Care, Dividend Imputation (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care. Will the minister update the House on how our government is supporting ageing Australians and providing the essential services...
- Murray-Darling Basin (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment. There is an ecological disaster in the Darling River at Menindee Lakes. Why is it that the environmental minister has not visited and is...
- Queensland: Floods (2 speeches)
Prime Minister, won't your micro-irrigation schemes, templating at Hughenden, mitigate giant floods now killing two million kangaroos, miring birdlife in mud, pushing dunnarts towards extinction...
- Industry, Technology and Science (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology. Will the minister update the House about how the government is able to create jobs and opportunities through investment in...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 26 of 2018-19 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit No. 26 of 2018-19 entitled Australian Government funding of public hospital services—Risk management, data monitoring and reporting arrangements:...
- 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.
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Valedictory (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, on indulgence, I wish to make a valedictory speech to the parliament. It is impossible in one short speech to summarise the amazing ride that I have been on, from a 26-year-old girl...
- Resolutions of the Senate (0 speeches)
- Disability Services; Consideration of Senate Message (6 speeches)
I have received a message from the Senate transmitting a resolution relating to a proposed royal commission to inquire into violence, abuse and neglect of people with a disability, and requesting...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Road Safety (5 speeches)
I seek leave to make a ministerial statement relating to road safety.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics Committee; Membership (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker has received advice from the Chief Government Whip nominating Mr Ted O'Brien to be a member of the Standing Committee on Economics.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (1 speech)
We heard an extraordinary comment from the Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care in parliament today when he talked about how senior Australians and those in aged care deserve better than...
- Bonner Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
I am thrilled by the government's two recent road-funding announcements for my electorate of Bonner. The intersections at Newnham Road and Wecker Road in Mount Gravatt, and Chelsea Road and...
- Shortland Electorate: Community Services (1 speech)
The community sector is at the heart of how Australia delivers social services. Community organisations deliver important practical services to the poorest and most vulnerable in our community....
- Fisher Electorate: Education, Employment and Retirement (1 speech)
I sought election to this parliament because I want to help to make my community the place to be for education, employment and retirement. That is my vision for Fisher, and it is my mission on...
- Human Rights (1 speech)
Government officials connected with authoritarian governments have gotten away with their abuses of power without sanction. These abusers use their ill-gotten gains and status to travel abroad...
- Robertson Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to some outstanding citizens in my electorate of Robertson who were recently awarded and honoured as part of the Australia Day 2019 community awards. I know that none of...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Australian Greens (1 speech)
Following meticulous research by the Parliamentary Library, I published a series of advertisements throughout Victoria on the record of the Greens political party in voting against every piece of...
- National Servicemen (1 speech)
Yesterday, I had the honour of attending the memorial day service to the National Servicemen of Australia hosted by the Nambucca Valley sub branch of the Australian National Servicemen's...
- Music Festivals, Petitions: Mining (2 speeches)
I rise firstly today to echo my community's concerns about the implementation of the New South Wales Liberal-National government's rushed new guidelines for music festivals. This of course will...
- Canning Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
As this Chamber is aware, one of my priorities for the last three years has been the upgrade and expansion of road and rail in the Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale. Serpentine Jarrahdale is one of...
- Isaacs Electorate: Kingston Toy Library (1 speech)
The Kingston Toy Library is a fantastic local service in my community of Isaacs. Located in Lewis Street, Mordialloc, it provides an essential service to local mums and dads, lending out toys to...
- Roberts, Ms Rhoda, McGillivray, Mr Max (1 speech)
I'd like to acknowledge a member of my community today, Rhoda Roberts, who was recently described in The Sydney Morning Herald as 'one of the pre-eminent Australian arts figures of her...
- Mining (1 speech)
Throughout the past 10 years, the instability in our politics and indeed in our economy has made for challenging times. Fluctuating employment and growing uncertainty over the future have...
- Petrie Electorate: Bracken Ridge (1 speech)
I want to talk about Bracken Ridge, in the Brisbane City Council area, where I grew up. I grew up at 11 Toolang Street Bracken Ridge, a home that my father and mother built, and then at 19 Talgai...
- Adelaide Electorate: Road Safety (1 speech)
I regret that I can't also talk about cane toad sniffer dogs—something I haven't been able to do in my 15 years here! Instead I rise today, as I have on more than one occasion, to argue in...
- Canning Electorate: Peel Health Campus, Member for Holt (1 speech)
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the many constituents who got behind our push for an upgrade to the Peel Health Campus, as the Peel Health Campus is more than 20 years old and was...
- National Security (2 speeches)
I'd say the same for the chair of the PJCIS, the member for Canning. Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking and being called upon to speak at short notice without having a speech prepared, I did...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Tuberculosis (8 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) 24 March is World Tuberculosis Day, a day to commemorate the precious lives lost due to tuberculosis, a...
- Schools (25 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) acknowledges that our public schools are at the heart of our education system; (2) notes that: (a) public schools teach two in three of all school...
- India (9 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) strongly endorses An India Economic Strategy To 2035, the independent report by Mr Peter Varghese AO, and its goals of: (a) lifting India into Australia's...
- International Mother Language Day (9 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1)acknowledges: (a)that 21 February is International Mother Language Day (IMLD); (b)the work of the Ekushe Academy Australia and the Mother Language Conservation...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
I recently hosted an NDIS forum in my electorate, and I would urge every member in this place to do the same. I brought my community together, and together we heard from the NDIA. I'd like to pay...
- North Sydney Electorate: Energy (1 speech)
Community organisations in my electorate are embracing the future and the potential of solar energy. This is both because of the benefits for our climate and the savings in energy costs that can...
- Smashed Project (1 speech)
Whilst the rate of underage drinking in Australia continues to slowly decline, there is still a great deal of work to be done to break the culture of underage drinking and to reduce...
- La Trobe Electorate: Multicultural Education Resource Centre (1 speech)
It's with great pleasure that Minister Alan Tudge and I visited the Buddhist Vihara in Berwick, otherwise known as the Sri Lankan temple, where we made a $500,000 grant announcement for the...
- Canberra Electorate: Broadband (1 speech)
Elliot's NBN saga part 1: on 10 September 2018, Elliot placed an order with an ISP to get his apartment connected to the NBN. After three weeks of NBN Co's confusion over whether NBN...
- Goldstein Electorate: TaskForce Community Agency (1 speech)
I'm pleased to announce that TaskForce Community Agency in Bentleigh has receive a $50,000 grant as part of the government's Fostering Integration Grants Program. TaskForce Community Agency helps...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
I speak on behalf of Anna, a Melbourne uni masters student, from Endeavour Hills. She's an intelligent and independent woman with another bizarre NDIS experience. She was born with spina bifida...
- O'Connor Electorate: Community Sport Infrastructure Grant Program (1 speech)
I rise today to detail three very welcome announcements in the recent round 2 of the Community Sports Infrastructure Grants Program. This funding forms the second part of a $60 million community...
- Townsville: Floods (1 speech)
I stand in this place today to fight for a fair share for the people of Townsville. The LNP government is refusing to give some people in Townsville their fair share. More than 22,000 homes have...
- NF McDonnell & Sons (1 speech)
On Friday I had the great privilege of attending a celebration at NF McDonnell & Sons to mark 75 years of exceptional sawmilling in Mount Gambier. The business was founded by Newman McDonnell...
- Canberra: Fuel, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (1 speech)
Canberra's 59 service stations charge petrol prices that are on average 7.4 per cent above the national average. Like many Canberrans, I've grown sick and tired of the excuses given for these...
- Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
Last week I spoke with a group of 50 mortgage brokers who live on the Sunshine Coast at a meeting at the Mooloolaba Surf Club organised by John McNamara of SMS Finance. The mortgage brokers that...
- Murray-Darling Basin (1 speech)
Saving the Murray-Darling Basin is an issue that is close to most of the hearts of South Australians and indeed the nation. In my electorate, as in many electorates around in this country,...
- Bonner Electorate (1 speech)
Having grown up in Bonner and lived in the area for more than three decades, I am proud of the local community and blessed to be raising my own children in a place I care so deeply about. As the...
- Disability Services (1 speech)
I want to acknowledge the very historic motion that has just taken place in the Australian parliament. We have finally passed a motion to support a royal commission into violence, abuse and...
- Palliative Care (1 speech)
Last Friday, federal and state Labor shadow health ministers Catherine King and Walt Secord announced that, if elected, Labor will build a palliative care hospice on the Central Coast. This is...
- Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
I want to now voice my support for mortgage brokers and, to all of those outstanding men and women who offer outstanding service to Australians, offer our wholehearted support on this side of the...
- Shipping (1 speech)
They used to call BHP 'the big Australian' but not anymore because recently they sacked over 80 workers who worked on the Mariloula and Lowlands Brilliance. They've sacked them. What they did was...
- The Land Showgirl Competition 2019 (1 speech)
This coming February weekend, 11 fantastic young women will participate in the Zone 2 Showgirl final, hosted by the Nowra Show Society and organised by one of their former showgirls and state...
- Khoshaba, Father Emmanuel (1 speech)
I rise today to offer my sincerest condolences to Melbourne's Chaldean Catholic Christian community on the passing of their much loved Father Emmanuel Khoshaba. Father Khoshaba was a pioneer. He...
- Health Care: Heart Disease (1 speech)
Heart disease affects more than 65,000 people throughout Australia, and I can't tell you how excited I am, and a number of my constituents are, I must say, with last week's announcement by the...
- 5up5down (1 speech)
In this age of Facebook, Instagram, and other social media, it seems we are more disconnected than ever. Loneliness and social isolation are an emerging health issue, with some surprising...
- Ryan Electorate: Bardon Latrobe Football Club (1 speech)
The coalition government recognises that grassroots sporting clubs help to drive increased participation and promote the social health and community benefits of physical activity and sport. No...
- Schools (1 speech)
As someone who has seen phenomenal residential growth in the electorate I represent, and the influx of new families, particularly around Colebee and Marsden Park, families who often think about...
- Hinkler Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise to give a shout-out to the Hervey Bay & District Tennis Association, which has been very fortunate recently to receive almost $150,000 from the Community Sport Infrastructure grant....
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
Once again I'm forced in this place to talk about the government's mishandling of the NDIS. My office has been inundated with calls and visits from people desperate to get help and treatment and...
- Robertson Electorate: Small Business (1 speech)
I've heard from many local businesses who are benefiting from our small business policies, allowing them to create more jobs for local people so they can spend less time commuting and more time...
- Federal Election (1 speech)
In this election, Australians have a choice. At community barbecues, coffee shops and street stalls right across Moreton, I've heard locals deliver their verdict on this rabble of a government....
- Economy (2 speeches)
Coal has been demonised by our Labor candidate in Flynn. Labor want to shut down a $66 billion coal industry. Recently, Bill Shorten was in Gladstone with his union-bred, union-fed and union-led...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Australian Natural Disasters (16 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) acknowledges that parts of Australia have been affected by fire, floods and storms during the recent summer period; (2) recognises the support the Government has...
- Disaster Relief Funding to Tasmania (10 speeches)
I move:
- Economy (9 speeches)
This motion speaks to how completely out of touch the LNP government really are. They try to brag that things are going well—that the economy is going well and that jobs are on the...
- Loneliness (7 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) pays tribute to the work done on loneliness in the United Kingdom in memory of Mrs Jo Cox; (2) acknowledges that:...
- Senator Leila De Lima (6 speeches, 1 comment)
I move: To move—That this House: recognises the Australian Parliament’s ongoing commitment to the global promotion of democracy, human rights and respect for the rule of law; notes...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Federation Chamber do now adjourn. Question agreed to. Federat ion Chamber adjourned at 18:46
