House debates
Tuesday, 30 July 2019
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (3 speeches)
Before I call the honourable member for Gilmore I remind the House that this is the honourable member's first speech. I ask the House to extend to her the usual courtesies.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Crown Casino Committee; Appointment (16 speeches)
I seek leave to move a motion relating to the establishment of a Joint Select Committee into Crown Casino in the terms circulated in my name. Leave not granted. I move: That so much of the...
- Public Works Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present the committee's 82nd annual report, which examines committee activities undertaken in the 2018 calendar year. Report...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
I rise today to condemn this government's robo-debt system that is catching innocent Australians in its net. Designed to catch cheats, it is now reversing the onus of proof onto innocent...
- Moore Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
I'm pleased to announce that schools in Moore will collectively benefit from $200,000 in federal funding under the Local Schools Community Fund, which is open to all public, independent and...
- Solomon Electorate: Festivals (1 speech)
Saturday night was a fantastic evening at the Nepalese Food and Culture Festival down at the Darwin Waterfront. Locals and tourists enjoyed authentic Nepali food, musical performance and Lakhe...
- Bennelong Electorate: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (1 speech)
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Bennelong is Australia's capital of innovation. We've got the nation's most forward-looking companies in Macquarie Park and our best and brightest in...
- Sarcoma Awareness Month (1 speech)
The month of July has been Sarcoma Awareness Month. Sarcoma is a type of rare cancer of the bone and soft tissue. It is unique because sarcoma can form anywhere in the body. It is unfortunately...
- Menzies Electorate: Doncaster Returned and Services League Club (1 speech)
I rise today to both acknowledge and celebrate the centenary of the Doncaster RSL in my electorate. As all honourable members will know, the Returned and Services League was formed in June of...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
Australians have seen countless examples of employers ripping off their workers in recent years, from 7-Eleven and Domino's Pizza to Chatime and Michael Hill Jewellers—and now, most...
- Mental Health (1 speech)
Access to mental health services is a passion of mine and was an area of focus during the recent election campaign, leading to $10.5 million for an adult mental health centre in Launceston. I...
- Melbourne Electorate: Safe Injecting Centre (1 speech)
Lives are being saved in Melbourne thanks to the medically safe injecting centre in North Richmond. But now is the time to explore expanding the trial to other areas of Melbourne to ensure that...
- Berowra Electorate: Galston Valley Railway (1 speech)
The Galston Valley railway is one of the great assets of my community. It's popular with families and train lovers from right around Sydney. It boasts a five-inch model railway gauge and a...
- Lyons Electorate: Big Blue Farmer (1 speech)
Last week the Southern Midlands Council, in collaboration with Rural Alive and Well, RAW; and Rotary, launched the big blue farmer community arts project. The Big Blue Farmer is part of the...
- Australian Greens (1 speech)
Brisbanites who have had their mornings disrupted on a regular basis by green extremists now know where they can direct their anger. It is towards the un-Australian Greens Party in general and...
- Doonside Railway Station (1 speech)
Sixteen per cent of the Doonside population are over the age of 60 and nearly a thousand Doonside residents report needing assistance in their day-to-day lives because of a disability. Yet, if...
- South West Rocks Surf Life Saving Club (1 speech)
We all know the importance of the volunteer work of surf lifesavers around Australia. In this regard I congratulate Brienna Elford of the South West Rocks Surf Life Saving Club, who has been...
- Springfield Anglican College: SolarBuddy (1 speech)
I recently had the pleasure of attending the Springfield Anglican College sustainable information evening, where year 6 students from the college have been learning about the United Nations...
- Run Melbourne: Community Living & Respite Services Inc (1 speech)
Last Sunday in Melbourne they had Run Melbourne and thousands and thousands of runners participated in Run Melbourne over either the five kay, the 10 kay, the half marathon or the full marathon....
- Extremism (1 speech)
Last month Walter Lubcke, a German politician, was fatally shot in the head by a far Right extremist. Walter Lubcke is just the latest in a growing list of political figures murdered by far Right...
- Krilich, Mr Max, OAM (3 speeches)
Max Krilich is a Narrabeen local and a one-club rugby league legend, playing his whole career at Manly Warringah Sea Eagles. Max was recently awarded the Order of Australia medal for services to...
- Economy (1 speech)
The Prime Minister wants Australians to think that the economy is strong, but in their households they know the story is very, very different. Today they learned that median household income is...
- Australian Greens (4 speeches)
As I rise today, being a new member of parliament, I reflect and say, 'I may not agree with everyone and what everyone says.' That became apparent today. Jonathan Sri, a Brisbane councillor and...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Medicare: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Licences (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Can the minister confirm that the government has granted an MRI Medicare licence to Sound Radiology in Parkside, Adelaide while overlooking 443 other...
- Stirling Electorate: Community Events (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on how the Morrison government is demonstrating that it is on the side of our local communities, including in my...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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I'd like to inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the Hon. Vincent Tarzia, who is the Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly and a friend and colleague of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Medicare: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Licences (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Can the minister confirm that Sound Radiology in Adelaide is situated within five kilometres of nine other MRI machines with existing MRI Medicare licences?
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Can the Treasurer outline to the House how a strong economy is delivering real benefits for all Australians, including in my electorate of Reid? Are there any...
- Medicare: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Licences (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Can the minister confirm that the Department of Health has advised Senate estimates: 'Successful applications were decided by the government'. Can the...
- Tasmania: Housing Affordability (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing. Minister, the housing roundtable held recently in Hobart was the second in 12 months. There was lots of talk but too little achieved—especially...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon former senator Michael Baume. On behalf the House, I extend a very warm welcome to you. It is good to see you back,...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Regional Development (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Would the Deputy Prime Minister please update the House on the Liberal-National...
- Economy (10 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Treasurer. Does the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, released today, show Australians are better or worse off than in 2013?
- Environment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is empowering communities to take action in their local environments with...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. When today's median household incomes data proves that Australians are going backwards, why is this government always banging on about Labor instead of coming up...
- Schools (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. Will the minister please update the House on how the Morrison government is supporting the unique needs of local school communities around the...
- Pensions and Benefits (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Government Services. Have any victims of the Townsville flood received debt notices under the government's robo-debt program?
- Infrastructure (2 speeches)
I ask the Minister for Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure if he could update the House on the $100 billion urban congestion fighting infrastructure fund, and in particular the projects...
- Pensions and Benefits (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Government Services. Minister, how many debt notices issued under the government's robo-debt program have turned out to be wrong?
- Veterans: Health and Wellbeing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans and Defence Personnel. Will the minister advise the House on the progress of the Morrison government's commitment to improve the mental health and...
- Pensions and Benefits (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Government Services. Last night he told the ABC: Bank records, of course, are always available for seven years and the department won't be going back after...
- Drug and Alcohol Services (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister inform the House how the Morrison government is supporting and protecting families, including those in my electorate of Braddon,...
- Pensions and Benefits (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Government Services. I refer to the minister's previous answer. Can the minister then explain why 79-year-old widowed pensioner Norm Austwick from Mogareeka in...
- Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is backing both traditional and emerging industries through...
- Pensions and Benefits (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Government Services. In May, Anastasia McCardel, the mother of Bruce McCardel, who was in receipt of a disability pension until he died in November last year,...
- Migration (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is on the side of...
- Statement of Ministerial Standards (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and it's about his Statement of Ministerial Standards. Yesterday, despite reports that your ministers lobbied Home Affairs on behalf of Crown, you said there...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (3 speeches)
My question goes to the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme and the Minister for Government Services. Would the minister please update the House on the actions the Morrison...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
A document is tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Full details of the document will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Infrastructure (22 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Ballarat proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government's failure...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (2 speeches)
The question is that the address be agreed to. Before I call the honourable member for Sturt, I remind the House that this is the honourable member's first speech and I ask the House to extend to...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Licences (1 speech)
In question time today, I undertook to check the details on a question. I can confirm that the information available to the government, as I said in question time, is that the Adelaide PHN region...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Shortland Electorate: Broadband (1 speech)
One of the many complaints coming from my constituents is still about the National Broadband Network, the delivery of which is now four years behind schedule and over $21 billion over budget. Let...
- Organ and Tissue Donation, Drought Communities Program (1 speech)
This week is Donate Life Week. It's about raising awareness and inspiring Australians to make a real difference to the lives of others by registering and telling their families that they want to...
- Queensland Government, Water (1 speech)
Speaking about water, I think it's very naive of the federal government to be attempting to deal with the state government in Queensland—(a) because they have never been in favour of any...
- Energy (1 speech)
I rise to inform the House of the hapless case of Minister Cameron Dick, the Queensland minister who has once again gone out on local media in my electorate—in fact, on ABC Wide Bay, with...
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
Newstart must rise, and it must rise by $75 per week. In this country, and in my electorate, one cannot help but be confronted by the poverty that the current rate of Newstart causes. This is not...
- Queensland: Infrastructure (1 speech)
It was published today in The Australian newspaper that the Melbourne Institute's most recent household survey had the people of Brisbane experiencing the second longest commute in the country....
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Bruce Electorate: Wellsprings for Women (1 speech)
I want to congratulate Wellsprings for Women on its 25th anniversary. Wellsprings for Women was started 25 years ago by the Kildare Ministries. It is a wonderful local community centre for women...
- Higgins Electorate: Health (1 speech)
Clinical trials benefit patients. Advancing medical knowledge is absolutely core to advancing care for patients and such trials are essential for that. I'm proud that my electorate of Higgins is...
- Perth Electorate, Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
The great CBD of Perth, which sits in my electorate, is currently going through a tough time. It turns 190 years old on 12 August this year, but retailers are closing their doors. One in three...
- Stop the Coward's Punch Campaign (1 speech)
Imagine this: you're a parent of a teenage son, or a son in their early 20s, and they say they're going out on a Friday or Saturday night. They say goodbye, and you say, 'Be careful when you're...
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
I stand here today with a simple plea to those opposite: kill robo-debt. Burn it to the ground and scatter its ashes to the wind. Robo-debt is a program that has no place in civilised society. It...
- McDonnell, Mr Leslie James (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to a great figure within the Limestone Coast community. Les McDonnell was born into a timber family in 1928. His father, Newman, hauled hardwood logs out of the Grampians in...
- Homelessness (1 speech)
Homelessness Week next week, coordinated by Homelessness Australia, is to raise awareness of people experiencing homelessness, the issues they face and the action needed to achieve enduring...
- Stirling Electorate (1 speech)
Having delivered my maiden speech last night, it is now a pleasure to deliver my first constituency statement to the Federation Chamber. The Morrison government understands the needs of families...
- Jagajaga Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
As our economy shows signs of slowing, the Morrison government must deliver infrastructure projects to support local jobs and businesses. We have three shovel-ready projects in Jagajaga that have...
- Flynn Electorate: Port of Gladstone (2 speeches)
The federal government has granted conditional approval to the Port of Gladstone to dredge a further 800,000 cubic metres of the harbour. Gladstone's Clinton Vessel Interaction Project, CVIP, was...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Media, Newstart Allowance (1 speech)
Thirty years ago, the thing I feared most as a young journalist was the public humiliation of being singled out by the ABC's Media Watch for having in some way stepped outside the journalists'...
- Women in Sport (1 speech)
I spoke in my maiden speech about the importance of stronger communities, how this Morrison government understands the importance of having strong communities and fostering strong communities,...
- Cunningham Electorate (1 speech)
I'm very keen to use this opportunity in the grievance debate to put some serious grievances on behalf of my own electorate on the record in this place. In particular, I want to talk firstly...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
I rise today to use this grievance debate to put on the record some of the developments in the continuing battle for the future of the live export trade, which is critical to the Western...
- Morrison Government (1 speech)
It is 340 days since Prime Minister Morrison took office—nudging a year. I wonder what Australians have learned about our Prime Minister during that time? What has the current Prime...
- Rotary Australia (2 speeches)
Unlike the previous speaker, I'm going to talk to the aspiration of the nation for its sense of unity and purpose and those people who make that happen every day. Since 1921 Australian Rotary...
