House debates
Wednesday, 31 July 2019
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 3 of the Selection Committee relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday, 9 September, 2019. The report will be...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That orders of the day Nos 3 and 4, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (1 speech)
Well, this is cool. There are lot of people shaking their head back in Longman and Kallangur, where I was brought up, particularly a couple of high school teachers! Thank you all for giving up...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Federal Election (1 speech)
Around the country, and particularly in Western Australia, the recent election campaign was hard-fought. We had an ambitious target. Five fantastic Labor candidates were vying for election in...
- Page Electorate: Reconciliation Australia Narragunnawali Awards 2019 (1 speech)
Maclean High School has been named a finalist in the Reconciliation Australia Narragunnawali Awards for 2019. I'd like to thank the committee, staff and volunteers, for their fantastic...
- Gilmore Electorate: Water Safety (1 speech)
Our volunteer surf lifesavers play an essential role in saving lives and promoting water safety, health and wellbeing. Our Surf Life Saving clubs bring thousands of locals together and play an...
- Boothby Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
The Morrison Liberal government is working hard to bust congestion in my local community. That's why I was shocked by the South Australian Freight Council's Moving freight report today. If...
- Werriwa Electorate: Edmondson Park Railway Station (1 speech)
By 7 am, and on some days even earlier, Edmondson Park railway station is full. Commuters who are trying to get to work, university and appointments are turned away. They have two choices: to...
- Dairy Industry (1 speech)
I remind the House that the ACCC dairy inquiry in 2018 noted that there was a major power imbalance between processors and dairy farmers in their negotiations, and that there was no transparency....
- Donate for Life Week (1 speech)
This is Donate for Life Week, which encourages Australians to register as organ donors. My very good friend Jessica Sparks inspired me to register, and I want to share her words in the hope that...
- Moore Electorate: Higher Education (1 speech)
Improving access to quality higher education facilities in Joondalup is one of my priorities. I am a strong advocate for increased investment in the expansion of the Joondalup Learning Precinct,...
- Quad Bikes (1 speech)
Quad bikes are dangerous, and governments need to do a better job of regulating them. In the first half of this year alone there have been seven quad bike deaths, including a child aged seven and...
- Canning Electorate: Crime (1 speech)
Today I want to talk about crime in Mandurah, in my electorate of Canning. It is the first role of government to keep its citizens safe. As federal legislators, our focus must be on Australia's...
- Volunteers (4 speeches)
I would like to recognise the extraordinary contribution of the army of helpers and volunteers I am grateful to have in Brand across the cities of Rockingham and Kwinana. Many of them have helped...
- Richmond Fellowship Tasmania (1 speech)
Richmond Fellowship Tasmania has been operating for 30 years offering mental health service provision in Tasmania. Just this year it created a shell company, Richmond Futures, and through that...
- Coal Industry (1 speech)
The author Charles Mackay in his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds noted that men go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one at a time....
- Conservative Political Action Conference (1 speech)
In nine days time, Australia will host its first Conservative Political Action Conference, sponsored by the Liberal Party think tanks, the Menzies centre and the IPA. I note that the member for...
- Infrastructure: Roads, Unemployment (1 speech)
Road congestion is a vice in the major cities and eastern seaboard of Australia, but it is out of control in Queensland, and the HILDA survey pointed that out yesterday. The ABS tells us that the...
- Economy (1 speech)
Australians are under enormous financial stress, and the release of yesterday's Household, Income and Labour Dynamics Survey confirms their worst fears. Australians' living standards are actually...
- Vantari VR (1 speech)
The greatest initiatives that move us forward as a nation are never created by governments. Across Australia, it's entrepreneurial work that's quietly happening each day which will shape the...
- de Vulder, Mr Ivan (1 speech)
This month the world got a little bit dimmer with the passing of a dear friend of our Labor family, Ivan de Vulder. An unsung hero, Ivan was Labor to his bones. He knew the value of social...
- Forde Electorate: Logan Hyperdome (2 speeches)
A lot has changed since the Logan Hyperdome shopping centre first opened its doors 30 years ago. There were a water park and a zoo at the present site and, sadly, I had a lot more hair. The...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Morrison Government (4 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister said that tax cuts would be legislated before 1 July, he said that the member for Durack would remain environment minister and...
- Pensions and Benefits (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister inform the House how the Morrison government is on the side of Australians who want to get off welfare and into work and create...
- Rural and Regional Australia (3 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Will the Deputy Prime Minister update the House on who is on the side of...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Why did the Treasurer say yesterday that Australians were certainly better off than in 2013, when the data shows that, since 2013, wages have been stagnant,...
- Water: Infrastructure (3 speeches)
PM, with lowest ever interest rates and Reserve urging infrastructure, surely it's time for money-making projects, not pleasing, eye-catching, vote-winning, debt-making projects. Would you not...
- Budget (4 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer inform the House how the Morrison government is on the side of all Australians by returning the budget to surplus and getting more people into...
- Medicare: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Licences (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Why did the minister yesterday claim that the granting of an MRI Medicare licence to Sound Radiology was 'done through an independent process' when, in...
- Manufacturing (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is on the side of all Australians who believe in the future...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industrial Relations. Why did he advise the House that the former Labor government cut funding to the Fair Work Ombudsman by 17 per cent when, in fact, it...
- Indigenous Australians (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Australians. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is on the side of Indigenous families who want their children to get...
- Health Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. The Minister for Home Affairs said that Australians who were in waiting lines as public hospitals would be, 'kicked off those waiting lines because...
- Trade (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Services, Decentralisation and Local Government and Assistant Minister for Trade and Investment. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison...
- Defence Industry (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government's record investment in the defence industry is delivering Australian jobs...
- Defence Procurement (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. Why did the government say that 90 per cent of the work on the submarine project would be Australian when it won't be?
- Environment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is on the side of Australians concerned about reducing our waste, increasing...
- Assistant Minister for Community Housing, Homelessness and Community Services (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Families and Social Services. Why did the assistant minister for homelessness claim that the rate of homelessness is 'not ahead of...
- Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure. Will the minister please update the House on how the Morrison government is on the side of all Australians...
- Pensions and Benefits (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Government Services. The government has given an absolute undertaking that debt recovery in the Townsville area hasn't commenced. Why was that absolute...
- Trade Unions (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industrial Relations. Will the minister inform the House how the Morrison government is on the side of Australian workers and is endeavouring to protect their...
- Environment (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In May the Prime Minister said that his government had 'introduced and passed legislation' to deal with the threat of wildlife extinction—legislation...
- Queensland: Floods (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Water Resources, Drought, Rural Finance, Natural Disaster and Emergency Management. Will the minister please explain to the House how the Morrison government is...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Trade (3 speeches)
on indulgence—Mr Speaker, I seek your indulgence to add to an answer I gave earlier. For the information of the House, those opposite did conclude several trade agreements that had been...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Speaker (2 speeches)
I've got a statement that might be of interest to members, which I wish to make very quickly just so all members and the wider press gallery hear it. It's just a few comments on an opinion piece...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
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I wish to make a personal explanation. Today in question time, the Treasurer purported to quote from The Australian, which he didn't, about our position on tax cuts and statements I made before...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
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(): I present the Auditor-General's performance audit report No. 4 of 2019-20 entitled OneSKY: Contractual Arrangements:Air Services Australia, Department of Defence Document made a parliamentary...
- 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.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Health (25 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for McMahon proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government’s...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (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 Moncrieff, can I remind the House that this is the honourable member's first speech and I ask the House to...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Federal Election (1 speech)
Earlier today, the Labor Party announced that it would not be challenging the result of the election in the division of Chisholm in Victoria. We were disappointed and frankly appalled by the...
- Sunshine Coast Airport (1 speech)
During the election campaign I committed to making a speech on behalf of the people of Noosa's coastal and hinterland communities, who were outraged by what they see as a lack of meaningful,...
- Stubbs, Mrs Rosemary Frances (Romey) (1 speech)
Everyone in this House is well aware that every political party has its ups and downs, but we all know people who stick with and work for their party of choice through the good times and the bad...
- Morrison Government (1 speech)
A strong economy, more jobs and less taxes—I must have said it more than 12,000 times in the last three weeks of the election campaign and countless times before. Liberal volunteers heard...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
The MV Awassi Express affair exposed terrible cruelty in the live sheep trade. It shocked the majority of Australians. Some government MPs—in particular, the member for New...
- Lindsay Electorate: Employment (1 speech)
Last week I welcomed the first school from our community of Lindsay to Parliament House, St Marys North Public School and today I welcome St Nicholas of Myra. We had a Q&A with St Nicholas,...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Homelessness (1 speech)
Next week is Homelessness Week. It's a week during which everyone is encouraged to pause and reflect on our attitudes towards, and raise awareness of, people experiencing homelessness....
- Boyd, Mr Warwick Paul (2 speeches)
I wish to mark the passing of Warwick Paul Boyd. He was a great supporter and my oldest friend. Warwick was born on 17 July 1968. I first met him when we were year 7 students at Newcastle...
- Australian Capital Territory: Energy, Australian Capital Territory: Poverty (1 speech)
Thirty-year-old Cameron Van-Lane and his three housemates in Dickson have taken to putting bubble wrap on their windows in order to keep the house warm. As Mr Van-Lane told the RiotACT: …...
- Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (1 speech)
I rise to advise the chamber of the 8 August release of Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan, a movie which I understand was previewed here at the parliament on Monday night and, of course, will...
- Mayo Electorate (1 speech)
With the redistribution of the South Australian federal electorates in 2019, Mayo has the great pleasure of welcoming a number of new areas into our community. A couple of those areas which are...
- Curtin Electorate: Sculpture by the Sea (1 speech)
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of attending the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition at Cottesloe with the founding director, Mr David Handley AM. I had the privilege of announcing the winner of...
- Brand Electorate: Volunteers (1 speech)
I would like to draw the attention of the Chamber to all the volunteers in my electorate of Brand. I know National Volunteer Week was in May—not that far away—but given how much our...
- Wide Bay Electorate: Morrison Government (1 speech)
I offer my heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped support and encourage me through the 2019 election and to the people of Wide Bay, who put their faith in me to represent them. It's a great...
- Indigenous Flag (1 speech)
Today I rise to acknowledge a petition that was created by Spark Health, trading as Clothing the Gap, two fantastic Indigenous organisations in my electorate of Cooper. Over 46,000 people have...
- Wieland, Mr Ned, Jelic, Ms Claudia, Secret Men's Business (2 speeches)
I rise to congratulate several high achievers in my electorate of Wentworth excelling in areas of sport, music and philanthropy. I would like to highlight Ned Wieland of Waverley College, who has...
- Bills (0 speeches)
