House debates
Thursday, 17 October 2019
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Horder, Mrs Mary, OAM (1 speech)
As the House sits today, a funeral is occurring at All Saints Catholic Church in Liverpool. Mary Horder died last week, at the age of 98. Mary Horder joined the Labor Party in 1961, was elected...
- Stirling Electorate: Safer Communities Fund (1 speech)
We often speak about the benefits of a multicultural society, and government's first priority is to protect its citizens. I'm proud to represent an ethnically diverse electorate, and I've...
- Dunkley Electorate: Seaford North Primary School (5 speeches)
There is nothing more crucial to the future of our kids than a great education. Today I had the privilege and the joy of joining the students and teachers from Seaford North Primary School, part...
- New England Electorate: Tamworth (1 speech)
I'm here today to say what an incredible week Tamworth has had. On Saturday, we opened the Northern Inland Centre of Sporting Excellence. This is a multimillion-dollar facility that works on the...
- Praeger, Emeritus Professor Cheryl Elisabeth, AM (1 speech)
I rise to speak to congratulate Emeritus Professor Cheryl Praeger of the University of Western Australia on receiving the 2019 Prime Minister's Prize for Science. I think she has just arrived in...
- Illicit Drugs (1 speech)
Yesterday the coalition government brought into this House a bill to help young people on Newstart and youth allowance get off drugs and be job ready. I commend the Morrison-McCormack government...
- Sayle, Mr Jeffrey Leonard, OAM (1 speech)
Australia's rugby community lost a legend with the passing of Jeffrey Sayle. In Coogee last Friday, I joined thousands of people to say farewell to 'Sayley', the local legend everyone knew and...
- Osteoporosis (1 speech)
We take our bones for granted. Without strong bones we risk fractures. As someone who recently tripped and fractured my shoulder, requiring a painful insertion of a plate, I've spent the last...
- Broadband (1 speech)
I would like to thank the communications minister for inviting me to join him on a recent visit to Mayo to visit businesses using the NBN. We visited Gordon Kay who runs Hacksaw, a space for...
- Terrain Natural Resource Management (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to Terrain Natural Resource Management who were recently named in the AFR BOSS Most Innovative Companies list for its reef credits initiative....
- World Osteoporosis Day (1 speech)
Like the member for Higgins, I rise today to take this opportunity to inform the House that World Osteoporosis Day will take place this Sunday. The day is dedicated to raising global awareness of...
- Moore Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I'm pleased to announce that the City of Joondalup, in my electorate of Moore, will receive federal funding of $1,000,068 in the latest round of the Roads to Recovery Program. Local roads, such...
- Dobell Electorate: Wyong District Tennis Association (1 speech)
On Saturday 12 October, I joined the 100th birthday celebrations for Wyong tennis. As a kid, I grew up in Baker Park, Wyong. On Saturday mornings I rode my bike to the courts to play a few sets...
- Glenelg Football Club (1 speech)
I am once again proudly wearing the Glenelg Football Club colours in the House today to celebrate the Tigers winning their first premiership in 33 years on Sunday 22 September. This is when...
- Economy (1 speech)
The International Monetary Fund has downgraded Australia's economic growth. It has fallen a whole percentage point since 2018. But it seems that, despite the outlook and downgrade in Australia's...
- Bago Road, NSW Nationals Centenary (1 speech)
I recently joined with Port Macquarie-Hastings Mayor Peta Pinson to announce 2.8 kilometres worth of road improvements on Bago Road to connect the bustling regional economy of Wauchope and it's...
- Anti-Poverty Week (1 speech)
This week is Anti-Poverty Week, but you wouldn't know it if you'd been watching parliamentary proceedings. Not one new anti-poverty measure has been announced by this government this week....
- National Rugby League (1 speech)
I entered the Central & North Burnett Times and South Burnett Times NRL footy tipping competition. With some great skill and a little luck—I don't know whether that's the right way...
- Morrison Government (1 speech)
We hear day after day from this government that the economy is strong and that everything is going very well, and that we should stop asking our difficult questions and stop being such Debbie...
- Rugby World Cup 2019 (2 speeches)
This weekend we face our most serious test as a nation, for, in Tokyo, we face our oldest foe—and I speak not of the cane toad but of the English rugby football team! Now of course, the...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Treasurer will be absent from question time today, as he is meeting officials overseas and attending the G20 finance ministers meeting. I will answer Treasury...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Yesterday the Prime Minister refused to debate the economy in this House. Will he today debate whether the IMF was wrong to downgrade Australia's...
- Morrison Government (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister outline to the House why it is so important to have a stable and certain approach to government policy in order to deal with...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is again addressed to the Prime Minister. Given that since May the Reserve Bank, the OECD and the International Monetary Fund have all downgraded Australia's growth forecasts for this...
- Budget (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister inform the House about how a budget surplus creates stability and certainty by increasing our economic resilience? Is the Prime...
- Economy (8 speeches)
My question is again addressed to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that since 2002 only two Australian treasurers have presided over an unemployment rate that is higher than the...
- Drought (2 speeches)
My question is to Minister for Water Resources, Drought, Rural Finance, Natural Disaster and Emergency Management. Are you aware that, after the north's flooding cattle deaths, the PM came,...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I'd like to inform the House that we have present in the front row of the Speaker's gallery this afternoon the former Prime Minister and foreign minister of Sweden, Mr Carl Bildt, accompanied by...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Will the Deputy Prime Minister inform the House why it's important for the...
- Economy (4 speeches)
My question is again addressed to the Prime Minister. Given wage growth is the lowest it's ever been, household debt is at record highs and consumer confidence is at a four-year low, why does the...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister outline to the House the importance of the Morrison government providing a stable and certain approach to border protection and...
- Energy (8 speeches)
My question is again addressed to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that the absence of an energy policy is leaving people with higher electricity bills to the point where in a...
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister outline to the House why it's important for the Morrison government to provide a stable and certain approach to investing in...
- Economy (5 speeches)
My question is again addressed to the Prime Minister. Given that yesterday the Treasurer falsely claimed that drought was the No. 1 call on the budget, will the Prime Minister agree to have a...
- Environment (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment. Will the minister outline to the House why it is important for the Morrison government to provide a stable and certain approach on the...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is again addressed to the Prime Minister. Former prime ministers John Howard, Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull all facilitated parliamentary debate at this time in the parliament on...
- Agriculture (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture. Will the minister outline to the House why it is important for the Morrison-McCormack government to provide a stable and...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is again addressed to the Prime Minister. Yesterday in the parliament, the Prime Minister shut down a proposed debate on the economy and organised an additional question to himself so...
- Pensions and Benefits (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Families and Social Services. Will the minister outline to the House why it's important for the Morrison government to provide a...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Economy (27 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the House immediately debating the state of the Australian economy, with the Prime Minister and the Leader of the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology. Will the minister advise the House how the outstanding work of Australian scientists and research innovators is being...
- 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)
- Economy (20 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Barton proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government's failure to...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, I present the committee's report entitled Report 187: Oil Stock Contracts—Hungary; MRA UK; Trade in Wine UK; MH17 Netherlands; Air...
- Treaties Committee; 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)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Calwell Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
I want to take the opportunity to speak about some very important events that took place in my electorate during the recent parliamentary recess. I want to start by congratulating the Corpus...
- Leifer, Ms Malka (1 speech)
I wish to address the House about an important issue of justice. Malka Leifer, who was the principal of Adass Israel School in Elsternwick, Melbourne, left Australia in 2008, two days after she...
- Democracy (1 speech)
I start by associating myself with the comments by the member for Wentworth, and I'm sure the member for Macnamara also echoes the sentiments. Like most members, I get to spend a lot of my time...
- Wide Bay Electorate: Community Development Grants Program (1 speech)
It's a real pleasure to be able to stand here in the parliament today in this adjournment debate to talk about some of the wonderful things that are happening in the great region of Wide Bay....
- Paterson Electorate: Chemical Contamination (1 speech)
The front page of the Port Stephens Examinertoday reads: 'Ignored, abandoned'. Journalist Charlie Elias accurately describes how residents living in PFAS affected areas feel, especially those...
- Australian Defence Force Parliamentary Program 2019 (1 speech)
In recent weeks I've participated with two colleagues from this House, Liberal and Labor, in the Australian Defence Force Parliamentary Program in the Middle East. I recognise that many...
- Housing Affordability (2 speeches)
I call the member for Lindsay for about two minutes.
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Blair Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
Once again I put on record my support for the Western Pride application for an A-League licence in football. Western Pride are based in Ipswich, and I look forward to a team in green and white...
- Breast Cancer (1 speech)
October is Australia's Breast Cancer Awareness Month. During this month we remember those people affected by breast cancer and try to engage with the community to save lives. All women are at...
- Jagajaga Electorate: Bundoora Italian Senior Citizens Group, Heidelberg Historical Society (1 speech)
I commend the Bundoora Italian senior citizens group on their recent 30-year anniversary. It was an honour to join the senior citizens along with my colleagues the member for Scullin and the...
- O'Connor Electorate: Taxation (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on an issue of critical importance to my constituents, which is the Productivity Commission review into remote area tax concessions. This review was initiated by the...
- Fraser Electorate: St Albans Moon Lantern Festival, Fraser Electorate: Australian Buddhist Centre (1 speech)
The Vietnamese community in Fraser is one of the largest, most vibrant and rapidly growing and is home to over 30,000 Vietnamese Australians calling my electorate home. Fraser hosts many...
- Petrie Electorate: 2019 Job Seeker Boot Camp (1 speech)
In the last six years, 1.4 million jobs have been created in Australia, predominantly in the private sector, and that's an increase of some 12.6 per cent, which is fantastic for Australians. In...
- Sikh Community (1 speech)
Waheguru ji ka khalsa waheguru ji ki fateh. Earlier this week I was honoured to host members of our Sikh community here in Parliament House to celebrate the 550th anniversary of the birth of Guru...
- Longman Electorate: Charitable Organisations, Caboolture Meals on Wheels Association (1 speech)
The electorate of Longman is full of many wonderful charities, community groups, organisations and people with hearts of gold who go out of their way to help and support the people who need it...
- Australian Farmer of the Year Awards (1 speech)
I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate Susie and Gerard Daly, winners of the Australian Farmer of the Year Award as well as the Award for Excellence and Innovation. Susie and Gerard,...
- Hooker, Aunty Mary (2 speeches)
Last week I joined our community to farewell a remarkable Australian. Aunty Mary Hooker passed away on 30 September 2019. Her funeral was held on the banks of Lake Windamere last Friday...
- Governor General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (1 speech)
Granted that we live in the best country on earth, we all want the best outcomes for it. Every Australian had a stake in the result of the 18 May election. Over the years, the Liberals and...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Veterans (6 speeches)
I'm pleased to support the third annual statement on veterans and their families today, and would like to recognise the Minister for Veterans and Defence Personnel for his commitment to...
- Governor General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (2 speeches)
I rise to speak about the challenge of joblessness and poverty in Australia. This week is Anti-Poverty Week, and many community organisations are doing their best to help tackle the scourge of...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Forbes, Dr Alexander James (3 speeches)
It is my great honour to rise in this place today to pay tribute to the former member for Barker, Dr Alexander James Forbes. The Hon. Alexander James Forbes—or 'Jim' to almost everyone I've...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Capral Aluminium (1 speech)
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to visit Capral Aluminium, an Australian nationwide manufacturer and stockholder of aluminium products with its Perth manufacturing base in none other...
- Wentworth Electorate: Westfield Local Heroes (1 speech)
Before speaking, I would like to acknowledge the words spoken by the member for Barker about the late Hon. Jim Forbes and the kind things he had to say about a very distinguished career. I rise...
- Accountability Round Table Integrity Awards (1 speech)
This week the Accountability Round Table recognised Cathy McGowan AO, my predecessor in this place as the independent member for Indi, with the Alan Missen Award for integrity. The Speaker too...
- Telecommunications (1 speech)
Communications technology has been changing and will continue to keep changing at an almost frightening pace. I hesitate to identify myself as one who in 1979, as a newly married, sat on the end...
- Human Rights (1 speech)
As members of parliament in such a great democracy, I believe it is our collective duty to stand up for human rights and speak up when we see those rights diminished or abused. It's something...
- Paradise Dam (1 speech)
I rise to inform the House of a tale of Shakespearean proportions, or certainly that's how it's starting to look. It's not Romeo and Juliet or The Taming of the Shrew; it's a tale of woe—or...
