House debates
Monday, 2 December 2019
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Petitions Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the seventh report of the Petitions Committee for the 46th Parliament. The report read as follows— Report relating to the consideration of petitions and matters relating to the...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Responses (1 speech)
I present the following twenty-five ministerial responses to petitions previously presented:
- Statements (1 speech)
All of the petitions presented this morning are paper petitions. Although small in number compared with last weeks all e-petition presentation, paper petitions demonstrate the strong commitment...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Procedure Committee (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Procedure I wish to make a statement concerning the committee's inquiry into the practices and procedures relating to question time. The role of our...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- International Day of People with Disability (11 speeches)
) ( ): I move: That this House: (1) acknowledges: (a) 3 December 2019 is International Day of People with Disability; and (b) the Human Rights Commission estimates the number of Australians with...
- Nelson, Hon. Dr Brendan, AO (11 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes: (a) the importance of the Australian War Memorial to our nation in commemorating, acknowledging and recording the service of our defence force personnel; and...
- Federal Independent Commission Against Corruption (6 speeches)
by leave—I move: (1)the House notes that: (a)over a long time now the behaviour of both major parties has made it abundantly clear that Parliament cannot deal with matters of ministerial...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Goss, Mr Wayne (1 speech)
On 2 December it is a very special day for the Labor Party. It is the date in 1972 that Gough ended 23 years of conservative rule but also the date in 1989 when Wayne Goss ended 32 years of...
- EDMONDS, Mr Douglas Montgomerie (Monty) (1 speech)
Today I pay tribute to one of Mackay's World War II veterans, Douglas Montgomerie Edmonds, better known as Monty, who died on 22 November aged 95 and whose funeral is being held in Mackay today....
- Economy (1 speech, 1 comment)
Soaring profits but weakness in pretty much everything else, that is how the Deloitte economics report sums up the Australian economy and that's what my community is feeling. Wages growth is...
- Stirling Electorate: Business (1 speech)
Since being elected, I have visited as many of the 19,818 small to medium businesses in my electorate of Stirling as I can. I was pleased to be joined by some of my ministerial colleagues as...
- Newcastle Airport (1 speech)
I stand here today to implore this government to fund the $50 million upgrade of Newcastle Airport. The upgrade will allow a code E runway, which will in turn provide our region with the ability...
- Meldrum, Ms Arcadia (1 speech)
I rise to talk about an inspiring young woman from my electorate, Arcadia Meldrum. Arcadia won the Australian School-based Apprentice of the Year Award for 2019, and her work ethic and attitude...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
I'm going to ask the House today to do some imagining: 12 years after Kevin Rudd declared climate change was the greatest moral challenge of our time, I want us to stop and imagine what would...
- Type 1 Diabetes (1 speech)
I received my first Christmas card of the season this week from an energetic young man from Birchip named Blair Gould. Many people across Australia will understand the impact that type 1 diabetes...
- Melbourne Electorate: Albanian Australian Islamic Society (1 speech)
Last month, I was proud to attend the 50th anniversary of Melbourne's first mosque, in Carlton. Albanian Australian Islamic Society hosted a lively festival on Drummond Street, which was closed...
- Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (1 speech)
The Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility is delivering for the city and people of Townsville. The NAIF, as it's more commonly known, is supporting three major projects in my electorate of...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
Happy anniversary of the 10 years since the flat-earthers took over the Liberal Party. It has been 10 years since the hard Right of the Liberal Party gained power. The good news is that Malcolm...
- New South Wales Bushfires (1 speech)
I can't follow that. I rise today to commend some Australian heroes, our Rural Fire Service. Australia has suffered a devastating bushfire season already. New South Wales has been hit severely...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
Most people are raised to know that, when you make a mistake, you say sorry, but today is 10 years of the Greens political party refusing to say sorry for giving us a decade of inaction on...
- Repatriation General Hospital (1 speech)
Sunday 24 November saw another significant milestone in the reactivation of the Repat hospital site in my electorate of Boothby. On the 24th I joined Premier Steven Marshall, Health Minister...
- Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (1 speech)
Ten years ago this parliament had the opportunity of coming together and doing something important: reducing carbon pollution, reducing power prices and improving power reliability. Instead of...
- Speedflow Products, DownTown Kustoms (1 speech)
Recently I had the pleasure of visiting a local Taree company called Speedflow manufacturing operations. It's a wonderful local Manning Valley company that has been operating for 37 years and...
- Climate Change (3 speeches)
Ten years ago today, on this very day, the Greens betrayed the planet they were formed to protect. They betrayed the planet they profess to love so much, because on that day they joined in an...
- Curtin Electorate: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (1 speech)
I'm delighted to say world-leading research is going to continue to take place in my electorate of Curtin, with over $2 million awarded to fund five research projects at UWA through the...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
It is indeed 10 years since the coalition and the Greens political party combined in the Senate to oppose the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. We need to look back and analyse what a lost...
- Pollies versus Press Cricket Match (2 speeches)
It's my distinct privilege to announce to the House that the annual pollie versus press cricket game was played on the weekend at Reid Oval. We of course contest the Peter Veness Memorial Cup,...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that, in the past few weeks alone, it has been revealed that weak wages growth has slowed even further; business...
- Morrison Government (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, will you update the House on how the Morrison government is building our national, economic and environmental security, both now and into the...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Given the finance minister's boast that low wages growth is a 'deliberate design feature of the government's economic management' and the Reserve Bank's recent...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the minister explain the Morrison government's strong budgetary management and why a stable and certain approach is essential to ensuring our economy remains...
- Trade (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. It goes to his answer to my earlier question, where he said about trade agreements: They tried to start plenty, but they couldn't conclude any. That's not...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
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I inform the House we have present in the gallery this afternoon the Fijian Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence led by the chair, the Hon. Alexander O'Connor. On behalf of the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and . Will the Deputy Prime Minister outline the Morrison-McCormack government's achievements on delivering critical infrastructure for regional...
- Climate Change (5 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Malcolm Turnbull has told the Prime Minister's colleagues, including the Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts and the Minister...
- Dairy Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture. Our dairy farmers are receiving 58c a litre, 1c less than pre-deregulation, 22 years ago. Wouldn't you agree that, since...
- National Security (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister outline the Morrison government's achievements in protecting our nation from the evolving threat of foreign interference? How...
- Prime Minister (12 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. Was the New South Wales police commissioner made aware that the Attorney-General was on the call with the Prime Minister that discussed the instigation,...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. Will the Attorney outline the Morrison government's achievements in protecting Australians from dangerous terrorists and how the government will continue...
- Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. I refer to the Attorney-General's confirmation that he was in the room when the Prime Minister called the New South Wales police commissioner about the...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology. Will the minister outline the Morrison government's achievements in backing Australian industry and businesses to grow and...
- Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. I refer to the Attorney-General's previous answer. Did he seek advice from his department or agencies or not?
- Trade (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment. Will the minister outline the Morrison government's achievements in trade policy and how the government...
- Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction (5 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. As the first law officer in this country and the minister in charge of drafting national integrity legislation, how on earth did the Attorney-General judge...
- Primary Industries (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Water Resources, Drought, Rural Finance, Natural Disaster and Emergency Management. Will the minister outline the Morrison-McCormack government's achievements...
- Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction (2 speeches)
My question is to the minister for emissions reduction. On 1 August the minister told parliament: All my interests are declared in accordance with the rules. Does the minister stand by that statement?
- Housing Affordability (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing and Assistant Treasurer. Will the minister outline to the House the Morrison government's achievements in getting Australians into their first home and...
- Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction (2 speeches)
My question again is to the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction. I refer to his previous answer. Why then has the minister failed to declare his partnership shares in GFA F1 Pty Limited...
- Infrastructure (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure. Will the minister outline to the House the Morrison-McCormack government's achievements in delivering critical...
- Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm his emissions reduction minister has been embroiled in four scandals this year, routinely failed to disclose his interests,...
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister outline to the House the Morrison government's achievements in making critical medicines more available for Australians and how the...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Morrison, Mr John (2 speeches)
If I may take this moment of indulgence, as my father is watching from an aged-care facility near his home, I'd just like to wish him all the very best for his 84th birthday. Dad, we're all...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Report (2 speeches)
by leave—On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present the committee's report No. 6 for 2019—Referrals made September 2019. Report made a parliamentary...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
I rise this evening to once again condemn the Morrison government for the robodebt scheme. The robodebt scheme is an outrageous abuse of power from a callous and arrogant government. In many...
- Mental Health (1 speech)
I was privileged to officially launch a new service in the Groom electorate recently—just a few weeks ago, in fact—that will be at the front line of suicide prevention in our region....
- Welfare Rights Centre South Australia (1 speech)
Today, I'd like to speak about the South Australian Welfare Rights Centre. In its 31-year history, it has provided community legal services. Its main work has been to provide free legal advice...
- Sport (1 speech)
This coalition government has spent over $2.5 billion on sport and sporting activity since it came to office, an extraordinary feat—about $950 million on sporting infrastructure for local...
- Loneliness (1 speech)
What if there was a condition that was more deadly than obesity and more lethal than smoking 15 cigarettes a day? What if the same condition has a greater risk of death than alcohol consumption...
- Forestry Industry, Dairy Industry (1 speech, 1 comment)
When I first came to this place in 2013, I was shocked at how few conversations were had on the positives of our national forestry industry. Since that time, we have had over six years of a...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Burge, Mr Dennis (1 speech)
On Sunday 17 November, members of the South Australian branch of the Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia, Northern Suburbs Sub Branch, held a committal service at their clubrooms at the...
- Petrie Electorate: Morrison Government (1 speech)
As we move into the last sitting week of the year and we prepare ourselves for Christmas and the new year season to come, I'd like to take this moment to acknowledge the continuation of the...
- Defence Procurement (1 speech)
The government has a decision to make in terms of the full-cycle docking of the Collins class submarines. For Western Australia it will be a watershed decision that could literally be the...
- Forde Electorate: City of Logan Safe City Awards (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to recognise some of the fantastic volunteer groups and individuals across my electorate of Forde who have recently been recognised in the City of Logan Safe City Awards...
- International Day of People with Disability, Lilley Electorate: School Awards (1 speech)
Happy International Day of People with Disability. It has looked likely for some time that we parliamentarians will be trapped here in Canberra for the day itself, so I took the opportunity a few...
- Townsville: Crime (1 speech)
It has been about six weeks since I rose in this place to talk about Townsville's crime crisis, and I'm sorry to say: very little has changed. Despite major public outcry, houses are still being...
- Internet Content: TikTok (1 speech)
It began with a tutorial on eyelash curling and ended with Chinese video-sharing app TikTok suspending a US teenager's account, to international headlines. The teenager's offence was using...
- Longman Electorate: Police-Citizens Youth Club Caboolture (1 speech)
A few weeks ago I met with Senior Sergeant Ashley Freyling, from the Caboolture Police-Citizens Youth Club—or PCYC, as it's more affectionately known—and Kel Clarke, from PCYC...
- Calwell Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
Being in Canberra last week saw me miss out on the Mount Ridley College graduation night, where year 12 student Dean Ieremia was awarded the inaugural Arthur Calwell Rising Star Award—an...
- Robertson Electorate: Local Sporting Champions (2 speeches)
The Federal government's Local Sporting Champions program provides some financial assistance to students aged between 12 and 18 to participate in state, national and international championships....
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Iran (1 speech)
News is finally starting to come out of Iran about the atrocities that have been committed. Recently, protests broke out over petrol prices and the Iranian government responded disproportionately...
- Water for Fodder (1 speech)
Today the Liberal-National coalition released the guidelines for the Water for Fodder program. The first instalment of this program is providing 40 gigalitres of irrigation water for primary...
- Australian Young Labor (1 speech)
Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to thank some of the many wonderful members of Young Labor for their passion, dedication and hard work over the last year. It's been a tough year for this...
- SHINE Community Services (1 speech)
( WA Seniors Week, which runs from 10 to 17 November, is an opportunity to celebrate and acknowledge the very special contribution that WA seniors make to our communities and families. I was...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
Given tomorrow is the International Day of People with Disability, I wish to raise with the Chamber matters concerning the NDIS. Time and again I am contacted by constituents and service...
- Canning Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
I'm pleased to report that in the last month two Canning schools have officially opened new facilities, built and refurbished with the assistance of the Morrison government. The first of these...
- Canberra: Community Organisations, Member for Fenner: Staff (1 speech)
The Christmas season can be hard on those who are down on their luck. I thank organisations in Canberra who are doing their part to help the most disadvantaged in our community at this time. The...
- Page Electorate: Sporting Achievements (1 speech)
Students from Mummulgum Public School and Stratheden Public School represented their schools in the small schools relay at the New South Wales PSSA athletics championships on 7 November in...
- Defence Facilities: Chemical Contamination (1 speech)
I recently visited the electorate of Paterson, where the member for Paterson and I met with community members about the impact of PFAS contamination in the vicinity of RAAF Base Williamtown. PFAS...
- The Nationals (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker, I'd like to bring your attention to a time in the past, when I first arrived here at Parliament House, when there were discussions by the then leader of us closing down the...
- Lyons Electorate: Rural and Regional Health Services (1 speech)
The Derwent Valley community has been well served for more than 50 years by two long-serving GPs, Dr Ralph Peters and Dr Micheil Sweet. Each has been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia...
- North Sydney Electorate: Christmas 2019 (1 speech)
The North Sydney school Christmas card competition is a great tradition started by my predecessor, Joe Hockey, which I've been delighted to continue. This year, the theme was 'What I love about...
- Wills Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
It's time to reflect on what a year 2019 has been and to acknowledge and celebrate some particularly favourite moments in my electorate of Wills. In January, I launched the season of the new...
- Bowman Electorate: Leslie Harrison Dam (1 speech)
My fine city of Redlands has always paid it forward, and we had fabulous water infrastructure from the Straddie aquifer. But now, with Labor's interconnector, we are part of the SEQ Water Grid. A...
- New South Wales: Infrastructure (1 speech)
The state MP for Liverpool, Paul Lynch, Liverpool City Council and my constituents have all raised concerns, which I share, about the New South Wales government plan for the upgrade of Hoxton...
- New South Wales Bushfires (1 speech)
The northern boundary of my electorate is the Hawkesbury River, and residents have been closely watching the Gospers Mountain fire from there. On Friday I had the opportunity to visit the area...
- Perth Electorate: Orana House (1 speech)
On 7 November, I joined members of the Perth community for the 30-year anniversary of Orana House. At The Rise in Maylands, we celebrated one of the best services in our community that deals with...
- Chisholm Electorate: New Colombo Plan Scholarship Program (1 speech)
I first came to Australia as an international student from Hong Kong in my youth. I immediately fell in love with Australia's people and culture and decided to call this country home. My...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
Today I spoke to Ron Fletcher. He lives in Albion Park in my electorate. Ron spoke to me about his wife Mary, who sadly died in May 2017. They were just 10 days short of their golden wedding...
- Reid Electorate: Eurella Community Services (1 speech)
Tomorrow marks the International Day of People with Disability, and I would like to draw attention to a committed NDIS provider in my electorate, Eurella Community Services. I recently visited...
- Northern Territory: Australian Training Awards (1 speech)
I'd like to acknowledge the Territorians who were honoured at the recent Australian Training Awards and make special mention of Judith McKay, the recipient of the National Achievement Award....
- Penrith Community Christmas Tree Lighting (1 speech)
When I got home on Friday I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in the Penrith community Christmas tree lighting in Memory Park with my family and thousands of locals. There was so much...
- Adelaide Hills Landscape Arts Prize (1 speech)
The Adelaide Hills Landscape Arts Prize for 2019 was awarded last night. This is a biennial arts prize. It's open only to South Australian artists for their depictions of our beautiful Adelaide...
- Bondi to Bronte Ocean Swim (1 speech)
Yesterday, along with 1,900 others, I took part in one of Australia's most iconic ocean swims—the Bondi to Bronte. The water temperature was about 21 degrees and the swell was about a metre...
- Minister for Home Affairs (1 speech)
The Minister for Home Affairs is now fighting a ridiculous legal battle to see whether he has the power to deport Aboriginal people from Australia—that's right. It sounds absurd, and it is....
- Riding for the Disabled Maryborough (1 speech)
Recently, when I visited Riding for the Disabled Maryborough, I had the great pleasure of seeing kids from Maryborough Special School on their horses. They absolutely beamed as they rode around....
- Chiappetta, Mr Antonio (1 speech)
I want to congratulate Chifley's own Antonio Chiappetta, who last week won the 2019 Telstra ARIA Music Teacher of the Year award. Well done! The award recognises music teachers for their passion...
- Fairfax Electorate: Surf Lifesaving (1 speech)
On 27 October this year, three surf lifesavers from the Maroochydore Surf Life Saving Club were on roving patrol. They were Robin Smith, Taylah Kouvaras and Abigail Green. They spotted a...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
Australia and nations all around the world need to take action to limit the effects of our changing climate, and adults and kids all around Australia know it. Recently I met with a group of...
- Cowper Electorate: Bushfires (2 speeches)
Since 8 November this year, my electorate of Cowper has suffered greatly from the fires which have raged for the past three weeks. We have lost some 60 homes in Nambucca Shire, 61 homes in...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- National Asbestos Awareness Week (9 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) 25 November to 1 December 2019 is National Asbestos Awareness Week; (b) despite being outlawed in 2003, the impact of asbestos in Australia is...
- New South Wales: Roads (13 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) recognises the Government’s commitment to reducing traffic congestion through: (a) a $4 billion Urban Congestion Fund, removing traffic pinch points; (b) better...
- Captain Cook's Voyage to Australia: 250th Anniversary (10 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) 29 April 2020 is the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook's landing in Botany Bay; and (b) the Government is planning a...
- Human Rights Day (7 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) recognises that 10 December 2019 is United Nations Human Rights Day; (2) acknowledges that the: (a) United Nations General Assembly's adoption of the Universal...
- Sikh Community (3 speeches)
Waheguru ji ka khalsa waheguru ji ki fateh. It's my pleasure to rise in support of the motion from the member for McEwen. I'm very pleased that this motion has come back to the chamber, which...
- Australian Defence Force Parliamentary Program (3 speeches)
I'll be brief tonight to enable the member for Stirling to also contribute. I want to commend the motion to the chamber tonight. It's been an honour to participate in the Australian Defence Force...
