House debates
Tuesday, 3 December 2019
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Road Safety Joint Select Committee; Appointment (1 speech)
I have received a message from the Senate informing the House that the Senate concurs with the resolution relating to the variation of appointment of the Joint Select Committee on Road Safety.
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- National Disability Insurance Scheme Committee; Report (4 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme, I present the committee's report entitled NDIS planning interim report. Report made a parliamentary paper in...
- Treaties Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties I present the committee's report, incorporating additional comments, entitled Report 188: investments Uruguay, ISDS UN convention and...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
Today, to celebrate International Day of People with Disability, I'm very pleased to have in parliament my old patients and now friends, Kathryn Millar, Brooklyn Taylor and Ethan Campbell,...
- Page Electorate: Local Sporting Champions (1 speech)
The Local Sporting Champions grants allow regional athletes the opportunity to compete at elite levels. This is certainly what Grafton's Tahlia Marsh has achieved. Recently, Tahlia won a bronze...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
On this International Day for People with Disability, it is incumbent on all of us to look at every person through the prism of their abilities, not their disabilities. It is our job to empower...
- Agriculture Industry (1 speech)
Apple and pear farmers across Western Australia will soon be able to access a fund of $1.5 million to install new netting or replace damaged netting. The majority of orchards in WA are not netted...
- International Day of People with Disability (1 speech)
Today is the International Day of People with Disability, and the member for Maribyrnong, our shadow minister for the NDIS, hosted a special morning tea this morning to meet with people with...
- Queensland: Roads (1 speech)
The suburb of Redland Bay—Queensland's largest—has 15,000 people all having to leave on a single-lane road because of the small thinking of state Labor. This suburb needs roads. They...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
I'm pleased to rise with my colleagues today for 90-second statements to commend to the House the National Disability Insurance Scheme. On the International Day of People with Disability, we want...
- Infrastructure (1 speech)
Investment in rail projects by the federal government around the nation is at historic high levels. The federal and Queensland governments have just signed a bilateral agreement to provide...
- Petitions: National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
On this the International Day of People with Disability I rise to present important petitions of 19,446 signatures of fellow Australians who are calling on their parliament to take urgent action...
- Small Business (1 speech)
As this is likely my last opportunity to speak before parliament rises for the Christmas break, I would like to send a special thank you to all those working in small business over the Christmas...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
On International Day of People with Disability, we celebrate the achievements of the NDIS but we also must be mindful of its shortcomings, due almost entirely to the $4.6 billion shortfall in...
- International Day of People with Disability (1 speech)
Everyone in this House sees the highs and lows of those with a disability trying to work their way through an often unfair and often unscrupulous system. It can be an extraordinary challenge for...
- Chisholm Electorate: Local Sporting Champions (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to update the chamber on some great news for some young sporting stars in my electorate. Congratulations to all the recipients of the Local Sporting...
- International Day of People with Disability (1 speech)
I rise today, on the International Day of People with Disability, to acknowledge the many people in my community who live with disability. I also want to pay tribute to their family carers for...
- Reid Electorate: Korea Day Festival (1 speech)
I am proudly the member for one of the most culturally diverse electorates in Australia. Last month I had the pleasure of attending the Korea Day Festival in Croydon Park. It is an annual event...
- International Day of People with Disability (1 speech)
Today is International Day of People with Disability. I join my Labor colleagues in celebrating the achievements of people with disability. I want to pay tribute to all the people with disability...
- Lindsay Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
Students in my electorate of Lindsay are working hard—students like Diya from Claremont Meadows Public School. The teachers and students at Claremont Meadows Public School know Diya as...
- International Day of People with Disability (1 speech)
Today is the International Day of People with Disability. I acknowledge the very good speeches that have been given and the advocates in the gallery. Today is a day where you talk about the...
- Inland Rail (2 speeches)
Last Friday saw the signing in Toowoomba of the intergovernmental agreement on Inland Rail by the Deputy Prime Minister, representing the Commonwealth government, and Minister Mark Bailey from...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Veterans: Suicide (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Every member of this parliament agrees that reducing the appallingly high rate of veterans' suicide in Australia should be an absolute priority. We...
- Economy (21 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister outline to the House how the Morrison government's strong economic management is ensuring the delivery of essential services for...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I'd like to inform the House that we have present on the floor of the chamber this afternoon the Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City's Central Party Committee, Mr Nguyen Thien Nhan, who's visiting...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Bushfires (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, access to foreign heavy firefighting aircraft is now problematic, as the Northern and Southern Hemisphere fire seasons overlap because of...
- Economy (13 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer explain to the House how the Morrison government's strong budgetary position enables us to deliver the essential services that Australians rely...
- Prime Minister (3 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that he has misled this parliament on every one of the past four sitting days? Why does the Prime Minister have a...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme and Minister for Government Services. Will the minister outline how the Morrison government's stable and certain budget...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I would like to inform the House that we have present in the Speaker's gallery this afternoon the Hon. Curtis Pitt MP, the Speaker of the Queensland Parliament. On behalf of the House, a very...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction. Has the minister been interviewed by detectives from Strike Force Garrad?
- Hospitals (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison government's stable and certain budget and economic management are helping to guarantee critical...
- Prime Minister (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Today, the Leader of the Government in the Senate refused to produce documents recording the Prime Minister's call to the New South Wales police commissioner...
- Schools (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison government's record funding for schools is underpinned by stable and certain economic management?
- Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction (9 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. Yesterday the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction told the House that his interests are declared in accordance with the rules, despite his...
- Aged Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister outline how the Morrison government's stable and certain budget is guaranteeing the essential aged-care services that older...
- Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction. Yesterday the minister's office provided a response to claims that he's been misleading the parliament ever since his first...
- Domestic and Family Violence (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Women. Will the minister outline how the Morrison government's stable and certain budget is delivering critical funding to help...
- Prime Minister (8 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. Malcolm Turnbull; the former anticorruption commissioner, David Ipp QC; and former counsel assisting the Independent Commission Against Corruption,...
- Mental Health (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister outline how the Morrison government's stable and certain budget and economic management are guaranteeing critical investment in mental...
- Attorney-General (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. Why is it that, when it comes to a criminal investigation into one of his own ministers, the Attorney-General has publicly dismissed the investigation,...
- Veterans: Mental Health (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans and Defence Personnel. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison government's stable and certain budget and economic management are...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- 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 (18 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Rankin proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The need for a comprehensive...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Representation (1 speech)
I completely reject the idea that Australians are or should be quiet. For us to do our work in this place, we need noisy, passionate and purposeful Australians. One of the joys of our work as...
- Griffiths, Laylah, Surf Life Saving Tasmania (1 speech)
We are privileged in this place to be able to tell stories of remarkable people and organisations who are making our local communities better places to live through their selfless actions....
- Timor-Leste (1 speech)
I want to speak tonight about mates, about standing up and speaking out and about doing the right thing. I want to talk about East Timor and the merciless pursuit of two men. Before I do that,...
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (1 speech)
Australia's international trading and investment relationship with the 10 member nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations continues to grow. A 19.8 per cent annual growth in trade...
- Veterans (1 speech)
When Australians enlist in the Australian Defence Force, they swear that they will well and truly serve Her Majesty the Queen. They swear that they will resist her enemies and that they will...
- People with Disability (1 speech)
Today is International Day of People with Disability, a United Nations sanctioned day which aims to increase awareness, understanding and acceptance of people with disability, while also...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- M12 Motorway (1 speech)
I speak today about the planned M12 motorway, a joint project between the federal government and the New South Wales state government. While I welcome the government's intention of providing more...
- Murray Basin Rail Project (1 speech)
I'd like to speak on a project which, if implemented in its entirety, could deliver major economic benefits to my electorate of Mallee, the rest of Victoria and, indeed, the whole of Australia....
- Kingsford Smith Electorate: Yarra Bay Cruise Ship Terminal (1 speech)
One of Sydney's most beautiful and idyllic beaches is under threat. Yarra Bay, on the north side of Botany Bay, is proposed to be developed by the New South Wales Liberal government and the...
- Fairfax Electorate: Awards (1 speech)
Ruth Fairfax was the person who founded the QueenslandCountry Women's Association, the QCWA. What an impact that organisation has had for not just women on the land but also families on the land!...
- Economy (1 speech)
I rise to urge the Chamber and the government to spare a thought for local people who will be doing it tough over the holidays. Christmas and New Year is a wonderful time for so many, but it is a...
- Infrastructure (1 speech)
On Wednesday 20 November, the Prime Minister announced the bringing forward of $3.8 billion worth of infrastructure projects nationally, including around $1.9 billion in Queensland. These are...
- Paterson Electorate: Business (1 speech)
Ampcontrol is a fabulous business in my electorate. They started out as a family owned business—which they still are—that specialised in underground-mining electrical work. They have...
- Aspleycare (1 speech)
I'm really passionate about the electorate of Petrie, which I represent. It's a great community with wonderful people, wonderful places and wonderful organisations that support our community. One...
- Watson, Ms Toni (1 speech)
I would like to offer my congratulations to a very talented young woman—the recording artist and Frankston Blues basketballer Toni Watson, known more famously as Tones and I. While more...
- Capricornia Electorate (2 speeches)
I wish to take this opportunity to give the chamber an update on my electorate of Capricornia. It has been very busy since the federal election, and there are many positive announcements to...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Humphreys, Hon. Benjamin Charles, AM (4 speeches)
It's a great privilege to rise to honour the memory of Ben Humphreys, the former member for Griffith and a man whose integrity this House has recalled since his passing last month. In recent...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics Committee; Report (1 speech)
Recently the House Standing Committee on Economics had the pleasure of hearing from Rod Sims, the head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and his staff on a range of important...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- South Australia (1 speech)
As we come to the end of another year, and after more than 6½ years of the coalition government in office, the two issues that have dominated political debate in South Australia for the last...
- Reid Electorate (1 speech)
Over the last few months, I have had the opportunity to conduct local community surveys and mobile offices across the electorate of Reid to hear from residents about the issues that matter to...
- Australian Bushfires, Climate Change (1 speech)
Oh, dear! What a horrid bushfire season this country is experiencing already, and it's only 3 December. The figures are pretty well known now. Six people have died. More than 600 homes have been...
- Groom Electorate (1 speech)
As the 2019 year draws to a close, it is opportune to reflect on the historic achievements, the great successes and, of course, some of the unprecedented challenges we have faced this calendar...
- Coalition Government (2 speeches)
As we approach the end of the year, parents and students around Australia will be receiving that all-important report card. Some will be presented with pride and celebrated; others will be...
