House debates
Thursday, 13 February 2020
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That government business notice No. 2 be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Privileges and Members' Interests Committee; Report (1 speech)
In accordance with standing order 216, on behalf of the Privileges and Members' Interests Committee I present the report concerning the registration and declaration of members' interests during...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum (5 speeches)
For the information of honourable members, from 13 to 16 January this year, our parliament hosted the 28th annual meeting of the Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum, known as the APPF, here at...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Women in Sport, Alexander, Ms Lisa (1 speech)
Women's sport is going from level to level in this country. The women's BBL has just finished, the Matildas have just beaten Thailand 6-0, the fourth AFLW season has just commenced with record...
- Safer Internet Day (1 speech)
Deputy Speaker, I congratulate you on your elevation. This week we celebrated Safer Internet Day and the theme this year is 'together for a better internet'. Navigating the internet can be a...
- Australian Bushfires (1 speech)
The coalition's response to the bushfires has been to focus on fuel reduction as the key cause of the fires. It is important to reduce fuel loads as a precautionary measure, especially around...
- Smart Eating Week (1 speech)
Like many people, I've started 2020 with a New Year's resolution to exercise more and eat more healthily. I'm working towards my goals with the support of Brandon Campbell, the manager at my...
- Solomon Electorate: Community Events, Johnston By-Election (1 speech)
Kia ora! The Anzac spirit is alive and well in the Far North, with Kiwi Territorians fundraising for those affected by the devastating bushfires. We had a fundraiser at Tracy Village last...
- Goldstein Electorate: Black Rock Neighbourhood Watch (1 speech)
The Goldstein community is full of incredible people doing industrious things to build the social fabric not just of our community but as part of the success of a great nation. Neighbourhood...
- Child Developmental Assessments (1 speech)
() (): I rise today to speak on extravagant delays that presently exist in child developmental assessments in our public health system. I've been quoted in the media today as stating that we are...
- Berowra Electorate: Floods (1 speech)
On Sunday savage storms hit Sydney, and thousands of homes and businesses in my electorate have been without power, phone lines or mobile reception for most of the week. Fallen trees have blocked...
- ClubsNSW (6 speeches)
I've obtained alarming information from a whistleblower regarding ClubsNSW, the peak body representing 770 clubs and which is, in effect, the peak pro-gambling organisation in Australia. In...
- Racism (1 speech)
Last month, I had the immense privilege to address the wonderful people of Beulah. Tucked into the centre of the barley belt and the famous Silo Art Trail, Beulah is home to just over 300...
- Prime Minister (1 speech)
Why is the member for Hume still in cabinet? The member for Hume's imbecilic attempt to embarrass the Lord Mayor of Sydney exploded in his face. If the member for Hume continues to refuse to...
- O'Connor Electorate: Bushfires (1 speech)
We've heard from members here today about the devastating floods on the east coast over the weekend. In my electorate of O'Connor, in the south-east of Western Australia, we had our turn at...
- Community Sport Infrastructure Grant Program (1 speech)
It's Valentine's Day tomorrow, so I've written this poem: Labor is red, the Liberals are blue, Senator McKenzie has a colour coded spreadsheet for you. A hundred million dollars given to clubs of...
- Rotary International (1 speech)
The centenary countdown has well and truly begun for Rotary in Australia and New Zealand, as these organisations will celebrate the first 100 years of service in 2021. This is no ordinary...
- Paterson Electorate: Fern Bay Pharmacy (1 speech)
Last month I had the pleasure of officially opening the new Amcal pharmacy in Fern Bay. Pharmacist and owner Alecia Hennessy understands how vital this service is to Fern Bay and Fullerton Cove....
- Coronavirus (1 speech)
My electorate reflects the wonderful multiculturalism of modern Australia and it is home to one of Sydney's largest Australian Chinese communities. Those with Chinese heritage contribute...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
Today I rise to draw the House's attention to the wonderful students at Wales Street Primary School in my electorate of Cooper. The students, led by Arielle Butera, are just some of the many...
- Fairfax Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
Our nation, no doubt, started the year—and, indeed, the decade—with its challenges from drought, bushfires and the coronavirus. But, rightly, we paused as a nation to celebrate...
- Budget (2 speeches)
The Treasurer is now sneaking away from his future budget surpluses blaming bushfires and coronavirus, but the truth is that the budget has always been propped up by dodgy assumptions. With...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (6 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health. Why are up to half of all older Australians in residential aged care malnourished?
- Women in the Workforce (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment, representing the Minister for Women. Will the minister outline how the Morrison government's commitment to ensuring equality in the workplace...
- Aged Care (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. The median waiting time for the highest level of approved home care packages is almost three years, and the aged-care royal commission found that people...
- Morrison Government (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister outline to the House how the Morrison government's consistent beliefs and policies are ensuring that it delivers on its commitments...
- Aged Care (2 speeches)
My question's to the Minister for Health. The minister just boasted about 10,000 more home-care packages, only half of which are currently available; 28,000 older Australians died while waiting...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I'd like to inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon a former member of this House and current deputy leader of the Tasmanian Labor Party, Michelle O'Byrne. On behalf...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Commonwealth Integrity Commission (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, my constituents tell me they are outraged and disappointed by the sports rorts scandal. Many Australians would be shocked to know that the...
- Aged Care (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. The aged-care royal commission drew attention to inadequate prevention and management of wounds, sometimes leading to septicaemia and death, and...
- Regional Australia (8 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, the . Will the Deputy Prime Minister outline to the House the importance of the Morrison government's consistent belief and policy approach to driving...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline to the House how the Morrison government's consistent belief in economic management is keeping our economy resilient in the face of...
- Aged Care (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Minister for Health. Why do over one-quarter of younger people who go into aged care die within a single year of entry?
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction. Will the minister outline to the House the importance of the Morrison government's consistent beliefs and policy approach around...
- Aged Care (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Why is the government privatising the aged-care assessment team—the only part of the aged-care system everyone accepts is working well, including...
- Energy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister outline to the House how the Morrison government's consistent beliefs and policies are reducing emissions and reducing electricity...
- Pensions and Benefits (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Government Services. Minister, how many Australians received debt notices issued under the government's illegal robodebt scheme, how much money are they owed,...
- Resources Sector (7 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia. Will the minister outline to the House the importance of the Morrison-McCormack government's—
- Defence Procurement (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. What binding commitment to a percentage of local content did the government write into its contract for the future submarines?
- National Security (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison government's consistent beliefs and policies on border protection and national security...
- Defence Industry (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. The contract for Australia's Collins class submarines includes a requirement for 70 per cent local content, which was ultimately exceeded....
- Agriculture Industry (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison-McCormack government's consistent policy approach is...
- Defence Procurement (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. When hundreds of defence industry workers at Osborne in Adelaide have lost their jobs—and there are reports of another 34 job losses...
- Trade (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister Assisting the Minister for Trade and Investment. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison government's consistent beliefs and policy approach to...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I have dedicated my working life to the health of children. Children with development delay and other disabilities, including autism, require a developmental...
- National Security (10 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General and Minister for Industrial Relations. Will the minister outline for the House the importance of the Morrison government's complete consistency in terms of...
- Defence Procurement (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. The minister has today admitted that this government chose not to insert a binding local content guarantee in its multibillion-dollar...
- Indigenous Health (2 speeches)
Prime Minister, over a year ago you committed to community market gardens. Surely we are judged on how we treat our poorest. Dick Smith, in one shining example, put his own money into market...
- 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.
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (8 speeches)
I rise to make a personal explanation.
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Parliament House: Security (1 speech)
I just need to make a statement to the House for the information of all honourable members. I draw the attention of members to an article published by an ABC 7.30 report journalist based on a...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Coalition Government (28 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable Leader of the Opposition proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The failure of the...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I have a short statement for the House. I wish to report to the House on my attendance, with the Clerk of the House, at the 25th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth,...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Human Rights Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, I present the committee's report entitled Human rights scrutiny report 2 of 2020. Report made a parliamentary paper in accordance...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Moore Electorate: Budget (1 speech)
May I take this opportunity to advocate, on behalf of the local community, for a number of funding priorities within my electorate of Moore—in particular, in the areas of Financial...
- Japanangka, Mr Kumunjayi, Coniston Massacre (1 speech)
Congratulations on your appointment, Deputy Speaker Llew O'Brien. Two weeks ago I attended the Hetti Perkins aged-care facility in Alice Springs to recognise the achievements and the 100th...
- Leslie Harrison Dam (1 speech)
With major rainfall events all over the east coast, I recognise that many homes and many people's lifestyles will be under threat, and we advise everyone, where possible, to follow all of the...
- Medicare (3 speeches)
From January this year, the Morrison government and his Department of Health implemented the Modified Monash Model, which decides how much of an incentive doctors in regional areas receive to...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
Over the past week we've had many groups around the country calling for net zero emissions by 2050. So let's do the maths and see exactly what that might do for the environment. With Australia's...
- Arts, North Richmond Bridge (1 speech)
When the government put arts under the new Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications, it sent a very clear message to Australia that the government does not...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
This summer has been a season of grief, loss and hardship for many Australians. The unprecedented bushfire crisis, followed so quickly by floods, has changed Australia. Sadly, this government may...
- Bennelong Electorate: Australia Day Honours (2 speeches)
It is once again the time of the year when we celebrate the contributions of great Australians to our national life through the awarding of the Order of Australia and other awards as part of the...
- Defence Industry (1 speech)
It is absolutely clear that the Australian defence sector no longer has any confidence in the Morrison government delivering on its rhetoric on Australian industry content, which it has been...
- Queensland: Health Care (1 speech)
The nation is now watching what is the weeping sore of Queensland Health, and that is Redland Hospital. I don't think we've ever seen a Labor health minister so egregiously drain a hospital...
- Australian Capital Territory: Bushfires (1 speech)
It has been 17 years since the 2003 Canberra bushfires, but the memory loomed large over the capital in the recent summer months. Emergency services battled multiple fires in record-breaking...
- Capricornia Electorate: Shine Energy (1 speech)
I wish to take this opportunity to speak about an important and promising energy project that the Australian government is supporting in Capricornia. It is Shine Energy's high-energy,...
- Health Care, Child Care (1 speech)
If the people of Brand needed any more examples of just how the Liberals don't care about them, they've got it in the ever-increasing cost to go and see the doctor and to put their children into...
- Hopgood, Mr Jack (1 speech)
I rise today to recognise Mount Gambier resident Jack Hopgood, who recently celebrated his 100th birthday. Jack is a softly spoken, humble man who is not overly comfortable with attention. I...
- Baha'i Faith, Arts (1 speech)
The people of the Baha'i faith in my electorate of Wills and across Australia are deeply concerned about their brothers and sisters in Iran. Since 1979, the government of Iran has made it...
- Page Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
I want to acknowledge the Australia Day award recipients from the Kyogle local government area at the recent Australia Day awards. There were three different official functions in the Kyogle LGA....
- Health Care (1 speech)
Many members will know that in recent months I've had some health issues which relate to renal and kidney problems. I want to refer to that in this opportunity, because of the lessons I've...
- Calare Electorate: Australia Bushfires (2 speeches)
I've spoken in the House before about the firefighting effort in the Calare electorate. Our fireys and emergency services personnel were simply outstanding, but so too were the huge numbers of...
- La Trobe Electorate: Local Sporting Champions Program (1 speech)
I'm proud today to speak about some very talented young individuals in the electorate of La Trobe. The Local Sporting Champions program provides financial support of up to $750 for travel costs...
- Australian Bushfires (1 speech)
I want to take the opportunity to offer my condolences to all those who have lost loved ones in this devastating season of bushfires. I want to do that on behalf of my community of Calwell as we...
- Swan Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
I want to take the opportunity to report to the House and to the residents of my electorate on the Manning Road on-ramp. Residents of the area know that the Kwinana Freeway and Manning Road...
- Sydney Electorate: Sydney Metro (1 speech)
I want to take the opportunity to raise the need for an additional metro station on a line that the New South Wales state government is already constructing. The Sydney Metro project is already...
- Australian Floods (1 speech)
As we stand in this place, once again, across my electorate of Forde and across the south-east of Queensland it's raining. I know that across the east coast, from South-East Queensland all the...
- Racism (1 speech)
In 2020 we should be talking about fascism as a historical curse of the past and not as a present threat; yet, here we are, a dangerous place in history where far Right populism is back on the...
- Wentworth Electorate: Water Safety (2 speeches)
I wish to congratulate several brave off-duty Bronte Surf Life Saving Club lifesavers and Waverley Council lifeguards who courageously performed the mass rescue of 11 people caught in the...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Closing the Gap (6 speeches)
Yesterday was an important day, as we reach the end of the original Closing the Gap frameworks, and I'm pleased to see that my colleague from across the chamber, the Hon. Warren Snowdon, is with...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Werriwa Electorate (1 speech)
The people of Werriwa are a constant source of inspiration, whether it's the schoolchildren and their teachers at presentation days, when I have the opportunity to visit the schools in my...
- Closing the Gap (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate the Prime Minister on his address to the House and on his annual Closing the Gap update yesterday. It was frank and fearless and provided a clear pathway of what...
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Morrison Government (1 speech)
Last week, I added my voice to the bushfire condolence motion here. I made particular reference to the work of journalists and news organisations during the crisis, especially the work of the...
- Boothby Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
Australia Day saw outstanding men and women in my electorate of Boothby recognised for their service to our community through the Order of Australia awards and local council awards. I am...
- Sydney Harbour Federation Trust (1 speech)
As a proud Sydneysider I rise to highlight the importance of one of our most loved and cherished assets, our beautiful harbour and the unique pockets of protected bushland that surround it. In my...
- Coronavirus (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the coronavirus and the effects that it is having directly on my electorate in these early stages. It was reported this morning that there are now 44,754 cases worldwide,...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
Our climate is changing around us. The evidence is now there for us to see. This year we had the 'black summer'—the toxic air, a billion animals perished. It was the worst drought in our...
- New Horizons Tasmania (1 speech)
Equality and access for all is at the heart of a truly inclusive society. It's also the foundation that inspired the creation of New Horizons Tasmania over 30 years ago. The brainchild of...
- Calwell Electorate: Asahi Beverages, Peace Boat (1 speech)
On Thursday 23 January I had the opportunity to visit the Asahi Beverages factory at Tullamarine in my electorate of Calwell. I want to thank the Japanese ambassador, His Excellency Ambassador...
- Mattiske, Mr David Henry, Veterans (1 speech)
I rise to speak about a very special WWII veteran in my community. David Mattiske is an ex-serviceman who I first met on Anzac Day last year. Recently he shared some of his incredible story and...
- Business (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker O'Brien, I'd like to congratulate you on your elevation to Deputy Speaker of the House. Almost a year and a half ago the Prime Minister promised to create a register of the...
- Pyle, Mr Bill (1 speech)
It wouldn't matter what time I got up in the morning; there would be a farmer up before me somewhere in Australia. He could be a dairy farmer, an orchardist or a cattle, sheep or pig...
