House debates
Tuesday, 25 August 2020
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present the committee's report 4/2020 Referrals made in April and June 2020. Report made a parliamentary paper in accordance...
- Law Enforcement Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement, I present the following reports: Examination of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission's annual report 2018-19 and...
- Road Safety Joint Select Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Select Committee on Road Safety, I present the committee's interim report entitled Improving road safety in Australia. Report made a parliamentary paper in accordance with...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Beirut: Explosion (1 speech)
On 4 August, the world stopped as we watched again and again the footage of Beirut. While only one Australian citizen was reported as lost—young Australian Isaac Oehlers, aged two—the...
- Wide Bay Electorate: Murgon (1 speech)
On Saturday, it was my great joy to join the members of the Murgon sub-branch of the RSL—particularly the president, John Drew; the district president, Trevor Williamson; Mayor Brett Otto;...
- Beirut: Explosion (1 speech)
I rise to express my sadness and shock at the horrific explosion in Beirut earlier this month and to express my commiserations and solidarity with the people of Lebanon and the Lebanese...
- Ringrose, Mr Roy (1 speech)
Today I rise to honour the Berowra electorate's latest centenarian, Roy Ringrose of Thornleigh. Roy was born on 15 August 1920 at Temora. He joined the Second AIF in March 1942, serving at Cowra,...
- Beirut: Explosion (1 speech)
I rise today to express my heartfelt condolences to the people of Lebanon following the devastating explosion that occurred in Beirut on 4 August. I wish to extend my deepest sympathies to the...
- Grey Electorate: Schools-led Cattle and Goat Competition (1 speech)
Last week I had the honour of judging the grand parade of the schools-led cattle and goat competition held at Kadina. It was the first ever, and the reason it was the first ever is that normally...
- Beirut: Explosion (1 speech)
Anyone with Lebanese blood in their veins lives with the heartache of what's happened to Lebanon over the last few decades—the civil war, the bombings, the violence, the assassinations, the...
- SecondBite (1 speech)
Let me first associate myself with the comments of the member for Blaxland and extend my condolences to the Australian Lebanese community for the horrific blast in Beirut and all the tragedy and...
- Australian Bushfires (1 speech)
This time last year, our horrendous bushfire season started, and it did not relent for months. The fear and shock of the unprecedented ferocity and destruction have been seared into our memories....
- The Gap Neighbourhood Watch: Bag Tag Initiative (1 speech)
As a community, we all have a role to play in ensuring our kids are safe and well supported. I commend The Gap Neighbourhood Watch on taking practical action to do just that by providing primary...
- Beirut: Explosion (1 speech)
I stand today to provide my deepest condolences to the people of Beirut and Lebanon after the tragedy that unfolded on 4 August. Werriwa, like many other Australian communities, has strong links...
- Sturt Electorate: Environment (1 speech)
Two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to have the Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management, who is also the member for Brisbane, visit my electorate of Sturt. At the...
- Beirut: Explosion (1 speech)
Lebanon is a beautiful country which has experienced far too much tragedy over the years. Yet more tragedy befell Lebanon on 4 August. I'm sure all Australians, including every single member of...
- Forde Electorate: Ormeau Lions Club (1 speech)
We all have great community organisations in our electorates, and one of the great ones in my electorate of Forde is the Lions Club of Ormeau. They operate the only Driver Reviver site on the...
- Beirut: Explosion (1 speech)
I rise today to offer my sincere condolences to the people of Lebanon and the Lebanese community here in Australia for the grief and loss they continue to experience following the tragedy, in...
- Halifax, Grace (1 speech)
I rise in this place to congratulate a very special young woman in my electorate of Higgins: Grace Halifax. She is an eight-year-old student who is passionate about coding and wants other...
- Beirut: Explosion (1 speech)
I haven't been to Beirut, but the images of that beautiful city shattered earlier this month deeply affected and shook me, because Lebanon and Australia enjoy such a close and important...
- Fisher Electorate (1 speech)
Last week, I was finally able to get out of my office and into my community on my second annual Tour de Fisher. I cycled more than 160 kilometres around Fisher and held 16 COVID-safe listening...
- Beirut: Explosion (2 speeches)
I acknowledge all those on this side of the parliament who wanted to advise of their condolences for the tragedy that occurred in Lebanon on 4 August this year. Like many here, I also have a...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Aged Care (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that the Commonwealth aged-care regulator was informed of a COVID-19 outbreak at St Basil's home on 10 July but never told the...
- COVID-19: Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister outline to the House the importance of the Morrison government's plans to grow our economy while protecting Australia from the health...
- COVID-19: Aged Care (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Is it correct the Prime Minister waited until the first death of an aged-care resident in Victoria to make masks mandatory for Victorian aged-care...
- COVID-19: Regional Australia (4 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Will the Deputy Prime Minister please inform the House how the McCormack-Morrison...
- COVID-19: Aged Care (4 speeches)
My question is again addressed to the Prime Minister. I ask: is it true that the government undertook no audit of aged-care providers to ensure they had adequate stocks of PPE, despite more than...
- COVID-19: Economy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Warnings from Australia's top climate scientists today reinforce the danger of a gas-led COVID recovery, because the leaking of methane from gas production...
- COVID-19: Victoria (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline to the House the rapid and extensive support the Morrison government is providing to Victorian families and businesses after the...
- COVID-19: Aged Care (2 speeches)
Thank you, Mr Speaker. My question is to the Prime Minister. At the Kalyna aged care facility, six minutes down the road from where I am now, a 95-year-old woman had ants crawling from her open...
- COVID-19: Mental Health (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is supporting the mental health and wellbeing of Australians during the coronavirus...
- COVID-19: Aged Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Epping Gardens in my electorate is the site of Australia's worst aged-care coronavirus outbreak. More than 20 residents have died. At the height of the...
- COVID-19: Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. Would the minister please outline to the House how the Morrison government is supporting students during this difficult time, including through the...
- COVID-19: Aged Care (2 speeches)
My question is for the Prime Minister. More than 50 COVID-19 cases have been linked to the Doutta Galla aged-care centre in Yarraville in my electorate. Sandra, whose father Wilhelm was a...
- Covid-19 (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister update the House on the state of the global coronavirus pandemic and how Australia's COVID strategy compares internationally?
- COVID-19: Aged Care (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is it correct, as the aged-care royal commission heard, that Australia has 'one of the highest rates in the world of residential aged-care deaths as a...
- COVID-19: National Coordination Mechanism (2 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister outline to the House how the National Coordination Mechanism has been helping to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic...
- COVID-19: Aged Care (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Why has the Prime Minister, yesterday and again today, continued to spin that 97 per cent of aged-care facilities don't have an outbreak of...
- COVID-19: Agriculture (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management. Will the minister please outline to the House how the Morrison-McCormack government is backing Australia's...
- Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to his decision to remove aged-care minister Richard Colbeck from decisions to activate new aged-care emergency measures. Isn't this a declaration of...
- COVID-19: Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General and Minister for Industrial Relations: Will the Attorney please update the House on how the Morrison government's temporary industrial relations flexibility...
- Superannuation (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to Australia's ageing population. Why is the government not only neglecting older Australians of today in aged care but also neglecting older...
- COVID-19: Great Barrier Reef (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison government is supporting local communities located along the Great Barrier Reef as they...
- COVID-19: Aged Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is it correct that the Prime Minister waited until 25 July to announce the Victorian Aged Care Response Centre, well after high levels of community...
- Employment (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government's urban infrastructure program is boosting the...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- COVID 19: Western Australian Border Closure (6 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have a question, through you. While question time has been on, the Federal Court have handed down their judgement on WA border restrictions. They refuse to order a new trial, upon...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
A document is tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Full details of the document will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Aged Care (12 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Franklin proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government’s...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: State and Territory Border Closures (15 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Brand from moving the following motion immediately: That the House: (1) notes that: (a) today, the Federal...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, I present the committee's report entitled Report 189: Capital Increase WBG IBRD; Capital Increase WBG IFC; Amendments CMS; Termination...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Employment (1 speech)
There are two things during this pandemic that we seem to hear over and over again, so much so that they risk becoming meaningless slogans. The first one, that 'we're all in this together', is...
- Scott, Mr Raymond (1 speech)
Today I rise to say goodbye to a good friend and a great Australian, Raymond Scott. After his long battle with cancer, Ray was taken from us on 13 July this year. He was a man I deeply respected...
- COVID-19: State and Territory Border Closures (1 speech)
The New South Wales-Victorian border stretches for over 1,000 kilometres from east to west. All along this distance, communities have been split in two by border closure. I'm the only...
- Braddon Electorate: Telecommunications (1 speech)
There's been great news in the great state of Tasmania this week for residents from the town of Tullah, on Tasmania's west coast: their new 4GX mobile site was officially launched. This new...
- Bendigo Electorate: COVID-19 (1 speech)
Yep, life is tough, particularly in the state of Victoria. We are feeling acutely the effects of this pandemic—through the health crisis and through restrictions. It is going to get a lot...
- Cashless Debit Card (1 speech)
I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Prime Minister and the cabinet on the way they've dealt with the COVID-19 virus right from the very start when they closed the borders with...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- VP Day Anniversary (1 speech)
Fifteen August was an important day for Australians, as we commemorated the 75th anniversary of VP Day and the end of World War II. Victory in the Pacific marked the end of that awful war...
- COVID-19: Arts (1 speech)
It has been a very difficult year for all Australians, but it has been a particularly difficult year for some groups—those in nursing homes, students—and we've spoken about them over...
- Higgins Electorate: Level Crossings (1 speech)
I rise to announce that I'm very excited by an election commitment that is now being rolled out to remove the Glenferrie Road level crossing in my constituency of Higgins. This is exciting...
- Garritty, Mr Patrick (Paddy), Gorton Electorate: COVID-19 (1 speech)
It has become somewhat of a sombre daily ritual in Victoria to learn the latest figures on COVID-19 cases and COVID-related deaths. Each one of these deaths is a person and that person has a...
- Tasmania: Mental Health Services (1 speech)
From little things, big things grow. This quote was used recently by the CEO of the Royal Flying Doctors Service, John Kirwan, to describe how a little idea has turned into action that will have...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about the NDIS. One of the things I have been most pleased to be involved in since being elected last year has been to be a member of the Joint Standing Committee on the NDIS...
- COVID-19: Mental Health (1 speech)
The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us that none of us are immune to the challenges of mental wellbeing. We have all felt the pangs of angst, frustration and hopelessness in these past few...
- Dobell Electorate: COVID-19 (1 speech)
COVID-19 has changed Australia and the world. As the pandemic continues to unfold and we grapple with this new normal, economic and social fault lines are being exposed. When restrictions were...
- Vietnam Veterans' Day (5 speeches)
Tuesday 18 August, as we all know, was Vietnam Veterans' Day. We remember the 521 Australians who died and the 3,000 who were wounded. Overall 61,000 Australians took part in that war. The war...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Joint Standing Committee on Migration; Report (15 speeches)
I don't know how I follow the member for Flynn. I've certainly never played cricket against Doug Walters and can't speak to his flowing craft. Regional Australia faces a number of challenges, and...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1 speech)
I rise to talk about the Samuel review into the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act and the opportunity that we have to improve these laws and really protect our natural...
- JobSeeker Payment and JobKeeper Payment (1 speech)
The coronavirus pandemic is a momentous challenge for all of us. Australians have got sick, Australians have died and the economic consequences have been unprecedented. In such emergency...
- COVID-19: International Travel (1 speech)
This is an important grievance debate, because it goes to the heart of what Australia stands for. Are we a free and fair country? Do we have processes that comply with principles of natural...
- COVID-19: Hydroxychloroquine (1 speech)
During my lifetime I've seen many examples where there has been complete abandonment of reason—media bias has led to groupthink—but never have I seen a worse example of this than the...
- Morrison Government (1 speech)
I grieve for Australians who are missing out as a result of failures in media and communications policy under this Liberal-National government. Next month marks seven years of inaction and...
- Lyne Electorate: Bushfires (2 speeches)
Last November, my electorate became the epicentre of a ferocious series of bushfires across the whole region. As I've previously reported to this House, over 250,000 hectares was destroyed. That...
