House debates
Thursday, 8 October 2020
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business: Selection of Business (1 speech)
I have two statements to make to the House for the interest of honourable members. The first concerns private members' business and it's an important statement on behalf of all members. You'd be...
- Rules for Media Related Activity (1 speech)
I have an unrelated statement on the media rules. I remind members that last year in September I made a statement regarding the media rules for media related activity in Parliament House. I again...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Economics Committee; Membership (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker has received advice from the Chief Opposition Whip that he has nominated Ms Murphy to be a member of the Standing Committee on Economics in the place of Dr Aly.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Rural and Regional Budget Outcomes (3 speeches)
by leave—Our government has stood with regional Australia through its most difficult times. We will stand with them as we face the COVID recession. Australia's regions have always supported...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 20, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Budget (4 speeches)
[by video link] On Tuesday night, the Morrison government had an opportunity; they had an opportunity to build a better, more resilient, more equitable economy and society from the ashes of...
- McLaughlin, Mr John (1 speech)
'You were honourable, you were kind, you were charismatic, you were gentle and you were loving.' These are the words of John McLaughlin's proud granddaughters, which so eloquently put in...
- Ryan Electorate: Budget (1 speech)
The residents in my electorate of Ryan are sick and tired of the traffic congestion they experience in the western suburbs of Brisbane. During my tenure previously as a local councillor and then...
- Australian Bushfires (1 speech)
The interim report of the Senate inquiry into the devastating 'black summer' bushfires was tabled last night. I'm in complete disbelief at the response we have seen from those opposite. The black...
- Arts (1 speech)
Last week it was a great pleasure to visit the South Australian Film Corporation in my electorate of Sturt. There are many great businesses there, including an Emmy award-winning production...
- Budget (1 speech)
For the last two days the government has told us the budget is perfect. The opposition will rail against it. As an Independent I have the freedom to say how it actually is. For Indi and for...
- Queensland Government (1 speech)
Can you imagine going down to your local supermarket and not having local produce on the shelves that had been grown in your own state? This is the real threat that my community, and other...
- Human Rights (1 speech)
I rise today to bring to the attention of the House a verdict that was announced yesterday by the court of Athens against the political party Golden Dawn. I do so because there is a branch of...
- Infrastructure (1 speech)
The Morrison government is continuing to deliver vital infrastructure upgrades on the Central Coast. The 2020-21 budget injects an additional $16.7 million into the already announced $69.8...
- Western Sydney: Environment (1 speech)
If it wasn't bad enough that the people of Western Sydney are fighting a waste-to-energy incinerator, we have even worse news. The original proposal that we've already defeated is back. So now...
- World War II: 75th Anniversary, Cox, Warrant Officer Bert (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge the sacrifice and contribution of almost one million Australians who served during the Second World War, fighting in theatres across the globe from Europe and the Middle...
- National Carers Week (1 speech)
Next week is National Carers Week—a week marked each year to thank carers and recognise their extraordinary contribution. The theme this year is 'why we care'. Australia's 2.65 million...
- Queensland Government (1 speech)
The Queensland state election is just weeks away, and still the Queensland Labor government has failed the people of Brisbane's Bayside, with no commitment to fix the dangerous level crossing at...
- Budget (1 speech)
Yesterday, the Prime Minister was asked this question: why has the Prime Minister left women behind in this budget? His answer was a shocker. It demonstrates just how out of touch this Prime...
- Fisher Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
It doesn't matter whether you're talking about state or federal governments, the LNP is the only party to vote for. As the state election in Queensland draws near, I want to draw the attention of...
- Budget (2 speeches)
This has been an extraordinary week. The Prime Minister, who has spent 13 years campaigning against debt and deficit, has delivered the biggest deficit and the biggest debt in our nation's...
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Groom Electorate; Issue of Writ (1 speech)
As I informed the House on Tuesday, I received a letter on 18 September 2020 from the Hon. Dr John McVeigh resigning his seat as a member for the electoral division of Groom. I would now like to...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Child Care (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that, because of the childcare system he personally designed, thousands of parents are knocking back extra work because it...
- Budget (33 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister outline to the House how the Morrison government's economic recovery plan benefits all Australians by creating jobs and rebuilding...
- Pensions and Benefits (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. By Christmas, 160,000 Australians will join the one million already unemployed and JobSeeker will be cut to just $40 a day. Why is this government racking up...
- Economy: Recycling (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison government is supporting Australian jobs and our economic recovery from the COVID-19...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Australians over the age of 50 who have lost their jobs may spend the rest of their working lives unemployed. They've been locked out of the government's...
- Budget (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister please outline how the Morrison government is increasing access to new medicines and Medicare, including telehealth, as outlined in...
- Domestic and Family Violence (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In Tuesday's budget, funding for an anti-sexual-assault and anti-domestic-violence program for young Australians, Respect Matters, was halved. Why is the...
- Health Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Women. Can the minister update the House on how the Morrison government's plan for economic recovery is helping to protect the health...
- Budget (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, Labor welcomed the funding in the budget for Clontarf, the great educational program for boys. Programs like these change lives, as you know....
- 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.
- Department of Parliamentary Services; Presentation (1 speech)
Pursuant to section 65 of the Parliamentary Services Act 1999, I present the annual report of the Department of Parliamentary Services for 2019-20. Ordered that the report be made a parliamentary...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Child Care (16 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Kingston proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The government's lack of a...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Health, Aged Care and Sport Committee; Membership (2 speeches)
I have received advice from the Chief Opposition Whip nominating a member to be a supplementary member of the Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport for the purposes of the committee's...
- Law Enforcement Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement, I present the committee's report entitled Summary report of the 24 June 2020: public hearing on the Australian Institute of...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Budget (1 speech)
As members know, we have different procedures in place this evening for the budget-reply speech from the Leader of the Opposition.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Broadband, Western Sydney Airport (1 speech)
People on fibre to the node, wireless and satellite have been the losers in the NBN game that the Liberals have played. The build-a-dud-and-then-backflip plan means that the $51 billion that was...
- COVID-19: Vaccines (1 speech)
In this constituency statement today I would like to talk about an industry that is centred in Bennelong and is possibly our most important industry in Australia today. It is fighting the good...
- Broad (1 speech)
At the moment, I'm torn between the emotion of sheer frustration—dare I say it, hatred—and heartbreak, when I think about the lost opportunities over the last decade that the National...
- Day, Mr Reginald, COVID-19: Aged Care (1 speech)
Recently, I met with Reginald Day, a spritely 97-year-old constituent living in Malvern East Arcare, in my electorate of Higgins. Together with Reg's wife of almost 70 years, Pat, his five...
- Broadband (1 speech)
In the past several months, Australia's digital infrastructure has been critical to ensuring our economy and society continue to function as efficiently as the pandemic will allow....
- Launceston Family Court (1 speech)
Just a few months after last year's election, I sat down with representatives of the Law Society of Tasmania and the Family Law Practitioners Association of Tasmania to hear their concerns...
- Van Dijk, Ms Trish (1 speech)
When the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, on his 90th birthday, was asked to explain his long life, he responded by saying, 'The secret is to be happy, keeping busy doing what you enjoy...
- Road Safety (1 speech)
Each day around the world, around 3,700 people die from road or road-related accidents. Last year in Australia, 1,180 people lost their lives on our roads. Nearly 70 per cent of those fatalities...
- Closing the Gap, Mullins, Mr Joe (1 speech)
Recently I joined a variety of representatives from Canberra Indigenous organisations for a Closing the Gap forum with Linda Burney MP. I would like to thank everyone that attended, including...
- Grimmett, Mr Stewart, Women in Agri-tech Pitch Competition: 2020 Winners, Page Electorate: National Rugby League Players (1 speech)
I'd like to recognise Stewart Grimmett, who has recently retired after 40 years of teaching at Woodenbong Central School. Stewart arrived in Woodenbong in May 1980 and, indeed, lived at the pub...
- COVID-19: International Travel (1 speech)
There are now almost 30,000 stranded Australians who have been abandoned overseas by the Morrison government. I'm sure to the shock of all members in this chamber the Prime Minister has failed to...
- Calare Electorate: Musicians (2 speeches)
Country Australians have made an enormous contribution to the success of our nation, and today this House salutes the talented musicians that hail from my electorate of Calare. Take for instance...
- Beirut: Explosion (1 speech)
Last time this parliament met I raised, in mourning, the fact that Beirut had suffered a terrible blast. It's now 65 days since that blast. Like so many things that happen throughout the world,...
- Budget (3 speeches)
I rise today to talk about the recently announced 2020-21 budget that was delivered on Tuesday night and the benefit for the people of the Petrie electorate. Our budget sends a clear message that...
- Child Care (1 speech)
Child care is a serious issue, and it is one that has got media attention not just in the last 24 hours but during this entire pandemic. We have seen in Victoria, because of the COVID-19 health...
- Riverside Equestrian Centre (1 speech)
The Ryan electorate is home to some wonderful community-focused organisations, and I recently had the pleasure of visiting the Riverside Equestrian Centre in Moggill. I want to use this...
- Burringbar Public School: Native Animals (1 speech)
Today I'd like to share with the House some excerpts from a very important piece of correspondence I recently received from Burringbar Public School, specifically a letter I received from their...
- Budget (2 speeches)
Today I rise to commend the Treasurer on delivering a budget that will help the Chisholm community come back stronger from the COVID-19 pandemic. Firstly, this government is making sure that...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Social Policy and Legal Affairs Committee; Report (7 speeches)
This inquiry into COVID-19 and its effects on homelessness was requested by Minister Ruston and Assistant Minister Howarth, and it's been a very interesting inquiry, I must say. It's certainly...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That order of the day No. 2, committee and delegation business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Budget (1 speech)
Having watched the budget on Tuesday night, it's actually really hard not to be angry. I waved between anger and extraordinary disappointment. There are very few times in a nation's history when...
- Armenia, Azerbaijan (2 speeches)
I rise this afternoon to speak about a matter that is very important to many Australians. I'm talking about the conflict that's currently occurring between Armenia and Azerbaijan. I'm raising...
- Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
On 24 September 2020, Westpac copped the biggest fine in Australian corporate history—$1.3 billion. Ironically, it was that day that the Treasurer chose to announce that the government...
- Economy (1 speech)
The federal budget, delivered on Tuesday night, lays out a comprehensive economic recovery plan for the nation. The COVID-19 pandemic, on top of the tragic loss of life that it's caused, is also...
- Eden-Monaro Electorate: Budget (1 speech)
If the feedback to my office is anything to go by, Eden-Monaro locals are giving the 2020 budget the thumbs down. Despite the hype of this being the infrastructure budget, I'm disappointed to say...
- Pink Elephants Support Network (1 speech)
I want to draw the attention of the chamber to the efforts of the Pink Elephants Support Network and commend their efforts as part of their Leave for Loss campaign. Despite one in four...
