House debates
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 21 of the Selection Committee relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday, 26 October 2020, and the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Benefits and Payments, Suncorp Super Netball Grand Final (1 speech)
[by video link] Hello from Melbourne today. I'm in my Werribee office. The pandemic has taught us a lot about ourselves. It has taught us a lot about what and who is essential in our lives. Today...
- National headspace Day (1 speech)
Today is National headspace Day, a national day of awareness for youth mental health. More than a quarter of young Australians, every year, will experience mental health issues. With the...
- Member for Hughes (1 speech)
[by video link] On 4 August I wrote to the Prime Minister with a simple request—that members of his government not give medical advice, during a health pandemic, that they are not qualified...
- Fairfax Electorate: Community Organisations (1 speech)
I had a great time recently at the Maroochydore Junior Rugby League Club, throwing a football around after donating a marquee to the club, in recognition of the important role they play in our...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
[by video link] Yesterday we heard two truly earth-shattering and climate-threatening revelations out of Senate estimates. First, the Bureau of Meteorology has confirmed that we are on track for...
- 1770 Cultural Connections Immersion Festival (1 speech)
I wish to finish an important speech I started last sitting week. On Friday 2 October I attended the 1770 Cultural Connections Immersion Festival. It's an event held over two days and it...
- Udani, Deyaan, Saffron Day (1 speech)
Tomorrow is Saffron Day, and I'd like to express my appreciation to the member for Chifley for his advocacy of this very worthy cause. Saffron Day, 22 October, is a day in which we raise...
- Neale, Mr Lachlan (Lachie) (1 speech)
I rise today to offer my congratulations to Lachie Neale, who, on Sunday night, took out the prestigious Brownlow Medal. Lachie might be a Lion today, but he started his football career as a...
- Saffron Day (1 speech)
I follow the great member for Macarthur in recognising that 22 October is Saffron Day, which focuses our attention on the special role that organ donation plays in saving lives. The inspiration...
- University of Tasmania: Burnie Campus (1 speech)
I welcome this opportunity to update the House on the progress of the University of Tasmania's new Burnie campus, which is on track to be completed mid next year. As a proud north-west-coaster,...
- headspace (1 speech)
It's often said that COVID-19 doesn't discriminate, but it does, and young people especially have felt the impact of the virus. It's no surprise then that headspace saw a 33 per cent increase in...
- Wentworth Electorate: Waverley Community Men's Shed (1 speech)
Last week, I was pleased to take the Assistant Minister for Finance, Charities and Electoral Matters, Zed Seselja, to visit the Waverley Community Men's Shed, the only men's shed in the eastern...
- Coalition Government (1 speech)
First there was sports rorts. The Auditor-General uncovered that this government's ministers had pork-barrelled millions of dollars of taxpayers funds into projects in coalition electorates...
- Mangan, Mr Gary (1 speech)
Today I want to honour the work of Gary Mangan who is retiring as the manager of the Galston and district branch of the Bendigo Bank. Gary Mangan joined the Galston branch having had a successful...
- Paterson Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
() (): Last week I met with Michelle Hudson and Donna White who are the hard-working management team at Shoal Bay and Anna Bay Providence Medical practice. They are at the end of their tether....
- Norwood Football Club (1 speech)
I rise today to pay tribute to the Norwood Football Club and congratulate them on the recent opening of the Wolf Blass Community Centre at their home ground, Coopers Stadium, on The Parade in...
- Queensland State Election (1 speech)
The LNP have shown their true colours in this Queensland state election campaign. Last week we had the Prime Minister wandering around with Deb Frecklington. I wonder if they discussed the fact...
- National headspace Day (1 speech)
Today is National headspace Day, and this year's theme is the small steps we can all take to better our own mental health. Improving the mental health outcomes of young people in Wide Bay has...
- Tasmania: Employment (1 speech)
The ABS payroll data that was released this week shows that Tasmanians have been particularly hard hit by deliberate decisions of this Morrison government. Indeed, the Tassie payroll data shows...
- Boothby Electorate: Warradale Primary School (2 speeches)
On 22 October, the Warradale Primary School community will celebrate their 60th birthday. Warradale primary has a rich history. As Adelaide's population grew with the post World War II baby boom...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- National Integrity Commission (10 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. I ask this: where the bloody hell is the national integrity commission?
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister outline to the House how the Morrison government's economic recovery plan, outlined in this year's budget, is setting up Australia to...
- National Integrity Commission (6 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. I refer to evidence given today before Senate estimates by the Attorney-General's Department that the government has had an exposure draft of...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Will the Deputy Prime Minister inform the House how the Morrison-McCormack...
- Maguire, Mr Daryl William (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister, and I refer to his answers yesterday. Has the Deputy Prime Minister had any discussions with disgraced former Liberal MP Daryl Maguire regarding any...
- Gas Industry (2 speeches)
To the Prime Minister: the government's economically short-sighted obsession with a gas-led recovery is currently going so far as to consider supporting an exploration licence for gas off the...
- COVID 19: Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How is the Morrison government's economic recovery plan, including tax cuts, helping small businesses and families to recover and make it to the other side of the...
- Maguire, Mr Daryl William (2 speeches)
My question is again to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Has the Minister for Regional Development had any discussions with disgraced former Liberal MP Daryl...
- Superannuation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer: Will the Treasurer outline how the Morrison government is lowering the cost of superannuation and helping Australians make a more informed choice about who will...
- Maguire, Mr Daryl William (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport and Regional Development, and I refer to his earlier answer. When was the last time the minister for regional development had...
- Energy: Gas (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison government's plan for a gas led recovery will provide reliable, secure...
- Western Sydney Airport (2 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Infrastructure. When asked in Senate estimates if he agreed with the minister's assertion that $30 million to purchase the Leppington Triangle was a bargain,...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison government's plan for economic...
- Western Sydney Airport (2 speeches)
My question is to the minister for communications. Yesterday in this House the minister said that he stood by his answers at the National Press Club in relation to the Leppington Triangle airport...
- Tertiary Education (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. Will the minister please update the House on how the Morrison government is supporting Australia's world-class university research and encouraging...
- Morrison Government (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Last night it was revealed Peter Crone, an associate of John Howard and the current Treasurer, was awarded a contract worth $242,000 with the Bushfire...
- Waste Management and Recycling (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is supporting Australian jobs and our economic recovery from the COVID-19...
- Assistant Treasurer (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that, when the government had to choose an investigator to conduct an independent investigation into reports the Assistant...
- Australian Defence Force (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is working to strengthen the Australian Defence Force?...
- Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction. I refer to his previous answers, where he's been connected to scandals on water buybacks, the destruction of critically...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison government's budget infrastructure package will create...
- National Integrity Commission (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister, and I refer to his previous answer today, where he used bushfires and the pandemic as the reason why the exposure draft of the National Integrity Commission...
- Mental Health (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Noting that today is headspace Day, will the minister please update the House on how the Morrison-McCormack government is supporting young Australians,...
- 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)
- Child Care (15 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: How the current child care...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Electoral Matters Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, I present the committee's advisory report on the Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Ensuring Fair Representation of the Northern...
- 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: Report 12 of 2020. Report made a parliamentary paper in...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- National Integrity Commission (1 speech)
'Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.' It was Victor Hugo who said those words a long time ago. But, when I think of the debate about a national integrity commission, they...
- National Security: Office of the National Security Advocate (1 speech)
It's an honour to serve as a member of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security. The committee is very well led by the member for Canning. The PJCIS plays an important role...
- Child Care (1 speech)
Forty-seven years ago a little girl went along to preschool. She used to cry and say to her mother: 'Mum, why do you send me there? You don't work. Can't I just stay at home with you?' And her...
- Premier of Victoria (1 speech)
The Premier of Victoria, Daniel Andrews, has been having a bad few weeks, and his stress is starting to show. Two weeks ago, after our Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, suggested that it was time...
- Kingsford Smith Electorate: Water Pollution (1 speech)
In 2020, raw sewage should not be pumped into one of Sydney's major waterways. But that is exactly what is occurring at Botany Bay during heavy rain, and it happened as recently as a month ago....
- Sleep (1 speech)
Alongside diet and exercise, sleep is one of the most important pillars of good mental and physical health, yet with our busy lifestyles we often sacrifice a good night's sleep in order to...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Western Australia: Government (1 speech)
Australians have been reminded in 2020 that it does matter who you vote for. In 2017, when Western Australia elected Mark McGowan, Roger Cook and the state Labor team, we didn't know what was...
- Canning Electorate: Double Reds Resilience Award (1 speech)
I would like to update the House on a new initiative I have introduced for schools in Canning—the Double Reds Resilience Award. The award takes its name from the double red diamond insignia...
- Eden-Monaro Electorate: Australian Bushfires (1 speech)
Eden-Monaro is determined to put the challenges of 2020 behind it. The year has certainly taken its toll. The scars are deep, but bigger than that is the spirit with which communities are rising...
- headspace Day (1 speech)
Over the last couple of weeks, the 100 plus headspace centres across the country have been celebrating headspace Day. Since 2006, headspace has provided more than 3.6 million services and...
- Pensions and Benefits, Youth Homelessness (1 speech)
I recently met with six young unemployed Tasmanians who have prepared a report that should be essential reading for every state and federal politician. To that end I promised these talented young...
- Hughes Electorate: Roads (3 speeches)
I would again like to raise the issue of Heathcote Road in my electorate. This is one of the major southern roads in Sydney. It runs from Moorebank—close to the electorate of the member for...
- Corio Electorate: Viva Energy Geelong Refinery (1 speech)
The Viva refinery in Corio forms part of my earliest memories. I grew up nearby it and I can remember driving back to Geelong and seeing what was then the red-and-white smokestack of the Shell...
- Allen, Mrs Genevieve (1 speech)
Today I rise to acknowledge a wonderfully generous individual who has been a truly invaluable active member of our northern beaches community for countless years. Genevieve Allen is the daughter...
- China (1 speech)
Billy Sing, Victor Chang, Terence Tao, Alec Fong Lim, Bing Lee, Melissa Wu, Kylie Kwong and Jenny Kee are just some of the thousands of Chinese Australians who've given so much to this country....
- Brisbane Electorate: COVID-19, Budget (2 speeches)
2020 has been an incredibly challenging year for so many Brisbane residents, families and businesses. Many Brisbane businesses have shut their doors, many locals have lost their jobs or saw their...
- Bills (0 speeches)
