House debates
Thursday, 22 October 2020
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Finance Sector Workers, AFL Grand Final 2020 (2 speeches)
[by video link] Frontline workers have been the heroes of this pandemic, especially for us in Victoria. So many people have kept us fed, healthy, connected and alive. But today I want to...
- headspace Day (1 speech)
Each year, over one million young people experience mental health issues. Yesterday marked national headspace Day, to not only recognise this fantastic organisation but to encourage everyone to...
- National Integrity Commission (1 speech)
[by video link] The national anticorruption commission the Prime Minister promised Australians two years ago is still nowhere in sight—we don't even have draft legislation—because...
- Queensland: Roads (1 speech)
This week the Queensland Labor Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, has floated her most desperate thought bubble yet—an unfunded inland highway between Labor's marginal seats in the north and...
- Saffron Day (1 speech)
Today is Saffron Day. It is a day inspired by the story of a young boy named Deyaan Udani, who tragically died in 2016 whilst on holiday in India with his family. He was a bright seven-year-old,...
- COVID 19: South Australia (1 speech)
The people of Mallee continue to suffer through extreme border restrictions imposed by the South Australian government. In recent weeks, the South Australian government has extended its border...
- Art from Trash (1 speech)
An amazing organisation called Bower Reuse and Repair Centre are just finishing up hosting ART from TRASH, which is exactly what it sounds like—an exhibition of art made from trash. ART...
- Robertson Electorate: Broadband (1 speech)
Businesses in many areas of my electorate of Robertson are now able to access high-speed fibre broadband as the NBN rolls out their new Business Fibre Initiative. Under this program, businesses...
- COVID-19: Travel Industry (1 speech)
Obviously, COVID-19 has impacted many industries severely, and none more so than the travel industry, which has been feeling the effects of the pandemic from the very start and which will...
- Lyne Electorate: Mirrabooka Place (1 speech)
I was very honoured and pleased to join the residents of Gloucester for the opening of the new purpose-built, state-of-the-art nursing home Mirrabooka Place. It's a 50-bed facility with...
- COVID 19: Arts and Entertainment Industry (1 speech)
As we rise this weekend to cheer on our footy teams, let's also commit ourselves to meeting the challenges that face every corner of our economy and community, as COVID-normal Australia starts to...
- O'Connor Electorate: Media (1 speech)
If a local newspaper is the heartbeat of a town then communities like Collie and Esperance, in my electorate, have been on bypass for the last five months. These towns' only newspapers closed at...
- Breast Cancer (1 speech)
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and last Tuesday was Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. Metastatic breast cancer is where the disease has spread, or metastasised, to other parts of...
- Longman Electorate: Farm Fantastic Expo (1 speech)
This year, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused many of our local community events to be cancelled or postponed. Two of the major casualties in my electorate of Longman are the Woodford Folk Festival...
- Prime Minister (1 speech)
Yesterday, in question time, I sat here in shock at the appalling comments made by our Prime Minister: 'If you're good at your job, you'll get a job.' How rude! How insulting to say that to the...
- Higgins Electorate: COVID-19 (1 speech)
Victorians have been doing it tough through the long COVID lockdown. My electorate of Higgins is no exception to this. I've been impressed by how resilient and innovative the very many small,...
- Victoria: Sport (3 speeches)
While Victorians are slowly eased out of restrictions—
- New South Wales Government (1 speech)
We like to use this time in members' statements to talk about locals. Today I would like to talk about a local lady who grew up in a little corner of without a doubt, as hard a working person as...
- Geelong Football Club (2 speeches)
On Saturday night, in just two sleeps, a local community sporting club in the heart of my electorate is playing in the grand final of a national competition. The Geelong Football Club was...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. This morning at Senate estimates Liberal Senator Amanda Stoker repeatedly shut down questions about more than 680 COVID deaths in aged care. Senator Stoker...
- Economy (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 is empowering Australians, such as the community of...
- Aged Care (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why has a government senator claimed that 680 aged-care deaths are not relevant on the very same day the aged care royal commission heard that one in five...
- Road Safety (4 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...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister said yesterday: … if you're good at your job, you'll get a job. Paul from West Hoxton in my electorate is in his 60s and was made...
- Murray-Darling Basin (2 speeches)
My question is the minister for water. The South Australian government has flagged a High Court challenge should the federal government not deliver the legislated 450 gigalitres of environmental...
- COVID 19: Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer remind the House how the Morrison government's strong record of initiatives, including cutting taxes, is helping families and businesses to...
- Prime Minister (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday, in relation to the job his office arranged for Mr Crone, the Prime Minister said, 'If you're good at your job, you'll get a job.' Are the millions...
- Employment (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 commitment to providing reliable, secure and affordable...
- Australia Post (5 speeches)
My question is to the minister for communications. Why was $12,000 of taxpayers' money spent on four Cartier watches for Australia Post executives?
- Environment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is acting to protect our iconic environment and the Australian jobs that go...
- Australia Post (7 speeches)
My question is also addressed to the minister for communications. When did the minister first learn about the 2018 purchase of four Cartier watches, valued at $12,000, by Australia Post with...
- National Apology to Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Families and Social Services. Today is the second anniversary of the national apology to victims of institutional child sexual abuse....
- Australia Post (2 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. How is it that on his watch, in the middle of the worst recession in almost a century, with one million Australians unemployed, businesses...
- Child Abuse (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister update the House on steps the Morrison government is taking to protect Australian children from exploitation? Is the minister...
- National Integrity Commission (20 speeches)
Before asking my question, can I briefly just associate Labor with the comments of the minister, and join with him in thanking all those officials. This must be a terrible job—you've got to...
- Decentralisation (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Decentralisation and Regional Education. Will the Minister for Decentralisation and Regional Education please update the House on how the Morrison-McCormack...
- Western Sydney Airport (2 speeches)
My question is to the minister for infrastructure. Are there any other probity, integrity or corruption issues relating to Western Sydney airport land?
- Pacific Labour Scheme (2 speeches)
My question goes to the Minister for International Development and the Pacific. Will the minister please update the House on how the Morrison government is working to address agricultural sector...
- National Integrity Commission (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How can the Prime Minister claim he hasn't had the time to establish a national integrity commission when he spent a week campaigning for the Queensland...
- Health Care (2 speeches)
My question is to Minister for Regional Health, Regional Communications and Local Government. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison-McCormack government is supporting the health...
- Morrison Government (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can he confirm that on his watch, it was revealed this week, airport rorts were referred to police in July; Home Affairs is investigating the cash for visas...
- Indigenous Australians (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Australians. Will the minister update the House on the Morrison government's measures to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island women and girls?
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Sport (3 speeches)
I briefly congratulate everyone participating in the nation's big events this weekend—the Broncos and the Roosters, who are meeting in the NRL Women's grand final, and those who are meeting...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Parliament House (2 speeches)
I have a question to the Speaker. Like a number of members of this chamber, I quarantined for a fortnight to be here for this sitting. I don't recommend it. I know that my Victorian colleagues...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (25 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 failure...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Manufacturing (1 speech)
There are many factors that are going to contribute to how successful we will be in rebooting Australian manufacturing. The federal budget outlines the Morrison government's $1.5 billion Modern...
- Hotham Electorate: Young People (1 speech)
[by video link] I'm really pleased to have an opportunity to speak to the parliament this afternoon, about, really, the plight of young people across Australia, particularly those who I am lucky...
- Queensland: Infrastructure (1 speech)
Today the Prime Minister echoed those four very sweet words: 'How good is Queensland?' There are words, however, that you never hear. Nobody has ever said, 'How good is the Queensland state Labor...
- COVID-19: Victoria (1 speech)
[by video link] Today I want to speak about the Morrison government's treatment of Victoria. The Prime Minister urged Australians in all other states to offer 'an elbow of support' to us...
- COVID-19: Morrison Government (1 speech)
Before I came to this place, and after having concluded my first career in the Australian Army, I worked in business as a crisis management consultant. Some friends of mine joked, when I was...
- Fraser Electorate: COVID-19, Budget (1 speech)
[by video link] I rise to speak tonight to thank the frontline workers who have given so much to the community of the electorate of Fraser during the pandemic. Thank you to the incredibly...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Brand Community Lecture Series (1 speech)
Last month I was pleased to host the inaugural Brand Community Lecture Series in partnership with Murdoch University on their campus in Rockingham. I initiated this lecture series to enable the...
- Chisholm Electorate: Aged Care (1 speech)
I am speaking about the hard work and dedication of aged-care facilities in my electorate of Chisholm. The COVID pandemic has been incredibly tough on all Australians, but those that have felt it...
- Media (1 speech)
Last weekend I received an email from Marjorie, an 81-year-old woman living in my community of Ballarat. Marjorie has been a reader of the Ballarat Courier as long as she can remember. If ever...
- Charles Sturt University (1 speech)
Charles Sturt University has no greater friend or supporter than me. However, students, staff, former staff and the community have been deeply concerned about CSU's future. They're concerned...
- Burt Electorate: Child and Parent Centres (1 speech)
Labor is the party of the social safety net, but it's also the party of prosperity, nobody left behind and nobody held back. Australia is a wealthy nation, and there is no reason why people can't...
- Pink Up Penrith (1 speech)
Experts say that the pink butterfly doesn't exist. Well, it did on Friday at Pink Up Penrith. It was precious and special, just like the amazing community spirit we are fortunate to have in our...
- Whitlam Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
In my first year in parliament, I convened a roundtable of student leaders from schools in my electorate. I've done it every year. It makes me feel old when I tell the House that this is my 10th...
- Water Infrastructure (1 speech)
One of the greatest infrastructure projects this nation could undertake to grow its economic base and to assist us in the future in dealing with such things as $1.7 trillion in debt would be the...
- Armenia (2 speeches)
Many Armenian Australians live in and around my electorate of Bradfield on Sydney's North Shore and of course in the Deputy Speaker's electorate of North Sydney. In fact, there are around 50,000...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Budget (3 speeches)
The Morrison government's approach to our biggest health and economic crisis has not protected Australians as well as it should have, and its budget will not navigate Australia out of the...
- Adelaide Holocaust Museum and Andrew Steiner Education Centre (1 speech)
Earlier in this chamber I had the opportunity to reflect on the appropriation bills in the second reading debate. I want to add something very important to that contribution—specifically...
- Diwali, Western Sydney Awards for Business Excellence, Higher Education (1 speech)
As Diwali comes around again I would like to take this opportunity to wish all those in my community who celebrate the Festival of Light—the Hindus, the Sikhs and the Jains—a very...
- Budget, Herbert Electorate: COVID-19 (1 speech)
This construction-led recovery is well underway in the great city of Townsville. As the Prime Minister has said, and the budget very clearly highlights, infrastructure—commercial and...
