House debates
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 22 of the Selection Committee relating to consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday 9 November 2020. The report will be...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Leader of the House, I move: That: (1) The resolutions of the House on Monday, 26 October 2020 agreeing to the third readings of the Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill 2020, the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- GO LOCAL FIRST Campaign (1 speech)
[by video link] Senate estimates today revealed that the Morrison government provided the small business body COSBOA with $5 million to provide research and assist in the national campaign to...
- Veterans' Health Week (1 speech)
During Veterans' Health Week, we reflect at the visible and invisible scars our veterans bear, and look for ways to address them. This year's theme is social connection, which, during this...
- Hotham Electorate: COVID-19 (1 speech)
[by video link] I rise to pay tribute to the people of Hotham, who I have this incredible privilege of speaking for in this chamber. These last few months have been hard. They've been really,...
- Dams (1 speech)
We've been blessed lately with substantial rain in our area. This has led to catchments being able to start to fill dams, which, during the drought, had been critically low. Chaffey Dam, was one...
- Hafiz, Ms Sabah, Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
Sabah Hafiz was a young woman with her life ahead of her. She was 23 years old. On 14 October, she was murdered in her Wentworthville home, and her husband has been charged with her murder....
- Economy (2 speeches)
There is no doubt that Australia has been going through one of the toughest economic times we've seen, certainly since the Second World War and possibly since the Depression. So it was delightful...
- Veterans (1 speech)
Sixteen months ago the Productivity Commission recommended the federal government implement a new whole-of-life support system for veterans, with a focus on minimising and preventing harm during...
- Hope Delivery (1 speech)
Last month I had the chance to put on an apron early on a Thursday morning and go down to Rosetta restaurant in the CBD to help out with the Hope Delivery initiative. The Hope Delivery initiative...
- Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements (1 speech)
This week the bushfires royal commission is scheduled to release its report, and my community, like many communities, is eagerly awaiting the recommendations. Hundreds of homes and outbuildings...
- Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (1 speech)
I rise to commend the opening late last week of the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation, ACCCE. Located in my home city of Brisbane, this facility is now Australia's frontline in the...
- Prime Minister (4 speeches)
Australians are waking up to this Prime Minister from marketing. He loves announcements, but he never delivers what he promises. His favourite thing is the tacky marketing names for his programs....
- Sturt Electorate: Kensington Gardens Reserve (1 speech)
It's my pleasure to rise and update the House on progress on a very important project in my electorate, the Kensington Gardens Reserve, which is a great combination of three good...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
Seven years is a long time, and no doubt it feels so much longer for refugees who have been detained indefinitely. It's been seven years since New Zealand offered hope to those refugees in Papua...
- COVID-19: Victoria (1 speech)
It's appropriate you're in the chair, Speaker, because the great state of Victoria is back! Victorians have made huge sacrifices. Families have lost loved ones. Students lost six months of...
- Coalition Government (1 speech)
While members of the government have been busy this week slapping themselves on the back for the things they've never done, Labor members of parliament have been busy uncovering and exposing...
- Forde Electorate: Queensland Rural Fire Service (1 speech)
Queensland's rural fire brigades and their volunteers are heroes. They were there for communities during the horrific 'black summer' of bushfires, and they continue to be there for our rural...
- Treasurer (1 speech)
Yesterday the Treasurer was in here all angry—angry at the Victorian government, angry about what had happened in Victoria. The Treasurer doesn't have the right to be angry. He's in a...
- Robertson Electorate: General Practice (1 speech)
I rise to provide an update on the Morrison government's commitment to addressing the GP shortage on the Central Coast, particularly in suburbs across the peninsula, including Woy Woy, Ettalong...
- Member for Hughes (7 speeches)
Last year the Prime Minister was so concerned to ensure that Craig Kelly continued as member for Hughes that he intervened to save his pre-selection. How has the member for Hughes been serving...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Qatar Airways (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. When did the Prime Minister first speak to his foreign minister about the horrific treatment of Australian women removed from planes in Qatar almost a month ago?
- Australian Natural Disasters (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management. Today the government received the final report from the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster...
- Qatar Airways (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can he confirm that he did not speak to his foreign minister about the horrific incident in Qatar involving Australian women until after Senate estimates...
- COVID-19: Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on Australia's economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic as the Morrison government continues to implement its...
- Qatar Airways (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why hasn't DFAT contacted any of the women involved in the horrific incident in Qatar but left it solely to the AFP? Why hasn't the Prime Minister talked to...
- Aged Care (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians. The government's own data shows that the waiting list for home-care packages dropped by just 2,000...
- COVID-19: Regional Australia (6 speeches)
My question is to the
- Child Care (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that last night the Small Business Ombudsman and former Liberal Chief Minister of the ACT, Kate Carnell, told estimates, 'The...
- COVID 19: Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline to the House how the Morrison government's strong economic leadership is helping the Australian economy recover from the challenges of...
- Barnier, Mr Gary (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that Mr Gary Barnier, who is being paid $920,000 in borrowed money by the government, bullied a 94-year-old, offered $10,000 of...
- COVID-19: Vaccine (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is supporting the health of Australians by investing in critical COVID-19 research and...
- Aviation Industry (4 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Yesterday, the Deputy Prime Minister justified giving tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to the owners of private jets because they helped ensure...
- COVID-19: Australian Defence Force (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. Will the minister please update the House on how the Australian Defence Force has been deployed to assist states and...
- COVID-19: Aviation (10 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer to the government subsidising Clive Palmer's luxury private jets and his comments about the LNP. As Clive says, 'I don't say goodbye to...
- JobTrainer Package (6 speeches)
My question is on policy on a matter related to the Australian people, which is to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business. Will the minister...
- Aviation Industry (2 speeches)
My second question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer to the tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars given to billionaire Clive Palmer's company to subsidise his luxury private jet. What are...
- Education (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. As our year 12 students are facing their final exams and looking forward to future employment and study, will the minister please update the House on...
- Aviation Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Yesterday the Deputy Prime Minister said he was proud of the aviation assistance the government had provided to the owners of private jets. Is he...
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is investing in new energy technologies that will create jobs...
- Boosting Female Founders Initiative (17 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm the government announced the $18 million Boosting Female Founders Initiative on 20 May 2018, re-announced it the next day on...
- Mining Industry (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia. Will the minister please update the House on the Morrison-McCormack government's commitment to our resources sector,...
- Defence Equipment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. Can the minister confirm the government has spent $3.8 billion on defence helicopters with doors too narrow for the troops to fire guns and...
- COVID-19: Workplace Relations (3 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General and the
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
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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 existing barriers to...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Developing Northern Australia (4 speeches)
by leave—The potential of northern Australia is as vast as the north itself. The Morrison-McCormack government believes in this potential and the people of northern Australia. The north has...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Economy (1 speech)
Three weeks ago we saw a federal budget that, much like JobKeeper and JobSeeker before it, spent a lot of money and was wrapped in lots of announcements. But, once you held it up to the light,...
- COVID-19, National Integrity Commission (1 speech)
COVID-19 has been a stress test for nations all around the world. The pandemic has pushed governments, institutions, peoples and societies to absorb, respond and adapt to challenges and hardships...
- Cybersecurity (1 speech)
We're just one week away from the US presidential election, and the eyes of the world are on the democratic processes of the United States. Unfortunately, the attention of groups of state backed...
- Economy, Infrastructure (1 speech)
Ten years ago to this day, I stood and spoke in this chamber for the very first time, delivering my maiden speech. I stood surrounded by the class of 2010. We quickly became friends, and those...
- Budget (1 speech)
I'd like to start by congratulating the member for Bennelong on his decade in this place—congratulations! The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the crisis in care in Australia: care for frail...
- Queensland Greens (1 speech)
It's now clear that after this week's Queensland state election Labor will not be able to govern alone. Their only, slim, chance lies in a coalition with the Greens. But, unlike the major...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Shortland Electorate: Australia Post (1 speech)
I'm pleased to have the opportunity to bring the House up to date on the impact the government's changes to Australia Post are having on the delivery of letters in Shortland. There is certainly a...
- Forde Electorate: Spirits of the Red Sand (1 speech)
The electorate of Forde is home to the Spirits of the Red Sand, an Indigenous experience that embodies a dream more than 20 years in the making for co-founders, cultural elder Eddie Ruska and...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
Today I want to talk about Frank and Jacob. Frank is Jacob's dad. He's the father of three boys, and Jacob is the youngest. He's 10 years old and he has Angelman syndrome. Angelman syndrome is a...
- Watsons Buses, McFadden, Mr Darcy (1 speech)
I would like to recognise J Watson & Son, a local bus line from Woodenbong. Watsons buses have been in the Watson family and in our community for over 72 years. In 1948 Joe and Minni Watson...
- Immigration Detention (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker: For those who've come across the seas We've boundless plains to share; With courage let us all combine To Advance Australia Fair. They're powerful words, but are we true to...
- Fisher Electorate: Sunshine Coast Stadium (3 speeches)
When I worked with the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Housing on the government's HomeBuilder program, I was optimistic that it could restore the work which the Sunshine Coast construction...
- Newcastle Electorate: Rail Manufacturing (1 speech)
COVID-19 has shown us just how dependent we have become on imported goods and just how important it is that we re-establish ourselves as a nation that makes things. Earlier this month I was...
- Murray Basin Rail Project (1 speech)
The Victorian state government has at long last released its revised business case for the Murray Basin Rail Project, to the great disappointment of many stakeholders and communities in Mallee...
- Commonwealth Integrity Commission (1 speech)
The scandals surrounding the Morrison government are unfolding on a daily basis. Seriously, the list is endless, and it is greatly concerning. It gives further impetus to the establishment of a...
- Bonner Electorate: Bonner Seniors Expo (1 speech)
Every year I love putting on the Bonner Seniors Expo to meet with so many of my constituents and put on a fun and informative day. Unfortunately, with the coronavirus pandemic, it was important...
- Bills (0 speeches)
