House debates
Tuesday, 10 November 2020
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Australian Bushfires (1 speech)
I seek to add to a response I gave in question time yesterday relating to the Emergency Response Fund. The member for Eden-Monaro asked about spending from the Emergency Response Fund this...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 4, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Remembrance Day (1 speech)
Remembrance Day is a national day of commemoration for the brave soldiers who sacrificed their lives whilst serving Australia in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations. On 11 November...
- Lyne Electorate: Manning RiverStage (1 speech)
The newly constructed Manning RiverStage came alive last Friday night with its first concert to celebrate its opening. The river stage was a project of the combined service clubs of Taree and the...
- Fraser Electorate: Economy (1 speech)
This pandemic has had a massive economic impact on my electorate of Fraser. The local economy was 14 per cent smaller in September 2020 compared with the year earlier. The number of employed...
- Moore Electorate: Veterans' Services (1 speech)
The Joondalup City RSL operates a Veterans Support Centre in Heathridge, providing advocacy and welfare services to all ex-service personnel, including non-RSL members. The centre advocates for...
- Cooper Electorate: NAIDOC Week (1 speech)
It's NAIDOC Week and I'm so honoured to represent the electorate named after William Cooper, one of the most prominent Aboriginal activists. He helped to establish National Aborigines Day, now...
- Petition: COVID-19 Travel Restrictions (1 speech)
I rise today to present to parliament petition EN1860, on inclusion of parents as immediate family members for travel exemption. Everyone understands that putting in place international border...
- Lyons Electorate: Volunteers (1 speech)
Volunteers come in all shapes and sizes, and none are larger than life by more than Layton Hodgetts OAM, who sadly died on 5 November. Layton was the founder of the Derwent Valley Concert Band...
- Economy (1 speech)
Nobody wins from low interest rates. What we've seen has been a consistent decline in interest rates, particularly recently with the Reserve Bank cutting official rates from 0.25 to 0.1. Of...
- Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service, National Integrity Commission (1 speech)
Today I table a petition which has been considered by the Petitions Committee and found to be in order. It is signed by 8,782 people and calls for the lifting of suppression orders on documents...
- New England Electorate: Saleyards (2 speeches)
It's great to see some more money for saleyards in New England. We've got some great announcements for Guyra saleyards, which 300,000 sheep go through a year. I know Michael Jackson, who is a...
- Lalor Electorate: Coronavirus Supplement (1 speech)
It's an absolute pleasure to be back in the people's house and I share that pleasure with all the Victorians and my friend, the member for Gellibrand, who is behind me today. The reason it's...
- Covid-19 (1 speech)
I'd like to take this opportunity to update the House on the latest published medical studies on the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for COVID. While the results of the...
- Stott Despoja, Ms Natasha, AO (1 speech)
I rise today to offer my wholehearted congratulations to Natasha Stott Despoja on her election to a seat on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. She is...
- Remembrance Day (1 speech)
Tomorrow is Remembrance Day. This year, unfortunately, it will be very different, like so many other things, because of the COVID pandemic. But it won't be as different as Anzac Day was this...
- Bendigo Electorate: Jobs (1 speech)
As we meet here in Parliament House, 150 workers in Bendigo have stopped work. It's not easy to stop work and to give up wages. You only do it if you have to do it, but the workers at Lactalis in...
- Berowra Electorate: Education (1 speech)
Jillian Tourlas retired as principal of Galston High School at the end of term 3, after serving the Galston community for 10 years and committing almost 40 years of her life to the education of...
- Queensland State Election (1 speech)
Ten days ago the people of Queensland had their say on what sort of state they want to live in. They chose a government focused on protecting Queenslanders' health with a strong economic plan....
- Diwali (1 speech)
Today I would like to talk about the Indian festival Diwali, which symbolises the triumph of light, knowledge and hope over darkness, ignorance and despair. These are values shared and ideals...
- National Integrity Commission (1 speech)
If Rotten Tomatoes reviewed anticorruption bodies, the Morrison government's integrity commission would be certified rotten, with a score of zero. It's got worse reviews than Cats. The Centre for...
- Foley, Dr Catherine Patricia, AO, PSM (1 speech)
This year has demonstrated how critical scientists are to our nation as Australia and indeed the world have faced the COVID-19 pandemic. As a psychologist I was a scientist practitioner, and as a...
- Shadow Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
For the information of the House I present a revised list of the shadow ministry. Following the resignation of the member for Hunter as a shadow minister—and I thank him for his...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Conduct (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister assure Australians that his ministerial standards have been and will be enforced?
- Morrison Government (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister outline to the House how the Morrison government's actions to address the important challenges facing our nation both at home and...
- Climate Change (3 speeches)
My question is again addressed to the Prime Minister. Has the Prime Minister ruled out committing, before the next election, to net zero emissions by 2050?
- COVID-19: Regional Australia (6 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Will the Deputy PM inform the House how the Morrison-McCormack government is...
- COVID-19: Income Support Payments (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. One million Australians are unemployed and 160,000 more are expected to join them by Christmas. There are seven jobseekers for every job available and...
- Ministerial Conduct (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to last flight's Four Corners program and the revelations about toxic sexual culture in the Liberal Party, ministers' offices and this parliament....
- COVID-19: Income Support Payments (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer inform the House of how the Morrison government's unprecedented economic support, including the JobSeeker supplement and the JobMaker hiring...
- 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 addressing the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic through its advancement of...
- COVID-19: Income Support Payments (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is cutting the coronavirus supplement for about 7,000 Australians on JobSeeker in my electorate of Corangamite. Why did the Prime Minister...
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction. Will the minister update the House on how Australia's approach to the development and deployment of new energy technologies will...
- COVID-19: Income Support Payments (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is cutting the coronavirus supplement for more than 7½ thousand Australians on JobSeeker in my electorate of Lyons. Why did the Prime...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is keeping Australians safe by meeting the challenges posed by the scourge of...
- COVID-19: Income Support Payments (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is cutting the coronavirus supplement for nearly 9,500 Australians on JobSeeker in my electorate of Dunkley. Why did the Prime Minister...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. Will the minister inform the House of how the Morrison government is working with our partners in the Indo-Pacific to meet...
- Dunkley Electorate: Centrelink (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Government Services. Can the minister inform the House on why he still plans to close the Mornington Centrelink shopfront in March 2021 when the site received...
- COVID-19: Cybersafety (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts. Will the minister please update the House on how the Morrison government is keeping Australians safe online by...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Government Services. Will the minister please explain why 600 jobs of staff of up to two years experience were axed at the end of October across multiple...
- Environment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison government is meeting Australia's environmental protection challenges, including...
- Centrelink (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Government Services. Why does the Morrison government continue to merge and close Centrelink shopfronts right around Australia when data shows that this...
- Australian Natural Disasters, Climate Change (3 speeches)
My question is to Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison-McCormack government is responding to the challenges posed by...
- 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.
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Budget Officer (2 speeches)
Members would be aware that, under the Parliamentary Service Act 1999, the Presiding Officers have the responsibility to appoint the Parliamentary Budget Officer, subject to the approval of the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Morrison Government: Vulnerable Australians (16 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Maribyrnong proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The government's...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (2 speeches)
On behalf of the member for Bradfield, I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the private Members' business notice relating to the disallowance of the...
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Australia Post; Disallowance (6 speeches)
Thank you— Mr Chester interjecting— I will take the interjection from the member for Gippsland, who called me 'the farmer's friend'. I absolutely hope to demonstrate that. Mr Chester...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- National Broadband Network Committee; Reporting Date (1 speech)
I have received a message from the Senate transmitting the following resolution agreed to by the Senate: That the reporting date for the Joint Standing Committee on the National Broadband Network...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Cunningham Electorate: Business (1 speech)
A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend a function that I regularly go to in my electorate, the Illawarra Business Chamber's annual business awards. For so many businesses in my...
- Lung Cancer Awareness Month (1 speech)
( November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. We have lots of awareness months right now and many things need our awareness. Lung cancer sounds so ubiquitous that surely it doesn't need the...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to remind honourable members that the global refugee situation remains dire. In fact, by the UNHCR's own figures dated June this year, there are 79.5 million people...
- Renewable Energy (1 speech)
Australia is now officially in the midst of a major energy transition to a carbon neutral future. In the last three years alone, over $30 billion has been invested in Australia in renewable...
- NAIDOC Week (1 speech)
The House understands that this week is NAIDOC Week. I particularly want to recognise your role, Mr Speaker, in making sure that the day was a success. I really appreciate that, as we all do. I...
- Tame, Ms Grace, Let Us Speak Campaign (1 speech)
Earlier this year, in a speech to mark International Women's Day, I spoke about the brave work undertaken by a young Tasmanian woman, Grace Tame. Until recently, sexual assault survivors in my...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Health Portfolio; Consideration in Detail (52 speeches)
It's my great pleasure to speak on the appropriation bills, which form part of this year's budget. The budget is driving the delivery of nation-building infrastructure projects right across the...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Broadband (1 speech)
I don't want to start off this speech that I'm giving here tonight with the quote, 'We told you so'—and I'm talking about the NBN. We told the government back in the 43rd...
- Health Star Rating System (1 speech)
I rise to speak on an issue that is affecting two industries that are critically important to the Australian horticultural sector and to my electorate of Mallee, namely, the citrus and dried...
- COVID-19: Income Support Payments (1 speech)
The nation has certainly been on a roller-coaster ride since the coronavirus pandemic hit the world and the nation. We're all fixated, I think, on the negative things, but there have been some...
