House debates
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 23 of the Selection Committee relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday 30 November 2020 and the...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That: (1) on Wednesday, 11 November 2020, the House suspend from 10am to 12.15 pm to enable Members to attend Remembrance Day services; and (2) on the resumption of the sitting, any...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Australia Post (1 speech)
Armstrong Creek is in the heart of my electorate. While it was only gazetted in 2012, it is a rapidly growing community. At the 2016 census, Armstrong Creek had a population of 4,247. Today, only...
- Abbott, Sergeant Francis 'Frank' Arthur (1 speech)
Sergeant Francis 'Frank' Arthur Abbott was born in Penrith on 29 January 1893. Frank, his parents and his three brothers lived on Jamison Road. Frank was a storeman until he established his own...
- Australian Bushfires (1 speech)
As people and businesses right across the mighty The bushfire royal commission outlined 80 recommendations to make our nations better prepared for such emergencies. Had the recommendations of the...
- COVID-19: Travel Industry (1 speech)
Noosa is a fantastic place to have a holiday, but travel agents in Noosa and the broader Wide Bay have been devastated by the border closures and by flight, cruise and tour cancellations caused...
- Greenway Electorate: Diwali (1 speech)
I rise to wish everyone celebrating this year a very happy Diwali. The Festival of Lights will be very different this year due to COVID-19. The pandemic has curtailed the ability of many to hold...
- Remembrance Day (1 speech)
Today marks Remembrance Day. We commemorate 11 November 1918, when the guns fell silent on those blood-soaked battlefields of the Great War. Over 330,000 Australians fought in that war and over...
- COVID-19: Income Support Payments (1 speech)
Labor calls on the Morrison government to do its job, which is to support Australians doing it tough. We call on this government to maintain the $250 per fortnight JobSeeker coronavirus...
- Trade with China (1 speech)
In December 2015, the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement, or ChAFTA, was signed. Over the last six months, the Chinese government has imposed restrictions and disruptions on a range of...
- Parliament House: Flags, NAIDOC Week (1 speech)
Always was, always will be—the land on which we meet today is that of the Ngunawal and Ngambri people, and the land I'm from is that of the Whadjuk people of the great Noongar nation of...
- Hill, Mr Alexander (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate the two-time rowing world champion and Olympic silver medallist Alexander Hill on being recognised by the District Council of Loxton Waikerie. On Monday, Alexander...
- Dobell Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
The Central Coast is growing and our region is being left behind by this government. Being overlooked is bad enough, but for locals in my electorate it gets worse. In the government's so-called...
- Camp Quality (1 speech)
Today I want to share with the House the insights of Maddi Penton, a 22-year-old preservice teacher living on the north-west coast of Tasmania. Here's what Maddi wrote to me about childhood...
- JobKeeper Payment (1 speech)
In March, retail billionaire Solomon Lew reportedly cried as he spoke to the Treasurer, urging him to create JobKeeper. His firm, Premier Investments, temporarily closed stores such as Just Jeans...
- Remembrance Day (1 speech)
This morning I had the great privilege of attending the memorial service for Remembrance Day at the Australian War Memorial. I congratulate all of those that had anything to do with organising or...
- Remembrance Day, Lalor Electorate: Diwali (1 speech)
On Remembrance Day, it is my pleasure to rise in this chamber to recall all of those who served Australia, particularly in the Great War—World War I—when we lost so many. We had such...
- Diwali (1 speech)
I extend my Diwali greetings to all of the Indian community in Australia and associate myself with the messages of those members opposite. I'm part of the Australian-Indian community. My father...
- COVID-19: Income Support Payments (1 speech)
Today as we meet in this House there are between 300,000 and 600,000 Australians who are without work for the very first time in their working lives. They have joined the queue of Centrelink,...
- Remembrance Day (1 speech)
This morning, I and other members gathered at the Australian War Memorial to remember those who have sacrificed their lives for the freedoms that Australian enjoy today. Our electorate of Ryan is...
- JobMaker Hiring Credit (1 speech)
The thing that young people know is that, if you've got a job, it's a lot easier to get another one, and the thing that older workers know is that, if you lose your job, it's a lot, lot harder to...
- Blackburn, Mr Arthur Seaforth, VC, CMG, CBE (2 speeches)
Conscious of time, I would like to take the opportunity on Remembrance Day to pay tribute to Victoria Cross winner Arthur Seaforth Blackburn, who in fact is a former member for Sturt, though not...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- JobMaker Hiring Credit (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The government's original hiring credit bill allowed employers to sack existing workers over the age of 35 and replace them with cheaper, subsidised workers....
- Regional Australia: Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister please explain to the House how the Morrison government is backing regional Australia's industries, businesses and workers so that...
- JobMaker Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the fact that after the hiring credit amendments, protecting job security, were supported by every single non-government senator, the government...
- COVID-19: Regional Australia (4 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Will the Deputy Prime Minister please inform the House of how the...
- JobMaker Hiring Credit (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the fact that yesterday the government voted for the hiring credit in its amended form. Why did the Prime Minister this morning change the...
- Australia Post (3 speeches)
My question is to the minister for communications. Minister, we're counting down the sleeps until Christmas, but Australia Post is obviously in disarray. Indeed, constituents regularly report...
- COVID-19: Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer please outline to the House how the Morrison government's unprecedented economic support to meet the challenge of the COVID-19 recession is...
- JobMaker Hiring Credit (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why won't the Prime Minister support Labor's amendments to the hiring credit scheme to ensure that a 37-year-old won't get sacked for someone younger and...
- Agriculture (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison-McCormack government is backing regional communities by...
- JobMaker Hiring Credit (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the fact that the hiring credit will not be paid to employers until February next year. Why won't the Prime Minister support Labor's fix to its...
- 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-McCormack government's gas led recovery will back our regional...
- JobMaker Hiring Credit (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Elizabeth, from Diamond Creek, is a single mother in her 40s who says that she's never been unemployed until now. One job ad she found stated that candidates...
- Defence Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. Will the minister please outline to the House how the Morrison government's record investment in defence industry is backing regional...
- JobMaker Hiring Credit (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Adam from Lethbridge Park is a 40-year-old Dnata worker who was deliberately excluded from JobKeeper. He was put on minimal hours this year and is looking...
- Mining Industry (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia. Will the minister please outline to the House how the Morrison government is continuing to back our regional...
- JobMaker Hiring Credit (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Mark from my electorate is 40 years old. Because he is over 35, Mark is locked out of the hiring credit, and he believes it will only make it harder for...
- Higher Education (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. Will the minister please update the House on how the Morrison government is backing Australians in our regions to get jobs by helping them receive a...
- JobMaker Hiring Credit (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Felicity from Geelong worked in admin at Deakin University for nearly 25 years and she's 55 years old. She was made redundant in September, after the...
- Rural and Regional Services: Health (2 speeches)
My question is to the . Will the minister please outline to the House how the Morrison-McCormack government is continuing to back our regional communities through the provision of critical health...
- JobMaker Hiring Credit (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Mark, from Carrum Downs, is 56 years old. He recently lost his job. He says his job provided nearly half of his family's income and that they have exhausted...
- COVID-19: Vaccines (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Could the minister please update the House on progress in securing and delivering safe and effective vaccines to all Australians?
- COVID-19: Income Support Payments (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Brian from Lugarno is 54 and had worked for Dnata for more than a decade before being stood down on minimal hours earlier this year. Like thousands of other...
- Remembrance Day (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel. Will the Minister inform the House on the importance of Remembrance Day and of commemorating the service...
- 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.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, in accordance with standing order 105(b) I ask that you write to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs to seek reasons for the delay in answering questions in...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Economy (12 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Gorton proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government's failure to...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Housing Affordability (1 speech)
As a Victorian, I come to this place after almost five months of not being here. In that time, Victoria has been under immense pressure, and Victorians have done something absolutely remarkable....
- Moncrieff Electorate: Economy (3 speeches)
I would say to the member opposite that the Property Council on the Gold Coast informed me that the HomeBuilder program is in fact having quite a large impact on the Gold Coast, a 40 per cent...
- Remembrance Day, Community Sport Infrastructure Grant Program (1 speech)
As you know, Mr Speaker, today marks the 102nd anniversary of the end of World War I, what we now call Remembrance Day. If I hadn't been in parliament today I would have been commemorating this...
- Fisher Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
No-one could deny that public transport on the Sunshine Coast is in a parlous state. Thanks to decades of neglect from successive Queensland Labor state governments, we have infrequent buses that...
- Remembrance Day, Griffith Electorate: NAIDOC Week, Dismissal of the Whitlam Government (1 speech)
In 1997, Governor-General Sir William Deane issued a proclamation formally declaring that 11 November would be known and observed as Remembrance Day and urging all Australians to observe one...
- Child Abuse, Law Enforcement: Operation Arkstone (1 speech)
Prior to coming into this place, I spent 12 years as a police officer in the New South Wales Police Force, for five of which I was a detective. I saw many things during that time but none so...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Travel Industry, Werriwa Electorate: Community Services, NAIDOC Week (1 speech)
I rise to raise the plight of travel agents in my community. I was contacted by Connie from Casula Travel Services in late May. Connie's travel business has been operating successfully since...
- Moncrieff Electorate: National Seniors Australia, Budget (2 speeches)
Just last week I was in my electorate and enjoyed a beautiful, sunny Gold Coast morning with the Broadbeach branch of National Seniors Australia at the exceptional Kurrawa Surf Club. All of the...
- South Metropolitan Perth: Public Transport (1 speech)
The immediate South Metro region of Perth, including my community, has benefited from Labor's commitment to rail transport over a long period of time. Labor saved the Fremantle line from closure...
- Regional Australia: Manufacturing (1 speech)
) ( ): During the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, Taree was a major manufacturing hub, with Bonds and Hot Tuna making clothes, Goninan making trains, Peerless processing milk, and Stevacraft, Britax and...
- Mayo Electorate: Exports (1 speech)
South Australia's exports to China in 2019-20 were worth $3 billion. South Australian wine exports make up over a third of that sum, with local wine exports in China growing from $330 million in...
- Cowper Electorate: Bushfires (1 speech)
Today is certainly a day for quiet reflection. We of course observed Remembrance Day at 11.00 am, taking the time to honour and thank the more than 102,000 Australian men and women who've lost...
- United States Presidential Election (2 speeches)
I want to rise today to offer my congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris on winning the 2020 US presidential election. As Joe Biden said in his...
- McMahon Electorate: State Planning (1 speech)
The Berejiklian Liberal government in New South Wales is treating the people of Horsley Park, Cecil Park and Mount Vernon with contempt. The new state planning instrument—the State...
- Melbourne Airport Rail Link (1 speech)
Right at the moment the federal government has $5 billion on table for the Melbourne Airport rail link project—a train service to be delivered from Melbourne CBD out to Tullamarine. This $5...
- JobSeeker Payment, NAIDOC Week (1 speech)
I'm speaking up today for all the people in my electorate who are relying on JobSeeker whose needs have just been callously disregarded by this government and this Prime Minister. We now know...
- Queensland State Election (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to pay tribute to the local LNP candidates Sam Marino, Linda Cooper, Gerry Vallianos and Edward 'Nipper' Brown who contested the recent Queensland state elections in various...
- Calwell Electorate: Diwali (1 speech)
I have a very large Indian community that has been settling in Calwell over the past number of years. It's a very vibrant community and it has chosen to settle in Melbourne's northern suburbs,...
- Robertson, Mr Bruce, OAM (3 speeches)
Thank you to the member for Calwell. I join her in wishing the Indian community a happy Diwali as well. Growing up on the northern beaches, I've witnessed the formidable work of our surf...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
A core Australian value is the value of community, of chipping in and doing your bit. The member for Mackellar has just mentioned surf lifesaving as the embodiment of that value of community here...
- Wide Bay Electorate: Bushfire Response (1 speech)
This time last year Australia was heading into one of the worst fire seasons in recent memory. The blazes had a deep and lasting impact socially, environmentally and economically. While it may...
- Gilmore Electorate: Rural Fire Service (1 speech)
When a community has had a harrowing year, like our community on the New South Wales South Coast has, it isn't surprising that we notice more than ever those who are there for us. For our...
- Australian Disability Enterprises (1 speech)
More than 20,000 Australians with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities are currently working in Australian Disability Enterprises, or ADEs, such as the Endeavour Foundation. These ADEs...
- Remembrance Day (1 speech)
Today I was privileged to attend the Australian War Memorial's national Remembrance Day service, where my heart was literally bursting as my region was so ably represented. Firstly, Worimi man...
- NAIDOC Week: Walker, Poppy Harry Mundine (2 speeches)
This week is NAIDOC Week, a time to celebrate the history and culture of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. I would like to use this opportunity during NAIDOC Week to acknowledge...
- Remembrance Day (1 speech)
I too rise today to mark Remembrance Day, to acknowledge the sacrifices and service of defence personnel around Australia, and to pay my respects to all those who have served or continue to...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about concerns that many people have expressed to me with the government's proposal to introduce independent assessments to the National Disability Insurance Scheme. My...
- Queensland: Water, Remembrance Day (1 speech)
I wish to take this opportunity to speak about an important occurrence in Central Queensland. I'm pleased to speak about the significant progress on an important water project in the region,...
- Young Veterans (2 speeches)
In the short time I have, I want, on Remembrance Day, to draw to the attention of my electorate an organisation called Young Veterans. I met recently with Matt to talk to him about his...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- NAIDOC Week, Energy (1 speech)
This week is NAIDOC Week when we get to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of First Nations people. In 2020, NAIDOC Week is celebrating that this land always was and...
- Arts (1 speech)
Support for the arts is not only a cultural imperative; it's an economic one. Astonishingly, cultural and creative activity contributed $112 billion—that's 6.4 per cent—to the GDP of...
- Victoria: Bushfires (2 speeches)
After a shocker of a fire season last year, the next fire season is upon us. As I drove up to Canberra on Sunday I could see that the hills of the Indigo Valley are starting to dry off. A...
- Macarthur Electorate: Shepherd Centre of Excellence, Macarthur Electorate: Koalas (3 speeches)
I rise today to air a grievance, indeed. It's a grievance I've had with the coalition government, both at a state and federal level, for a number of years. I've worked in my electorate as a...
- Environment (2 speeches)
Not a day goes by that we don't interact with or use something made from plastic. It's absolutely everywhere. It has transformed industry and forever changed the way in which we conduct business...
- Bills (0 speeches)
