House debates
Thursday, 4 February 2021
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- Nelson, Mr Jagamara (1 speech)
Central Australia and the Northern Territory have lost a remarkable community leader with the passing of Jagamara Nelson, who died at Yuendumu last Sunday afternoon surrounded by his family. He...
- Moore Electorate: Road Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise to inform the parliament of the urgent need for additional funding to upgrade busy local roads in Perth's northern suburbs, improving road safety. Flynn Drive, east of Wanneroo Road,...
- Werriwa Electorate: New Year Celebrations (1 speech)
The Christmas and new year period was particularly challenging for greater Sydney, with several clusters of COVID-19 requiring the rethink of Christmas and new year plans. I'd like to...
- Therapeutic Goods Administration (1 speech)
Back on 15 June 2020, Apple submitted an application for an irregular rhythm notification feature on their Apple Watch, and I'm glad that a couple of days ago that was finally approved. The...
- Hennessy, Mr John (1 speech)
Today I rise to speak on the legacy of John Hennessy. John was the General Secretary of the NSW Teachers Federation from 1990 to 2002, one of the longest-serving general secretaries. He died late...
- Reeve, Mrs Mary Jo (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to Mary Jo Reeve, who passed away on 25 January. Mary Jo was an essential part of the Beecroft community for a generation. She's well known for the restoration of Booth Park...
- Telecommunications (1 speech)
Fixing the mobile black spots on the South Coast is a critical issue for people in my electorate. Mobile black spots along our highways are putting lives at risk. It's a fact. During the...
- Diong, Mr Nathaniel (1 speech)
As the local member for Chisholm, meeting the people who make Chisholm a better place is truly one of the best parts of my job. That's why it was such a pleasure to attend the annual civic awards...
- COVID-19: Hotel Quarantine (1 speech)
We've called upon the government to look at Dunk Island. The present quarantine areas are in the rabbit warrens of the great cities of Australia. The last place on earth you should put a...
- Barrenger, Mr Michael Francis (1 speech)
As a proud member of the George Town community I'm pleased to stand here today to recognise Michael Barrenger, a much-loved member of our community, who recently received the Citizen of the Year...
- Royal Adelaide Hospital (1 speech)
At a time when obesity is increasingly becoming a serious national health issue, with over two-thirds of adult Australians being obese or overweight, the South Australian Marshall Liberal...
- Lindsay Electorate: Education (1 speech)
The Prime Minister this week announced a plan to the nation to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic safer and stronger. A key part of this plan is creating more local jobs, with a focus on making...
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
While many in my community have seen through a long lockdown in Victoria, working from home without the loss of a single dollar to their family income, lots of Australians, lots in my community...
- Hallett, Ms Angelique (1 speech)
Every single night across this nation there are children who are forced to flee their homes because of domestic violence. This scourge of humanity touches every pocket of our community. On the...
- National Broadband Network (1 speech)
Another week and another storm, and that means Blue Mountains and Hawkesbury people with fibre-to-the-curb NBN had the heart-stopping experience of once more wondering whether their NBN box will...
- Flynn Electorate: Overseas Australians (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about the Queensland Labor government's plan to relocate overseas Australians to quarantine places in my electorate of Flynn. I must agree with the member for Kennedy, Mr...
- Lunar New Year (1 speech)
The date of 12 February marks the beginning of the year of the ox. The second animal of the Chinese zodiac, the ox denotes the hard work, positivity and honesty that will be manifested in all of...
- Barker Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
Every year on 26 January, Australians reflect on what it means to be Australian. For me, Australia Day is a reminder of the tremendous freedoms we enjoy and how lucky we are to live in the...
- Child Care (1 speech)
We all know that this government likes to talk up a big game. When they launched their new childcare system in 2018, they did turn up the dial on the spin machine to full speed. They called it an...
- Braddon Electorate: Housing (2 speeches)
A few weeks ago I had the absolute pleasure of attending Devonfield Enterprises' official opening of their new fully accessible homes in Spreyton. Devonfield is a fantastic not-for-profit...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How will the Prime Minister's industrial relations changes, which allow the wages of workers to be cut, help the economic recovery? Won't his changes just...
- Australia-United States Relationship (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the importance of the Australia-US relationship and how the further deepening of our alliance will provide...
- Workplace Relations (9 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister and I ask: how can the Prime Minister claim his industrial relations changes don't allow for cuts, when the cuts are right here in schedule 3 part 5...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on how the Morrison government's strong economic management is ensuring our economy is not only recovering but is now...
- Workplace Relations (23 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I again refer to his industrial relations legislation and, in particular, to schedule 3, part 5, clause 19. If the Prime Minister suspends the better off...
- Bass Strait Passenger Vehicle Equalisation Scheme (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, I'm aware of allegations that TT-Line, a Tasmanian government business, is ripping off consumers by not passing on the federal government's...
- Infrastructure (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...
- Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General and Minister for Industrial Relations. I refer to his previous answer where he said that the words in the amending bill and the act were precisely the same....
- COVID-19: Vaccines (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister please update the House on Australia's vaccine rollout and on what the Morrison government is doing to protect Australian lives and...
- Workplace Relations (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. First, the government pretended that its industrial relations changes did not allow for pay cuts. Then it briefed the media that the part of the legislation...
- Australia-United States of America Relationship: Defence (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing Minister for Defence. Will the minister outline to the House how the Australia-US relationship, through our defence cooperation, is creating a stronger...
- Workplace Relations (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. According to the government's own fair Pay Calculator, under the Prime Minister's industrial relations changes, a butcher working part-time, Thursday to...
- Defence Industry (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison government's investment in our defence industry is supporting Australian jobs and...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I have here an email from Andrew Burnes, CEO of Helloworld Travel, asking employees to accept pay cuts from the end of March when JobKeeper ends. Is this...
- Higher Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education and Youth. Will the minister please update the House on how the Morrison government's 100,000 additional university places will help Australian school...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister for Industrial Relations. It follows the previous question from this side and refers to a letter from Helloworld management to an employee calling for them to...
- Environment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is caring for our country by continuing to protect and enhance our natural...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industrial Relations. I refer to his earlier answer where, in referring to the bill before the parliament, he said, 'It ensures that wages will increase.' Which...
- Multiculturalism (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs. Minister, today the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute's 2020 mapping social cohesion...
- Workplace Relations (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Labor used the government's own fair pay calculator to show the Prime Minister's industrial relations changes will hurt cooks, pharmacy assistants, shelf...
- COVID 19: Vaccine (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Health, Regional Communications and Local Government. Could the minister outline the steps that the Morrison-McCormack government is taking to ensure...
- Workplace Relations (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister, in the hope that he'll answer one. According to the government's own fair pay calculator, under the Prime Minister's industrial relations changes,...
- Closing the Gap (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Australians. Will the minister outline how the Morrison government's new national agreement on Closing the Gap changes how the government works with...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
A document is tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Full details of the document will be recorded in the VotesandProceedings.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (19 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable Leader of the Opposition proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The need for secure...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Superannuation (3 speeches)
The Liberal Party's war on superannuation never ends. Sometimes it is guerrilla war, sometimes it is a war of attrition, but right now it is outright hostility. Mr Falinski interjecting—...
- Insurance (1 speech)
There's a perfect storm of discontent brewing in North Queensland as councils, economic development groups, community leaders, small business owners, those with strata units and householders cry...
- Child Care, Workplace Relations (1 speech)
I rise tonight, as the member for Lalor, representing a community that has the highest number of families using early education and child care and out-of-school-hours care—the highest...
- City of Stirling: Australia Day (1 speech)
Australia Day is a moment, a day, when we stop and we reflect on our shared history and we look forward into the future for our shared vision of Australia's future. This Australia Day, again, I...
- COVID-19, Abdallah, Mr Antony, Abdallah, Ms Angelina, Abdallah, Ms Sienna, Sakr, Ms Veronique (1 speech)
As we grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic the challenges we face are great, and there is the big question: How do we recover in a way which acknowledges that behaviours have changed and,...
- Agriculture Industry: Employment (1 speech)
We have this opportunity to bring to the forefront of the mainstream press the disaster going on within the fruit industry at the moment. Right now, we have fruit that is literally rotting and...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Income Support Payments (1 speech)
I've only got a short time to address the House this morning, so I want to take the opportunity to make a call to the government to consider very carefully its response to the COVID pandemic in...
- Forde Electorate: Australia Day Awards, Rotary Australia and New Zealand: 100 Years of Service (1 speech)
One of the great things about Australia Day is the opportunity to celebrate the achievements of those people in our community who are doing wonderful and amazing things. It was my privilege to...
- Maribyrnong Electorate: Live Events (1 speech)
Maribyrnong is the ground zero of the live event industry in Australia, and the live event industry in Australia has been terribly hard hit by COVID-19. In my own electorate we have music...
- Manufacturing (1 speech)
Last week I had the great pleasure of visiting the Box Hill headquarters of one of Australia's fastest-growing and most-promising healthcare companies, Planet Innovation. This incredible local...
- Covid-19 (1 speech)
There is widespread agreement that Australia has managed the COVID pandemic better than most countries. It is a view now supported by several studies that compared the COVID response across the...
- Defence Industry (1 speech)
It was my great pleasure to be invited by British Aerospace to attend on Friday 18 December a great milestone in the Hunter class frigate program, the future frigates for the Royal Australian...
- New South Wales: Bushfires (1 speech)
In November, $177 million of federal New South Wales funding for bushfire recovery projects was announced. It turns out that just one per cent of the funding went to Labor state seats—a...
- Ryan Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about an issue that's causing much concern in my local community. The state government has proposed a new school at Indooroopilly, a primary school on the site of...
- Sullivan, Mr Jonathan Harold (Jon) (1 speech)
I rise today to pay tribute to my friend and former colleague Jon Sullivan. Jon Sullivan passed away just a couple of weeks ago, on 17 January, aged just 70. It was a privilege to serve alongside...
- Brisbane Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
The Australia Day honours list is a chance for us to reflect on the contributions and achievements of some of our local residents. Sport plays a big role in the Brisbane lifestyle. Cricket, in...
- Gellibrand Electorate: Australia Day Awards, Ovarian Cancer (1 speech)
Last month, two members of my community were awarded Australia Day honours, and I would like to offer my congratulations to them here. George Said was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia...
- Western Australia: Bushfires (1 speech)
Residents throughout parts of my electorate are currently facing two emergencies: the first is obviously a COVID-19 lockdown, and the second is a bushfire emergency. The bushfire has, sadly, so...
- JobKeeper Payment (1 speech)
JobKeeper, we know, was a temporary payment that was supposed to be there to get us through the pandemic. We're not through the pandemic, and, as we learnt overnight, we are still very much in...
- Page Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
I'd like to acknowledge this year's winners of Australia Day awards in Lismore. The Citizen of the Year award went to Dr Ian Cappe for his significant contribution to health services in our...
- COVID-19: Income Support Payments (1 speech)
Unfortunately this pandemic is not over, and unfortunately the federal government is withdrawing support and withdrawing the JobKeeper support way too early, right now, for businesses across the...
- Foster, Senior Constable Kelly (2 speeches)
Our nation owes an enormous debt of gratitude to Senior Constable Kelly Foster. I make this statement in our parliament today to ensure that her name, her dedication to duty, and her...
- Refugees, Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy (1 speech)
I rise today to send my best wishes to the refugees who were recently released from places of detention in Melbourne. After eight years of horrendous detention at the hands of this Liberal...
- Employment (1 speech)
I'd like to take this opportunity to say how honoured I am to continue to serve the people of Petrie and the community that I grew up in in a place that I love. It's a great responsibility that's...
- Oxley Electorate: Australia Day (1 speech)
Australia is made up of people from many cultures and backgrounds, representing nations from all around the world. The values shown to each and every member of our society through mutual respect...
- MOLLER, Mr Ross Ronald (2 speeches)
I rise today to pay tribute to and remember a good friend and giant in the Cairns business community who recently passed away. Real estate veteran and community leader Ross Moller passed away...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Anthony, Rt Hon. John Douglas (Doug), AC, CH (8 speeches)
I rise to speak on this condolence motion for the Rt Hon. John Douglas 'Doug' Anthony, who passed away in Murwillumbah on 20 December 2020 at the age of 90, just 11 days before his 91st birthday....
