House debates
Thursday, 18 February 2021
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Resolutions of the Senate (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Privileges and Members' Interests Committee; Report (1 speech)
In accordance with standing order 216, on behalf of the Committee of Privileges and Members' Interests I present Report concerning the registration and declaration of members' interests during...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Member for Cowan: Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
Earlier in this day, the member for Cowan addressed the House. The address was titled 'Talking to my 23-year-old self'. I was privileged to be in the parliament as she gave her address. It would...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Vocational Education and Training (1 speech)
Over the years, TAFE has served a critical role in ensuring that Australia has the necessary skills to build a strong economy. In doing so, TAFE created new opportunities for millions of...
- Illicit Drugs (1 speech)
I rise to call for an escalation in the national campaign against the misuse of illicit drugs in our community through better resourcing of our national law enforcement agencies. One of the few...
- Travel Industry (1 speech)
Next month Scott Morrison will put an end to JobKeeper, ripping support away from thousands of businesses across my electorate who desperately need it. The travel agency sector is undoubtedly...
- Western Australia: Children's Health Care (1 speech)
Western Australia does not currently have a dedicated children's hospice. At present, general hospices, hospitals and home-based services perform this role for the 2,000 children with...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
Tomorrow will mark 12 months since the tragic murder of Hannah Clarke and her three beautiful children, Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey. My thoughts are with Hannah's family and her friends as they...
- Goldstein Electorate: COVID-19 (1 speech)
Key to Australia's successful COVID-19 response has been the responsibility taken by local communities to overcome testing challenges. Last fortnight, the Sandringham Ambulatory Care Centre, or...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
I would like to draw the attention of the House to the Climate Council's latest report, Hitting Home: Compounding Costs of Climate Change, which shows that the cost of extreme weather in...
- News Media and Digital Platforms (1 speech)
What a difference 24 hours makes. Yesterday I stood in this parliament and advised the House that I'd become the first member of parliament to be blocked from posting to Facebook. I quote my...
- Members of Parliament: Staff (1 speech)
You don't need to consult your wife to know that women are human beings. You don't need to have daughters to know that women who have been raped should be listened to, believed and supported....
- Parliament (1 speech)
One of the amazing things about what we are doing right now is that probably nobody is watching it. If you are watching this, ring my office right now—I bet you I don't get a call. Because...
- News Media and Digital Platforms (1 speech)
We awoke this morning to a very different Facebook. There were no news platforms, no publishers and no articles; health pages and hospital pages were blocked as well. This is a massive whack from...
- Queensland: Crime (1 speech)
Any amount of crime is too much, but Queensland's appalling record of having double the number of thefts per 100,000 people, compared to every other mainland state, is deeply concerning. The...
- News Media and Digital Platforms (1 speech)
There is shock and dismay in my community about the sudden ban on accessing news via Facebook. Small local papers like the Blue Mountains Gazette, the Hawkesbury Gazette and the Hawkesbury Post...
- Lunar New Year (1 speech)
Last week families across Bennelong and across Australia celebrated Lunar New Year. As an electorate with a very large number of Chinese and Korean families, this event is normally one of the...
- JobKeeper Payment (1 speech)
This week we learnt that $3 million of taxpayer money went via JobKeeper to Moelis, an investment bank that last year paid its executives millions of dollars. At a time when wages are flat for...
- Greenlink (1 speech)
Recently, I had the pleasure of visiting Greenlink in Box Hill. Greenlink is a vibrant local organisation in Chisholm devoted to growing and preserving native Australian plants. Working with...
- Safer Communities Fund (1 speech)
If ever the people of Rockingham and Kwinana needed any more proof that the Liberal Party and this government do not care about them, here it is, reported in my local paper, The Sound...
- Rotary Club of Five Dock (1 speech)
I would like to commend the Rotary Club of Five Dock on the 15th annual charity golf day. The golf day is a club tradition, with a focus on community, connection and charitable giving. I would...
- Sexual Harassment (1 speech)
Today I want to send a message to Brittany Higgins: you have shown enormous courage over the last week and over the last two years. Your interview on Monday night was both moving and deeply...
- Manufacturing (2 speeches)
Manufacturers are front and centre of our economic recovery, and the Morrison government is backing them all the way. Locally, I established an Advancing Manufacturing Taskforce to support...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Vaccination (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. It has been 3½ weeks since the Therapeutic Goods Administration approved the Pfizer vaccine. The Australian Medical Association has today raised...
- COVID-19: Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister please inform the House how the Morrison government's strong economic management is providing a pathway for the Australian economy to...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
On behalf of the House, I formally welcome former Prime Minister Rudd. It is good to see you here in the gallery. Honourable members: Hear, hear!
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- JobKeeper Payment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday, the Treasurer rejected Treasury's expectation that 100,000 Australians will lose their jobs when the government cuts JobKeeper next month. How...
- Infrastructure (5 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 how the Morrison-McCormack...
- NBN Co (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts. Given Australia is ranked 61st in the world for fixed-line broadband, the cost of the NBN has blown...
- Paid Parental Leave (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Paid parental leave is identified as one of the key factors in reducing the gender pay gap. Australia has one of the least adequate paid parental leave schemes....
- News Media and Digital Platforms (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the Morrison government's plans to ensure the imbalance in bargaining power between digital platforms and news media...
- NBN Co (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given Christine Holgate lost her job over $20,000 worth of Cartier watches given as bonuses to executives, what are the consequences for NBN Co paying $78...
- News Media and Digital Platforms (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts. Will the minister please update the House on how the Morrison government's world-leading legislation...
- JobKeeper Payment (14 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why is the government willing to spend $78 million on taxpayer funded bonuses for NBN executives, management, and staff but has not been willing to extend...
- News Media and Digital Platforms (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister outline to the House the outrageous decision taken by Facebook this morning affecting Australians seeking access to critical health...
- Members of Parliament: Staff (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister, and I refer to the Prime Minister's answers yesterday. In relation to the reported sexual assault, does the Prime Minister still maintain that his office...
- News Media and Digital Platforms (2 speeches)
My question is to the . Will the minister please update the House on the extremely irresponsible action taken by Facebook this morning, affecting Australians seeking to access critical and...
- Members of Parliament: Staff (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister: Yesterday Peta Credlin said there was no way a prime minister or his office wouldn't know about an alleged sexual assault in a minister's office. Ms Credlin...
- News Media and Digital Platforms (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and the Minister representing the Minister for Women. Will the minister please update the House on the shameful and irresponsible action taken...
- Members of Parliament: Staff (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday Brittany Higgins issued a statement in response to the Prime Minister's remarks. In that statement, Ms Higgins said: The continued victim-blaming...
- Manufacturing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology. Will the minister please outline to the House how the Morrison government is supporting Australia's manufacturing industry and...
- Members of Parliament: Staff (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday, Brittany Higgins issued a statement which said a current senior staffer to the Prime Minister, and Ms Higgins's former chief of staff—the...
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison government is continuing to drive down power prices as we continue our...
- Members of Parliament: Staff (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister accept that he and his office have a human resources responsibility for all ministerial staff? Has the Prime Minister asked his...
- Resources Industry (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia. Will the minister please update the House on the resilience of Australia's resources exports and highlight how the...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Domestic and Family Violence (2 speeches)
I've discussed this with the Leader of the Opposition, and I'm sure the member for Griffith would agree. I wish us all to take a moment to remember Hannah Clarke and her three children, Aaliyah,...
- 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.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Environment (26 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Griffith proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The government's...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Vietnamese Australians (1 speech)
When 20-year-old Lam Binh sailed into Darwin Harbour with his younger brother and three friends aboard the 20 metre Kien Giang on 26 April 1976, the thought that their arrival would mark a...
- COVID-19: Ivermectin (1 speech)
I'd just like to congratulate the member for Makin on that fine speech. I concur with every single word about the endurance, courage and resilience of the Vietnamese people who came to settle in...
- Western Australia: COVID-19 (1 speech)
I'd like to take the opportunity this afternoon to thank Premier Mark McGowan and the WA state Labor team on behalf of all Cowan residents for their handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the...
- Moore Electorate: Economic Development (1 speech)
Local economic development within Moore continues to be one of my main priorities for my electorate—even more so now as we restore and rebuild the economy from the COVID-19 pandemic,...
- Members of Parliament: Staff (1 speech)
I rise in this, the last debate that will occur in this House this week, as we debate the adjournment of the House, as we do at the end of each day—of course, this being the last day of...
- Apology to Australia's Indigenous Peoples: 13th Anniversary (1 speech)
When Noel Pearson wrote 'Radical hope' for the Quarterly Essay in 2009, many hoped it would turbocharge the Rudd apology with some practical action. But 13 years on not much has changed: annual...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Parramatta Electorate: National Broadband Network (1 speech)
There is yet another NBN disaster in the electorate of Parramatta. I'm going to talk about a young family and I will call the husband Abi—very close to his real name. They connected to the...
- COVID-19: Travel Industry (1 speech)
We need travel agents to be there when the international borders reopen, and government must improve its travel agent support program—to better target it to ensure that those businesses...
- Blair Electorate: Ipswich Hockey Association (1 speech)
Much has been said about the government's Community Sport Infrastructure Grants program, but my criticism today is not of the government but of the Ipswich City Council. Today I want to express...
- International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day (1 speech)
I rise to convey my strong support for the motion that was passed yesterday, that 15 October officially and eternally be recognised as International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. I...
- Lingiari Electorate: Detention of Murugappan Family (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker Zimmerman: as you know, Priya and Nades came to Australia separately by boat in 2012 and 2013. They'd fled Sri Lanka because of persecution of the Tamils. The couple married and...
- Australia Day Awards, Bhardwaj, Ms Radhika, Bhardwaj, Ms Krishnapriya (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge all of the Australia Day 2021 award recipients and those acknowledged across the Toowoomba region. As I shared in my first speech in this place, Groom is a place of strong...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
Today I rise to warn against the Morrison government's radical proposal to introduce independent assessments to the very important National Disability Insurance Scheme. Independent assessments...
- Berowra Electorate: Education (1 speech)
For students, parents and teachers, 2020 presented new challenges: online learning, being separated from classmates or the uncertainty of disruptions at home. Despite the difficult year in 2020,...
- Child Care, Manufacturing (1 speech)
Australian working families are struggling under some of the highest childcare costs in the world. In fact, under this Liberal government childcare costs have gone up more than 35 per cent....
- Page Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
I would like to acknowledge and congratulate members of my community who were recognised at the Woodenbong Australia Day Awards recently. The Citizen of the Year award went to Tien Smith. Tien is...
- Independent Cinemas (1 speech)
I rise to support the Independent Cinemas Australia campaign to save independent cinemas in Australia. These independent cinemas are hubs of our local community. They are wonderful institutions...
- Rose, Mr Terry (1 speech)
I'd like the Australian parliament to recognise the life and record the death of Terry Rose from my home town of Warialda. Terry started his working life, following in his father's footsteps, as...
- COVID-19: Mental Health (1 speech)
In 2020, I heard so many stories about the long-lasting mental health impacts of COVID-19 on the community: isolation, a feeling of being disconnected, and losing work and income. In Victoria,...
- Forrest Electorate: Busselton SES (1 speech)
I want to acknowledge the wonderful work of the Busselton SES during the recent bushfire in Wooroloo that started on 1 February north-east of Perth. As we know, it burnt up to 11,000 hectares and...
- Telecommunications (1 speech)
I rise this morning to raise one of the most important issues facing my constituents in the electorate of Holt and that is after years and years and years of lobbying, many residents in my...
- Family Court (1 speech)
Many constituents contact me about my committee work. With the tabling of the final report from the Joint Select Committee on Australia's Family Law System due very soon, it is appropriate to...
- Fenner Electorate: Mobile Coverage, National Broadband Network (1 speech)
One of the most beautiful parts of my beautiful electorate of Fenner is the Wreck Bay community, located in the Jervis Bay Territory. Surrounded by Booderee National Park, it is a truly stunning...
- Red Frogs Australia, Petrie Electorate: Good Samaritans (1 speech)
I want to read a quote, and the quote reads as follows: 'Thank you so much for looking after me and offering to hang. I appreciate it so much. Don't know what I would have done if the Red Frogs...
- Bendigo Electorate: Australia Post (1 speech)
We all know Australia Post has had its issues, and roadside delivery of our mail to our houses has started to diminish. However, there are constituents in my electorate who don't even receive...
- Hume Electorate: Mining (2 speeches)
I rise today to support local mining jobs in my electorate—mining jobs that are at risk. In the north of my electorate, the Tahmoor coking coal mine operates just near the small village of...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Youth Employment (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about one of the great challenges and the great opportunities for my community and electorate of Fraser, for the broader community of western Melbourne and indeed for all...
- Higgins Electorate: Australia Day Honours (1 speech)
) ( ): I'm pleased to see so many constituents in the Higgins community recognised in this year's Australia Day Honours List. This year there were 20 award recipients in Higgins—women and...
- Indi Electorate: Inland Rail (1 speech)
Over the last few months, I've been visiting communities affected by the government's Inland Rail project. Inland Rail aims to allow taller and heavier double-stack trains to run from Melbourne...
- China (1 speech)
If there's a silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, it surely must be that the west is finally waking up to the true nature of the communist regime in China. For far too long many people in the...
- Watson Electorate: Land Zoning, JobKeeper Payment: Arts Industry (1 speech)
I've been to the electorates of everybody here and enjoyed the magnificent open space that is part of all of those different parts of Australia. My electorate is a very different story. In my...
- WP Holman Clinic (1 speech)
Almost 100 years ago in Launceston, a young Dr William Prout Holman began administering radiation therapy services at a local private hospital after obtaining radon needles from Brussels. Today...
