House debates
Thursday, 13 May 2021
- Privilege (0 speeches)
- (4 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I rise on a matter of privilege. The recent conduct of Facebook Inc. has resulted in the company's improper interference with the free performance of my duties as a member of the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Appropriations and Administration Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Appropriations and Administration, I present the committee's ReportNo. 21: budget estimates 2021-22. Report made a parliamentary paper in accordance with...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
On behalf of the Leader of the House, I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the following from occurring in order to facilitate the work of the Federation...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Standing Committee on Procedure; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Procedure, I present the committee's report, entitled A window on the House: practices and procedures relating to question time, together with the minutes...
- Human Rights Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, I present the following reports: Human rights scrutiny report: report 4 of 2021, Human rights scrutiny report: report 5 of 2021,...
- Road Safety Joint Select Committee; Membership (2 speeches)
The Speaker has received advice from the Chief Government Whip nominating a member to be a member of the Joint Select Committee on Road Safety.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Member for Bowman (11 speeches)
Thank you. I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Griffith from moving the following motion immediately. That this House: (1) notes: (a) for two...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
by leave— The budget places regional Australians at the heart of our national recovery post COVID-19. A strong and thriving regional Australia is good news for all Australians. This budget...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Wills Youth Advisory Committee (1 speech)
Every year I form a Wills Youth Advisory Committee to give young people in my electorate a seat at the policy table. I want to thank the 2020 committee for their work last year. Their report,...
- Veterans (1 speech)
This year's budget has delivered a big win for occupational therapists caring for our veterans. The $61 million will see a significant fee increase for nearly 10,000 occupational therapists...
- COVID-19: International Travel (1 speech)
Since the borders closed last year, I've heard the distressing stories of Australians of Indian descent who have been left stranded by this government. Exorbitant air fares, constant flight...
- Lindsay Electorate: Baker & Provan (1 speech)
In 1946 the world was undergoing a tremendous period of change but, meanwhile, two Australian mates, two diggers coming home from World War II, were about to embark on a different kind of...
- COVID 19: India (1 speech)
I want to acknowledge and express my sorrow about the circumstances facing the people of India. They are right in the teeth of this awful pandemic. The scale of the health crisis and the related...
- Goldstein Electorate: Hampton Life Saving Club (1 speech)
Inclusive and respectful communities build a stronger Australia by empowering all citizens to contribute their talents. Strong citizens equal strong families, strong communities and a strong...
- Economy (1 speech)
In the lead-up to COVID-19, this government presided over the most barren economic run experienced by Australian households for almost 100 years. Between 2013 and 2020, growth in real GDP was the...
- Male, Reverend Allan Charles (1 speech)
Recently in my community of Longman we lost a true legend. I'd like to take the time today to pay tribute to a man who not only was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather but...
- Salmon Industry (1 speech)
We know the salmon industry plays an important role in Tasmania as a key industry and employer, but it's under siege, and if community confidence and support are to be restored then changes need...
- Barker Electorate: Truro Bypass (1 speech)
I rise today to inform the House of the fantastic news that in Tuesday night's budget, our government funded the construction of the Truro bypass in my electorate of Barker. The Truro bypass was...
- COVID 19: Vaccination (1 speech)
When the world heard news of vaccines being rolled out as part of this pandemic there was hope. Australians had a bit of hope. We really needed our government to step up to get this vaccine...
- Tasmania: Floods (1 speech)
Residents across the north-west coast of Tasmania will never forget the devastating 2016 floods and the enormous destruction that they brought to our region, particularly the Latrobe and...
- Budget (1 speech)
This budget does not deliver on two key issues for working people: insecure work and wages, because this is a government more concerned about looking after their own mates than working people....
- JobKeeper Payment (1 speech)
The end of March was a very important point in Australia. It was the end of JobKeeper. When I saw the figures for unemployment come in for April, that unemployment had actually dropped by another...
- Black Summer Bushfires, Insurance (1 speech)
After a seven-month delay, the government has finally responded to the Senate's inquiry into the Black Summer bushfires. To the surprise of few, the Morrison government has yet again fallen short...
- Wentworth Electorate: Floods (1 speech)
Members here would be aware that the recent flooding on the east coast of New South Wales and Queensland caused significant damage and loss of life, property, livestock and other animals. Very...
- Kingsford Smith Electorate: Bus Services (1 speech)
The New South Wales Liberal government is cutting 25 bus routes in the community that I represent and is privatising the bus network in the east of Sydney. It is a disgraceful betrayal by the New...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
We beat our Kyoto targets by 459 tonnes, we met our 2020 targets and now we're on track to meet our 2030 targets. Australia's emissions are now 19 per cent lower than they were in 2005. This is...
- Budget (2 speeches)
On Tuesday it will be two years since I was elected to be the voice of Dunkley in Canberra. It is a privilege that I work so hard to live up to every single day, as I did this week when I brought...
- Milisits, Mr Vilmos 'Vili', OAM (2 speeches)
I rise to pay tribute at the tragic passing of the iconic South Australian entrepreneur and businessman Mr Vilmos 'Vili' Milisits, who was, of course, famous in South Australia, across the...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Employment (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that the government has spent almost half a million dollars to intervene in the Rossato High Court case in support of ripping...
- Economy (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister please outline to the House how the Morrison government's plan for economic recovery builds on what's been working to secure our way...
- Budget (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can he confirm that, after eight long years of wages going nowhere, they are now actually going backwards?
- National Security (9 speeches)
Defence minister, wouldn't a China oil embargo, cutting off our sources in Singapore and South Korea, combined with regular trading vessels disembarking crews into China's port of Darwin and then...
- Budget (35 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on how the Morrison government's budget is going further in doing what works to secure our recovery in its longstanding...
- COVID-19: Health (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. Will the minister update the House on how further investment by the Morrison government is continuing to protect the health and safety of...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Why did the Treasurer say on Tuesday that budget outcomes are based on an assumption that Australians will receive two doses of the COVID vaccine by the end of...
- Morrison Government (2 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Housing. Will the minister inform the House how the Morrison government is going further in doing what works to secure our recovery by...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. On Tuesday the Treasurer said the budget was built on two COVID vaccine doses by the end of the year. On Wednesday, the Prime Minister overruled the Treasurer....
- Small Business (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is going further in doing what works...
- COVID 19: Vaccination, Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. On Tuesday he said, at his budget lock-up press conference, that Australians will get two doses by the end of the year. How is it possible that the Treasurer got...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is securing our recovery by building our national resilience through the...
- Parliament House: Staff (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. When did the Gaetjens inquiry into what the Prime Minister's office knew about the reported rape of Ms Brittany Higgins in the ministerial wing recommence?...
- Business (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology. Will the minister please inform the House how the Morrison government is going further to secure our recovery by encouraging...
- COVID 19: Vaccination (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Page 36 of Budget Paper No. 1 states as another assumption that 'most priority populations have been vaccinated'. Does the Treasurer maintain that most residents...
- National Security (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Will the minister inform the House how the Morrison government is going further in doing what works to secure our recovery by securing our nation and...
- COVID 19: Vaccination (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I thank him for his earlier answer, but I ask again: does the Treasurer maintain that most residents of disability-care facilities and most aged-care and...
- Veterans (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel. Will the minister inform the House how the Morrison government is going further in doing what works to...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Parliament House: Staff (1 speech)
To an add to an earlier answer I gave in response to the member for Sydney's question, it was 10 May. My recollection was late last week, but it was 10 May, which was early this week.
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Before members leave the House, I want to give a short reminder about arrangements for this evening with respect to the Leader of the Opposition's budget reply speech. As outlined on Tuesday, the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Northern Australia Committee; Membership (1 speech)
I have received a message from the Senate informing the House of changes to the membership of the Joint Standing Committee on Northern Australia. As the list of appointments is a lengthy one, I...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Infrastructure (20 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Ballarat proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government's cuts to...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Intelligence and Security Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, I present the following reports: Advisory report on the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (International...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That order of the day No. 3, government business, be postponed until the next sitting. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Canberra Electorate: Women's Forum (1 speech)
I rise this morning to talk about the women's forum that I held in my electorate, on 1 May, with Senator Katy Gallagher. First of all, I want to thank everyone who attended. There were many...
- Grey Electorate: Budget (1 speech)
I warmly welcome the budget and the input and effect that it has on an electorate like Grey, which covers 92 per cent of South Australia, over 900,000 square kilometres. The investment in roads,...
- COVID-19: India (7 speeches)
The past few weeks have been remarkable by any standard. For the first time in Australia's history, the government has made it unlawful for Australian citizens to return to Australia, with...
- Budget (1 speech)
On Tuesday evening, the Treasurer detailed our government's plan to create jobs and guarantee the essential services that will build the stronger and more resilient Australia of tomorrow. This...
- Middle East (1 speech)
I want to join my colleagues in expressing my deep concern at the current outbreak of hostilities in Palestine and, in particular, the situation in Jerusalem and the recent escalation of...
- Tasmania: Industry, Charlton, Mr Brett (1 speech)
On Tuesday night the federal government continued to demonstrate its commitment to supporting Tasmanian industry, with the announcement of an extension to the Tasmanian Freight Equalisation...
- Gorton Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
Another budget, another year of Gorton being neglected and forgotten by this government. We are now at eight long years of this government, with nothing of substance provided to my constituents...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the Minister for Women's Safety and Minister for Families and Social Services, the Hon. Anne Ruston, for visiting my electorate of Bonner and meeting...
- Minchinbury: Environment (1 speech)
The suburb of Minchinbury in my electorate is a wonderful place to live. It is well-known and should be well known as one of Australia's first-ever vineyards. It's got the original crashing jet,...
- Middle East (2 speeches)
I'd like to support the member for Calwell's address to the House in the last 10 minutes or so. It is shocking news for Palestine and Israel. Israeli bombs have killed Palestinians in Gaza. In...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Peacock, Hon. Andrew Sharp, AC (4 speeches)
I'm honoured to be able to make a contribution on this condolence motion for the late Andrew Peacock. As one of the few members of this place who served with Andrew, it's a particular honour to...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Peacock, Hon. Andrew Sharp, AC (3 speeches)
It is a great honour to speak on the condolence motion for the Hon. Andrew Peacock AC. Australia has lost one of its greats in Andrew Peacock. Combining style and substance, he left an indelible...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Social Policy and Legal Affairs Committee; Report (3 speeches)
I rise to speak to the report tabled by the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs on its inquiry into family, domestic and sexual violence. I thank the committee members—in...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Pacific Highway (1 speech)
I'd like to take this opportunity to once again call on the New South Wales government to fast-track the design and planning of new interchanges on the Pacific Highway between Port Macquarie and...
- Hotham Electorate: Greek Community (1 speech)
It's so apropos that you're in the chair, Deputy Speaker Vamvakinou, for my statement this afternoon, because I want to talk about the enormous pride that I take representing the amazing Greek...
- Budget (1 speech)
The federal budget is consistent with the Liberal values of reward for effort, enterprise and aspiration, by providing incentives for those who are prepared to work hard and have a go. They will...
- Ramadan, Hindu New Year, Parramatta Community Migrant Resource Centre (1 speech)
I rise to wish the Islamic community in Parramatta, and communities around, Eid Mubarak. Yesterday's sunset marked the beginning of Eid al-Fitr, the end of the holy month of Ramadan. For Muslims,...
- Budget (2 speeches)
Western Australia is a big winner in the federal budget, especially in my electorate of Swan, and I take the opportunity to update my constituents on what they can expect to see from the federal...
