House debates
Tuesday, 25 May 2021
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Member for Bowman (10 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Macquarie from moving the following motion immediately— That this House: (1) notes: (a) the Member...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Agriculture and Water Resources Committee; Report (1 speech)
() (): On behalf of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Water Resources, I present a corrigendum to the committee's report entitled: Aussie logs for Aussie jobs: Inquiry into timber supply...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Middle East (1 speech)
Numerous constituents have voiced their concern and distress to me about the situation in Palestine and Israel in the last month. In 10 days, 257 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza were...
- Willoughby United Netball Club (1 speech)
Netball plays a big part in the life of our local community, and my region of Sydney is home to the largest netball association in Australia—in fact, probably in the world. This year, 2021,...
- Covid-19 (1 speech)
Australians during this COVID pandemic expected two things from this Prime Minister and this government: quarantine and vaccinations. On both of those counts, there has been an abject failure by...
- World Lupus Day (1 speech)
Monday 10 May was World Lupus Day, a day to raise awareness of this under-recognised but debilitating condition. While most people have heard the term 'lupus', few know what the condition...
- Centenary of Rotary Australia (1 speech)
This year marks 100 years of Rotary in Australia. I want to send a shout-out to all the Rotary clubs in the electorate of Gilmore and Rotary members who go above and beyond for their communities...
- Liberal Pride: Midsumma Pride March (1 speech)
I'm proud of what Liberals have achieved for our LGTBI community in Victoria and Australia. Many of the most significant pieces of legislation to improve the lives of the LGBTI community were...
- COVID-19: Quarantine, COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
The Morrison government had two jobs during this pandemic: quarantine and vaccinations. They bungled both, and today Victorians are paying the price. The new cases and the new restrictions...
- World Health Assembly (4 speeches)
This week the World Health Assembly is meeting for its 74th annual session. This week for the fifth year running one nation, namely the Republic of China-Taiwan, has not been invited. This is the...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
At the current rate of COVID-19 vaccination, it will be the end of 2022 before 85 per cent of adult Australians are vaccinated. That's simply not good enough. Communication about the vaccination...
- Bass Electorate: Boots on the Ground (1 speech)
I had the pleasure of supporting a great event on the weekend raising funds and awareness for mental wellbeing in rural and regional areas. It was raising funds for the Boots on the Ground...
- Lundy, Mr George (Geordie) (1 speech)
On 15 May, I was fortunate to join members of the Pagewood Botany Football Club family to pay tribute to a legend of football in the eastern suburbs, George Lundy, who passed away last year....
- National Volunteer Week (1 speech)
Last week was National Volunteer Week, and in Moncrieff we celebrated our volunteers following the 'Recognise. Reconnect. Reimagine' theme. It was an honour to open The Venue at Volunteering Gold...
- Eden-Monaro Electorate (1 speech)
Meeting the immediate needs of our community feeds my daily work, as do the longer term opportunities that come from the many compounding challenges that we face together. While drought,...
- Mason, Mr Donald Walter (1 speech)
Donald Walter Mason died on 7 May this year. He was my scout leader. He was a husband to Gwenda, lover, father, grandfather and mentor to many. In fact, he invested his life in others. He was...
- Housing Affordability (1 speech)
Elizabeth from Seaford has a granddaughter. Her granddaughter is a single mother with three children, aged nine, seven and five. Elizabeth's granddaughter had to flee a relationship which was...
- Dalrymple, Mrs Irie (1 speech)
Today I want to acknowledge the passing of a highly respected and extremely generous member of the Mackay region, Mrs Irie Dalrymple, who passed away on 11 May at the age of 93. Irie,...
- Consent (1 speech)
I want to acknowledge the changes to consent laws announced today in New South Wales and congratulate New South Wales Attorney-General Mark Speakman on these legislative changes. New South Wales...
- Defence Industry (1 speech)
The Morrison government's investment in defence industry is paying dividends right around the country, including in my own electorate of Stirling. Last week, I was joined by the Minister for...
- COVID 19: Vaccination (1 speech)
Last Tuesday, I had my first AstraZeneca jab at Barwon Health's mass vaccination centre. It was professional and swift, and now it's done. It feels great. But the problem is I am one person among...
- Dungowan Dam (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, I want to thank you very much for the opportunity to give you a progress update on the Dungowan Dam. It's an incredibly important piece of infrastructure which has brought about a...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Members of Parliament: Staff (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the inquiry by his secretary about who knew what and when in the Prime Minister's Office about the reported sexual assault of Brittany Higgins....
- COVID-19: Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister please outline to the House how the Morrison government's plan to secure Australia's recovery from COVID-19 pandemic is backing...
- Members of Parliament: Staff (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. This morning the Prime Minister issued a media release stating that he had received the report he commissioned from his departmental deputy secretary about...
- Infrastructure (4 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Will the Deputy Prime Minister inform the House how the Morrison-McCormack government's plan for economic recovery through the additional investment...
- Members of Parliament: Staff (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. A short time ago, Simon Birmingham told Senate estimates the Prime Minister's chief of staff has briefed the Prime Minister on his findings about whether the...
- Climate Change (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Your government is insisting on wasting $600 million of public money on a gas power plant that doesn't stack up at a time of record debt and that has been...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer remind the House of the Morrison government's proud and extensive record of continually cutting taxes to help Australian families to stay...
- Members of Parliament: Staff (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister says he learned of Brittany Higgins's reported sexual assault on 15 February, but staff in his office knew about it two years earlier. The...
- Energy (4 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 economic recovery plan is backing Australian jobs...
- Parliament House: Staff (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister: I refer to the finding of the Prime Minister's chief of staff in his review that 'members of the PMO media team recalled that Mr Shiraz's work history was...
- Women: Job Opportunities (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Women. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is continuing to boost job opportunities for women across the...
- COVID-19: International Travel (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Melbourne is today facing the 17th outbreak nationwide linked to hotel quarantine in just the past six months. How many more outbreaks do Australians have to...
- Economic Recovery Plan (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison government's Economic Recovery Plan is protecting jobs and ensuring...
- Energy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction. The New South Wales energy minister has said of the government's spending on a gas power plant: 'the government— should be...
- Economy, Heavy Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Will the minister please update the House on how the Morrison government's economic recovery plan is backing Australia's heavy industry to create jobs, especially in our...
- COVID-19: Quarantine (11 speeches)
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister acknowledge this simple fact: quarantine is a Commonwealth responsibility?
- 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 government's economic recovery plan is backing regional...
- COVID 19: Vaccination (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Christopher from Annerley has multiple sclerosis and lives in residential disability care. He was supposed to be vaccinated by Easter but has still not...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business. Will the minister inform the House how the Morrison government's plan for upskilling Australians and...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. New Haven Farm Home in my electorate has 39 residents with a disability. They were told to get ready in February for the COVID vaccination rollout. It's 25...
- National Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is backing our economic recovery and creating a stronger Australia by taking...
- Budget (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The government's own budget papers forecast a cut to real wages over the next four years. For a construction worker, that amounts to a cut in real wages of...
- Defence (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Will the minister please update the House on how the Morrison government is backing our economic recovery and creating a stronger Australia by...
- Budget (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The government's own budget papers forecast a cut to real wages over the next four years. For a retail worker, that amounts to a cut in real wages of around...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Callide Power Station (2 speeches)
A short time ago a generation outage of the CS energy generator at Biloela in Queensland left many customers in Queensland without power. The cause of the incident is under investigation by the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Manufacturing Industry (24 speeches)
I'm going to move straight to the matter of public important, as there are no papers today. I have received a letter from the honourable member for Chifley proposing that a definite matter of...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Member for Bowman (2 speeches)
In accordance with standing order 133, I shall now proceed to put the question on the motion to suspend standing orders moved earlier today by the honourable member for Macquarie on which a...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Charges) Bill 2021, Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2021; Second Reading (9 speeches)
These bills are about maintaining the high quality of higher education that Australia is renowned for, while ensuring the sustainability of the sector now and into the future. At present the...
- Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Charges) Bill 2021, Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2021; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2021; Second Reading (1 speech)
The question is that this bill be now read a second time.
- Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2021; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Higher Education Support Amendment (Extending the Student Loan Fee Exemption) Bill 2021; Second Reading (15 speeches)
I speak today on the Higher Education Support Amendment (Extending the Student Loan Fee Exemption) Bill 2021, and I move: That all words after "That" be omitted with a view to substituting the...
- Higher Education Support Amendment (Extending the Student Loan Fee Exemption) Bill 2021; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Financial Regulator Assessment Authority Bill 2021, Financial Regulator Assessment Authority (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2021 (2 speeches)
I am pleased to be speaking on the motion and on the second reading amendment which has been circulated in my name. This bill establishes the Financial Regulator Assessment Authority, and as...
- Housing Affordability (1 speech)
Housing is a basic human right. Having a roof over your head at night is something that all Australians deserve, whether it's those in need of social housing, women fleeing domestic and family...
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (1 speech)
As many of us look back, decades from now, at what we worked on in this place, we'll often look at one or two achievements of which we're most proud. For me, of course, that moment was 15 years...
- Environment (1 speech)
It was Sea Turtle Week last week in North Queensland. We have a great affection for our turtles. The figure for pigs in North Queensland is four million. I, like all of north Queenslanders, have...
- Middle East (1 speech)
I welcome the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and I mourn the loss of innocent lives, both Israeli and Palestinian. Israelis and Palestinians need to be able to live in peace and security and...
- Women in the Workforce (1 speech)
I rise to address a matter of great import in my community and, no doubt, right around Australia, and that is women's workforce participation. The pandemic has changed the very way Australians...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
Last week I had the honour and the privilege of speaking at a women's empowerment workshop on family violence in my electorate of Chisholm. For me, it was truly an honour to be asked to deliver...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2021-2022, Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2021-2022, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2021-2022; Second Reading (7 speeches)
The Prime Minister had two jobs this year: get quarantine right and get the vaccine rollout right, and this budget fails to do either. Our press-hungry Prime Minister is continuing to bumble his...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Macedon Ranges Regional Sports Precinct, COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
Our electorate of McEwen has been waiting for federal funding for the Macedon Ranges Regional Sports Precinct since 2018. This project has been fully planned, and it has continued to involve...
- Digital Economic Strategy (1 speech)
When the COVID-19 pandemic caused lockdowns across our nation, almost every Australian business went online. As the Prime Minister said only two weeks ago, every business in Australia is now a...
- Corio Electorate: St Mary's Primary School (1 speech)
Last Wednesday I had the pleasure of visiting the prep classes of St Mary's Primary School in my electorate. There, amongst a group of five- and six-year-olds, I had the pleasure of talking to...
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy (1 speech)
Today I rise to speak on behalf of my constituents Kate and Grant Gough and their six-month-old baby, Oakley. I recently met with this beautiful family, who shared with me the heartbreaking story...
- Australian Public Service (1 speech)
In the 1940s and 1950s, US Senator Joseph McCarthy began a regime of attempting to seek out so-called communist sympathisers. Over that period, some 10,000 to 12,000 people lost their jobs....
- Pacific Lutheran College, Montville Tennis Club (1 speech)
The weekend just gone I had a terrific Saturday night with my wife, Leonie. We attended the Pacific Lutheran College rendition of Grease, and we had an absolutely fantastic time. There were 44...
- Brand Electorate: Telecommunications (1 speech)
Today I would like to talk about the unacceptable mobile phone coverage in my electorate of Brand, particularly in the suburbs of Safety Bay and Baldivis. Constituents from all around my...
- Mallee Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
Last week I had the joy of opening the new Henderson College learning hub and technology rooms. I'm very proud to say that the Liberal-National government is delivering to schools in the regions....
- National Volunteer Week (1 speech)
Last week marked National Volunteer Week. My electorate is home to hundreds of amazing volunteer groups and organisations. From our emergency service workers to our local community gardeners,...
- Budget, Brisbane Electorate: Business, Beyond the Broncos Girls Academy (1 speech)
In accordance with standing order 193, the time for members' constituency statements has concluded.
- Bills (0 speeches)
