House debates
Thursday, 27 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 Franklin from moving the following motion immediately—That this House: (1) notes: (a) the Member for...
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (10 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Electoral Matters Committee; Report (1 speech)
() (): On behalf of the chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, I present the committee's report, incorporating dissenting reports, entitled Review of the Electoral...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- HomeBuilder Program (1 speech)
On A Current Affair this week it was revealed that there are hundreds of Aussies who've applied for the HomeBuilder grant and, because of a confusing online application form, have now missed out....
- Wide Bay Electorate: Tourism (1 speech)
Noosa is a world-class destination with surf to rival Hawaii, beaches to rival Fiji and rainforests as beautiful and wondrous as the Amazon, but Noosa is a destination that is within reach to...
- EDWARDS, Sir Llewellyn AC (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to Sir Llew Edwards, the former state MP for Ipswich and former Deputy Premier of Queensland. My deepest condolences to Lady Jane; his sons, Mark and David, and their...
- Cumberland Bird Observers' Club (1 speech)
A few weeks ago I went on a birdwatching expedition with the Cumberland Bird Observers' Club, which has been incredibly active in my community for 40 years through the passion of local...
- Monaro High School (1 speech)
Last week I attended one of the coolest events I have ever been to in my life. I was invited to join some amazing students from Monaro High School in Cooma as they spoke live with NASA astronaut...
- Chisholm Electorate: Constituency Meetings (1 speech)
Today's announcement of another lockdown is difficult for all Victorians, but we have got through this before and we will get through this again. Last week I had the resounding pleasure of...
- Women in Parliament (2 speeches)
I give the call to the member for Perth and the junior member for Perth!
- National Reconciliation Week (1 speech)
National Reconciliation Week is a time for all Australians to learn our shared history, spanning over 60,000 years. Indigenous Australians have a deep understanding of connection to the land,...
- Middle East (1 speech)
All people have the right to peace and security, and our job is to make sure those rights are valued equally for all. This month Benjamin Netanyahu's military flattened buildings in Gaza that...
- Bonner Electorate: Volunteering (1 speech)
Last week we celebrated National Volunteer Week, Australia's largest annual celebration of volunteers. I recently hosted my fifth annual Bonner Volunteer Awards to recognise some of the...
- Covid-19 (1 speech)
In order to protect our health and the economic recovery, this government has had two KPIs: an effective quarantine system and the speedy rollout of the vaccine. It is failing on both counts....
- National Reconciliation Week (1 speech)
Today marks the beginning of National Reconciliation Week. With over 6,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in my electorate of Lindsay, this is an important occasion. Reconciliation...
- Regional Services, Lyons Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
The big banks are failing regional Australia. They are nailing shut their branches across the regions. The town of St Marys in my electorate is losing its Commonwealth Bank branch and ATM in...
- Covid-19 (2 speeches)
I rise today to talk about love. Love: it's not a topic we frequently talk about in this place—and I'm not thinking about the deep affection that those opposite feel towards me and my...
- Callide Power Station (1 speech)
On Tuesday this week, just before 2 pm, there was an explosion at the Callide Power Station in Biloela in my electorate of Flynn. Catastrophic damage was done to the C4 generator and it was taken...
- Members of Parliament: Staff (1 speech)
On Tuesday, the Prime Minister tabled a report undertaken by his chief of staff into whether staff in his office had backgrounded against Ms Higgins's loved ones. Contrary to the Prime Minister's...
- Forest Industry (1 speech)
I rise today in support of the Australian forest industry, which is a foundational industry in the Limestone Coast in my electorate of Barker. It employs 7,500 people across the sector. The...
- COVID-19: Quarantine (2 speeches)
My heart goes out to everyone in Victoria going into lockdown today. You've been through this before, and I know the next seven days are going to be tough for so many. As you know, the outbreak...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Covid-19 (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister acknowledge that he had two fundamental jobs this year, to get the COVID vaccine rollout right and to create a safe national...
- COVID 19: Vaccination (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware there are 237 aged-care facilities in my state where residents have not been fully vaccinated and 29 facilities where residents...
- Regional Australia (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Will the Deputy Prime Minister inform the House how the Morrison-McCormack government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic is protecting jobs and...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister keeps describing Australians who've only received a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as 'vaccinated'. Given the Prime Minister knows full...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Just before I call the member for Melbourne, I would like to advise members that we have present in the gallery Cheryl Kernot, former senator and former member of this House. Welcome back....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Covid-19 (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In my electorate of Melbourne, shoulders are slumped and hearts are heavy as we face yet another lockdown. But we're angry too. You said you'd put the...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline to the House how the Morrison government's support to households and businesses through lower taxes is supporting Australians through...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Jewish aged-care facility residents in Windsor in my electorate went to get their first dose of the COVID vaccine on 11 May. Their appointment was cancelled...
- COVID-19: Health Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. Will the minister please outline to the House how the Morrison government is continuing to support states and territories during the...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. There are aged-care residents in my electorate who have not even received their first dose of COVID vaccine, and aged-care workers in my electorate have been...
- COVID 19: Aged Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister For Health and Aged Care. I ask him to expand on his previous answers to update the House on the support that the Morrison government has provided to aged-care...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Last week the disability royal commission heard that 99 per cent of residents in disability care facilities have not been fully vaccinated. How many...
- COVID-19: Regional Australia (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Health, Regional Communications and Local Government. Will the minister update the House on the measures the Morrison-McCormack government has taken to...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. Yesterday I asked how many of the Victorians infected in the latest COVID-19 outbreak had been vaccinated. The minister undertook to seek...
- COVID-19: Australian Defence Force (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Would the minister please update the House on the Defence Force's Operation COVID-19 Assist and advise how the Morrison government is working to keep...
- COVID-19: Quarantine (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The infection which sparked Melbourne's latest outbreak was caused by aerosol spread of the virus in hotel quarantine in Adelaide, the latest in a series of...
- COVID-19: Economy, National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is driving our economic recovery and creating a stronger Australia by taking...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Earlier in question time, Prime Minister, you said that Jewish Care would receive its first vaccination of the COVID vaccine tomorrow. My office has spoken...
- Domestic and Family Violence (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Women. Will the minister please update the House on the Morrison government's commitment to improving the safety of all women and...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Back in March the Prime Minister said the vaccine rollout was 'not a race', and just last week the Prime Minister said he was not 'overly troubled' about low...
- COVID-19: Income Support Payments (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business. Will the minister please inform the House about how the Morrison government has supported Australians...
- COVID 19: Vaccination (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care, and I refer to his previous answer. Right up until today, GPs have been advising patients they require a 14-day gap between COVID and flu...
- Veterans (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and the Minister for Defence Personnel. Minister, I refer to the Morris government's budget commitment to additional veterans' wellbeing...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
If I may, I'll table the advice from the Chief Medical Officer to which I referred previously.
- 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.
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 39 of 2020-21 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit report No. 39 of 2020-21 entitled COVID-19 procurements and deployments of the National Medical Stockpile: Department of Health; Department of Industry,...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (5 speeches)
I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Covid-19 (33 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Hindmarsh proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government's failures...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Covid-19 (1 speech)
People of my electorate of Corangamite will tonight be plunged into the fourth lockdown in a year. Hearts are heavy, and people are rightly angry. In the past year, Victorians have put up with so...
- Fairfax Electorate: Aged Care (1 speech)
As we know, aged care was the centrepiece of the federal budget brought down by the Treasurer only two weeks ago, with a $17.7 billion reform package. Today I wish to give credit to the residents...
- Donations to Political Parties (1 speech)
Canstruct International is an obscure Brisbane-based company which was handed a $1.4 billion contract to provide welfare and garrison services on Nauru in October 2017. The company is owned by...
- Riverland Citrus Industry (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, you know that I've often spoken in this place about the Riverland and its citrus industry. It's an industry worth $1.3 billion per year to the South Australian economy and it will be...
- Defence Procurement (1 speech)
You could be forgiven for thinking that this government's new defence minister, its fifth defence minister in eight years, in his clamouring to get his hands on the keys to the kingdom, had...
- Braddon Electorate: Local Government, Local Roads and Community Infrastructure Program (1 speech)
The electorate of Braddon, which covers the north-west of the West Coast and King Island, I'm told, by many of my constituents, is the best place to be in the world—particularly during the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
