House debates
Monday, 21 June 2021
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Petitions Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the 27th report of the Petitions Committee for the 46th parliament, together with 38 petitions and 87 ministerial responses to petitions previously presented. These petitions include 37...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Responses (1 speech)
I present the following ministerial responses to petitions previously presented:
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
I inform the House that, pursuant to standing order 110, the honourable member for Dawson has postponed notice No. 3, standing in his name. The order of precedence of remaining private members'...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
I inform the House that, pursuant to standing order 110, the honourable member for Clark has postponed notice No. 5, standing in his name. The order of precedence of remaining private members'...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Budget (11 speeches)
I move: That this House commends the Government on the delivery of the 2021-22 budget, and in particular the measures to incentivise business investment, including: (1) extending temporary full...
- Assyrian People (7 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) recognises that the Assyrian people, who are Christian by religion, are an original and Indigenous people of Iraq and encourages the Iraqi Government to reflect this...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Law Enforcement Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement, I present the committee's report entitled COVID-19, criminal activity and law enforcement. Report made a parliamentary paper in...
- Public Works Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present Report No. 3 of 2021, concerning a referral made in April 2021. Report made a parliamentary paper in accordance with...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Garden Point Mission (1 speech)
Recently 42 stolen generation survivors got some closure when they settled a class action with the Commonwealth and the Catholic Church. They signed a compensation deal that was 40 years in the...
- Port of Darwin (1 speech)
Australia must reclaim the port of Darwin. In February of this year I delivered the Pivot report, from the Joint Standing Committee for Trade and Investment Growth, which recommended that the...
- Gilmore Electorate: Health (1 speech)
When will this government get serious about supporting more GPs in regional communities? In Sanctuary Point, on the New South Wales South Coast, we have one last doctor retiring and no-one to...
- RKS Teanoai II (1 speech)
On Friday I represented the Minister for Defence at the handover of a brand new Guardian class patrol boat, the RKS Teanoai II, to our Pacific neighbour Kiribati. This vessel has been delivered...
- Rural and Regional Health Services (1 speech)
I rise today to call on the government to support regional Australians by properly addressing regional GP shortages. The issues facing regional health services are nothing new, but the shortage...
- Cowper Electorate: Macleay Valley Business Awards (1 speech)
I would like to congratulate the Kempsey Shire Council on receiving the award for outstanding employer of choice in the 2021 Macleay Valley Business Awards held last Saturday at South West Rocks...
- Nationals: Leadership, Morrison Government (1 speech)
It used to be the job of my predecessor as the member for Jagajaga to come into this chamber after numerous leadership spills on the other side and ask: who is the Prime Minister? It's my job...
- Nicholls Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours (1 speech)
On Monday last week, the latest recipients of the Queen's Birthday honours were announced. I would like to offer my most sincerest congratulations to those in my electorate of Nicholls who were...
- Tasmania: Infrastructure (1 speech)
Kunanyi/Mount Wellington is the heart and soul of Greater Hobart. Referred to by locals as 'The Mountain', it can be seen from many kilometres away and, along with the River Derwent, defines the...
- Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (1 speech)
Recently, I had the absolute pleasure of attending the official launch of the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair with my beautiful wife, Yolonde. The Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, or CIAF, as it's known,...
- Covid-19 (1 speech)
As I stand here today, only 3.1 per cent of Australians are fully vaccinated. We have a complete lack, in terms of a public health campaign, and we are still using hotels for quarantine, rather...
- Sayers, Mr Roger Philip, OAM (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate a generous and courageous member of our northern beaches community. Life member of the Avalon Beach Surf Life Saving Club, a former and the longest-serving club...
- Macquarie Electorate: Floods (1 speech)
While the National Party is busy swapping seats and the Prime Minister is digging into his family history, you have to wonder who is focused on the important work that's still to be done...
- Boothby Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours (1 speech)
I would like to congratulate the following dedicated members of our community in Boothby who were recently awarded Orders of Australia and meritorious awards: Ms Rosalind Butler AM, for...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
We hear a lot of talk about Clive Palmer's wealth—which of course has doubled in the course of this pandemic while workers' wages have stagnated—but it's his value we should talk...
- Groom Electorate: Mental Health (1 speech)
This government is investing in Australia's future by investing in the wellbeing of young Australians. I'm very pleased that headspace Toowoomba has been successful in receiving a grant of almost...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
People in my community and across this country were thrown into absolute despair last week when we saw Australia become even more isolated on the national stage because of the Morrison...
- Morrison Government (3 speeches)
I rise to restate the commitment given to Goldstein at the last federal election. At the 2019 election, as with the previous ones, the coalition took two important positions. One was that a...
- Health Care (2 speeches)
As this government is tearing itself apart, the health system in my region is being torn apart. I have four-year-old children waiting four years to get grommet surgery in our public hospitals...
- Member for Riverina (2 speeches)
I just wanted to place on record my support for the former leader of the National Party, Michael McCormack, a very decent man. I've had a lot to do with him over the years, trying to get a rail...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Deputy Prime Minister (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I ask: who is the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia?
- Morrison Government (2 speeches)
My question is also to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister please outline to the House how the Morrison government's recent engagement with international allies and partners advanced our...
- Deputy Prime Minister (5 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Over the last eight long years, why has Australia endured the Abbott-Truss government then the Turnbull-Truss government then the Turnbull-Joyce...
- Covid-19 (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Will the Deputy Prime Minister inform the House how the Morrison-McCormack government has supported regional Australians and their jobs throughout the...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (6 speeches)
My question is to the current Deputy Prime Minister. I ask: why has the government rolled the Deputy Prime Minister instead of rolling out the vaccine?
- Hobart City Deal (2 speeches)
Mercifully, my question is to the Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts. The Tasmanian government is stuffing up the Hobart City Deal by failing to decide how to...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer inform the House on how the strength of the Morrison government's economic plan is continuing to generate new jobs across Australia and deliver...
- COVID-19: Quarantine (9 speeches)
My question is to the current Deputy Prime Minister.
- COVID-19: Economic Recovery (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 jobs is helping to secure...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Coalition Government (9 speeches)
I seek leave to move the following motion: That the House: (1)notes: (a)the Abbott-Truss-Turnbull-Truss-Turnbull-Joyce-Turnbull-McCormac k-Morrison-McCormack and now Morrison-Joyce Government...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Environment Legislation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment. Will the minister inform the House of the Morrison government's plan to modernise our environmental protection laws, providing greater...
- Climate Change (6 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Doesn't the creation of the Morrison-Joyce government mean there is no hope that...
- Covid-19 (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. Will the minister please provide an update to the House on how the Morrison government is continuing to support Australians through the...
- Climate Change (13 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer to his previous answer on climate change. Will the Deputy Prime Minister release the coalition agreement with the Prime Minister so that...
- Trade with the United Kingdom (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment. Will the minister please update the House on the benefits of our plan for a UK-Australia free trade agreement, particularly for...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Coalition Government (11 speeches)
I seek leave of the House to move the following motion: That the House: (1) notes the: (a) Abbott-Truss-Turnbull-Truss-Turnbull-Joyce-Turnbull-McCormac k-Morrison-McCormack and now Morrison-Joyce...
- 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 Votes and Proceedings.
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- House of Representatives Practice (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have a question for you, and it will have a bearing on future question times. It goes to the ruling today with respect to coalition agreements. I refer to page 554 of Practice,...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Shortland Electorate: Health (1 speech)
Today I am providing an update on some health issues in Shortland. In my recent community survey of Shortland residents, health care was ranked as the top third concern by all respondents. I...
- Parliamentary Representation (1 speech)
As the representative for Goldstein now for five years and two terms in, and seeking a third, I believe it's important to refresh the trust of representation as headier waters form on the...
- Barunga Festival (3 speeches)
Every year, as the Queen's Birthday weekend arrives on the calendar, I become excited and ready for a party, not necessarily because it's the Queen's birthday but because I know I'll be making my...
- North Sydney Electorate: Environment (1 speech)
The electorate of North Sydney is bordered by the beauty of Sydney Harbour, the Parramatta and Lane Cove rivers and Middle Harbour. We are a community as we are a city that has been shaped by...
- National Archives of Australia (5 speeches)
In March this year the Morrison government was forced to release the findings of the Functional and Efficiency Review of the National Archives of Australia. This was a review commissioned almost...
- Bennelong Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours List (1 speech)
Not unless you're the member for Bennelong! I would like to take this opportunity to celebrate several significant figures in the community of Bennelong who have recently been acknowledged...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Welfare Reform (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on behalf of the pensioners of my electorate. Time and time again the Morrison government shows nothing but contempt for the pensioners of this country. Just last week every...
- Petrie Electorate: Waste Management and Recycling (1 speech)
I want to talk a little bit about Peninsula and Bay Scrap Metal Recycling. We all know that one person's trash is another's treasure, and at the moment it has never been a better time for local...
- Kingsford Smith Electorate: Property Development (1 speech)
Our community in Little Bay had a big win on Friday when the planning panel rejected the outrageous proposal by the developer Meriton. The south-east Sydney planning panel unanimously decided to...
- Berowra Electorate: Hornsby Shire Historical Society (1 speech)
Local history books provide an important record of local events and communities, and I am proud to have many popular historians in my electorate who ensure our community's history is recorded and...
- Macquarie Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours (1 speech)
The Queen's Birthday honours have once again recognised outstanding members of the Macquarie community. Dr Bridget 'Breda' Carty has been made an Officer of the Order of Australia for her work...
- Chisholm Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours (1 speech)
I often say how proud and honoured I am to be the representative for the Chisholm electorate. The reason why I am so proud of Chisholm is largely down to those living in Chisholm. I have met some...
- 2021 Werriwa Volunteer Awards, mycar, South West Sydney Academy of Sport (1 speech)
Recently during National Volunteers Week I had the privilege of recognising just some of the thousands of volunteers in the community at the annual Werriwa Volunteer Awards. I congratulate the...
- Reid Electorate: Fussell House (1 speech)
Reid has very long, historic and proud ties to the veteran community. Last Friday, I attended the official opening of Fussell House at Concord Repatriation General Hospital, in my electorate....
- Metcalfe, Mr Billy (1 speech)
I rise today to pay tribute to a valued local, a friend and an all-round legend, Billy Metcalfe. Billy is a proud Kurri boy and a passionate community advocate. On 1 April this year, Kurri's...
- Health Care (2 speeches)
As I raised in this chamber on 12 May this year, the eagle needs to be sent home. Sigma Pharmaceuticals and nib Health Funds, in a recently announced collaboration, have formed this joint venture...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (1 speech)
I'm proud to show my stripes today, wearing this beautiful scarf presented to me this morning by the members of Common Grace. I'm not much of a knitter myself, so I appreciate the delicate work...
- O'Connor Electorate (1 speech)
I rise today to update the chamber on what the WA redistribution means for my electorate. From 2 August, O'Connor, not known for its lack of size, will get a whole lot bigger, expanding to an...
- Victoria: Storms (1 speech)
Over the weekend, I visited two towns in my electorate, Trentham and Bullarto, at the heart of a region which was recently struck by frankly incredible storms. The winds uprooted hundred-year-old...
- Human Rights in China (1 speech)
Last week, I had the humbling and saddening experience of meeting with a delegation of Uighurs. Each person had a shocking and frightening story about how they'd lost contact with their loved...
- Sport: Centenary Rowing Club (1 speech)
Over the weekend, I was privileged to attend the 20th anniversary celebration of the Centenary Rowing Club. This club is one of the largest rowing clubs in Queensland, having been founded in 2001...
- Nicholls Electorate: Drought (1 speech)
In April I was able to announce that the Goulburn Valley would be home to one of Australia's eight Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hubs. This is a great result for the region, made...
- McEwen Electorate: Stronger Communities Program (1 speech)
The Stronger Communities Program is immensely popular in the seat of McEwen. With its capacity to deliver funds for small-capital projects and provide real social benefits for local communities,...
- Electric Vehicles (1 speech)
I've always been an enthusiastic supporter of electric vehicles and the immense and vital potential they have to support our emissions reduction targets. Nineteen per cent of Australia's...
- Dunkley Electorate: Grants (1 speech)
One of the great pleasures of representing my community in the federal parliament is having the opportunity to get to know individuals and community groups that I wouldn't necessarily otherwise...
- Marion Historic Village Museum (1 speech)
I thank the wonderful volunteers from the Marion Historic Village Museum for recently hosting me on a tour of their museum and showing me their exciting plans for extending the exhibition space....
- Greenway Electorate: Filipino Community (1 speech)
Yesterday I had the great pleasure of joining the congregation of Mary Immaculate Parish in Quakers Hill to commemorate two very important milestones in Filipino history. The first was...
- Higgins Electorate: Electric Vehicles (1 speech)
I've said it before and I'll say it again: action on climate change is not just an environmental imperative; it's an economic inevitability. The City of Glen Eira in my electorate is helping lead...
- Barton, Ms Elizabeth (1 speech)
I wish to acknowledge the achievements of aged-care reform advocate Elizabeth Barton, who I was honoured to award a 2021 Holt Australia Day Award to this year. Liz retired from nursing on 6...
- Muogamarra Rural Fire Brigade: 70th Anniversary (1 speech)
On the weekend I attended the Muogamarra Rural Fire Brigade's 70th anniversary dinner. I want to acknowledge Allison Garoza, a member who lives in North Sydney but spoke of her passion for the...
- Liverpool Catholic Club: 50th Anniversary (1 speech)
Last month I was pleased to attend Liverpool Catholic Club's 50th anniversary annual mass and luncheon. The club was opened on 1 December 1979 and has operated on the current site for 40 years....
- Curtin Electorate (1 speech)
I'm pleased to rise today to welcome the new communities which will be added to the Curtin electorate following the recent electoral redistribution in Western Australia. These changes will see...
- Paterson Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours (1 speech)
I'm proud to formally recognise today Mr Kevin Lynch, of Soldiers Point, who received a Medal of the Order of Australia for sporting services to the community of Newcastle. Mr Lynch is proudly a...
- Mackellar Electorate: 2021 Pittwater Woman of the Year (1 speech)
The member for Paterson and I find ourselves in agreement on an OAM for any driving instructor in Australia! I rise today to acknowledge the significant contributions of Lynleigh Greig to our...
- Electric Vehicles (1 speech)
It is completely beyond me that Australia has gained a significant international reputation for being slow on the uptake when it comes to electric vehicles. With the sad demise of Holden, our...
- Leader of the Nationals (1 speech)
I was here for the demise of one of Australia's most popular Prime Ministers, RJL Hawke. I am here today for the demise of another leader of a political party in Michael McCormack. I have great...
- Student Visas (1 speech)
I want to record a few words of concern around the government's sneaky change to allow international students to work unlimited hours not only in agriculture and aged care but now in hospitality...
- Hutchinson, Richard (1 speech)
Today I read of the miraculous story of young Richard Hutchinson, a baby born at just 21 weeks and two days gestation, who celebrated his first birthday this month. Richard's parents were...
- Fenner Electorate: Jervis Bay (1 speech)
On Friday I spent time in one of the most beautiful parts of my electorate, Jervis Bay. I met with Jackson Brown, George Brown and Sherrie Tripp of the Wreck Bay Volunteer Fire Brigade, an...
- Cowper Electorate: Surf Lifesaving (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to reflect on the surf lifesaving season this year in a year when our members extended their services and expertise to assist emergency services in flood response. In doing...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
Last week I was contacted by Rachel from Mount Eliza in my electorate, who tells me that over 10 days she couldn't get through to get an appointment for the Pfizer vaccine and then, when she...
- Goldstein Electorate: Sandringham Hospital (1 speech)
Australia's COVID-19 response has benefited from our nation's strong public healthcare system, a system of which we can all be proud. This year Goldstein is celebrating over 55 years since the...
- Perth Electorate: Australian Local Government Association (1 speech)
If you're like me and my three-year-old son, you watch lots of PAW Patrol and you would know that the first lesson in civics education that you get is that there is a good mayor and there is a...
- Ethiopia (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about the disastrous civil war and humanitarian crisis in Tigray in northern Ethiopia. There is mass population displacement involving millions of people, starvation, a...
- Moreton Electorate: Salisbury State School (1 speech)
Salisbury is a suburb that sits in the middle of my electorate, a leafy suburb pocketed between four major roads, a quiet suburb that many only drive in and out of if they live there or if people...
- Leichhardt Electorate: Cooktown (2 speeches)
I recently had the pleasure of attending the Cooktown Cape York Expo with my beautiful wife and daughter, Yolonde and Mackenzie. Cook Shire Council had been planning to stage the event in 2020 to...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Domestic and Family Violence (2 speeches)
Earlier this month I had the Labor leader, Anthony Albanese, and the shadow minister for housing and homelessness, Jason Clare, join me at an event hosted by Bonnie Support Services at Cabramatta...
- Afghanistan (1 speech)
The end of our engagement with Afghanistan presents tough questions for Australia, and the world is watching how we honour our commitments. It's going to be really important for the future as we...
- Lindsay Electorate: Education (2 speeches)
This week students at Leonay Public School in my electorate of Lindsay are embarking on their school Canberra trip, and I'll be meeting them here at Parliament House. It's always a delight to see...
- Lyne Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours (1 speech)
Last week's Queen's Birthday honours list saw a number of wonderful people recognised for their tireless work in our community. In the Hastings Valley, Associate Professor Kevin Alford was...
- Prescription Medicines (1 speech)
Isaac Reis was just 22 years old when he died in August 2019 after taking seven different medications. They were all prescribed by his usual doctors and all dispensed by his usual pharmacist....
- Sunshine Coast: Transport Infrastructure (1 speech)
There is currently a very fierce debate underway on the Sunshine Coast about a mass transit system with multiple options being considered, from light rail to high-speed buses and trackless trams....
- South Australia: Health Care (1 speech)
South Australia's health system is in crisis. Hardly a day passes without a new media story exposing another failure in the state's health system—failures which are causing people...
- Flynn Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
This weekend, all roads lead to Emerald. The social atmosphere will be abuzz. There are four major events: the Ag-Grow Field Days, the CQ Inland Port C-Way launch, the Emerald Ag College 50 year...
