House debates
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
Australians are feeling vulnerable and uncertain, thanks to the Morrison government's failed vaccine rollout. At this stage only three per cent of our population has been vaccinated. In contrast...
- Curtin Electorate: Energy (1 speech)
I rise today to recognise the initiatives of the government to support our local not-for-profit organisations to improve energy efficiency practices, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lower...
- Medicare (3 speeches)
July 1—that's the date Australians will be confronted with some of the most radical changes to the Medicare rebate that will mean they will be out of pocket for hundreds of orthopaedic,...
- Swan Electorate: Road Infrastructure (1 speech)
The Leach Highway and Welshpool Road interchange in my electorate of Swan is one of the most dangerous intersections in Perth. Major works to improve safety and congestion are now underway....
- Coalition Government (1 speech)
Last July, the Morrison government squibbed a chance to buy Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, because the price was too high. But they weren't so stingy when it came to JobKeeper, giving almost $20...
- Lynch, Mr Roger Irwin (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to the late Roger Irwin Lynch of Forster, who unfortunately died suddenly in April. During his years at high school, Roger attended Taree High, where he was a very...
- Butler, Mr Kevin, Butler, Mrs Rhonda (1 speech)
Today I rise to acknowledge Kevin and Rhonda Butler, two wonderful local residents of mine who started a little organisation called BlazeAid. BlazeAid started after the 2009 Black Saturday fires,...
- Queensland: Hospitals (1 speech)
No-one in their darkest hour in a hospital should be lying on a stretcher for eight hours. It's easy to make speeches in here about the hospital system, but all of us can agree that we need the...
- Prime Minister (1 speech)
I've not been the only MP over the last few months trying to aid constituents attempting to leave the country during a pandemic. These requests are not for the sake of a jaunt or a holiday. In...
- Rotary Club of Pennant Hills: Pride of Workmanship Award (1 speech)
The Rotary Club of Pennant Hills started the Pride of Workmanship awards way back in 1976 to recognise people in our community who perform their daily work in a conscientious and dedicated...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
The CSIRO continues to consolidate their image as a laughingstock irrelevancy or an environmental prostitute. They have commissioned an assessment of ethanol by the greenhouse gas emissions...
- Victorian Senior Citizen of the Year Awards (1 speech)
Today, I would like to speak about an upcoming honour in my home state of Victoria. Applications have opened for the 2021 Victorian Senior Citizen of the Year. Our senior citizens are the...
- Deputy Prime Minister (3 speeches)
The newly-sworn-in Deputy Prime Minister must be the only Australian still eligible for JobKeeper, I reckon! He's the only Australian that this Morrison government has deemed eligible and worthy...
- Rotary Australia and New Zealand (1 speech)
At the heart of the community, you don't find government or bureaucracy; you find people—active citizens who want to play a role in improving our society. Nowhere is this more evident than...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
Australia needs more jabs and less stabbing in the back from this government. We have a new Deputy Prime Minister, who is actually the old Deputy Prime Minister. But one thing that hasn't changed...
- Sunshine Coast: Transport Infrastructure (1 speech)
Today is the last day for Sunshine Coast locals to have their say about Sunshine Coast Council's mass transit plan. They put out a survey; today is your last day. The deadline is five o'clock. I...
- Child Care (1 speech)
Australian families and children are being let down by this Morrison-Joyce government, as they have been by the five other iterations over the last eight long years. A new report from UNICEF...
- Education (1 speech)
Are our children being educated and trained with the skills that they need to take on the jobs in the future? This is one of the most important questions in my electorate of Lindsay. It's one...
- Bailey, Mr Michael John, OAM (1 speech)
Like so many Australians, I was greatly saddened to learn of the death of my friend Mike Bailey. He was so much more than just a fixture on the nightly TV. As he appeared each night to tell us...
- Olympic and Paralympic Games (2 speeches)
Our date with destiny has been set. On 21 July session members of the International Olympic Committee will decide if Australia will be the host—again—of the Olympic and Paralympic...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
For the information of members, I advise that yesterday I was elected as the leader of the federal parliamentary National Party. You mightn't have seen that! I inform members that the Minister...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Deputy Prime Minister (14 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. The Deputy Prime Minister has mounted two leadership challenges: one on the very day in which this parliament honoured bushfire survivors and one...
- National Security (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister please update the House on how the Morrison government is standing up for Australians by delivering on its plan to build a stronger,...
- COVID-19: Regional Australia, Deputy Prime Minister (13 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer to the Deputy Prime Minister's statement: I just don't want the government any more in my life, I am sick of the government being in my life....
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Will the Deputy Prime Minister inform the House how the Morrison-Joyce government is supporting jobs in regional Australia?
- Environment: Great Barrier Reef (10 speeches)
Deputy Prime Minister, the Courier Mail front page said David Attenborough labelled the Great Barrier Reef as 'magnificent'—not 'endangered', but 'magnificent'. Are you aware that China...
- Australian Women in Agriculture (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. The head of the Women in Agriculture has said reappointing the Deputy Prime Minister to his role 'would be a demonstration' government members...
- Economy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer please inform the House how the Morrison government is continuing to strengthen our economy and provide more jobs and greater economic security...
- Deputy Prime Minister (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. This week the Assistant Minister for Children and Families, the member for Capricornia, said that if the Deputy Prime Minister got the job again:...
- 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's leadership and investment in our world-class healthcare system...
- Deputy Prime Minister (15 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer to yesterday's comments by the WA National's leader, Mia Davies, who in 2018 called for the Deputy Prime Minister to resign. She said: I'm...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (2 speeches)
I would like to inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the Ambassador of Slovenia. On behalf of the House, a very warm welcome to you from the House of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Cybersecurity (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Will the minister update the House on the Morrison government's plan to keep Australians safe by protecting Australian families, businesses and...
- Asylum Seekers (6 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer to his quote this month when he said, 'Tharnicaa and Kopika were born in Australia. Maybe if their names were Joan and Sally we'd think twice...
- Law Enforcement (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister please update the House on the Morrison government's plan to keep Australians safe by addressing the serious threat of organised...
- Climate Change (6 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. The National Farmers Federation has backed a net zero target for emissions by 2050. Are the regional Australians who want the job opportunities from...
- Internet Content (2 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 Online Safety Bill will...
- Morrison Government (6 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Will the Deputy Prime Minister negotiate a new agreement on policy with the Prime Minister, and will that be made public?
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Morrison Government (9 speeches)
I seek leave to move the following motion: That the House: (1) notes: (a) there is a global pandemic; (b) the Government had two jobs this year, to rollout the vaccine and establish a safe,...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Victoria: Floods (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management, especially in his capacity for emergency management. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison...
- 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.
- Privilege (0 speeches)
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Last Tuesday the honourable member for Clark raised a matter of privilege in connection with a recent interlocutory judgement of the Federal Court of Australia in an action bought by the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Regional Australia (18 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Franklin proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The government's continued...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the private Members' business notice relating to the disallowance of the Industry Research and Development (Beetaloo...
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Beetaloo Cooperative Drilling Program; Disallowance (6 speeches)
I move: That the Industry Research and Development (Beetaloo Cooperative Drilling Program) Instrument 2021 made under the Industry Research and Development Act 1986 on 13 May 2021 and presented...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- Member for Bowman (14 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Kingston from moving the following motion immediately: That the House: (1)notes: (a)by keeping the Member...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Housing Affordability (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk again about a really major issue in my electorate, and that is housing and housing affordability. This is without a doubt the major concern that locals raise with me,...
- Hospitality Industry (1 speech)
Last night I had the pleasure of attending the Restaurant and Catering Association Lifetime Achiever Awards here at Parliament House. It was an absolute privilege to watch the recipients of this...
- Caldwell, Mr Keith (Cocky), Hagan, Mrs Lois (1 speech)
On Friday a week ago hundreds of locals attended the funeral service of Keith 'Cocky' Caldwell at Kembla Grange. In a moving reflection of Keith's lifetime of community service, there were...
- Menzies Electorate: Storms, Laidlaw, Brigadier Douglas Watson, AM, CSC (1 speech)
I rise tonight to thank all those first responders and volunteers from the local SES who did so much in my municipalities of Manningham and Nillumbik as a consequence of the recent wild storms...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
I join with the previous speaker, the member for Menzies, in paying tribute not only to the soldier he just named but also to our first responders. I also acknowledge his outstanding service to...
- Higgins Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours, Daley, Dr John Christopher, AM, McCabe, Ms Maree Anne, AM (1 speech)
I rise to honour and congratulate the recipients of Queen's Birthday honours for 2021. In Higgins this year, I'm delighted to congratulate 35 recipients of Queen's Birthday honours, including 14...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Electoral Roll: Indigenous Australians (1 speech)
For many years now I have been arguing over the failure of governments to ensure that Aboriginal people in remote communities are able to exercise their democratic rights as Australian citizens...
- Apprenticeships (1 speech)
People in my electorate of Lindsay know that I always back our hardworking apprentices and those who want to become apprentices. Now is the time to recognise them—for their incredible...
- Betts, Mr Neville (3 speeches)
The labour movement in Canberra lost one of its real champions with the passing of Neville Betts in early June. Neville was an organiser, the New South Wales-ACT Assistant Secretary and life...
- Flynn Electorate: Emerald Community Events (1 speech)
All roads this weekend lead to Emerald in the Central Highlands. The social atmosphere will be abuzz, with four large events happening. There are Ag-Grow's field days, CQ Inland Port and SEAWAY...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme: Transport, Paige, Ms Scarlett (1 speech)
I'd like to speak today about a constituent of mine who lives in Moonee Ponds. Scarlett Paige is her name. She has epilepsy. She's a participant in the NDIS. She's had her essential transport...
- Craft Brewing and Distilling Industry (1 speech)
I'd like to propose a toast to the craft brewers and distillers of Australia. You might think this is small beer, but it is big business, I tell you. There are about 600 small brewers and about...
- Lalor Electorate: COVID-19 (1 speech)
Today I want to use this constituency statement to speak directly to the people I represent in this place. Our community was hard hit by the 2020 COVID winter. We had 67 deaths in local aged-care...
- Barker Electorate: Bridgeport Hotel (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate those associated with the Bridgeport Hotel and its magnificent $45 million redevelopment. I was lucky enough to attend the Bridgeport Hotel's 'Business Murray Bridge...
- Greenway Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge the many worthy Australians who were recently awarded Queen's birthday honours for 2021. The last 18 months have been incredibly difficult for so many Australians,...
- Orange Family History Group (2 speeches)
Today I rise to pay tribute to the amazing volunteers at the Orange Family History Group who work tirelessly to document and celebrate the rich and diverse history of Orange and the Calare...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (1 speech)
Climate change is testing our democracy, just as it is testing our planet. This parliament has failed the test of reconciling the science with our policy settings. My goals in this place are...
- Women's Safety (1 speech)
With the national conversation on women's safety in the home and the workplace finally at the forefront, we mustn't allow this momentum to slowly fade away, with the challenges faced by women and...
- Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide (1 speech)
Labor welcomed the Morrison government's announcement on 19 April of this year of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. It was about time. After all, veterans and their families...
- Moore Electorate: Population (1 speech)
Population growth in the northern coastal suburbs of the Perth metropolitan area is placing increasing demands on our community infrastructure, road network and essential services. New house...
- Asylum Seekers (1 speech)
I rise this evening to draw attention to the unprecedented cruelty and complete lack of humanity we have seen from the Morrison government. The Morrison government has no vision for Australia...
- Luna Park: Ghost Train Fire (3 speeches)
Imagine it's a Saturday afternoon and you and your family are thinking of the best way to spend some fun time with each other, to enjoy each other's company. So in this moment you decide to go to...
- Chaaya, Mr Youssef (1 speech)
In my contribution to the grievance debate this evening, I will be honest in saying that I am not precisely sure of the subject of my grievance. I could be grieving for a great man—a devout...
- Monash Electorate: Mayday Women's Forum (1 speech)
I just want to say, before I start, that to be in the parliament when Youssef Chaaya's memories are brought to the table by the member for Greenway is a marvellous moment to be here. It doesn't...
- Health Care (1 speech)
The global pandemic has brought the fundamental importance of good health to the front of all our thinking—the value of good health in our own lives, the lives of our families and the wider...
- Religious Persecution (1 speech)
I rise this evening to speak on a matter of great importance to many in the Australian community and many in the international community—that is, the growing persecution of Christians...
- Chifley Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I would be interested to know whether or not there's profit under that process that we have just heard of then. I would very much welcome greater religious freedom across the world and that...
- Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
I'd like to speak on an issue that's not just affecting my electorate but impacting many communities across Australia—that is, the increasing number of financial institutions and banks...
- Medicare (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about Medicare and the terrible way the Morrison government treats some of the most vulnerable Australians. Labor built Medicare and we will fight to protect it. I want to...
- China: Human Rights (1 speech)
I grieve today for the people of Hong Kong, whose freedoms and liberties are being trampled on and destroyed by the communist regime of Xi Jinping. Let's recall that the Sino-British Joint...
- Morrison Government (2 speeches)
I rise tonight to make a contribution in the grievance debate. Too many ordinary Australians are struggling to get ahead each week, living pay cycle to pay cycle, and it feels like this...
