House debates
Monday, 23 August 2021
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Petitions Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the 29th report of the Petitions Committee for the 46th Parliament. The report read as follows— House o f Representatives Petitions Committee Report no. 29 Petitions and...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Responses (1 speech)
I present the following 16 ministerial responses to petitions previously presented:
- Statements (1 speech)
I would like to sincerely thank members of the committee who have joined me in ensuring that during these recent COVID-safe sittings of parliament we continue to facilitate the important process...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Notices (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that, pursuant to standing order 110, the honourable member for Fisher has withdrawn notice No. 1 standing in his name. The order of precedence for the remaining private...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (20 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) recalls the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety made multiple recommendations urging the Government to immediately improve the supply, diversity, and...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Postponement (1 speech)
I inform the House that pursuant to standing order 110 the honourable member for Forde has postponed notice No. 3 standing in his name.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works I present the following reports: Referral made May 2021 (5th report of 2021) (sent to the Speaker on 20 August 2021, pursuant to...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Afghanistan (2 speeches)
[by video link] We are seeing a crisis unfolding in Afghanistan, a crisis that is a result of this government doing too little, too late. We've known for a long time the issue that Afghan...
- Prime Minister (1 speech)
[by video link] My community, like communities across our nation, is in lockdown today because of the Prime Minister's stubborn insistence that the vaccine rollout was not a race, because of the...
- COVID-19: Victoria (1 speech)
Fighting COVID has been a marathon event, not just here but right around the world. With every vaccination, COVID becomes a less-deadly disease for all of us. But we can't forget the shadow...
- Sydney Electorate: Australian Labor Party (1 speech)
[by video link] One of the great difficulties of this COVID lockdown period has been that we have been separated from friends and family at some of the most difficult times in our lives. It has...
- Lei, Ms Lina (1 speech)
With the Tokyo Paralympics about to commence may I take this opportunity to extend my best wishes to all our Australian competitors, but particularly to a constituent of mine from Templestowe,...
- Afghanistan (1 speech)
The situation in Afghanistan is both horrific and tragic. People, including children, women and the elderly, are desperately fleeing Afghanistan, or attempting to flee, in fear of their lives....
- Dent, Mrs Sheila Mary (Mary) (1 speech)
I rise today to pay tribute to Northern Tasmania's Mary Dent, who passed away recently at the age of 92. Born Sheila Mary Wilson in Birmingham, England, in 1929, Mary migrated with her family to...
- Afghanistan (2 speeches)
[by video link] The unfolding humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is devastating. The images played into our lounge rooms or on our newsfeeds are heartbreaking: desperate Afghanis clambering onto...
- COVID-19: Lockdowns (1 speech)
I recently rose in this place to address the burden of lockdown restrictions on my community. Too many have lost livelihoods because of the restrictions on travel and authorised work. I've had...
- Covid-19 (1 speech)
'We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by each other and fight to defend our rights and liberties.' That is the diggers' oath, the oath taken by Australians in the gold mining town of...
- Afghanistan (1 speech)
Zaki Haidari is aHazara refugee from Afghanistan. A decade ago, the Taliban took away his father, Mahram. Zakihas not seen his dad since. The Taliban beheaded Zaki's brother, Ali, at a checkpoint...
- COVID-19: Lockdowns (1 speech)
I'm reminded today of extracts from Rudyard Kipling's poem 'If': If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you … … …...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
When I listen to members opposite I wonder what planet they live on. Yes, of course we want to get out of these terrible lockdowns, but people also want to be vaccinated. That isn't easy to do if...
- Cowper Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
Yesterday I received a very welcome telephone call from the Deputy Prime Minister, advising he had just signed off on the first tranche of the $1.8 billion for the much-awaited and much-lauded...
- Member for Dawson, COVID-19: New South Wales (1 speech)
It's easy to see that the Deputy Prime Minister's heart to heart with the member for Dawson has hit the point. Here he is standing in this place again today spreading his dangerous falsehoods,...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
There is no doubt that the past eight weeks of lockdown have hit the people of Reid hard. Four out of six local government areas in my community are now subject to some of the harshest...
- Lingiari, Mr Vincent, AM (2 speeches)
Earlier this month, we marked the 46th anniversary of Gurindji man Vincent Lingiari holding his hand beneath Gough Whitlam's to receive the red earth of his own land. With this symbolic act, land...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Afghanistan (7 speeches)
I rise to move a motion to suspend standing orders and advise the House that the Manager of Opposition Business and I have agreed that an absolute majority is not required pursuant to standing...
- Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (3 speeches)
I inform the House that the Minister for Agriculture and Northern Australia will be absent from question time today and for the remainder of the week, and the Deputy Prime Minister will answer...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Afghanistan (2 speeches)
[by video link] My question is to the Prime Minister. I worked in Iraq as an adviser for Australia to coalition forces. After the United States began its withdrawal in 2007, one of our...
- Covid-19 (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister please outline to the House how the Morrison government's national plan continues to chart Australia's way through the COVID-19...
- Afghanistan (2 speeches)
[by video link] My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister was warned repeatedly by veterans and by former prime ministers that time was running out to evacuate Afghans who worked...
- COVID-19: Regional Australia (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Will the Deputy Prime Minister inform the House how the Morrison-Joyce government is guaranteeing the essential services that regional Australians...
- COVID-19: Lockdowns (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In June, the Prime Minister congratulated the New South Wales Premier for not going into lockdown. In July, he said lockdowns were a 'necessary tool'. In...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, there are now outbreaks of COVID among children across Australia, including in Shepparton in regional Victoria, right next door to my...
- COVID-19: Support Payments (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on the unprecedented scale of the economic support the Morrison government continues to deliver and our commitment to provide...
- COVID-19: Morrison Government (11 speeches)
[by video link] My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister stand by his announcement that: … when we reach the 70 per cent and 80 per cent thresholds the findings are...
- COVID-19: Vaccination, COVID-19: Treatment (5 speeches)
[by video link] My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. Will the Minister please update the House on Australia's COVID-19 vaccines and treatment strategy?
- Covid-19 (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that Australia has had a 'war footing', a 'bridge to recovery', an 'allocation horizon', a COVID app 'sunscreen', ramp-ups and...
- Afghanistan (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Will the minister update the House on Australia's efforts to bring back Australians and Australian visa holders from Afghanistan?
- COVID-19: Morrison Government (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister, and I refer to his previous two answers. Two questions ago, the Prime Minister stood at that dispatch box and said that he was giving new advice based upon...
- Afghanistan, National Security (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister please update the House on how the Morrison government continues to resettle Afghan nationals in response to the serious...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Questions Without Notice (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, on indulgence, this goes to the running of the parliament. Today, the government offered us a full question time—that was supposed to occur—and now question time has been...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions Without Notice (6 speeches)
I have question to you, Mr Speaker, and it goes to the functioning of the parliament and it goes further to a question that I previously raised referring to House of Representatives Practice,...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: House of Representatives Procedure (1 speech)
I'm not going to keep updating the House on all the changes that you are now familiar with. There are some more obvious ones here today. There is one other change I'll just advise...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister (1 speech)
On the first day of parliament this year, the Prime Minister bragged that Australia was 'the envy of the world'. He told this House that the sacrifices that Australians had made in 2020 had...
- Agricultural Visas (1 speech)
Today our government, the National-Liberal government, has announced a great event. We have introduced the agricultural workers visa—a great announcement by Minister David Littleproud and,...
- Morrison Government (1 speech)
One of the hallmarks of the Morrison-Joyce government is the avoidance of responsibility and accountability. Throughout this pandemic we've seen countless instances of the Prime Minister shifting...
- COVID-19: Lockdowns (1 speech)
Now 18 months into this pandemic, we have reached an inflection point. With horrific tolls, many nations have frontloaded COVID's impact and are now navigating the delta variant; whereas our...
- Afghanistan: Morrison Government (1 speech)
Razia is a citizen from my electorate. She's lovely and kind. She and her husband fled the Taliban 14 years ago. Her sister and mother are alone in Kabul, unable to even leave the house now and...
- Robertson Electorate: World's Greatest Shave (1 speech)
[by video link] In June, before the New South Wales lockdown, I had the opportunity to visit St Joseph's Catholic College in East Gosford and meet with some incredible young women who had...
