House debates
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
I table the second Morrison ministry list. The document read as follows— SECOND MORRISON MINISTRY Each box represents a portfolio. Cabinet Ministers are shown in bold type. As a general...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- 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 Section 7 of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency...
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Youth Voice In Parliament Week (1 speech)
[by video link] I'd like to read the words of territory year 12 student Taylor Mills written for the Raise Our Voice in parliament campaign. Taylor says: 'Last year, 35 per cent of young...
- Flynn Electorate: Economy (1 speech)
The future of Flynn is looking pretty good. Flynn is the industrial powerhouse of Queensland and is set to grow by providing raw materials and energy for domestic use and for international...
- Youth Voice In Parliament Week (1 speech)
[by video link] I'm very excited to be celebrating Youth Voice in Parliament, the campaign run by the team at Raise Our Voice. Today I'm giving voice to three young South Australians: Baran...
- North Sydney Electorate: Longueville Tennis Club (1 speech)
This year marks the 100th anniversary of one of Australia's oldest tennis clubs—the Longueville Tennis Club, in my electorate. Like with many things, COVID has impacted its planned...
- Youth Voice In Parliament Week (1 speech)
Helen is a 16-year-old young woman living in my electorate. Tragically, she is living with a disability. She is also part of the Youth Voice in Parliament campaign, and she has shared with me her...
- Barker Electorate: Little Town Productions (1 speech)
On the weekend I attended a dinner theatre production titled Kick Off Ya Boots in Loxton, a small Riverland town in South Australia. Loxton is a small town but it has a big heart. Loxton's Little...
- Cambodia: Human Rights (1 speech)
On 23 October 1991 the Paris Peace Agreements were signed by all four of Cambodia's combatant factions plus 19 other countries. Then, Australia and the world made a promise to the Cambodian...
- Grey Electorate: Eyre Peninsula Advocate (1 speech)
Newspapers in the regions have had a tough time over the last year or so. That's why today I'm very pleased to announce the birth of the Eyre Peninsula Advocate, a newspaper for the northern Eyre...
- Youth Voice in Parliament Week (3 speeches)
This week I'm participating in Youth Voice in Parliament Week where we have a chance to hear directly from our young people in our electorates. This speech was written by Elvie in my electorate...
- Social Media (1 speech)
[by video link] Like most parents and members in this place I'm deeply concerned about the potential harms of social media and I'm passionate about what we as a government can do to rein it in....
- Broadband (1 speech)
Another storm season and another pile of useless NBN boxes for people on fibre to the kerb in the Blue Mountains and Hawkesbury. Since a storm last Thursday, I've had nearly 100 people contact me...
- Magill Road and Portrush Road Intersection Upgrade (1 speech)
Last week I had the privilege of being joined by the finance minister, Senator Birmingham, to see the progress on one of the great election commitments in the heart of my electorate of Sturt, the...
- JobKeeper Payment (1 speech)
Judith Sloan, Janet Albrechtsen and Niki Savva are hardly Labor true believers, but they've been among the fiercest critics of the government's JobKeeper mismanagement, calling the overpayments...
- Townsville City Deal (1 speech)
[by video link] I'm pleased to update the House on recent positive progress on the Townsville City Deal. As I've outlined before, I've been working with the community on the reallocation of $195...
- National Integrity Commission (1 speech)
Writing on ICAC's inquiry into Gladys Berejiklian this morning, Guardian Australia journalist Anne Davies said this: Aside from the lack of judgment shown in commenting on current proceedings...
- Forde Electorate: Beenleigh Cane Festival (1 speech)
Over the weekend I got to join our local community in celebrating the return of the Beenleigh cane parade and gala ball. After many years of absence, the cane festival was back sweeter than ever...
- COVID-19: Homeschooling (1 speech)
For many Australians, lockdown won't truly be over until their children go back to school. To every exhausted mum and dad across the country, I just want to say: thank you for your marathon...
- Space Industry: Crystalaid (2 speeches)
Our government is recognising the great value of Australia's space sector. Recently, the Morrison government announced the recipients of the Moon to Mars supply chain capability improvement...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, what is the impact on the economy of a net zero emissions target by 2050?
- COVID-19: National Plan (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The national plan to safely reopen our nation and live with COVID-19 is being realised through the actions of Australians like those in my western Sydney...
- Climate Change (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to his previous answer, in which he mentioned the importance of transparency. Will the Prime Minister release government modelling on the impacts of...
- Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Will the Deputy Prime Minister outline to the House how the Morrison-Joyce government is ensuring strong economic recovery in the regions by investing...
- Climate Change (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Has the government modelled the impact of net zero emissions by 2050? If the answer is yes, will the government release the modelling? If the answer is yes, when?
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer remind the House how the Morrison government's strong economic management continues to set up the Australian economy to bounce back strongly as...
- Climate Change (10 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Has the minister seen any modelling which shows the economic impact of net zero by...
- Covid-19 (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. Will the minister please update the House on how breakthrough COVID-19 treatments, along with Australia's vaccine program, are helping to...
- Economy (8 speeches)
My question is again to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development. I refer to his previous answer regarding the modelling of net zero by 2050 on regions, in which he said,...
- Defence (2 speeches)
I ask the Minister for Defence if he will update the House on the Morrison government's AUKUS alliance with the United States and the United Kingdom and the benefits for securing our prosperity,...
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The government has been in office for nearly a decade. The COP26 congress in Glasgow starts in just two weeks. After nearly a decade how much longer is it...
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is for the excellent Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is securing the affordable and reliable...
- Climate Change (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. When the Prime Minister arrives in Glasgow in a fortnight's time, will he tell the meeting that electric vehicles will 'end the weekend', that batteries to...
- Agriculture (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture and Northern Australia. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison-Joyce government is modernising and investing in Australia's...
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday the Deputy Prime Minister said that a net zero by 2050 target couldn't be legislated because of the impact on Australia if the target wasn't met....
- Defence Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry and Minister for Science and Technology. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison government's investment in our defence...
- Rural and Regional Services: Climate Change (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The minister for regionalisation said yesterday that regional Australians are out of sight and out of mind for the Liberal Party. Is that why the Prime...
- Home Guarantee Scheme (2 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer, Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness, Social and Community Housing. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government's...
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday the former Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, said that the Morrison-Joyce government is 'caught in this vice' of this really strong group of...
- COVID-19: Child Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education and Youth. Will the minister outline how the Morrison government's childcare policies are supporting Australian families and businesses during the...
- Regional Australia (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, representing the Minister for Regionalisation, Regional Communications and Regional Education. Yesterday,...
- Antarctica (3 speeches)
[by video link] My question is for the Minister for the Environment. Will the minister update the House on the Morrison government's commitment to a lasting and peaceful presence in Antarctica...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 7 of 2021-22 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit report No. 7 of 2021-22 entitled Australian government grants reporting. Document made a parliamentary paper in accordance with the resolution agreed to on...
- 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.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (15 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for McMahon proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The government's failure to...
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Joint Committee; Membership (1 speech)
I have received a message from the Senate informing the House that Senator Rice has been discharged from the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties and that Senator Cox has been appointed a member...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Tasmania (1 speech)
[by video link] Here in southern Tasmania, where I'm coming to you from today, we've just endured our first lockdown in more than a year. Thankfully, for three days there have been no new COVID...
- Indi Electorate: Hospitals (1 speech)
Albury Wodonga Health is already one of the busiest regional health services in regional Victoria and regional New South Wales. As the population on the border grows it will only get busier....
- Regional Australia (1 speech)
This week regional Australia has been at the centre of a lot of the discussions around emissions reduction. But tonight I want to talk about the fact that some of the commentators and journalists...
- Kingsford Smith Electorate: COVID-19 (1 speech)
To the people of Kingsford Smith, I want to say thank you. Thank you for your sacrifices, your compliance and your hard work during the past 3½ months in getting us through this most...
- Victoria: Regional Rail (1 speech)
For a few years now—in fact, since before the last election—the federal government has had $2 billion of its taxpayers' money on the table for the Victorian government to match so...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Brand Electorate: Seniors Forum, Local Council Elections: Western Australia, Rockingham Senior High School: Telethon (1 speech)
Last Thursday I hosted a seniors forum for my older constituents in Kwinana, and I can tell you they were as angry as me to hear about the Morrison government's cashless welfare card for age...
- Southern New South Wales Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub (1 speech)
I met by telepresence last week with newly appointed chairman of the Southern New South Wales Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub, Barry Irvin AM; chief executive of the hub, Cindy...
- COVID-19: Morrison Government (1 speech)
At midnight on Thursday, Melburnians will begin to emerge from our sixth lockdown, and all of Victoria, including us who live in the electorate of McEwan, will begin to navigate a new stage in...
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1 speech)
[by video link] On 30 April this year the ABC's 7.30 aired a special investigation containing a series of accusations from mildly annoyed critics who never did, said or acted at the time but...
- Mental Health, COVID-19 (1 speech)
The member for Bowman just had three minutes to talk about his constituents and he spent three minutes talking about himself. How very on-brand for the member for Bowman. I'd like to give voice...
- Flynn Electorate: Hydrogen Industry (1 speech)
One of the word's largest hydrogen equipment manufacturing facilities is planned for Gladstone. Recently, Andrew Forrest visited Gladstone and announced that his company, Fortescue Future...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
Over recent months, Canberrans have rolled our sleeves up and got vaccinated. Today Canberra became the first state or territory in Australia to have more than 80 per cent of the over-12...
- Page Electorate: Sport (1 speech)
I'd like to acknowledge the Woolgoolga United Football Club, who this year are celebrating their 50th birthday. The first senior men's team was formed in 1971, and in 1975 they won their first...
- Griffith Electorate: Greenslopes Red Cross Hall (1 speech)
[by video link] In August, a batch of documents was released about the Commonwealth-owned former Red Cross Hall site. Those documents show that the Liberal National government has, throughout...
- National Police Remembrance Day (2 speeches)
Police Dog Rambo, one of the fine canines that protect us in Wide Bay, was unfortunately killed in the line of duty while tracking a wanted person in Maryborough this year. It's a fitting tribute...
- Higher Education: Language Studies (1 speech)
[by video link] La fantastica comunita Italiana ha contribuito tantissimo al nostro stato e oggi voglio lottari per loro. What I just said is that the fantastic Italian community in South...
- Edens Landing State School (1 speech)
Over the past 12 months, Edens Landing State School has continued to grow and build from strength to strength. The school culture continues to evolve on their foundation of positive relationships...
- Macquarie Electorate: Bushfires (3 speeches)
In times of crisis, fire, flood or pandemic a leader is someone who shows up, someone who rolls up their sleeves, pulls on their boots and does what needs to be done. That's the bare minimum, in...
- Health Care (1 speech)
There are so many challenges that we must face during this global pandemic—balancing work, taking care of children and even elderly loved ones—while we are likely to be physically and...
- Australia Day Awards: Tasmania (1 speech)
Yesterday, the Tasmanian finalists for Tasmanian Australian of the Year were announced. I want to talk about some of the finalists who are nominated from the electorate of Franklin. The first is...
- Parents Beyond Breakup (1 speech)
I want to commend Parents Beyond Breakup, who offer outstanding support and guidance for families in crisis in the Berowra electorate and across Australia. I'd particularly like to acknowledge...
- Cybersecurity (1 speech)
[by video link] I want to talk about the current scourge of unwanted text messages and emails that are irritating so many Australians. Of course, many legitimate businesses use texts and emails...
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy (2 speeches)
I rise today to give a big shout out to an amazingly resilient young mother from my home town of Katanning. Rachel Dark and her husband, Michael, have endured the sort of grief that no parents...
- Corangamite Electorate: Telecommunications (1 speech)
[by video link] Imagine your partner is desperately ill. You have to call an ambulance to your home but find you can't do so because your mobile reception is so poor. Unbelievably, this is the...
- COVID-19: Racism (1 speech)
As Melbournians are coming out of the longest lockdown, I would like to take this opportunity to commend the Chinese-Australian community, particularly those in my electorate of Chisholm, for...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Amess, Sir David Anthony Andrew (8 speeches)
I rise to pay tribute to Sir David Amess, whose death has come as a profound shock. The cruelty of Sir David's murder was counter to everything that he was. Tributes speak of his gentleness, his...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (1 speech)
You look as if you own that position, Deputy Speaker Freelander! Onto serious matters—not that you're not serious. Here we are, two weeks away from Glasgow, a great and very important...
- New Acland Coal Mine (3 speeches)
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and I afford you all the same flattery as the previous Speaker.
- Werriwa Electorate (1 speech)
I rise today to bring to the House my grievances about the treatment of my community in south-west Sydney. I am angry, I am disappointed, I am sad, yet not surprised about what has happened in...
- Climate Change, Mental Health (1 speech)
So much in today's world seeks to divide us, to put us into this category or that category. From misinformation to bad-faith actors and Twitter bullies, there are more forces trying to divide us...
- Indi Electorate: Telecommunications (1 speech)
If there is one constant issue that unites my rural constituents in Indi from corner to corner it's poor telecommunications. At any moment dozens of us are searching for an elusive single bar of...
- Telecommunications Industry (2 speeches)
Telecommunications are an essential service that Australians rely on. The pandemic has reminded us how much we rely on it. We need telecommunications to keep in touch with family, for school, for...
