House debates
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
- Parliamentary Office Holders (0 speeches)
- Speaker (10 speeches)
I move: That the honourable member for Fisher do take the chair of this House as Speaker. It's an honour and a privilege to speak in favour of my friend the member for Fisher, Andrew Wallace. The...
- Presentation to the Governor-General (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have been advised that the Governor-General will set a time for receiving you as Speaker of the House.
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
Last week I met with pharmacists in my electorate and spoke to the Pharmacy Guild about the COVID vaccine rollout that pharmacists are now assisting with and the impact that this is having on...
- Speaker (1 speech)
I must say, Deputy Speaker O'Brien, I was expecting someone else to be in your chair when I rose to speak, because I did want to speak about my good friend the new Speaker, Andrew Wallace. I...
- COVID-19: New South Wales (1 speech)
STANLEY (—) (): In the last six months, my community followed health orders to the letter. They lined up for hours to get tested because they were asked to on health advice. Now we find out...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
Like many in this chamber and elsewhere, I'm looking forward to a restful 2021 holiday season. It's been a testing 2021 for many people—for small businesses, for year 12 students and for...
- Electric Vehicles (1 speech)
Yesterday the Prime Minister excused this government's woeful record on sustainable transport by claiming that hydrogen was a new technology. Well, I've got a newsflash for you. The Western...
- Defence (1 speech)
We are in a volatile global environment, and Australians want to know that our sovereignty is protected and that we are safe and secure from global threats. Yesterday the defence minister signed...
- Paterson Electorate: Newcastle Airport (1 speech)
I am delighted today to congratulate Newcastle Airport, which has been named Major Airport of the Year by the Australian Airports Association for 2021. But this is the third time our airport has...
- Sturt Electorate: Magill Village Precinct Redevelopment (1 speech)
Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of joining members of two local governments in my electorate and members of state government at the launch, the opening, the sod turning, of the Magill Village...
- Mayo Electorate: Kinexus (1 speech)
I recently visited Kinexus, a business operating in the seaside town of Middleton in my electorate. Kinexus is a national recruitment and workforce consultancy firm, connecting employees with...
- Emergency Services and Australian Defence Force Sunset Showcase (1 speech)
It was a great honour of mine to attend last Friday night's Emergency Services and ADF Sunset Showcase at the Riverway Stadium. Troops from 1RAR and detachments, with emergency services...
- Toomey, Mr Clive Raymond (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about Clive Raymond Toomey and his family. Clive passed away on 26 September due to COVID. He was only 43, and his funeral was in Dubbo on 29 October. He was a dearly loved...
- Forde Electorate: Spirits of the Red Sand (1 speech)
It's with great pleasure that I stand here today to announce that Spirits of the Red Sand, an immersive cultural experience in my electorate of Forde, has taken home gold for the best Aboriginal...
- Telecommunications: Scams (1 speech)
Yesterday the minister responsible for consumer affairs, the Assistant Treasurer, stood in this place and apologised for the abusive text that he sent about his colleague the Minister for...
- Bonner Electorate: Mental Health (1 speech)
I am pleased to update the House that we are keeping up the momentum with my plan to deliver more mental health services on the bayside of my electorate of Bonner. The last time I spoke on this...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
MURPHY () (): Hannah Maynard is 18 years old. She lives in Mount Eliza with her mother, sister and grandparents. Hannah requires 24/7 care to maintain her airways, nutrition and hygiene. She has...
- Remembrance Day (1 speech)
Remembrance Day is a sacred and solemn day, a day for Australians to pause, to honour and to pay our respects to those brave people who served, suffered and died in war and armed conflict. This...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
On 18 November, the Prime Minister demanded that states drop COVID-19 vaccination mandates. Now it's time for governments to step back and for Australians to take their lives back, the Prime...
- Best's Great Western (1 speech)
Thank you, Mr Speaker, and may I say congratulations. Last week I had the privilege to explore the Great Western wine region in Victoria. At the coming election, my electorate of Mallee will...
- Broadband (2 speeches)
Those opposite want to talk about technology. They've opposed electric vehicles, which they said would 'end the weekend'. They've opposed renewable energy. They don't understand the importance of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- COVID-19: Vaccination (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm he introduced no-jab, no-pay legislation in 2015 and denied payments to families who refused to get their children vaccinated?...
- COVID-19: Economy (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, my sincere congratulations on your election. My question is to the Prime Minister. Australians are emerging from restrictions with increasing confidence about our economic recovery....
- COVID-19: Vaccination (40 speeches)
ESE (—) (): My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Why did the Prime Minister in his last answer say that he didn't pay parents to vaccinate their children when that is exactly...
- Regional Australia (5 speeches)
Thank you, Mr Speaker, and congratulations. My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Will the Deputy Prime Minister update the House on how the Morrison-Joyce government is providing critical...
- Infrastructure Australia (18 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Can the Deputy Prime Minister confirm that the first chair of Infrastructure Australia was Sir Rod Eddington, who led Cathay Pacific and British...
- Drought Communities Small Business Support Program (4 speeches)
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- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer remind the House of the Morrison government's clear and established record of cutting taxes for families and businesses and how this delivers...
- Prime Minister (14 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister claimed he'd never used the phrase 'Shanghai Sam' in relation to former senator Sam Dastyari. Given he used that exact phrase 17 times on...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How is the Morrison government's substantial tax-cutting agenda supporting Australians through the COVID-19 pandemic, and how is it strengthening the Australian...
- Prime Minister (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister said reports that he had tried to invite Brian Houston to the White House were gossip. Why would the Prime Minister say that when it just...
- Australian Defence Force (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government's international partnerships will provide the Australian Defence Force with the...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister's government has set up a system with bipartisan support to share individual vaccination records with the states to make COVID passports...
- Manufacturing (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction. Can the minister outline to the House how the Morrison government is securing our economic recovery from the COVID-19...
- Workplace Relations (15 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Does the minister believe that two workers in regional Australia who do exactly the same job should get the...
- The Action Plan for Critical Technologies (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 critical...
- Workplace Relations (21 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. These two payslips are from two train drivers at Pacific National's coalmine in the Bowen Basin who do the...
- Apprenticeships (2 speeches)
Congratulations, Mr Speaker. My question is to the Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government's...
- Cost of Living (16 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Petrol prices have increased by as much as $900 for a typical family driving a standard car in a year, while real wages have fallen by $700. Can the Prime...
- Waste and Recycling Sector (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment. Will the minister outline to the House how the coalition government is backing in Australian jobs, protecting our environment and helping our...
- Economy (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Petrol prices have gone up by as much as $900 a year for a typical family driving a standard car while real wages have fallen $700. On top of this, median...
- Energy (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Water. Will the minister provide an update on the progress of important job and wealth-creating resource projects in Western Australia and outline...
- Cost of Living (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Petrol prices have gone up as much as $900 for a typical family driving a standard car in a year, while real wages have fallen by $700. On top of this,...
- COVID-19: International Travel (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education and Youth. Will the minister advise the House about the return of international students under the Morrison government's plan to reopen Australia and...
- Budget (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. His decade-old government had doubled government debt before COVID, and now it's approaching a record of $1 trillion. According to reports today, budget...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, I congratulate you on your elevation to the chair and wish you every success in your role. Documents are tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Privilege (0 speeches)
- Member for Pearce (6 speeches)
I wish to raise a matter of privilege under standing order 51. The matter concerns the member for Pearce and whether his failure to comply with the resolution of the House regarding the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Economy (21 speeches)
SPEAKER (): The Acting Speaker received letters from the honourable member for Rankin and the honourable member for Kennedy proposing that definite matters of public importance be submitted to...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
I've risen many times in this chamber to condemn this government's inaction on addressing the appalling state of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Labor, industry stakeholders and NDIS...
- Wynnum Fringe Festival (1 speech)
Mr Speaker, congratulations on your elevation. Fantastic, jaw dropping, heartwarming and iconic—all words to describe the return of this year's Wynnum Fringe Festival in my electorate of...
- Health Care, Ethiopia (1 speech)
Congratulations on your elevation, Mr Speaker. Trans and gender-diverse people deserve to feel affirmed for their gender expression. For some, it can be life-saving. In our current system, trans...
- Higgins Electorate (3 speeches)
Mr Speaker, congratulations on your elevation.
- COVID-19: South Australia (3 speeches)
Mr Speaker, congratulations on your elevation to the chair.
- Mallee Electorate: Longerenong Agricultural College (1 speech)
Mallee is a proud agricultural electorate. Recently, I travelled through the electorate and dropped into Longerenong Agricultural College. This is a fine institution training up tomorrow's top...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Petition: Eurobodalla Hospital (5 speeches)
I was recently at a community event at Moruya, in my beautiful electorate of Gilmore, where the community got together and presented me and the member for Eden-Monaro with a petition, which I...
- Herbert Electorate: Townsville City Deal (1 speech)
I want to talk about the Townsville City Deal today. To be honest, it is a mess. This city deal has been nothing but trouble since its inception. The Australian government are trying to get on...
- COVID-19: Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (1 speech)
I rise to speak on behalf of a Blue Mountains family whose daughter Katie died at the age of 34 in August this year as a result of taking the AstraZeneca vaccine. She is one of nine deaths the...
- Bonner Electorate: Small Business (1 speech)
I rise today to recognise the small businesses at the heart of our communities and to acknowledge the support the Morrison government has delivered to keep them afloat during this time. New...
- Werriwa Electorate: Australia Post, Werriwa Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise to put before the House yet another example of how suburbs in the electorate of Werriwa are not treated equitably. I've been inundated with feedback from residents in Austral, Rossmore and...
- Mildura Airport (1 speech)
Mildura is one of the most geographically isolated major regional centres in Victoria. To travel to Adelaide, locals must travel 4½ hours by car—six hours to Melbourne. It underscores...
- Broadband, Climate Change (1 speech)
At the start of the year my local Labor colleagues and I wrote to the minister for communications calling for improved NBN infrastructure in the nation's capital. Canberra's NBN infrastructure is...
- Veterans (1 speech)
In my electorate of Longman we have one of largest veteran communities in Queensland. I've had the pleasure of speaking to many of these veterans and their families, whether it be at the...
- SafeGround (1 speech)
Some time ago I had the opportunity to meet with SafeGround, who are an Australian NGO that work to minimise the impact of weapons of war. They came here to parliament, which is when I spoke with...
- COVID-19: Vaccinations, Hayes, Mrs Eulalie (2 speeches)
I want to thank my community for getting vaccinated in large numbers, and I want to thank the health workers who have worked in clinics across the country. I'm vaccinated, my family is...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That orders of the day Nos 2 and 3, committee and delegation business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister (1 speech)
In the three weeks since we were last in this place, I've been pleased to be able to be meeting with my constituents again, face to face rather than virtually. It's been really good to be able to...
- Green Hydrogen, North Queensland Economic Diversification Grants (1 speech)
There is no question that the City of Townsville will play a major role in being a major producer of hydrogen into the future. We're making significant investments in hydrogen right now and...
- Australian Defence Force, Veterans (2 speeches)
I rise to talk about a couple of issues to do with members of the ADF who’ve served our nation and have not had the right thing done by them. I also want to acknowledge some firefighters. A...
- Ryan Electorate: Young Community Leader Award (1 speech)
Indeed I do have a grievance, and that is that there is just not enough time to acknowledge all the wonderful young achievers and community leaders in the electorate of Ryan. I'd like to try and...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
I'd like to use my time in this grievance debate today to put on record some of the issues that Cowan constituents have with the NDIS. Of all the issues that my office deals with, the NDIS is one...
- Housing Affordability, Migration (2 speeches)
I would like to make some comments this evening about some challenges and opportunities that I believe we have in this nation in the months and years ahead, on two similar, linked themes: the...
