House debates
Tuesday, 30 November 2021
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Privilege (0 speeches)
- Privileges and Members' Interests Committee (5 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to draw attention to and raise a matter of privilege concerning the report of the Committee of Privileges and Members' Interests that I have just presented. An article appeared...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Migration (1 speech)
Samsoor contacted my office in February this year seeking assistance with a partnership visa application for his wife, Lida, to travel from Afghanistan to Australia. Lida's application had been...
- Energy (1 speech)
Australians and nuclear energy are a perfect match. Australia holds 33 per cent of the world's uranium deposits. It's the world's third-largest producer of uranium after Kazakhstan and Canada....
- Exell, Mr Boyd (1 speech)
I stand here today to recognise Bega Valley born and raised carriage driver Boyd Exell. Some people find their calling and know from a very young age what they are going to do with their life,...
- Grey Electorate: National Radioactive Waste Management Facility (1 speech)
Yesterday was a time to celebrate for the majority of the population that live in my home town of Kimba, with the naming of the town as the host of the National Radioactive Waste Management...
- Monsoon Aquatics (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate an amazing Territory business, Monsoon Aquatics, which has been announced as the 2021 Australian Exporter of the Year. From 89 finalists from around Australia, this...
- Barker Electorate: Men's Sheds (1 speech)
In March last year I was pleased to announce $20,000 through our government's Stronger Communities fund for the Berri Church of Christ to support the establishment of a men's shed for the local...
- COVID-19: Pharmacists (1 speech)
Millions of people across Australia are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and it's in no small part thanks to our pharmacists. There are close to 6,000 community pharmacies across Australia...
- Casey Electorate: Casey Apprentice/Trainee of the Year Awards (1 speech)
In 2009 I initiated the Casey Apprentice/Trainee of the Year Awards to recognise and reward excellence and achievement and to encourage careers in local trades and small business. A committee of...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
Time is up for more coal and gas. It's the leading cause of the climate crisis. We need to reduce emissions 75 per cent by 2030, but Liberal and Labor are taking us backwards. If you don't have a...
- Wentworth Electorate: Local Government (1 speech)
This Saturday constituents in my electorate of Wentworth will be going to the polls to vote for their local councillors and mayors in the New South Wales local government elections. These...
- Anti-Semitism (1 speech)
This year many are celebrating Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights. Yet something very dark is happening in the anti-vaccination and anti-lockdown protests. Extremists are exposing...
- Online Safety (1 speech)
This government is lifting the veil of secrecy from cowards that are online trolls. I, along with many of my colleagues, have been advocating for reforms that would give Australians the same...
- Welfare Reform (1 speech)
I rise today to report to the House that 45,000 people have now signed Labor's petition to scrap the Morrison government's cruel and unfair cashless debit card and to protect our pensioners. This...
- Sturt Electorate: Energy (1 speech)
I thought she'd be able to get a full 90 seconds out, but not quite. I rise to welcome the progress and work from SA Power Networks along Lower North East Road in my electorate, where they are...
- Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces (1 speech)
MURPHY () (): If there's one thing about politics that unites people across my community, it's a deeply held—almost desperate—wish for better standards: better standards of behaviour,...
- Herbert Electorate: Employment (1 speech)
More than 1,600 jobs were on offer at Townsville's jobs fair hosted in the electorate of Herbert earlier this month. That equated to around four jobs per person for the people who came through...
- Cowan Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
I just want to give a shout-out to all the amazing schools, students, teachers, parents and school staff throughout the electorate of Cowan. This year the 2021 WA Premier's Secondary Teacher of...
- Hope in a Suitcase Australia (1 speech)
[by video link] Last week I received an email from Rachel Crosswell, the Tasmanian coordinator of the charity Hope in a Suitcase. When kids are placed in emergency care, they often leave with...
- Shortland Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
When next the Prime Minister visits the Hunter and Central Coast, I'd like him to be honest with my constituents and explain: why is he cutting the GP after-hours service that helps 75,000...
- Forde Electorate: Windaroo Valley State High School (2 speeches)
It's a great pleasure to share with the House that Windaroo Valley State High School has qualified for the finals of the Australian Space Design Competition, to begin in January next year. The...
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
MORRISON (—) (): I inform the House that the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel will be absent from question time today. The Minister for Defence will answer...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Kate Jenkins has made shocking findings in her report today. Does the Prime Minister agree that everyone working in this building, including staff, deserves...
- Covid-19 (2 speeches)
My question is to our Prime Minister. Australia has the best record on the COVID-19 pandemic of any advanced nation, with amongst the lowest mortality rates, the strongest economy and the highest...
- COVID-19: Quarantine (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Minister for Home Affairs said today that Australia doesn't need purpose built quarantine because hotel quarantine has worked very effectively. Can the...
- Economy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister representing the Minister for Resources and Water. Will the Deputy Prime Minister please provide an update to the House on how the Australian resources...
- COVID-19: Quarantine (10 speeches)
R () (): My question is to the Prime Minister. The home affairs minister said today that we do not need purpose-built quarantine because hotel quarantine has worked very effectively. How many...
- Climate Change (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Official data released today shows emissions have just gone up by two per cent under your government, but the independent Climate Targets Panel has...
- COVID-19: Economy (18 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer explain to the House how the Morrison government's strong and measured economic management is helping the Australian economy to weather the...
- COVID-19: Quarantine (2 speeches)
BUTLER (—) (): My question is to the Prime Minister. In her national review of quarantine published this month, the Prime Minister's handpicked quarantine adviser, Jane Halton, told him:...
- Covid-19 (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. Can the minister please inform the House how the Morrison government is dealing with new COVID variants such as omicron and how our...
- COVID-19: Quarantine (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that, in a report released this month, the Prime Minister's handpicked quarantine adviser, Jane Halton, told him...
- Covid-19 (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister please update the House on how the Morrison government is dealing with the challenges of the omicron variant while continuing to...
- Commonwealth Integrity Commission (17 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The 2022 parliamentary calendar of the Morrison-Joyce government has in practice only 10 sitting days for the House and five for the Senate before August....
- Aukus (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Will the minister please update the House on how the Morrison governments partnership with the United States and the United Kingdom is ensuring that...
- Commonwealth Integrity Commission (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister's model of a national anticorruption commission have the power to investigate the energy minister's use of forged documents to attack...
- Research and Development (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education and Youth. The Morrison government is securing Australia's economic recovery by investing in technology and research. Will the minister please update...
- Commonwealth Integrity Commission (21 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister's model of a national anticorruption commission have the power to investigate a cabinet minister's decision to grant visas to au...
- Agriculture Industry (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture and Northern Australia. Will the minister explain to the House how the Morrison-Joyce government's substantial investment in agriculture innovation...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Dalaithngu, Mr David, AM (2 speeches)
As discussed with the Leader of the Opposition prior to question time, on indulgence and very briefly I wish to pay tribute to a formidable force in Australian cinema and Australian cultural...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
TTON (—) (): 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 andProceedings.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Broadband (12 speeches)
I've received a letter from the honourable member for Greenway proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government's...
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Valedictory (2 speeches)
I would like to first acknowledge the Ngunawal and Ngambri people, who are the traditional custodians of the Canberra area, and the Dharawal people, who are the traditional custodians of the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Regional Australia Select Committee; Appointment (1 speech)
I move: That the amended resolution of appointment of the Select Committee on Regional Australia be further amended to replace 'final report no later than 30 December 2021' in paragraph 2 with...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Accounts and Audit Committee; Membership (2 speeches)
I have received advice from the Chief Opposition Whip that he has nominated Ms Thwaites to be a member of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit in place of Mr Conroy.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (2 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the following from occurring in relation to business for today: (1) debate on the second reading of the Mitochondrial...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, Macquarie Electorate: Agriculture Industry (1 speech)
Throughout the electorate of Macquarie, which I represent, there are families facing the challenges of cystic fibrosis. They've joined with more than 35,000 people to urge for a speeding-up of...
- Covid-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
Tonight, as the Victorian government looks set to pass this controversial pandemic bill, I feel compelled to acknowledge the Australians who, unlike me, have been forced to choose between getting...
- Mayo Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
Australia's rural towns and outer metropolitan areas are home to millions of Australians. Many of these areas are experiencing fast population growth, far beyond the growth in infrastructure and...
- Gippsland Electorate (9 speeches)
I rise on a somewhat lighter note to let Gippslanders know that my annual calendar competition is over, so please stop sending me photographs! Mr Speaker, I know that you as the member for Fisher...
- Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces (1 speech)
There are a lot of very important reports that come to this place, but not all of them get the attention and the action they deserve. Today we received Kate Jenkins's report, Set the standard:...
- COVID-19: Vaccination (2 speeches)
Philosopher Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest thinkers of our time, said: As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
I rose in this chamber last week to call to the House's attention one of my constituents, a 16-year-old boy named Harvey McKeever, who is an NDIS participant. Harvey became a quadriplegic in...
- Bradfield Electorate: COVID-19 (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge and celebrate the efforts by so many across my electorate of Bradfield in responding to the extraordinary challenge of the pandemic throughout 2021. I first want to...
- Morrison Government (1 speech)
[by video link] Mateship, unity, honesty, fairness and honour, a healthy dose of cheek and an infallible radar for bulldust—these are the values that define us as a country and as a people....
- Parkes Electorate: Bourke Abattoir (1 speech)
A few years ago the federal government contributed $10 million towards a small-animals abattoir at Bourke, in the north-western part of my electorate. It was under round 2 of the federal...
- Dobell Electorate: Dobell Awards (1 speech)
Just like last year 2021 has been incredibly tough on school students in my community on the Central Coast of New South Wales. They faced an extended lockdowns in the middle of the school year...
- Forestry (3 speeches)
DRUM (—) (): The issue that I wish to raise this afternoon has to do with the supply of timber in Australia, and certainly in Victoria and Western Australia. Court injunctions and industry...
- Maribyrnong Electorate: Community Organisations (1 speech)
It's lovely to be in the Federation Chamber talking about my electorate of Maribyrnong. It's a great part of Australia, in the north-western suburbs of Melbourne. It encompasses fantastic...
- Local Council Elections: New South Wales (1 speech)
This Saturday most residents of New South Wales will be heading to the polling booths for our local government elections. As always, they are hard fought—occasionally civil, occasionally...
- Corio Electorate (1 speech)
Given the past two years, the thought of an upcoming COVID normal summer is a refreshing prospect. Let's hope that Omicron allows that. From bushfires that raged through the country during the...
- Page Electorate (2 speeches)
I would like to acknowledge the Red Rock-Corindi Surf Life Saving Club, who are celebrating their 30th birthday this weekend. I want to congratulate all the members and the current executive. In...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Veterans and their Families (4 speeches)
I welcome the opportunity to reflect on the Minister for Veterans' Affairs annual statement and say to any veterans or Australian Defence Force personnel listening to our broadcast, thank you for...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Health, Aged Care and Sport Committee; Report (9 speeches)
I rise today in recognition that better health for all Australians is key in our development and success as a country. I would like to thank all the members of the House of Representatives...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That order of the day No. 2 be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Morrison Government: Timber Industry, Morrison Government: Telecommunications Industry (1 speech)
Failing to act on matters of significance for Australians seems to be a Morrison government speciality. The full impacts of two such failures are now impacting people in my electorate and many...
- Solomon Islands, COVID-19, National Security, Digital Media Reform, Government (1 speech)
The events of the past week have shown us the important role that government can play in people's lives—protecting Australians' health and protecting their security. There have been a...
- Climate Change, International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (1 speech)
Every second day the Prime Minister comes into this place or comes before a camera and says that his No. 1 priority is to keep Australians safe. And yet he is spectacularly failing in that duty...
- Forde Electorate: Community Events (2 speeches)
In my electorate of Forde, we have a diverse range of talented, creative, forward-thinking and hardworking people, who we recently got to celebrate and acknowledge in the 2021 Logan Business...
- Morrison Government, Bonner Electorate (2 speeches)
As we come to the end of the year, I rise tonight to look back on the last 12 months. It hasn't been easy, and we've certainly faced our fair share of challenges. But, with the support of our...
