House debates
Wednesday, 30 March 2022
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 43 of the Selection Committee, relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members business on Monday 11 April 2022. The report will be...
- Parliamentary Standards Joint Select Committee; Membership (1 speech)
I have received a message from the Senate informing the House of the appointment of senators to the Joint Select Committee on Parliamentary Standards. As the list of appointments is a lengthy...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Joint Committee; Approval of Work (1 speech)
On behalf of the Minister for the Public Service, I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969 , it is expedient to carry out the following proposed...
- Intelligence and Security Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security I present the following reports: advisory report on the Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent: (1) the House inviting His Excellency Mr Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, to address the House...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration Of Legislation (2 speeches)
by leave—I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the resolution fixing the presumption of debate on the Treasury Laws Amendment (Cost of Living Support and...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Budget (1 speech)
It's the morning after the budget, and what a disappointment it is for Tasmanians. Nothing in the budget from last night, that fizzer of a budget, makes up for a decade of attacks on wages, job...
- Parkes Electorate: Climate Change (1 speech)
The coalition government's commitment to reducing our emissions is no more apparent than it is in electorate of Parkes. Last Friday, along with representatives of AGL, we announced a $41 million...
- Budget (1 speech)
Before the last election, in 2019, with much hype and fanfare, the Prime Minister promised the people of Perth's northern suburbs a training hub in Wanneroo. Every budget since then has failed to...
- Echuca-Moama Bridge (1 speech)
It is with tremendous pride that I bring to the House's attention that, on Sunday 10 April, the largest transport infrastructure project in northern Victoria, the Echuca-Moama bridge, is set to...
- Morrison Government: National Security (1 speech)
In these uncertain, volatile times, governments show their true colours. The pressure of challenges is what makes or breaks governments. This government is full of ministers prancing around like...
- Daintree Microgrid Project (1 speech)
The Daintree microgrid project is signed, sealed and about to be delivered. I have fought tirelessly for this project for more than two decades and I am immensely pleased that the construction...
- Budget (1 speech)
The government says this budget is temporary and targeted. Well, I have another 'T' word for it—transactional. It seems they will do anything to try and buy the vote of Australians. The...
- Mackellar Electorate: Music (1 speech)
I rise to commend Newport Bay's music teacher Roc Koren AKA—wait for it—Captain Roc for his extraordinary efforts in helping inspire and influence the next generation of gifted...
- Agriculture (1 speech)
Australian farmers have seen costs skyrocket. Fertiliser, freight, packaging, fuel have all nearly doubled in the past 12 months and urgent action is required. For example, the biggest generic...
- Boothby Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I am so excited about the budget our government has handed down and I am particularly thrilled that the electorate of Boothby will see even more infrastructure upgrades. We have done so much for...
- Budget (7 speeches)
This Liberal-National government has neglected the environment at every turn. It has denied and ignored the threat of climate change at every turn. Unbelievably, this week's budget goes further....
- Inland Rail (1 speech)
I am delighted to report to the House we have taken the first concrete steps towards the construction of the Inland Rail project in the Toowoomba region. Last week the first sod was turned at the...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
Earlier today I met the most amazing aged-care worker. To support her residents when they have dementia, if they are from a non-English-speaking background, she learns their native tongue so that...
- Cottesloe Beach (1 speech)
Cottesloe Beach is one of the most well-known beaches in Perth. It features on postcards, it plays host to the annual Sculpture by the Sea exhibition and the iconic Rottnest Channel Swim, and...
- Dobell Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
People in my community on the Central Coast have been waiting for this government to fix the road through Wyong for years. It's a bottleneck that can take over half an hour to clear on a busy day...
- Budget (1 speech)
I say to the good people of Swan that the budget delivered by the Treasurer last night outlines the Morrison government's plan for a stronger future. It provides cost-of-living relief for...
- Shortland Electorate: Health (1 speech)
The seat of Shortland is suffering a GP crisis because of the cuts by this awful government, which include cuts to the GP after-hours service and reclassification as an area of no longer having a...
- Budget (2 speeches)
Last night's budget was a boon for homebuyers—150,000 places over three years for deposit assistance. It's a policy so compelling, it's been appropriated by the other side. I also note...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Photograph of House of Representatives (1 speech)
Before we get underway into question time, it is customary for the chamber to have an official photograph of the 46th Parliament, so I would direct all members to turn around and face the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. After a decade of ignoring cost-of-living pressures and attacking real wages, will the Prime Minister now admit his latest budget shows that the average...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. A stronger economy will create more jobs and opportunity while guaranteeing essential services, including in my community of Western Sydney. Will the Prime...
- Budget (21 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given that 52 out of 55 of the government's wages forecasts have been wrong and real wages will go backwards at an even higher rate this year than the last...
- Dams (3 speeches)
Deputy Prime Minister, on 4 March didn't you say, 'We must be a nation of vision. One thing we can do is build Bradfield,' rightly claiming this banishes flood, fire and drought? Why then have...
- Budget (23 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Last night's budget unlocked transformational investments in ports, dams, roads and other infrastructure in our regions. Can the Prime Minister please...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is also to the Treasurer. Well he remind the House of the Morrison government's strong record in creating jobs and reducing unemployment, particularly through our investments in...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister's budget delivers a trillion dollars of debt and rort after rort after rort. Is that why on page 154 of Budget Paper No. 4 there is no...
- Defence Procurement (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Would the minister update the House on how the Morrison governments plan for a stronger future includes key defence investment that will help to insure...
- Queensland Floods (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday I raised the predicament of the Khan family in my electorate, who had one member approved for a flood relief payment and others rejected. They were...
- Budget (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment representing the Minister for Women. Will the minister please outline to the House how the Morrison government's plan for a stronger future...
- New South Wales: Floods (2 speeches)
BOWEN () (): My question as to the Prime Minister. After the recent devastating floods, New South Wales Nationals MP Geoff Provest said, there's a real venom out there directed at the prime...
- Manufacturing Industry (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government's plan for a stronger future strengthens Australia's...
- Veterans (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs. Yesterday the minister told the House there was $96 million in the budget to clear up the backlog of veterans' compensation claims. Today can...
- Agriculture (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture and Northern Australia. Will the minister outline how the Morrison-Joyce government's plan for a stronger future is continuing to invest in and...
- Queensland: Floods (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Frank and his family live in Goodna in my electorate. Frank will be 80 soon. For the second time, first in 2011 and now with the recent flood, Frank's house...
- Budget (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged care. Will the minister please update the House on how the Morrison government's budget is supporting families by providing access to...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- George, Ms Anna (1 speech)
on indulgence—I rise briefly to pay tribute to Anna George. Anna George has been a formidable figure in the Labor Party's recent history. She began work here in 1989 for John Dawkins when...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
A document is tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Full details of the document will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Commonwealth Ombudsman; Presentation (1 speech)
I present the Commonwealth Ombudsman's quarterly report under section 712F(6) of the Fair Work Act 2009 for the period 1 July to 30 September, 2021. Ordered that the report be made a...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Budget (22 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Rankin proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The failure of the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 10, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Budget (2 speeches)
This budget of bribes makes the climate crisis worse, locks in tax cuts for the wealthy and makes housing more expensive. The budget gives coal, oil and gas corporations more than $37 billion,...
- Petition: Women's Sanitary Products in Public Hospitals (1 speech)
In public hospitals across Australia patients have free access to bandaids, bandages, painkillers and incontinence pads. But what most Australians may not know is that there is no guarantee that...
- Bonner Electorate (1 speech)
Australians have been confronted with many challenges over the last three years. We've been faced with devastation and heartbreak including natural disasters like the recent flooding in my...
- Central Coast (1 speech)
My community on the Central Coast of New South Wales has been overlooked by this government for years. Whether it's our health, jobs or local roads, this government has left the northern end of...
- Stirling Electorate (1 speech)
NELLY () (): To paraphrase Winston Churchill: democracy is the least-worst system of government. Since its foundation in ancient Greece, we still haven't found a better method of reflecting the...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Petition: Aged Care (2 speeches)
I rise today on behalf of the Bombala community, who are in desperate need of a solution and are sick of the rhetoric of this government. In February I asked the Prime Minister to take action to...
- Bradfield Electorate: Lifeline (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge the outstanding work of Lifeline Harbour to Hawkesbury in my electorate of Bradfield. In recent months I've visited Lifeline Harbour to Hawkesbury, which is based in Gordon...
- Riak, Mr Alier Chol (1 speech)
Alier Chol Riak was just 23 years old when he was stabbed to death on 13 March in the Melbourne Docklands. He was out celebrating his 23rd birthday with his older brother when they were set upon,...
- Kovacs, Mrs Lorraine (1 speech)
I rise today to pay tribute to a marvellous Australian woman who was also a friend and a mentor to me from when I first came into politics, Lorraine Kovacs. Living in Yatala in my electorate,...
- Indi Electorate (1 speech)
This may be my last chance to speak in this place before the election. I never take for granted the privilege of speaking out to give voice to the dreams, achievements and struggles of my...
- Byrne, Mrs Faye (1 speech)
It is always interesting: these three-minute statements are usually about what our community has been doing—and today I would like to rise to share some cheer during this torrid time in...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
Six weeks ago, I stood here in the chamber and predicted that the vast majority of aged-care workers would never receive the Prime Minister's $400 bonus payment, and I was right. Most workers...
- Moore Electorate: Health Care, Moore Electorate: Higher Education (1 speech)
I'm pleased to provide the House with an update on two substantial federal funding commitments in the areas of health and education which will directly benefit all Western Australians and, in...
- Veterans (1 speech)
My electorate of Blair in South-East Queensland has the largest veteran population in the region. It's home to 5,500 veterans and the largest Air Force base in the country. Two weeks ago the...
- Budget (2 speeches)
Last night's budget goes a long way to helping businesses and Australian workers. It does a number of things. It extends the Boosting Apprenticeship Commencements scheme to a future workforce so...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Kitching, Senator Kimberley Jane Elizabeth (16 speeches)
I rise today to honour the memory of the late Kimberley Kitching, Labor senator for Victoria. She was my friend, and I shall miss her, as will many people in this place. The first time that I met...
- Cass, Hon. Dr Moses Henry (Moss) (8 speeches)
I rise to make a contribution in the condolence motion for Moss Cass, the Hon. Moses Henry Cass, who was Australia's first environment and conservation minister in, of course, the Whitlam...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- New South Wales: Floods, Queensland: Floods (9 speeches)
On Sunday 27 March it was wet in my community. We'd had a lot of rain over the previous week, with heavy falls forecast over the next 24 hours. We're used to floods. Most homes are built above...
- Ukraine (11 speeches)
Every Anzac Day I do a publication, and this year's publication is a little bit different than most. This is the12th publication I have produced for Anzac Day, but this publication has always...
