House debates
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
- Parliamentary Office Holders (0 speeches)
- Speaker's Panel (1 speech)
Pursuant to standing order 17, I lay on the table my warrant nominating the honourable member for Higgins to be a member of the Speaker's panel to assist the chair when requested to do so by the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 4 of the Selection Committee relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday 7 November 2022. The report will be...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Regional Ministerial Budget Statement (2 speeches)
by leave—I am very pleased to deliver the Regional Budget Statement on behalf of the government. I acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which we meet—the Ngunnawal and...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Mental Health (1 speech)
His Boy Elroy is a local burger bar in my electorate owned by Lachlan Stevens, veteran of two Afghanistan tours with the Australian Army. While dealing in burgers, beers and sport, Lachlan...
- Nicholls Electorate: Community Organisations (1 speech)
I'll have an opportunity later to speak at greater length on the flood emergency in my electorate, but I'll say now that the region has been hit very hard and the risk is ongoing. But our...
- Breast Cancer (1 speech)
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer is the second-most-commonly-diagnosed cancer in Australia, with which around one in seven women and one in 600 men are diagnosed. Breast...
- Flynn Electorate: Central Highlands Region (1 speech)
While many criticise and attack the coal and resource sector, I would like to draw attention to the fact sheet prepared by the Central Highlands Development Corporation. The Central Highlands is...
- Bean Electorate: Islamic School of Canberra (1 speech)
One of the most enjoyable roles I have as the member for Bean is working with our great school community: the teachers, students, parents and guardians, principals and administrators. Last week...
- Energy (1 speech)
Last night's budget included a lot of welcome changes, but real action on gas was conspicuously absent. Prices have been surging all year and are now reaching consumers, businesses and industrial...
- Budget (1 speech)
Territorians elected me and the member for Lingiari, Marion Scrymgour—right behind me—to build them a better future, and that's exactly what the Albanese government is doing in this...
- Sandringham Primary School (1 speech)
I direct my remarks to students, parents and staff of Sandringham Primary School. I am celebrating your new school from this House, and I acknowledge the adversity that many of you have faced....
- Housing (1 speech)
One of my favourite things I like to do in Macnamara is go and have morning tea or lunch with my public housing residents. One of my favourite places to go is the Emerald Hill public housing...
- COVID 19: Vaccination (1 speech)
A couple of weeks ago, former Commonwealth Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dr Nick Coatsworth, said, 'If you're a really healthy child or adolescent, the benefit of the COVID vaccine just isn't...
- Budget (3 speeches)
After almost a decade of savage cuts and broken promises by the former Liberal government, the Albanese Labor government handed down its first budget last night. This budget is focused on...
- Casey Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
By cancelling the Wellington Road upgrade in Casey, Labor are breaking their 2019 promise for the $110 million construction. Road duplication consists of building a second separate carriageway...
- Budget (1 speech)
I've waited nine long years to say these words: congratulations to Treasurer Jim Chalmers on delivering Labor's first budget in nine years. The Albanese Labor government is delivering on our...
- Groom Electorate: New Acland Coal Mine (1 speech)
Finally, the Queensland Labor government has seen sense and provided the remaining approvals for the restart of the New Acland coal mine. The water licence is in, and we'll see work resuming in...
- Budget (3 speeches)
It is five months and five days since Labor took government, after nine years of malaise, of wasted opportunity. The contrast is extraordinary. It's been five months and five days of hard work...
- New South Wales: Infrastructure (2 speeches)
For years country communities west of the Great Dividing Range have been campaigning for a better crossing over the mountains. Last year, the coalition delivered $2 billion in the budget for the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Kennedy, Ms Caroline (1 speech)
I would like to inform the House that present in the distinguished visitors gallery today is Her Excellency Ms Caroline Kennedy, the ambassador of the United States of America. On behalf of the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (11 speeches)
DUTTON (—) (): My question is to the Prime Minister. On 30 April this year, the Prime Minister said Australians would be 'better off under a Labor government'. The budget confirms that a...
- Power Prices (17 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Before the election the Prime Minister promised that if he was elected, power prices would drop by $275. Last night the Prime Minister's budget said that...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. What are some of the challenges facing the economy, and how does the Albanese Labor government's budget respond to those challenges?
- Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will you commit to an urgent review of the petroleum resource rent tax to close loopholes, prevent multinational tax avoidance and deliver to the Australian...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Work Exposure in Government Program (1 speech)
Before I call the member for Canberra, I would like to inform the House that present in the gallery today are a group of First Nations students participating in the Work Exposure in Government...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (23 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Women. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering for women?
- Energy (9 speeches)
() (): My question goes to the Treasurer. It follows his response to the former question, where he explained his proclivity for mishearing questions. My question is: have the Treasurer and the...
- Housing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to address the supply of new housing in Australia to ensure more Australians...
- Energy (14 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the government's budget decision to cut supply development funding to the Cooper and Adavale basins. By how many gigajoules will this reduce...
- Budget (4 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Social Services. How will the Albanese Labor government's budget deliver cost-of-living support for new parents? How will the policy change help Australian...
- Child Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. Why is Labor's plan for cheaper child care so important?
- Energy (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer him to the over 50 per cent increase to electricity prices in his first budget. I refer also to his $100 billion plan to roll out the energy...
- Wages (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to help Australians deal with the cost of living by getting wages moving after a...
- Telecommunications (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications. During the election, Labor made a number of commitments to Mayo, including $1.5 million for mobile coverage in Rapid Bay and Cudlee Creek, NBN...
- Budget: Industry and Manufacturing (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry and Science. What policy changes has the Albanese Labor government made in its first budget to support Australian industry and manufacturing?
- Energy (17 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. For nearly six months the Prime Minister has refused to repeat his promise of a $275 reduction in household power bills. Now that the government's own budget...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How is the government's budget assisting to build resilience in the Australian economy by implementing the policies which the now Prime Minister announced in...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Department of Parliamentary Services, Parliamentary Budget Office; Presentation (1 speech)
Pursuant to the Parliamentary Service Act 1999, I present the annual reports for 2021-22 of the Department of Parliamentary Services and the Parliamentary Budget Office.
- 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)
- Cost of Living (22 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Hume proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: This Government's failure to...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Orders of the Day (2 speeches)
I declare that Federation Chamber orders of the day Nos 5, 6 and 7, government business relating to the Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 3) Bill 2022, the Foreign Acquisitions and...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present the committee's Report 4/2022:AIR7000 Phase 1B Remotely Piloted Aircraft System Facilities Project and other works....
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (9 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the following from occurring in relation to proceedings on the Family Assistance Legislation Amendment...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Budget (1 speech)
The cost of everything is going up, but wages and incomes are going backwards. People are going backwards. Billionaires and politicians get a $9,000 tax cut in Labor's budget. Clive Palmer gets a...
- Victoria: Floods (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the flood disaster in my electorate of Nicholls. I thank the member for Hughes for graciously allowing me to take up her speaking allocation at this important...
- Budget: First Nations Australians (1 speech)
This morning I attended the WEX breakfast, the Work Exposure in Government breakfast, hosted by Minister Burney and the National Indigenous Australians Agency. About 50 Indigenous students from...
- Trade Unions (1 speech)
It is a simple economic principle that accurate and fair input prices are a precondition for stable and effective markets. One of the largest of these input prices in our economy is...
- Wandin Silvan Field Days, Casey Electorate: Agriculture Industry, Casey Electorate: Community Organisations (1 speech)
Firstly, I commend the words of the member for Nicholls and echo his sentiments. I and the residents of Casey stand with him and his residents as they recover from the floods. In Casey, the...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Goldstein Electorate: Energy (1 speech)
The Treasurer is right to say that he is worried—very worried—about the cost of energy, especially the prospective cost of gas. For the residents and businesses of Goldstein it is not...
- Afghanistan (1 speech)
On 30 September this year a group of young people were studying for their exams, just as many young people in Australia are currently studying for the HSC. But the difference is that these young...
- Budget (1 speech)
The test for the federal budget handed down last night was whether Labor was going to build on the strength of the economy and the improving budget position they inherited to deal with the...
- Sparks, Ms Jessica (1 speech)
I can confirm to the member for Hume that the Picton Road upgrade, from last year's budget, will be honoured in full. But at the moment I would like to take a moment today to celebrate and...
- Victoria: Floods (1 speech)
The people of Mallee are known to be tough and known to be resourceful. In times of crisis we roll up our sleeves, put our heads down and just get on with it. The past week and a half has shown...
- Lilley Electorate (1 speech)
Today I rise to update the chamber on recent events in my loved electorate of Lilley. Over the past week thousands of northside families came together to celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights,...
- Clarke, Mr Hugh Mitchell (Mitch) (1 speech)
Today I pay tribute to one of nature's true gentleman, a local statesman and all-round good bloke, Mr Hugh Mitchell Clarke, more broadly known as Mitch. Mitch departed from us on 13 October 2022...
- Strnad, Ms Halina (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to Halina Strnad, a remarkable and beloved member of our local Labor family in Chisholm who died recently. Born Halina Wagowska in Poland, Halina grew up in the city of...
- Budget (3 speeches)
I rise today to applaud the small communities across my electorate of O'Connor that continue to deliver transformative projects under the Building Better Regions Fund. The Minister for...
- Bills (0 speeches)
