House debates
Thursday, 27 October 2022
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Appropriations and Administration Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the following reports of the Standing Committee on Appropriations and Administration: Report No. 25: October budget estimates 2022-23. Report made a parliamentary paper in accordance...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing And Sessional Orders (1 speech)
I move: That in relation to the reply by the Leader of the Opposition to the 2022-2023 Budget that standing order 31 (automatic adjournment of the House) be suspended for the sitting on Thursday,...
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent a Minister, at 2pm today, moving a motion in relation to the anniversary of the national apology to the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- National Health Amendment (General Co-payment) Bill 2022; Consideration of Senate Message (2 speeches)
I move: That the amendments be agreed to. First of all, I thank all members of the House, and members of the other place as well, for their contribution to this debate. I indicate to the House...
- Jobs and Skills Australia Bill 2022; Consideration of Senate Message (3 speeches)
I move: That the amendments be agreed to. I'd like to thank members and senators for working together to finalise the Jobs and Skills Australia Bill 2022. I think it's fair to say that the...
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Cheaper Child Care) Bill 2022; Second Reading (3 speeches)
The original question was that the bill be read a second time, to which the honourable member for Moncrieff moved, as amendment, that all words after 'that' be omitted with a view to substituting...
- Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (Cheaper Child Care) Bill 2022; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 3) Bill 2022, Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Amendment Bill 2022, Income Tax Amendment (Labour Mobility Program) Bill 2022; Second Reading (1 speech)
I want to thank those members who have contributed to this debate. I remind the House of the important measures that are contained within this bill. Firstly, schedule 1 to the Treasury Laws...
- Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 3) Bill 2022, Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Amendment Bill 2022, Income Tax Amendment (Labour Mobility Program) Bill 2022; Consideration in Detail (21 speeches)
by leave—I move amendments (1) and (3) to Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 3) Bill 2022 presented in my name: (1) Clause 2, page 2 (table item 5), omit the table item. (3)...
- Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 3) Bill 2022, Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Amendment Bill 2022, Income Tax Amendment (Labour Mobility Program) Bill 2022; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Amendment Bill 2022; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Income Tax Amendment (Labour Mobility Program) Bill 2022; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- High Speed Rail Authority Bill 2022; Second Reading (18 speeches)
It's a pleasure to rise and speak on the High Speed Rail Authority Bill 2022. As we look around this great country of ours, we see an enormous history of rail right across the country that has...
- High Speed Rail Authority Bill 2022; Consideration in Detail (5 speeches)
by leave—I move amendments (1) to (5) as circulated in the name of the member for Maranoa together: (1) Clause 8, page 6 (line 22), after "relevant parties", insert "(including extensive...
- High Speed Rail Authority Bill 2022; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Emergency Response Fund Amendment (Disaster Ready Fund) Bill 2022; Report from Federation Chamber (2 speeches)
The question is that the amendment be disagreed to.
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Wannon Electorate: Floods, Victoria: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise today to praise the efforts of all the volunteers and the professional services who have helped deal with the floods in Wannon. Led by the SES, they have done an absolutely magnificent...
- Iran: Human Rights (1 speech)
Yesterday was 40 days since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini whilst in custody. Widespread protests continue across Iran and the world. In Iran, the protests have been met with a deadly...
- Moree: Westpac Branch (1 speech)
As we stand here today, floods are right across the Parkes electorate. Moree, in particular, has been hit hard, and at the moment they're cleaning up. And, as they have done over the years, they...
- International Whaling Commission (1 speech)
Last week, I had the privilege of representing the Minister for the Environment and Water at the 68th meeting of the International Whaling Commission. The IWC continues to be a critical and...
- Petitions: Asylum Seekers (6 speeches)
This morning I hosted an event with the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, where I received a petition signed by 10,741 people calling on the Albanese government to provide all refugees and people...
- Budget (1 speech)
The Albanese government has hit the ground running since coming into office. I'm proud that, despite a difficult economic environment, our government has delivered a budget to ease cost-of-living...
- Lyne Electorate (1 speech)
I'd like to congratulate local legend Will Ruprecht of Mitchells Island for bringing home his first word title. He's taken out the FIM E2 EnduroGP world championship in Germany. Well done, champ....
- Energy (1 speech)
While people throughout the world struggle with high fuel and gas prices, global energy companies are making record profits. According to one report, the combined profits of the largest global...
- Budget (1 speech)
This government promised a better future, yet its first budget bakes in rising costs of living and lower productivity growth. The long-term productivity growth assumption falls to 1.2 per cent,...
- Budget: Veterans (1 speech)
The first Albanese budget has, rightly, lifted support for veterans. Our budget tackles many of the issues people have talked to me about—improving the claims process, simplifying laws and...
- Retail Workers (1 speech)
As I have said before, prior to entering this place I was a retail worker. Retail and hospitality workers know all too well the stress that has come with the pandemic—their hours can be...
- Budget: Western Highway Upgrade (1 speech)
This week's Labor budget delivered the $10 million we promised to kickstart the Western Highway upgrade. The Western Highway is the main road between Melbourne and Ballarat, and connects the...
- Energy (1 speech)
The government's credibility has been entirely destroyed over the issue of electricity prices. We know that before the election the government said 97 times that electricity prices would decline...
- Drake, Mr Adam (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to a great Territorian, Mr Adam Drake, who's here with us in the gallery today. In 2014 Adam founded Balanced Choice. It's an organisation that aims to improve the physical...
- Energy (1 speech)
HASTIE () (): During the election, Labor promised to cut power bills by $275. They said it 97 times, and yesterday the Prime Minister doubled down on how he plans to achieve the impossible. If...
- Turvey, Cassius (2 speeches)
Cassius Turvey died this week in hospital in Perth at the age of 15 years. He had been violently attacked while walking home from school in Middle Swan on 13 October. The death of any child is a...
- Energy (1 speech)
At the last election, on a hundred occasions, the Labor party committed to the Australian public that they had a plan to lower the price of energy by $275. It wasn't a theory. It wasn't something...
- Budget (2 speeches)
When I was campaigning, there was nothing I heard about more commonly from Boothby residents than climate change and their distress at the lack of action on climate change. We are a wonderful...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Hazzard, Hon. Bradley Ronald (Brad) (2 speeches)
Earlier this week, I received a message from Brad Hazzard, the Minister for Health in New South Wales, and he gave me the courtesy of telling me that he'd be retiring after 30 years in the...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (23 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to Labor's economic plan and budget strategy available on the Labor Party's website. Page 7 of that document outlined a 5-point economic plan. The...
- Health Care (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. How does the budget deliver on the government's commitment to improve health care after nearly a decade of cuts and neglect, and how does...
- Energy (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday the Treasurer finally confirmed that the Labor Party misled the Australian people 97 times before the last election on their promise to reduce...
- Budget (9 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Why is responsible budget management important in uncertain times? How is this relevant to consideration of government appropriations which are pending in the House?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Fitzroy Community School (1 speech)
I'd like to inform the House that present in the gallery today are students from Fitzroy Community School in Victoria, in the electorate of the member for Wills. On behalf of the House, I extend...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The budget confirms that a typical family will be $2,000 worse off by Christmas, with inflation, interest rates and unemployment all forecast to go up. Given...
- Defence Procurement (6 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to clean up the defence procurement mess left by the previous government?
- Renewable Energy (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. How many private properties will be impacted from the construction of the 28,000 kilometres in new poles and wires under the...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to support workers who need flexible work arrangements, particularly those in...
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is again to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. How many private properties will be impacted by the construction of the 28,000 kilometres of new poles and wires under the...
- Housing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness. Minister, what has been the response to the Albanese Labor government's National Housing Accord and its reforms to...
- Middle Arm Sustainable Development Precinct (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development. In this week's budget, your government allocated $1.5 billion for the Middle Arm industrial zone in Darwin Harbour....
- Child Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Early Childhood Education. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to fix issues about affordable, quality early childhood education in Australia?
- Energy (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In the lead up to the 2022 election, and since, the government has repeatedly cited modelling forecasting that wholesale and residential electricity prices...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. What is the Albanese Labor government's budget doing to support modern families? How will the paid parental leave policy benefit Australian...
- Energy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the government call together manufacturers, consumers, gas producers and electricity companies to manage the energy cost crisis. Business owners in...
- Environment (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Water. How is the Albanese Labor government addressing nearly a decade of neglect and building a better future for our environment?
- Energy (8 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. I refer to his answer earlier this week on RGS, a manufacturer in my electorate that uses over 200 megawatt hours per year, which is...
- Aged Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Aged Care. How will the aged-care reforms in the budget restore dignity for older people accessing aged-care services?
- Rockhampton Ring Road (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The federal government is intending to delay $800 million of Commonwealth funding to construct the Rockhampton Ring Road by at least two years. In 2019, as...
- Energy (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. How is the Albanese Labor government providing the overdue leadership on energy policy that had been missing for nearly a decade?
- Minerals Industry (2 speeches)
MASCARENHAS () (): My question is to the Minister for Resources and Minister for Northern Australia. What is the significance of critical minerals to Australia, and what role will they play in...
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. I refer the minister to the previous, coalition government's decision to build a new gas project plant at Kurri Kurri to put downward...
- Jobs and Skills Australia (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Skills and Training. Today the parliament passed the Jobs and Skills Australia legislation. How will Jobs and Skills Australia help tackle the skills shortage...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Rockhampton Ring Road (3 speeches)
Mr Speaker, following the Prime Minister's response to the member for Capricornia's question during question time, the member for Capricornia left the chamber in tears and in a state of high...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Rugby League World Cup (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I advised the Leader of the Opposition earlier today that I'd be making a short statement on indulgence to congratulate and send a shout-out to the Australian Wheelchair Rugby League...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Budget (1 speech)
Before members leave the House, I want to give a short reminder about arrangements for this evening with respect to the Leader of the Opposition's budget reply speech. As I outlined on Tuesday,...
- 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.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Appropriations and Administration Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Appropriations and Administration, I present Report No. 24: annual report 2021-22. Report made a parliamentary paper in accordance with standing order 39(e).
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Energy (21 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Fairfax proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The huge increases in...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before notice No. 9, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (1 speech)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the private Members' business notice relating to the disallowance of the Export Control (Animals) Amendment...
- Regulations and Determinations (0 speeches)
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Standards (1 speech)
During question time, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the member for Farrer, asked me to review the response and tone of the Prime Minister in his answer to a question from the member for...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 11, government business, be postponed until the next sitting. Question agreed to. Sitting suspended from 18:04 to 19:3 1
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Fowler Electorate: headspace Liverpool (1 speech)
Earlier this month, I was invited to attend headspace Liverpool in my electorate of Fowler to celebrate the national day of support for mental health and wellbeing of young Australians. It was...
- Australia: Floods (1 speech)
While we were all busy with the budget this week, many communities across New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria were dealing with the impacts of flooding. In all of these communities, local...
- Bowls Gr8 for Brains (1 speech)
I spent last Sunday on the bowling green at the Chirnside Park Country Club with a group of inspiring individuals of Bowls Gr8 for Brains. Bowls Gr8 for Brains is a not-for-profit organisation...
- Haffenden, Mr Peter, Raise Our Voice Australia (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the sad passing of Peter Haffenden. The first time that I met Peter Haffenden, it was clear to me that he was an inspiring and impactful person. What was scheduled as a...
- Moncrieff Electorate: Young Australians (1 speech)
I'm so pleased to rise in the Federation Chamber today to speak about my electorate of Moncrieff, which I love deeply, and youths—the future of our great country. Last month I asked members...
- Ipswich State High School, Blair Electorate: Budget, Diwali (1 speech)
Last Friday I attended a civic event in my electorate where the keys to the city of Ipswich were presented to Ipswich State High School to acknowledge the school's historic triple title in rugby...
- Nicholls Electorate: Budget (1 speech)
Many of my constituents in Nicholls are doing it tough at the moment. They have endured floods and suffered the agony of seeing the rising water invade their homes. An already challenging time...
- Gorton Young Leaders Awards (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate the talented and hardworking recipients of this year's Gorton Young Leaders Awards. Since 2009, I've been acknowledging selected year 12 students from the electorate of...
- Australian War Memorial (1 speech)
On 29 September it was reported that the Council of the Australian War Memorial had recommended an expansion for recognition of Australia's frontier wars, the violent conflicts that occurred...
- Budget (1 speech)
This week the Albanese Labor government handed down its first budget, and I'm really pleased to say it is a great budget for the people of Canberra, who were neglected for so long under the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Fowler Electorate: Budget (1 speech)
As a first-term member, my first experience of budget week has been a whirlwind filled with trials and tribulations. These are trying times for all Australians, but especially for low- and...
- Moreton Volunteer Awards (1 speech)
PERRETT () (): by leave—In Moreton electorate we recently honoured a number of local legends at my annual Moreton Volunteer Awards. These awards have become an important feature of the...
- Budget (1 speech)
Thank you to the member of Moreton for running through those amazing volunteers that we all have in our communities. It's great to see them recognised. Labor's first budget in nine years is...
- Budget, Australian Public Service (1 speech)
This week the Albanese Labor government handed down our budget. I want to begin by acknowledging role of the Public Service in delivering that budget. As a former Treasury official, I know the...
- Budget (1 speech)
Let's not mince our words. Labor's budget fails regional Australians. It fails the people of Mallee, my people. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promised that, if he won government, there would be...
- Migration, Afghanistan (1 speech)
In the 159 days since I have been the federal member for Holt, one of the issues that have been particularly prominent is the blockages in visa processing. Nine years of ifs, buts and cuts by the...
