House debates
Wednesday, 9 November 2022
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 5 of the Selection Committee relating to consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday 21 November 2022. The report will be...
- Public Works Joint Committee; Approval of Work (1 speech)
I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, it is expedient to carry out the following proposed work which was referred to the Parliamentary Standing...
- Tariff Proposals (0 speeches)
- Customs Tariff Proposal (No. 6) 2022 (1 speech)
In the terms of the printed proposal which is now being circulated to honourable members, I move: Customs Tariff Proposal (No. 6) 2022. The customs tariff proposal that I've just tabled extends...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Korea: Crowd Disaster (1 speech)
In a gymnasium in Seoul rows of trainers, high heels, jackets and Halloween accessories lie spread out on the floor. They are all numbered in the hope that their owners will come to collect them,...
- Braddon Electorate: Local Government Elections (1 speech)
Throwing your hat into the ring and running for local council is a great community service, and across Tasmania local government elections have just finished. I want to officially welcome the...
- Adelaide Electorate: Sport (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the agreement between the City of West Torrens and crows football club to redevelop Thebarton Oval as a new home for the Adelaide Crows. There's no doubt that everyone's...
- Groom Electorate: Jacaranda Day (1 speech)
Nothing gives me more pleasure than to come to this place and speak about my favourite little town of Goombungee. The Goombungee Jacaranda Day festival has been a fixture of the Toowoomba...
- Werriwa Electorate: St Hurmizd Assyrian Primary School (1 speech)
Recently, I attended the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of St Hurmizd Assyrian Primary School. The school first accepted students in 2002, and the first cohort was approximately 76...
- North Sydney Electorate: Environmental Conservation (1 speech)
The United Nations General Assembly has called this the 'Decade on Ecosystem Restoration', and protecting our urban tree canopy offers a unique opportunity at the local level to contribute to...
- Macarthur Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
I recently wrote to every councillor on the Campbelltown City Council encouraging them to publicly push the New South Wales Liberal Perrottet government to urgently act on Appin Road to save the...
- Assyrian People (1 speech)
For hundreds of years the Assyrian people have been persecuted. It has taken the form of kidnapping, torture and public shaming. They were uprooted from their homes and forced to rebuild their...
- Huntlee Tavern (1 speech)
The annual AHA New South Wales Awards for Excellence are the pinnacle of the hospitality industry's event calendar. The awards recognise the best venues in the industry in a range of categories,...
- Royal Flying Doctor Service (1 speech)
There were those who said it wouldn't happen, there were those who said it was a pipedream and there were those who actively stood in the way, but I can tell you it is happening. What is it? It...
- Solo Advocacy Australia (1 speech)
Recently I had the opportunity to meet with a constituent of mine, Dr Gen Ford, the founder of Solo Advocacy Australia. This is a group dedicated to raising awareness of solo households and...
- Busselton Hospice Care (1 speech)
Busselton Hospice Care in my electorate is a wonderful group of local volunteers who provide professional palliative services that offer emotional and practical support, as well as social...
- Hasluck Electorate: Telecommunications (1 speech)
Many people in my electorate are very pleased by the Treasurer and Minister Rowland's announcement about addressing the deficiencies in NBN and mobile phone coverage. Hasluck is situated in the...
- Grey Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
I often rise in this place to lament the lack of country doctors, and I must say I'm quite happy today to have a good story to tell. Dr Holly Deer from Crystal Brook in my electorate of Grey has...
- Little Climate Heroes Playgroup (1 speech)
Last Sunday afternoon, I attended the Little Climate Heroes Playgroup organised by Australian Parents for Climate Action. There I was grilled by some very well-informed children who asked me...
- Budget (1 speech)
Gold Coasters are hurting, and the Treasurer's budget recently failed to outline any plan to assist. Indeed, last week's 25 basis point increase means a Gold Coaster with a typical mortgage of...
- Robertson Electorate: Coastal Twist Festival (1 speech)
On 3 October this year, the Central Coast came together to celebrate diversity, inclusion and LGBTQIA+ pride at the annual Coastal Twist Festival, organised by none other than the Naughty Noodle...
- Wall, Dr Ian Baker, AM (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to Dr Ian Baker Wall AM, who, sadly, passed away two weeks ago and whose funeral will be held this Friday at St Peter's Cathedral in Adelaide. Ian, along with two colleagues...
- National Cervical Cancer Awareness Week (2 speeches)
On Monday of this week I had the pleasure of attending the launch event for National Cervical Cancer Awareness Week. The Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care, Ged Kearney, addressed the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Interest Rates (27 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. At Labor's 2022 election campaign launch, the Prime Minister promised: 'Labor has real, lasting plans for cheaper mortgages.' Yesterday, the Prime Minister...
- Cybersecurity (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs and Cyber Security. What action is the Albanese Labor government taking to protect Australians in the wake of the Medibank data being leaked?
- Budget (9 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. An average family is $2,000 worse off under this budget, with their mortgage going up by more than $1,000 since May. When can this family expect the government to...
- Climate Change (5 speeches)
SITOU () (): My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. How is the Albanese Labor government renewing Australia's international engagement on climate change and how has been...
- Waste Management and Recycling: REDcycle (4 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for the Environment and Water. Australia's largest plastic-bag recycling program has collapsed, and this comes after a series of failures in the industry including...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Advocates and Sufferers of Silicosis (1 speech)
I'd like to inform the House that present in the gallery are a group of advocates and sufferers of silicosis. On behalf of the House, I offer a very warm welcome to you all, and welcome to...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Government Services. We are halfway through the second week of public hearings of the royal commission into robodebt. What have we learned about who was...
- Energy (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. Families will be forced to pay more this Christmas for their snacks like Kettle Chips, Cheezels, and CC's because energy costs for...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Gash, Mrs Joanna (1 speech)
I would like to advise the House we have Joanna Gash, the former member for Gilmore, in the gallery today. I extend a very warm welcome to Jo Gash. Honourable members: Hear, hear!
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Pensions And Benefits (4 speeches)
My question as to the Prime Minister. The Albanese government has fulfilled its election commitment to establish a royal commission into robodebt. How many people were hit with unlawful debt...
- Energy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. How many private properties will be impacted by the construction of 28,000 kilometres of new poles and wires as a result of the...
- Pensions And Benefits (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Government Services. Canberra student Maddie received an $8,000 debt notice in 2018. She was overwhelmed by the debt and was in despair, feeling she was in...
- National Anti-Corruption Commission (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Australians, and I refer to the Prime Minister's answer yesterday regarding the National Anti-Corruption Commission. If the Prime Minister's answer...
- Pensions and Benefits (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. Expectant mother Julie from Curtin was living in a domestic violence refuge and working three jobs when her robodebt notice arrived in 2015....
- Defence Materiel (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. In a national survey, 60 per cent of respondents said that if we were invaded they wouldn't fight. In Europe, war drums are beating; in China, Pelosi's...
- Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme (8 speeches)
My question as to the Attorney-General. Cathy, who lives in Coburg, is a scientist who was on Centrelink entitlements for three months in 2012 while working as a casual at a university. Cathy...
- Energy (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, at a national address on 5 April here in Canberra you promised Australian households and businesses you would cut their power bills by $275 a...
- Housing (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How does the budget help address Australia's affordable housing shortage?
- Asylum Seekers (4 speeches)
My question is to the . Minister, the ALP won the election promising to abolish TPV's, safe haven enterprise visas and the failed fast track process, but we've still heard nothing about how or...
- Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022 (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. What consultation with the business community has the minister and his department engaged in as part of the development of...
- Iran: Human Rights (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Iranian Australians are pleading with us to follow the lead of the United Kingdom, Canada and the EU and impose sanctions against a regime which has violated...
- Broadband (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to boost mobile coverage and broadband for regional communities and expand connectivity on farms?
- National Anti-Corruption Commission (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister and I refer to the Prime Minister's answer in question time yesterday. If union officials exercising powers under a law of the Commonwealth are not covered by...
- Employment (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Skills and Training: How is the Albanese Labor government working with states and territories to help tackle the skills shortages crisis the government inherited?
- Tasmania: Energy (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. On 12 April this year the Prime Minister promised Tasmanian families that his government would 'reduce household prices by $275'. Will the Prime Minister...
- Disability Services: The Field (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Earlier today you attended the launch of the new website, The Field. How will this resource support Australians living with a disability?
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Budget (13 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Brisbane proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The failure of the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Intelligence and Security Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, I present the committee's report entitled Report by statement: A review of the regulation relisting Islamic State...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Calare Electorate: Natural Disaster (1 speech)
I'd like to bring to the attention of this house the plight of more than 20,000 residents, households and businesses in the electorate of Calare who've been without gas after a flood-related...
- Vocational Education and Training (5 speeches)
I rise to commend the Victorian state member for Melton and the Victorian government, who recently committed $45 million to build a TAFE in Melton, in my electorate of Hawke and, indeed, in my...
- Flynn Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
On 28 September the Queensland Premier released a $62 billion energy plan to end Queensland's reliance on coal and become the renewable energy capital of the world. However, the Queensland Labor...
- Robertson Electorate: Mobile Offices (1 speech)
September and October have been busy months in the mighty electorate of Robertson on the Central Coast. My office and I have hosted several mobile offices across the electorate. This is because...
- Budget (3 speeches)
I rise tonight to speak on one of the most critical issues that Australia is facing as we go through a difficult period of inflation and challenge for household budgets on energy prices. The...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Indigenous Health (1 speech)
The whole of Australia is intrigued by parliament and government. When I walk into a pub, they say, 'Who's driving the bus?' As best I can, I try to give an honest answer—which is not...
- Williams, Mr Kenny (1 speech)
Our community and the AFL have lost a legend with the passing of Kenny Williams at the age of 93. Kenny was the Sydney Swans' No. 1 supporter and a lifetime member. He was the team's hydration...
- Mascot Kings Football Club (1 speech)
TLETHWAITE (—) (): On 23 October I was proud to join hundreds of locals to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Mascot Kings Football Club. Mascot Kings is the result of a merger between...
- Far West NSW Business Awards, Rhino Awards (1 speech)
At the moment across my electorate, which is half of New South Wales, we are having extensive flooding. This follows on from a few years ago when there was drought and mice and other things....
- Paterson Electorate (1 speech)
Across my electorate of Paterson, small businesses really are setting and raising the bar. I'm so proud of my region and the way it features regularly in national awards. I want to congratulate...
- Leichhardt Electorate (1 speech)
While I welcome the government's significant investment commitments to the Kuranda Range in the marine precinct in my electorate, I want to raise some serious concerns about the effectiveness of...
- Invictus Australia, Soft Landing (1 speech)
The Tuggeranong Archery Club was abuzz on Saturday with the Invictus Australia inaugural Defence Community Sports Day. Around 300 families registered and came along to have a try of some Invictus...
- North Sydney Bears (1 speech)
I rise to speak about a matter which is dear to many sports lovers in my electorate of Bradfield and across Sydney's North Shore as a whole. The North Sydney Bears played their last season in the...
- Health Care (1 speech)
When the health minister tells a local journalist that general practice is in its worst shape in the history of Medicare, it's clear our government is not sugar-coating how dire the situation is...
- Gelin, Dr Ben Ami, OAM, Gelin, Dr Martha (1 speech)
Today I rise to pay tribute to two much loved and highly regarded and esteemed Bathurstians: Dr Ben Ami Gelin OAM and this late wife, Dr Martha Gelin. Both have been honoured as Living Legends by...
- Jagajaga Electorate: Sport, Youth Voice in Parliament (2 speeches)
I am a proud supporter of sporting clubs in my electorate. From Ivanhoe all the way up to Kangaroo Ground, some of the best local sport in the country is played in Jagajaga, and it is essential...
- Bills (0 speeches)
