House debates
Thursday, 11 May 2023
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (1 speech)
I inform the House that, accompanied by honourable members, I waited today upon His Excellency the Governor-General at Government House and presented to him the address-in-reply to His...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (4 speeches)
BURKE (—) (): I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the resolution agreed to by the House on 9 May 2023 relating to the time and order of...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Zone (0 speeches)
- Proposed Works (1 speech)
I move: That, in accordance with section 5 of the Parliament Act 1974, the House approves the following proposal for works in the Parliamentary Zone which were presented to the House on 9 May...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Eurovision Song Contest (1 speech)
I'm asking everyone to get behind WA progressive metal band Voyager as they represent Australia at the Eurovision song contest this week. Eurovision will see Bunbury's Ashley Doodkorte play as...
- Bennelong Electorate: Budget (1 speech)
The cost of living is one of the things brought up with me the most in Bennelong. People are struggling not just with big-ticket items like the cost of housing and education but also with the...
- Victoria Government: Lockdowns (1 speech)
When the COVID lockdowns began, we were told we were all in this together. But residents of public housing towers in Flemington and also North Melbourne, in my electorate, quickly found out this...
- Run for the Voice (1 speech)
I rise to speak about a community event that I hosted in my electorate of Pearce last week, which was inspiring and incredibly uplifting due to the commitment of a man who is putting his body on...
- Maranoa Electorate: Cooladdi (1 speech)
Today I rise to recognise the special achievement of one of the most unique towns in my electorate. Cooladdi, between Quilpie and Charleville in western Queensland, has recently taken out the...
- Spence Electorate: Immanuel Lutheran School, Mother's Day (1 speech)
I must say that this has been quite a big week, to say the least. It's also safe to say that good things come in twos. This week marks the second budget that's been delivered by the Treasurer and...
- Macquarie Point Stadium (1 speech)
The budget confirmed what many Tasmanians feared: that the federal government has fallen for the Tasmanian government's scandalous con job and will indeed go ahead and fund a third AFL stadium in...
- Macquarie Electorate: Telecommunications (1 speech)
The Hawkesbury and Blue Mountains have mobile phone black spots which, for the entirety of the nearly 10 years of the previous government's reign, I have been pleading for help with. With the...
- Capricornia Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
This Labor-Greens government is so engrossed by hitting climate targets they are willing to do absolutely anything to meet their goals, even if it means that they flood one of Australia's most...
- Holt Electorate: St Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church (1 speech)
I was honoured to represent the people of Holt at a dedicated mass for the new St Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Clyde North. Both local community members and dignitaries attended this...
- Berowra Electorate: King's Coronation Family Picnic (1 speech)
Last Saturday over a thousand people from across the Berowra electorate gathered together for the King's Coronation Family Picnic in Fagan Park in my electorate. The sun was shining and the mood...
- Fraser Electorate: Community Bike Hub (1 speech)
Behind Footscray's Community Bike Hub is a great story. For more than 10 years, volunteers have been repairing donated bikes for people in need, including refugees and asylum seekers. More than...
- Farrer Electorate: Riverina Field Days (1 speech)
After the pressures of another budget week, I rise to invite every member of the House to unwind at this year's Riverina Field Days. The two-day event is staged at Griffith, in the New South...
- Bendigo Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
Last week I had the opportunity to visit three schools in my electorate. We can really get an insight into what's being discussed at home and in the classroom when you speak to school students....
- Budget (1 speech)
One of the sad things about being in opposition is that you've a lot of spare time to pore through budget papers. As an accountant, I'm perplexed by some of it. I note that inflation in the...
- Australia Post (1 speech)
My office has received a large number of approaches about the impending closure of the Oaklands Park post office at Westfield Marion Shopping Centre. Of all the post offices in the area, the...
- Hummingbird House (1 speech)
Hummingbird House is a critical organisation that delivers essential support to families in Queensland. It's Queensland's only children's hospice. It sits just outside my electorate of Petrie. It...
- Battle of the Coral Sea: 81st Anniversary (1 speech)
On Sunday evening, I attended an event on the Esplanade in Darwin which was to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea, which is often referred to as the battle that saved...
- Stronger Communities Program (1 speech)
The Learmonth Cemetery rotunda construction received $20,000 for a rotunda for the internment of ashes in the electorate of Ballarat. In Rankin, the Stretton State College P&C Association...
- Barker Electorate: Health Care (2 speeches)
I want to take the opportunity to tell the House about a circumstance that's finding itself playing out in Barker. In 2019, the coalition government secured $4.3 million for radiation therapy in...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Elstob, Mr Ronald Charles (Ron) (1 speech)
I wish to inform the House of the death, on 16 March 2023, of Ronald Charles Elstob, a former senator. Ronald Elstob represented the state of South Australia from 1978 to 1987. As a mark of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Migration (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, as a great multicultural society, we all support a well-planned migration program. However, given that we are in the middle of a housing and...
- Budget, Medicare (2 speeches)
REID () (): My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. Why is it so important for the government to make it easier for Australians to see a bulk-bill doctor? What approaches has the...
- Housing (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing. AMP Chief Economist Dr Shane Oliver has noted 'the resurgence in underlying demand on the back of very high immigration' and that 400,000 arrivals this...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How does the Albanese Labor government's second budget address the cost-of-living pressures facing Australian households rather than adding to them? Are there any...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Higher Education Contribution Scheme (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. University students across the country will be forced to pay an additional seven per cent on top of their already exorbitant HECS debt. This will impact young...
- Budget (34 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Albanese Labor government is making significant investments in women. How will the budget work to improve the lives of Australian women both now and into...
- Budget: Defence (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. How does the budget clean up the mess left in defence and deliver the priorities outlined in the Defence Strategic Review? What has been the response?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Giles, Hon. Adam (1 speech)
Before I call the member for Griffith, I would like to advise that in the gallery today is the former chief minister of the Northern Territory the Hon. Adam Giles.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Universities (11 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Angus Shepherd completed his PhD last year with a HECS debt of $48,000. He was set to pay back around $1,500 of his debt in his next tax return. But with Labor's...
- Regional Australia (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories. What approaches has the Albanese Labor government changed in order to better deliver for regional...
- Budget (16 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. In April 2022 you told the Australian public that there would be no tax increases under a Labor government. Why have you broken this promise by increasing taxes...
- National Electric Vehicle Strategy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. In the government's recently released National Electric Vehicle Strategy, the government committed to working in consultation with...
- Budget: Vocational Education and Training (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Skills and Training. What action is the Albanese Labor government taking through its responsible and practical budget to reduce cost-of-living pressures and to...
- Budget: Infrastructure (14 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In 2019 the Prime Minister said that population growth driven by migration was causing strain on our big cities, and was a wake-up call to fast-track...
- Budget (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Aged Care. How will the Albanese Labor government's historic aged-care investment make the industry better as a whole?
- Wages (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering on its commitment to get wages moving? How long has this been a policy of...
- Cost Of Living (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Stuart from Louth Park says, 'The cost of living is the biggest thing on our minds right now.' Stuart says that his wife had to go back to work sooner after...
- Budget (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How has the Albanese Labor government developed the policies that were funded in this week's budget?
- Energy (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Mildura Fruit Juices Australia in my electorate of Mallee has had to reduce its intake of grapes this season, as the energy cost to evaporate into grape...
- Budget: Veterans (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs. How will the Albanese Labor government's budget measures assist Australia's veteran community?
- Budget (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Andrew Boak of Goldman Sachs says that Labor's budget is likely to impact on interest rates: The risks are skewed to more tightening being required and...
- Medicare, Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. How is the Albanese Labor government continuing to build on Medicare and the PBS? How has the government's approach been consistent with...
- 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,...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Sinking of AHS Centaur: 80th Anniversary (2 speeches)
This Sunday marks the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the AHS Centaur, just 30 nautical miles off North Stradbroke Island in my electorate of Bowman. The Centaur remains one of our nation's...
- 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.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Migration (24 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Wannon 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)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 6, government business, be postponed until the next sitting. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2023-2024; Second Reading (1 speech)
On Tuesday night, the Treasurer spoke for 30 minutes about our country's future. Australians listened intently in the hope that the promised cost-of-living relief would be delivered. It wasn't,...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Kerin, Hon. John Charles, AM, AO, FTSE (10 speeches)
When you're a brand new journalist, a city girl fresh in the Canberra press gallery, and your radio station tells you that as well as being a political reporter you're the rural reporter and...
- West, Hon. Stewart John (6 speeches)
Today I pay my respects to the honourable Stewart West, who passed away on 29 March 2023. I also would like to acknowledge Stewart's contribution to the Australian parliament and our community....
- Yunupingu, AM (4 speeches)
It was with great sadness that I learnt of the passing of Dr Yunupingu AO on 3 April this year. It wasn't unexpected, Yunupingu's health had been declining, but, nevertheless, when the news came...
- Gyngell, Mr Allan, AO (6 speeches)
I rise to pay my respects and express my deep sadness at the passing of Allan Gyngell AO. Allan was one of Australia's finest foreign policy minds, as you would know, Deputy Speaker Wilkie; and...
- Olsen, Mr John Henry, AO, OBE (1 speech)
It's a real privilege to rise in this chamber this evening to pay tribute to the late John Olsen AO, OBE. John was an iconic Australian artist, a storyteller, a poet, a larrikin who could wear a...
