House debates
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Forde Electorate: Community Radio (1 speech)
As many of us in this place would know, community radio is an essential part of our communities and of providing services to various communities right across Australia, focusing on delivering...
- Kyrou, Hon Justice Emilios, AO (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate Hon. Justice Emilios Kyrou AO on his appointment as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia and as President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. I'm particularly...
- Community Pharmacies (1 speech)
I've been speaking with local pharmacists in my electorate of Hume who are deeply concerned about the Albanese government's new 60-day dispensing policy. We on this side of this place, of course,...
- Papakosmas, Mr John (1 speech)
I rise today to recognise a friend, John Papakosmas, who we lost in early April. John was born in 1931 in Greece. As the eldest son of seven children, John had to stop his education after primary...
- Fowler Electorate: Liverpool Civic Place (1 speech)
It was great to be part of the topping out ceremony at the Liverpool Civic Place on Wednesday, 17 May, with Mayor Ned Mannoun of Liverpool council and with the council's partner, Built, an...
- Parliamentary Friends of Australian Children's Storytelling (1 speech)
Tonight in the Great Hall, the member for Leichhardt and I will be launching the Parliamentary Friends of Australian Children's Storytelling. It's going to be a fantastic night, and I invite all...
- Curtin Electorate: Volunteers (1 speech)
I'm constantly in awe of the passion, energy and expertise of volunteers in my electorate. My office is currently working with community volunteers to create a Curtin pathway to net zero plan....
- Swan Electorate: Muslim Women's Support Centre (1 speech)
It's in the DNA of Labor governments to build better, fairer futures for all Australians. It's there in our legacy—Medicare, superannuation, the NDIS, paid parental leave and the...
- Bonner Volunteer Awards, Kambouris, Mr George (1 speech)
Volunteers are the lifeblood of our community, and that's why each year I run the Bonner Volunteer Awards to shine a light on their incredible impact on our community. I must say this year's...
- Holt Electorate: Volunteer Grants (1 speech)
Last week was National Volunteer Week. Volunteers across Australia play a significant role in our society. I use this occasion to announce the successful recipients of the Holt volunteer grants...
- St George and Sutherland Community College (1 speech)
I rise to speak about St George and Sutherland Community College at Jannali in my electorate of Hughes. This college is a community based not-for-profit organisation that delivers nationally...
- Albanese Government (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge the one-year anniversary of the Albanese Labor government. It has been a huge year for the federal government and we are delivering on our policy commitments, from record...
- Children Having an Illness Living in Sunraysia (2 speeches)
I rise to talk about a wonderful volunteer organisation in my electorate of Mallee called CHAILIS. It stands for Children Having an Illness Living in Sunraysia. Although it was officially...
- Chisholm Electorate: Migration (1 speech)
One of the greatest honours of being an elected representative is attending citizenship ceremonies and welcoming people to our community and celebrating the contributions of migrants. I love...
- Dawson Electorate: Tourism (1 speech)
I want to shine a light on three towns in my electorate of Dawson nominated in the QTIC Queensland tourism awards for 2023. First up is my wonderful home town of Bowen. People come from near and...
- Budget: Health Care (1 speech)
From the Medibank of Gough Whitlam through to the Medicare reforms of Bob Hawke, Labor has understood that affordable, accessible health care is important to Australians and to our quality of...
- Dwight, Mr Andrew Luke (1 speech)
Sometimes you get a message on your device that makes time stand still, and for me that happened recently, when Andrew Luke Dwight passed away at 45 years of age on Anzac Day after a 20-month...
- Elizabeth Vale School (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about leadership. Much like a ship without a captain, a school without a principal can be left to flounder. Last week in my electorate I had the good fortune of visiting the...
- Kalgoorlie School of the Air (2 speeches)
RICK WILSON () (): Every year, thousands of school students visit Australian Parliament House to learn about our parliamentary system and witness the parliament in operation during sitting...
- Citizenship (2 speeches)
Our party is proud and I know the 6,000 Kiwis living in Hasluck are happy that the Albanese government has improved our ties with our New Zealand cousins by giving them a direct path to...
- Shadow Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (3 speeches)
on indulgence—Due to the Leader of the Opposition having been in Sydney this morning to meet with Prime Minister Modi, I will be representing the Leader of the Opposition for part of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Energy (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. On election day last year the Prime Minister promised in newspapers around the country that, if elected, he would cut power bills by $275 every year. Prime...
- Medicare (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. How will changes to Medicare announced in the budget make it easier for Australians to see a doctor? Why is this investment needed?
- Wages (21 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In this House yesterday, the Prime Minister said, 'Wages are increasing under this government.' But, Prime Minister, page 6 of the government's own Budget...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Treasurer, how has the Albanese Labor government begun the task of getting the budget back on track in its first 12 months, and how will it continue to strengthen...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Rural And Regional Health Services (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. Our rural health workforce is so thin that both our hospitals and aged-care services have no choice but to pay exorbitant agency and...
- International Relations: Australia and India (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How is the Albanese government strengthening Australia's relationship with India, and what were some of the outcomes of his meeting with Prime Minister Modi...
- Grocery Prices (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. UBS research says the increasing rate of food inflation is a surprise, with grocery inflation likely to remain elevated. The Treasurer says that inflation is...
- Telecommunications (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications. What is the Albanese Labor government doing through the Quad partnership to support cable connectivity and network resilience in the Indo-Pacific?
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How many people-smuggling boats has the government dealt with over the last 12 months?
- Defence Procurement (10 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Why has the Albanese Labor government rescoped the infantry fighting vehicle program following the Defence Strategic Review? What's been the response,...
- Victoria: Infrastructure (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. I refer to the minister's response last year in question time: The money for the...
- Member For Fadden (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Government Services. What questions remain unanswered arising from the Watt review into contracts and procurements?
- Housing (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Your budget spends a staggering $313 billion on Labor's stage 3 tax cuts for the wealthy, giving politicians and billionaires $9,000 a year, but has nothing for...
- Energy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. How has the Albanese Labor government acted to shield Australians from the worst of the global energy crisis, and what will this mean...
- Gambling Advertising (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In my household, as in many other Australian households, footy time is family time. But this time is being encroached upon by the corrosive influence of...
- Early Childhood Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Early Childhood Education. How will the Albanese Labor government's reforms to affordable early childhood education make a difference for Australian families,...
- Energy (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Gas extraction from the Beetaloo basin will detonate a 1.4 billion tonne carbon bomb. The...
- Cybersecurity (15 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Cyber Security. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to clean up the mess left by the former government in cybersecurity?
- Aukus (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Can the minister confirm how Australia will safely dispose of nuclear waste from the new AUKUS submarines?
- Schools (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. What action is the Albanese Labor government taking to make our schools better and fairer?
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Australian Public Service (2 speeches)
Yesterday at 1.30 pm at a Services Australia centre at Airport West, a Centrelink team leader was stabbed by an assailant while doing her job. This is a terrible crime committed against a...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 25 of 2022-23 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit report No. 25 of 2022-23 entitled Governance of the Tiwi Land Council. Document made a parliamentary paper.
- 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)
- Cost Of Living (20 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)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Mallee Electorate: Energy (1 speech)
Mallee is kilometre upon kilometre of prime agricultural and horticultural land. If you haven't been there, I invite you to come. REMPLAN estimates the region's gross regional product at around...
- Modi, Prime Minister Narendra (1 speech)
Last night, my electorate of Reid was the site of what really felt like a rock concert. It wasn't the Killers, John Farnham or even Bruce Springsteen; it was the reception for the Prime Minister...
- Infrastructure: Regional Australia (1 speech)
A few weeks ago I received a phone call from the infrastructure minister, Minister King. She asked me if I would take a position on a committee that she's setting up to look at applications that...
- Lingiari Electorate (1 speech)
I rise tonight to speak about a number of issues in my great electorate of Lingiari. Tonight I just want to quickly touch on a letter sent to me today by a young person in my electorate. Abigail...
- Community Pharmacies (1 speech)
I rise to give a big shout-out to and thank 6,000 community pharmacies for helping us get through the COVID episode, which is, fortunately, in the rear-vision mirror. There is a milder version...
- Pancreatic Cancer (1 speech)
I rise to speak about a story of grief and loss. However, it is also a story of resilience, the comfort of community and the uplifting power of friendship. Within my electorate of Pearce, a...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Environment (1 speech)
Tasmanians are naturally proud of our natural environment, so imagine our community's alarm and sometimes even anger at the increasing likelihood of losing so much that we love. Currently, more...
- E-Cigarettes And Vaping Products (1 speech)
In February last year I spoke in this place about Steven, a distressed father of two young boys, who inhaled from a friend's grape-flavoured vape in a primary school bathroom. Only a week later,...
- Health Care: Pharmacists (1 speech)
As the grandson of a pharmacist, I know pharmacies are an essential service communities rely on. Pharmacists are the front line of health care in our communities. They are professionals,...
- Franklin Electorate: Citizenship (1 speech)
I want to take a moment today to talk about one of the privileges of this job, which is meeting extraordinary people doing what they think are ordinary things in local community but are actually...
- Banking and Financial Services (3 speeches)
Business councils and individuals throughout Australia, particularly regional Australia, including the Riverina and central west, have inundated the Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and...
- Shortland Electorate: Volunteers, Hicks, Mrs Eileen (1 speech)
Last week was National Volunteer Week, and I was fortunate to catch up with some truly wonderful groups in Shortland who have been awarded Volunteer Grants and who are making a real difference in...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
As people right across Australia and particularly in my community in Western Sydney struggle in the face of relentlessly rising cost-of-living pressures, so too do our charity organisations, our...
- Aston Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
I'd like to speak about a couple of fantastic schools in my electorate of Aston. I recently joined principal Liz Swan, her staff and students at Bayswater Secondary College to officially open...
- Budget (1 speech)
N () (): Much has been said about the Albanese government's federal budget and the fact that it has totally ignored middle Australia. Middle Australia are faced with higher prices, higher taxes...
- Housing Affordability (2 speeches)
The Albanese government knows that housing affordability and rental stress are front of mind for so many Australians right now. It's a concern for people in my electorate of Wills and across the...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Humphries, Mr John Barry, AO, CBE (5 speeches)
Barry Humphries was many things: a satirist, a raconteur, an actor, a force of nature. His rise to fame in the 1960s came at a time when Australian cultural identity was changing on a fundamental...
- Maguire, Father Robert John (Bob), AM, RFD (2 speeches)
It is with a bit of sorrow but with immense pride that I stand up to speak to pay tribute to Father Bob Maguire. He was a local legend in my part of the world. A division having been called in...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Protecting Worker Entitlements) Bill 2023; Second Reading (5 speeches)
This legislation, the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Protecting Worker Entitlements) Bill 2023, is really important to me, as someone who has spent the best part of the last decade working in...
- Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Protecting Worker Entitlements) Bill 2023; Consideration in Detail (19 speeches)
By leave—I move amendments (1), (5), (6), (9) to (11) circulated in my name together: (1) Page 3 (after line 8), after clause 3, insert: 4 Review of operation of unpaid parental leave...
- Defence Legislation Amendment (Naval Nuclear Propulsion) Bill 2023; Second Reading (8 speeches)
We are here today thanks to the Liberal-National coalition's groundbreaking work in establishing the AUKUS program. Without the work of the previous Minister for Defence and now Leader of the...
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2023-2024, Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2023-2024, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2023-2024; Second Reading (6 speeches)
It's great that we finally get a chance to speak on this particular bill, the Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2023-2024. This is a responsible budget for a secure future, and for a better future for...
