House debates
Thursday, 1 June 2023
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statute Law Amendment (Prescribed Forms and Other Updates) Bill 2023; Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. The Statute Law Amendment (Prescribed Forms and Other Updates) Bill 2023 amends 85 Commonwealth acts to enhance administration and promote...
- Creative Australia Bill 2023, Creative Australia (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023; Second Reading (9 speeches)
As the member for Wills, I know how important the arts are to my community and of course, more broadly, to society in general. Wills, in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, has a magnificent arts...
- Creative Australia Bill 2023, Creative Australia (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023; 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.
- Creative Australia (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023; 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.
- Excise Tariff Amendment (Product Stewardship for Oil) Bill 2023, Customs Tariff Amendment (Product Stewardship for Oil) Bill 2023; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I'm happy to rise today to speak on the Excise Tariff Amendment (Product Stewardship for Oil) Bill 2023. From the outset, I'd like to point out that it was a coalition government that devised the...
- Excise Tariff Amendment (Product Stewardship for Oil) Bill 2023, Customs Tariff Amendment (Product Stewardship for Oil) Bill 2023; 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.
- Customs Tariff Amendment (Product Stewardship for Oil) Bill 2023; 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.
- Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority Amendment (Disclosure of Information) Bill 2023; Second Reading (23 speeches)
I rise to speak on the Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority Amendment (Disclosure of Information) Bill 2023. This bill amends the Australian Organ and Tissue...
- Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority Amendment (Disclosure of Information) Bill 2023; 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.
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Beecroft Rotary Club Youth Awards (1 speech)
Recently, I presented the Beecroft Rotary Club Youth Awards. These awards recognise students in years 11 and 12 who have pursued their passions while making an impact on their community. The...
- Cricket ACT Hall of Fame (1 speech)
Last Thursday, Cricket ACT announced ACT and Australian Indigenous cricketer Neil Bulger as the 15th member of the Cricket ACT Hall of Fame. Neil first came to Canberra in 1972 to play League,...
- Health Care (4 speeches)
I rise to appeal directly to those opposite, those government members covertly mentioned in today's edition of The Australian, for their non-role in Labor's 60-day scripts change from September....
- Eating Disorders (1 speech)
Eating disorders are one of the hardest mental illnesses to treat and they are the most lethal. We're providing $70 million of additional funding for innovative programs to treat mental...
- Timms, Ms Maree (1 speech)
Today I rise to celebrate a local Indi science educator. Wangaratta's Digital Technologies Advisory Committee was recently awarded a National Science Week grant for its Inspired By Tech Regional...
- Racing Together (1 speech)
Recently I was delighted to attend the opening of Racing Together's new headquarters in garages at Queensland Raceway, Willowbank, in my electorate, the home of motorsport in Queensland. Racing...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
Today I hosted an international climate policy panel with my co-chairs of the Parliamentary Friends of Climate Action. We heard from the US ambassador Caroline Kennedy, the UK high commissioner...
- Pearce Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
The community in my electorate of Pearce welcomes federal government Black Spot funding that will improve safety on our local roads. The funding totals more than $2.3 million across three...
- Motor Neurone Disease (1 speech)
As MPs we are privileged to meet plenty of extraordinary Australians. I include Neale Daniher in my list of courageous, humble, selfless and inspirational people that I have had the honour to...
- International Workers Memorial Day (1 speech)
Just over a month ago, 28 April was International Workers Memorial Day, a day when we remember those workers who never came home after leaving for work. It is a day to remember those who have...
- Margaret River Pro (1 speech)
Congratulations to the organisers, the competitors and the volunteers in this year's hugely successful Margaret River Pro. The Margaret River Pro is one of only two Australian events on the...
- Chisholm Electorate: Friends of Damper Creek Conservation Reserve (1 speech)
GARLAND () (): On Sunday I was absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to spend time with the Friends of Damper Creek Conservation Reserve, a wonderful group in Chisholm. What an amazing day...
- Lindsay Electorate: Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (1 speech)
Recently I had a roundtable meeting with local pharmacists from across Lindsay to discuss the Albanese Labor Government's new 60-day dispensing rule. This new rule reduces the income pharmacies...
- Employment: Women (1 speech)
With so many challenges, who can afford to leave female firepower on the table? In one year of the Albanese government, records are being smashed. Women's employment is at a 50-year record high....
- Flinders Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
Today I rise to share some commitments for Flinders from an excellent press release dated 31 July 2018, because I think they might have been forgotten. It reads: 'Labor will deliver Frankston to...
- Climate Change (3 speeches)
This morning I attended the Parliamentary Friends of Climate Action's briefing on international climate policy, where we heard from US ambassador Caroline Kennedy, EU ambassador Gabriele...
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (1 speech)
There aren't too many businesses in regional Australia that are as relied upon and as trusted as our local pharmacies. They are part of our community, and we trust them with our most sensitive...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
Yesterday this House delivered on another Albanese Labor government election commitment and passed legislation strengthening the role of the Inspector-General of Live Animal Exports. Importantly,...
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (2 speeches)
Promises are important and, if you make one, you should keep it. Unfortunately with the government, they don't keep their promises. Take this letter from the Minister for Health and Aged Care to...
- Moreton Electorate: Africa Day Festival (2 speeches)
Last Saturday I was lucky to join President Beny Bol of the Queensland African Communities Council for their annual Africa Day Festival in Acacia Ridge. This festival in my electorate provides a...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, sadly for Australian families when it comes to economic management Labor doesn't have a clue. The government has delivered two budgets and...
- Early Childhood Education (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Early Childhood Education. One month from today, the Albanese Labor government's changes to make early learning more affordable will come into effect. How will...
- Australian Defence Force (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In November, in an interview with the Australian newspaper, the Prime Minister said he would spend whatever was necessary to produce the defence force that...
- National Anti-Corruption Commission (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. How has the Albanese Labor government delivered on its key commitment to establish a National Anti-Corruption Commission after almost a decade of inaction?
- Interest Rates (3 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Today I spoke with Scott Goodkin, who is from Mudgee and, with his wife, Barbara, runs a small business called Mudgee Music. It is a music shop. Scott also...
- Wages (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. After a decade of wage stagnation, why is getting wages going again central to the Albanese government's economic plan?
- Ministerial Standards (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Through the budget process, this Labor government awarded a $23 million cyber wardens grant without tender, which will benefit the Labor aligned company 89...
- Artificial Intelligence (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry and Science. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to ensure that the growth of artificial intelligence technologies in Australia is responsible...
- Minister For Health And Aged Care (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. I refer to media comments from the minister's office last night claiming that the minister had nothing to declare when ERC awarded the $23...
- Infrastructure (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. How is the Albanese Labor government reversing previous approaches and delivering on its...
- Minister For Communications (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications. According to a recent analysis, the member of parliament who has accepted the largest amount of tickets and hospitality from the gambling...
- Cybersecurity (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Cyber Security. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering increased cybersecurity and resilience to fix the mess left by the previous government?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Smith, Mr Thomas (1 speech)
I'm pleased to inform the House that present in the gallery today is Mr Tom Smith, the state member for Bundaberg in the Queensland Parliament. A very warm welcome to you.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Aged Care. Most recommendations of the aged care royal commission have not been implemented nor have the sector's pleas for more funding been met. As a result,...
- Migration (2 speeches)
My question is to the minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs. How is the Albanese Labor government changing citizenship rules to provide a direct pathway to citizenship...
- Road Safety (3 speeches)
My question is to the minister for infrastructure and transport. This year alone my community of Wide Bay has seen 20 people killed on our roads, with five on the Bruce Highway. The previous...
- Veterans (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs. What steps is the Albanese Labor government taking to improve services and supports for veterans in the Northern Territory?
- Student Debt (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Student debt was indexed today at 7.1 per cent, adding thousands of dollars to the already giant debts from uni fees. Prime Minister, you got to go to...
- Commonwealth Procurement (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Government Services. What are the lessons for the NDIS and the government services portfolio given the evidence before Senate estimates this week on the...
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Voice (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Australians. Does the minister agree with the following statement from a member of the government's Voice Referendum Working Group?
- Albanese Government (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. After 12 months, how is the Albanese Labor government working to bring people together, bridge divides and build a better future?
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Zolotto, Ms Belynda (1 speech)
In the gallery with us today is Belynda Zolotto, who is retiring from the Department of the House of Representatives after 35 years of service. Belynda started in 1987 at Old Parliament House as...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 30 of 2022-23 (1 speech)
(): I present the Auditor-General's performance Audit report No. 30 of 2022-23 entitled Probity management in financial regulatorsAustralian Prudential Regulation Authority: Australian Prudential...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
A document is tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Full details of the document will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Privilege (0 speeches)
- Economics Committee (1 speech)
As chair of the Standing Committee on Economics, I rise to report back to the House on a significant matter that I raised earlier this week. On Tuesday I informed the House of an unauthorised...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Energy (35 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: Rising energy prices and...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Public Transport (1 speech)
There's an incredible blind spot at the heart of city planning and infrastructure, and the blind spot is the car. The blind spot is the belief that if we just replace every car with an electric...
- Housing (1 speech)
MILLER-FROST () (): Prior to coming to this place, I worked in the housing and homelessness sector, so this is something I am passionate about and something I know a bit about. There's been a lot...
- Digital Economy (1 speech)
The Australian economy has experienced significant digital transformation over the last decade. Ride-sharing technologies, online accommodation providers and online shopping are all digital...
- Premier of Western Australia, Western Australia Government (1 speech)
It's been a big week in politics. In this place we've passed the Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023. Also, when I touched down in Canberra on Monday, I...
- Canning Electorate: Lakelands Station (1 speech)
For the residents of Lakelands, Madora Bay, San Remo and Meadow Springs, the wait is almost over. In 10 days the long awaited Lakelands train station will finally open. This piece of...
- International Relations: Australia and Malaysia (1 speech)
Recently I attended an event hosted by the Australia Malaysia Business Chamber. Australia and Malaysia have a longstanding friendship built on shared history, exceptional people-to-people links...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Indi Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
Today I want to share a vision of our rural health workforce. It's a vision to train our next generation of doctors, nurses and allied health practitioners; to attract research excellence and...
- Comrades Marathon, Wreck Bay (1 speech)
In Reconciliation Week, it is appropriate that that House has passed the Voice to Parliament referendum bill, now for consideration with the Senate. It was a pleasure on Tuesday morning to join...
- Bowman Electorate: Telecommunications (1 speech)
Poor mobile phone reception can be a significant inconvenience and safety risk for those living in certain areas of the Redlands. It makes it difficult for people to stay connected with loved...
- Hasluck Electorate: Cost of Living (1 speech)
People all around Australia, and in fact all around the world, are experiencing higher inflation and the difficulties it then causes. It is truly a global problem caused, in large part, by...
- Aukus (1 speech)
It was a pleasure to launch the Parliamentary Friends of AUKUS this week, alongside my colleague, my fellow co-chair from the other side of the House, Luke Gosling MP. The AUKUS pact with the...
- Bruce Electorate: Visas (3 speeches)
We all love to talk about the things that make our communities and electorates distinct. You represent the national capital, a beautiful place—with terrible mobile phone reception, as we...
- Deakin Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
At the same time that this Labor government wants to bring in 1.5 million migrants we're seeing savage cuts to infrastructure projects throughout the eastern suburbs. So for anybody who's dealing...
- Cambodia (1 speech)
I start by offering my congratulations to Hun Sen for his party's crushing victory in Cambodia's recent election. Oh, no, that's right; I may have jumped the gun on this one. Cambodia's general...
- Bushfires (1 speech)
r STEVENS () (): I thank the nearly 1,000 members of my electorate who have signed the joint petition that I established with two of my state colleagues—Jack Batty, the member for Bragg,...
- Swan Electorate: Roads (2 speeches)
Sometimes, when engineers design roads, they do it without foreshadowing increases in traffic flows, and sometimes some intersections are problematic and are known as black spots. I'd like to...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (1 speech)
Trust, truth, integrity and accountability were what voters in Goldstein voted for, and without those things confidence in our democracy suffers and disenchantment with leadership increases. The...
- Environment (1 speech)
In May last year, after a decade of neglect, decay and climate change denial, the Australian people voted for a government that would be committed to delivering real action for the environment...
- Queensland: Infrastructure (13 speeches)
By my count, it's 3,341 days until the opening ceremony of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, otherwise referred to as Brisbane 2032. When we decided to bid for this historic event, we did so...
- Vocational Education and Training (1 speech)
The Albanese government is making an investment of $4.1 billion in what is a once-in-a-generation reform of our TAFE and vocational and educational training sector. It is investing $4.1 billion...
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (3 speeches)
Last Sunday, 28 May, 58 people randomly selected across the electorate of Casey came together to talk about the proposed Voice to Parliament for Indigenous Australians. The attendees represented...
- Silicosis, McEwen Electorate: Diamond Creek Junior Football Club (1 speech)
You can stand up or you can stand by. This is the simple life lesson my dad taught me that has shaped not only my personal beliefs but my political career. It's the reason why I'm in this place...
