House debates
Wednesday, 6 September 2023
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee (1 speech)
I present report No. 17 of the Selection Committee, relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday 11 September 2023. The report will...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Whistleblower Protection (9 speeches)
I seek leave to move the following motion: That the House: (1) notes that: (a) Mr David McBride, a former military lawyer, is facing five charges relating to the disclosure of information that is...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Whitfords Volunteer Sea Rescue (1 speech)
Whitfords Volunteer Sea Rescue is the second-largest marine rescue group in WA with more than 100 volunteers providing an essential emergency service to our community by ensuring boating safety...
- Women's Baseball World Cup (1 speech)
Two extraordinary Canberra women, Ashley Patton and Maddison Erwin, were recently selected for the Australian Emeralds baseball team and have returned from representing Australia at the Women's...
- Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023 (1 speech)
Labor's shocking misinformation bill is an absolute disgrace—an appalling piece of legislation which would substantially restrict free speech in this nation. Remarkably, the government has...
- National TAFE Day (1 speech)
Today is National TAFE Day. It is a day to celebrate the extraordinary achievements of TAFE students, teachers, trainers and support staff across the country and to acknowledge the important...
- Mayo Electorate: Cooking Cabinet (1 speech)
SHARKIE () (): Back on 9 June, together with Dan Cregan—the member for Kavel and Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly—I held Cooking Cabinet with young people in my...
- National TAFE Day (1 speech)
I love TAFE, and so do people in my communities on the New South Wales South Coast. Today, on National TAFE Day, I want to send a shout-out to my local TAFE campuses, at Nowra, Ulladulla,...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
They've done it again. It's hard to believe, but Labor has made another coal project approval. It's the fifth in a year, and it'll run for 50 years. It's dangerous, irresponsible and reckless....
- National TAFE Day (1 speech)
I, too, rise to acknowledge National TAFE Day and the tremendous work of all our teachers, staff and other support workers. My colleagues and I are united on this. TAFE is an important...
- Gold Coast Light Rail (1 speech)
As many people will know, I have extensively voiced the very genuine concerns of my community about stage 4 of the Gold Coast Light Rail. Transport infrastructure that may well be very...
- National TAFE Day (1 speech)
Today is National TAFE Day. As a TAFE graduate, I am proud today to celebrate the achievements of TAFE students, teachers, trainers and support staff and the contributions they make to our...
- Australian Opal Centre (1 speech)
I'd like to inform the House that construction on the long-awaited Australian Opal Centre at Lightning Ridge has commenced. This project has been in the pipeline for probably 20 years. I've...
- Boothby Electorate: Vocational Education and Training (1 speech)
On National TAFE Day, I would like to highlight the excellent work of TAFE at Tonsley in my electorate of Boothby. The campus is always buzzing with students developing skills to get better paid,...
- Cairns Airport (1 speech)
Over the weekend, the Cairns Airport received the distinguished title of Airport of the Year for 2023 at the Australian Aviation Awards in Sydney, beating all our capital cities. As many in this...
- National TAFE Day (1 speech)
I too rise to speak on National TAFE Day, and I want to give a shout-out to our amazing TAFE teachers and all of the people that work on our TAFE campuses. They have an incredible job to do to...
- Live Sheep Exports (1 speech)
I rise today to welcome a delegation from rural WA, who are with us here in the chamber, representing sheep producers and associated industries already being impacted by this government's...
- National TAFE Day (1 speech)
I rise with all of my colleagues today to celebrate National TAFE Day—and to note that it's just over 12 months since the Jobs and Skills Summit, one of the first actions of the Albanese...
- Multiple Sclerosis (1 speech)
I recently had the pleasure of attending the Galston500, run by the Hornsby Model Engineers Co-op. It was a wonderful community occasion. The Galston500 supports multiple sclerosis research at...
- National TAFE Day (1 speech)
Two hundred and fourteen thousand—that's how many Australians have enrolled under Labor's fee-free TAFE policy. That's 34,000 more than our goal of 180,000 spots, so we smashed it. This...
- Victoria: Timber Industry (1 speech)
Today I thought I'd talk about jellyfish. More precisely, I want to talk about the similarities between the new Labor Party and jellyfish. It's a scientific fact that jellyfish have no brains, no...
- National TAFE Day (2 speeches)
Nine out of 10 new jobs in the future will require post-secondary school education, four of those being vocational qualifications. In South Australia we will need to deliver almost 100,000...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Prime Minister will be absent from question time today and tomorrow, and I will be answering questions on his behalf.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Aviation Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Did the minister or her office have any communication with the outgoing Qantas CEO, Alan...
- Cost of Living (2 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. How is the Albanese Labor government working for Australians to address cost-of-living pressures, and what obstacles has it faced?
- Aviation Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Will the minister advise the dates and details of the conversation she had with Mr Joyce...
- Murray-Darling Basin (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Water. After a decade of sabotage and delay, how is the Albanese Labor government protecting the Murray-Darling river system and every...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Environment (8 speeches)
My question is to the environment minister. Minister, how do you justify approving more coal and gas?
- Economy (3 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. What did today's release of the national accounts reveal about the performance of Australia's economy?
- Aviation Industry (17 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Did the minister have a conversation with Alan Joyce regarding Qatar's application before...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Dissent from Ruling (44 speeches)
PEAKER (): The minister is in order to make sure that—are you seeking the call again, the Manager of Opposition Business?
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Aviation Industry (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. How does the government's decision in relation to the application by Qatar Airways compare...
- Vocational Education and Training (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Skills and Training. Today we're celebrating National TAFE Day, a time to highlight the achievements and importance of TAFE and our VET sector more broadly. How...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Transport and Infrastructure (37 speeches)
I've received a letter from the honourable member for Riverina proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The comprehensive...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before notice No. 5, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Climate Change Authority (4 speeches)
I move: That: (1) the following matter be referred to the Climate Change Authority for review, in accordance with section 59(1)(a)(ii) of the Climate Change Authority Act 2011: (a) the potential...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, I present the committee's Report 211: Protocol amending the Marrakesh agreement establishing the World Trade Organization agreement on...
- Human Rights Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, I present the committee's report, incorporating a dissenting report, entitled Human rights scrutiny report: Report 9 of 2023....
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Parkes Electorate: Aboriginal Constituents (1 speech)
One of the privileges of representing an electorate like mine is that you get to meet some very interesting people. Last week I got to meet some young ladies who were part of the Sistas in Trade...
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
I want all Australians to achieve their full potential, and that includes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. It's wonderful to hear the member for Parkes talk about his Aboriginal community...
- Murray-Darling Basin Plan (1 speech)
I've been an optimistic sort of guy since I've come to this place, and I've tried to share that around as much as I can. But I do have to report that today is a very depressing day for my...
- Macarthur Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
Over 20 koalas have died on Appin Road this year—there were another three yesterday—together with countless wallabies, wombats, possums, gliders, snakes, lizards and birds. I've lost...
- National TAFE Day (1 speech)
Well, it's 10 to eight here in Parliament House tonight, and I just want to send a big shout-out to everyone who might have been at TAFE today or, indeed, who is at TAFE tonight, because today is...
- Energy Prices (1 speech)
I rise tonight to inform people of a part explanation for why the Minister for Climate Change and Energy keeps standing up in this place and saying that renewable energy is the cheapest form of...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Discrimination: Sport (1 speech)
The AFL is the only elite professional sporting code in the world without a single male player to publicly come out as gay—not one, past or present. You may be wondering why that is. The...
- National Child Protection Week (1 speech)
This week is National Child Protection Week. Nothing is more important to all of us here than keeping our children safe. I want to take this opportunity to talk about the vital work the Albanese...
- Health Care (1 speech)
I've spoken often in this place about regional health and the resources that we need to keep our population safe and healthy. We're in desperate need of pathways to attract more GPs, which the...
- Bendigo Electorate: Community Organisations (1 speech)
In the last few months, I've had the opportunity to touch base with, and visit, a number of community and neighbourhood houses and centres in my electorate. I try to do this annually because it...
- Parkes Electorate: Education (1 speech)
Australia is blessed to have a parliament with traditions that go back hundreds of years. I think it's really important that younger Australians learn about the parliamentary process, because, if...
- headspace Kiama (1 speech)
A major milestone occurred last week with the lease signed for the new headspace in Kiama. The Kiama headspace is a much longed for support service for our young people in the Kiama municipality,...
- Medicinal Cannabis (1 speech)
I stand before you today as a very happy man, both elated and deeply gratified, to be able to inform members in this place that Cairns, a region that I have the honour of representing, is now...
- Singleton Business Awards (1 speech)
I was honoured to have the chance to attend the Singleton Business Awards, and I'm thrilled to say that business in Singleton is thriving. I want to take this opportunity to recognise and...
- Hope Challenge, KYDS (1 speech)
On 27 August I was privileged to attend the Hope Challenge at Loftberg Oval in West Pymble, an annual eight-hour game of touch football where registered players seek sponsorship for each hour...
- Butters, Mr Zak, Keeley's Cause (2 speeches)
With the might Geelong Cats, sadly, out of the running this year, I will be cheering for the Port Adelaide club through September for the first time. While this is unorthodox for a Geelong...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That order of the day No. 1, government business, and order of the day No. 1, statements, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Homelessness (1 speech)
I rise today to discuss National Homelessness Week. National Homelessness Week aims to raise awareness of the impact of homelessness and the solutions needed to end homelessness. During the week,...
- National TAFE Day (2 speeches)
It is a real privilege to be able to speak about the incredible TAFEs that I have in my electorate of Macquarie. From Katoomba and Wentworth Falls, up the top of the mountains, through to the...
- Women's Health Week (6 speeches)
Every woman has a story of experiencing bias in the healthcare system, a story of being dismissed or ignored, a story of delayed diagnosis, a story of overmedication, a story of not being heard....
