House debates
Tuesday, 12 September 2023
- Parliamentary Office Holders (0 speeches)
- Speaker's Panel (1 speech)
Pursuant to standing order 17(a), I lay on the table my warrant revoking the nomination of the honourable member for Higgins and nominating the honourable member for McPherson to be a member of...
- Resolutions of the Senate (0 speeches)
- Climate Change Authority (1 speech)
I have received a message from the Senate informing the House that the Senate concurs with the resolution of the House relating to the referral of a matter to the Climate Change Authority for review.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works I present the committee's report No. 6 of 2023 entitled Department of DefenceFishermans Bend Redevelopment. Report made a...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Friends of School Chaplaincy, Bowman Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
Yesterday, here in parliament, we launched the Parliamentary Friends of School Chaplaincy group. I know that the benefits of federal investment in school chaplaincy programs are well recognised...
- Child Protection Awareness Day (1 speech)
Astrid Hocking is extremely passionate about protecting vulnerable children. She has fostered more than 90 children over 24 years, ranging from emergency stints to long-term stays. Earlier this...
- Hinkler Electorate: Golf, Hinkler Electorate: Australian Defence Force (1 speech)
I want to put out an open invitation to Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles: come up to the electorate of Hinkler. Jump in the Uber Air Force One. Bring the Pings, the Titleists and the...
- Connelly, Ms Rosie (1 speech)
Yesterday at Parliament House, I, along with a number of lucky members and senators, was able to hold aloft the 2023 AFL Premiership Cup as it stopped by on its tour of Australia over this month....
- Housing (1 speech)
When Labor first introduced the Housing Australia Future Fund legislation to this parliament in February, it didn't guarantee a cent of funding for public and affordable housing. As a result of...
- Budget (1 speech)
I'm proud to stand here today to say that, in just over a week, on 20 September, the changes that we committed to in the budget to the social security safety net will commence for so many. I am...
- Vietnam War: 50th Anniversary (1 speech)
I had the honour to attend the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans' Day in Cabravale Memorial Park on 19 August. It's a day that holds immense significance in our nation's history. Together...
- Victoria: Education Workforce (1 speech)
Before the last election, I rose in this place to make a 90-second statement to urge the people of Victoria to vote for an Albanese Labor government so that we could have a Labor federal...
- Durack Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
Every year my team and I attend various local community agricultural shows. So far this year, we've attended shows in Kununurra, Dowerin, Mullewa, Karratha, Port Hedland, York and Mingenew, and...
- Omid Support Services (1 speech)
I had the pleasure of attending the launch of Omid Support Services. I was joined by the state member for Bass, Jordan Crugnale, and the City of Greater Dandenong mayor, Eden Foster....
- Australian Top Tourism Town Awards: Tasmania (1 speech)
The Australian Top Tourism Town Award winners are set to be announced this Thursday. In an amazing achievement, the electorate of Braddon, which covers the north-west of the west coast and King...
- National Week of Deaf People (1 speech)
I believe in an Australia where everyone belongs and everyone can be understood, including deaf people. Next week is the National Week of Deaf People, which is a celebration of the Australian...
- Montrose War Memorial (1 speech)
It was an honour to attend the unveiling of a new World War I plaque on the Montrose War Memorial on Sunday. I want to say thank you to Montrose veteran Doug Hill for unveiling the plaques and...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Australian Constitution: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Australians. Moments before question time, the Australian and the Bunbury Herald reported that Professor Marcia Langton, a member of the referendum...
- Housing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness. What difference will the Housing Australia Future Fund make to Australians needing a safe and affordable place to call...
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Australians. Can the minister confirm whether members of the Voice would be elected or appointed, and how would the government's objective of gender...
- Housing (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How will the Housing Australia Future Fund help ease the housing shortage and strengthen the economy after a decade of neglect?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Services Australia (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Government Services. Constituents from Wentworth and across the country are becoming increasingly frustrated at the wait times, calls not being answered,...
- Housing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How will the Housing Australia Future Fund build a better future for Australians, and is there any opposition to the bill?
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Voice (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Australians. The Minister for Education today said it was 'rubbish' and 'a lie' that some of the people who helped design the Voice are seeking...
- Murray-Darling Basin (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Water. How is the Albanese Labor government protecting the Murray-Darling river system, and why is it important that all members of...
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Voice (42 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Australians. I refer to the minister's previous answer. Minister, can the parliament really override the provisions of the Constitution?
- Citizenship (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering a fairer citizenship system for Australian residents from...
- Australian Constitution: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In an interview with Neil Mitchell three weeks ago, the Prime Minister confessed he had not read the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full. The Prime...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Defence Funding (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. How is the Albanese Labor government cleaning up the mess in the Defence budget, and what obstacles does it face doing this?
- Climate Change (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Water. Next week in New York the UN Secretary-General will host an urgent Climate Ambition Summit with an expectation that developed...
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. How is the Albanese Labor government working with First Nations communities to improve climate change and energy outcomes? How...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (3 speeches)
I seek leave to move the following motion: That this House expresses it's grave concern at this Prime Minister's comprehensive mishandling of the Voice referendum, including: (1) a failure to...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Health Care (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. How is the Albanese Labor government's cheaper medicines policy helping Australians lead healthier lives? What obstacles has the...
- E-Cigarettes and Vaping Products (2 speeches)
My question is also to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. In the May budget I welcomed the government's announcement of stronger legislation and funding to address the rising rates of vaping,...
- Infrastructure (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. How is the Albanese Labor government getting on with the job of delivering the...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- National Flag Day (1 speech)
I remind members that tomorrow morning the flag will be presented in the Great Hall for all members to inspect, and Allan Pidgeon will be joining us with a descendant of one of the original...
- 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.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
I move: That leave of absence from the determination of this sitting until 22 October 2023 be given to Mr R Mitchell and Mr Wallace on the ground of public business overseas. Question agreed to.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Wages (16 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: The collapse of real wages...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (12 speeches)
We're here at this time of the day because the government refused to take this debate during question time, which would be the normal course of events, but I don't think the Australian public...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Eugowra: Floods (1 speech)
The 14 November 2022 was a day the people of Eugowra and our region will never forget, a day seared into every corner of our collective memory, Eugowra's darkest day. On that day, torrents of...
- Golson, Professor Jack, AO (1 speech)
I rise this evening to pay tribute to the life and work of a most remarkable man and friend, Emeritus Professor Jack Golson AO, FAHA, one of the leading figures in Pacific archaeology and someone...
- Regional Australia: Population, Regional Australia: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about two things. The population of Australia, in the budget papers, looked like it would increase by about 525,000 people. That's a lot of people. It's more than live in...
- Australian Constitution: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
By the time this parliament next sits, Australia will have voted for Constitutional recognition through an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice to parliament. It is and it will be a...
- Energy Infrastructure, National Soils Advocate (1 speech)
McCORMACK () (): I will just sidetrack to the member for Lingiari, and I do thank her for her contribution. I do acknowledge that there have been some terrible things said about the Minister for...
- Foster Care Week (1 speech)
This week is Foster Care Week, which celebrates and raises awareness about foster care across the care services sector and within the wider community. The events and celebrations held during...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, Childhood Chronic Illness, Parliamentary Standards (1 speech)
I've had two meetings recently with Australians whose lives have been touched by childhood cancer. One meeting was with Professor Matt Dun, who lost his infant daughter, Josie, to diffuse...
- Nichols, Harrison (1 speech)
Right about now one of the youngest up-and-coming sporting champions from Paterson, Harrison Nichols, is probably getting home from school and raiding the pantry and the fridge, like most...
- Parr, Mr Alan (1 speech)
Just a few weeks ago, on 18 August, our nation commemorated and remembered the brave Australians who went to fight in the Vietnam War. Many Australians served our nation in the Vietnam War....
- Lalor Electorate: Football (1 speech)
September is footy finals time in Victoria, as we all know. We are very excited in the seat of Lalor as the footy finals come to a close in the WRFL. We have the Wyndham Suns in both the seniors...
- Berowra Electorate: Rural Fire Service (1 speech)
There's something awe-inspiring about the Australian bush. It's beautiful yet terrifying, inviting yet inhospitable, a strength in times of reflection and a terror in full fury. As a nation we...
- Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide, RAAF Base Richmond Family Day (1 speech)
When we encourage people to sign up and serve in the Defence Force, no-one can predict exactly what the consequences for that individual will be. Some have really positive experiences, but...
- Riverina Electorate: Light Horse Memorial (1 speech)
It is the right statue in the right place, and here is my acrostic accolade: Light horsemen and their mighty steeds will this Saturday morning be given their due recognition in the city of Wagga...
- Medicare (1 speech)
The healthcare system has been in crisis due to a decade of neglect by the previous government. Under the Liberal-National government, we saw bulk-billing rates fall dramatically, the Medicare...
- September 11 Attacks: 22nd Anniversary (1 speech)
Twenty years ago, I was at Cloncurry. That evening, I went back to my motel room after a rather involved discussion with a person about the railway lines out there. I turned on the television and...
- Housing (2 speeches)
Housing is fundamental to all of us. Having a home that you get to call your own and a stable roof over your head is the foundation that we all need to thrive. Without a stable home, how do you...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Voice (2 speeches)
I want to begin this speech by quoting the foreword to the final co-design report on the Voice. I do so to address the loss of facts in the national conversation about the Voice. I do so because...
- Heart Health (2 speeches)
I'm standing here this evening bolstered by the knowledge that my recent heart health check, which I took right here in Parliament House yesterday, showed that, thankfully, my heart is in pretty...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
I want to use this opportunity tonight to raise a number of issues that are impacting Townsville. They all come down to the one topic that the Albanese Labor government promised they would do...
- Australian Public Service (1 speech)
I rise in tonight's grievance debate to express my concerns over the conditions for scientists, engineers and technology professionals employed by the Australian government. After nearly a decade...
- Forde Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
I'm going to use this opportunity to focus on some of the wonderful positive events in my electorate over the past little while. Last month I had the opportunity to attend the ninth annual...
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
Tonight I am rising to talk about climate change and the action our government is taking to urgently address this pressing issue. It feels particularly important that I rise to talk about this...
