House debates
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Cybersafety (10 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Banks from moving the following motion immediately— That the House notes: (1) the...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment (Prohibited Hate Symbols and Other Measures) Bill 2023, Australian Human Rights Commission Amendment (Costs Protection) Bill 2023, Attorney-General’s Portfolio Miscellaneous Measures Bill 2023, Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Accountability and Fairness) Bill 2023; Reference to Federation Chamber (1 speech)
I declare that, unless otherwise ordered, the Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment (Prohibited Hate Symbols and Other Measures) 2023, the Australian Human Rights Commission Amendment (Costs...
- Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment (Prohibited Hate Symbols and Other Measures) Bill 2023; Second Reading (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment (Prohibited Hate Symbols and Other Measures) Bill 2023. I say upfront that the coalition supports the key measures in this bill. The...
- Australian Human Rights Commission Amendment (Costs Protection) Bill 2023; Second Reading (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the Australian Human Rights Commission Amendment (Costs Protection) Bill 2023. It is appropriate to start by reflecting on the genesis of this bill and the objectives it should...
- Attorney-General’s Portfolio Miscellaneous Measures Bill 2023; Second Reading (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the Attorney-General's Portfolio Miscellaneous Measures Bill 2023. Typically, these kinds of omnibus bills are used by a government to bring forward a series of procedural or...
- Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Accountability and Fairness) Bill 2023; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I rise to speak on the Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Accountability and Fairness) Bill 2023. This is the 15th tax bill from a government that promised the Australian people it wouldn't raise...
- Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) Bill 2023; Consideration in Detail (2 speeches)
I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill. I move: SHEET PC100 (1) Clause 2, page 3 (after table item 20), insert: (2) Schedule 1, page 112 (after line 10), after Part 14,...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Reserve Bank of Australia (1 speech)
WATSON-BROWN ( ) ( ): RBA governor Michele Bullock says you shouldn't go to the dentist or the hairdresser because you'll cause inflation. I've got a dentist appointment this Friday, I'm so...
- Wollotuka Institute: 40th Anniversary (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate the Wollotuka Institute, a centre of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander excellence at the University of Newcastle, on their 40th anniversary. Since 1983 Wollotuka has...
- Surf Life Saving Queensland Point Danger Branch: 100th Anniversary (1 speech)
Friday last week marked the start of the year-long countdown to the 100th anniversary of Surf Life Saving Queensland's Point Danger Branch. What a fabulous milestone and achievement that will be....
- Racism (1 speech)
I rise to thank the more than 600 leaders of the Australian community who took a stand against antisemitism. There has been a more than 482 per cent increase in incidents of antisemitism in...
- Launceston Legacy (1 speech)
Today I want to acknowledge the fantastic volunteers from Launceston Legacy. Jan, Geraldine and Cathy volunteer their time, week after week, to place wellbeing calls across northern Tasmania as...
- Conway, Lalie (1 speech)
I would like to commend Lalie Conway from my electorate of Robertson, who is a rising young tennis star on the Central Coast. Lalie is only 12 years old. She attends Kincumber High School and is...
- Calare Electorate (1 speech)
The families and homes of MPs should never be the target of political attacks. Last week I received a package sent via Australia Post to my home. The sender's address on the package appeared to...
- Ausmusic T-Shirt Day (1 speech)
I want to speak about Ausmusic T-Shirt Day, which is on this coming Thursday 30 November. It's a fantastic initiative to raise funds for Support Act, which is a music industry charity. It...
- Moncrieff Electorate (1 speech)
It's been a difficult year for many Gold Coasters in the midst of the Prime Minister's cost-of-living crisis, and there will be no relief any time soon for those families who are doing it tough....
- Harinath, Dr Gorur Krishna, OAM (1 speech)
I'd like to take this opportunity to reflect on the life and legacy of Gorur Krishna Harinath OAM, who passed away on 18 November. Dr Hari, as he was affectionately known, arrived in Australia in...
- Youth Voice in Parliament Week (1 speech)
The Raise Our Voice Australia campaign allows our young people to express their vision for our nation's parliament. Today I'm thrilled to speak on behalf of 12-year-old Grace McMahon, from my...
- Malaysia (1 speech)
I was very honoured to visit Malaysia recently as part of our official parliamentary delegation with my fellow members of this House. It was an opportunity to visit the country of my birth and...
- Renewable Energy: Protests (1 speech)
I rise today to say that we're getting close to the end of the year but I'm going to be part of a process of ending the year as we're going to start it next year. We have been trying so hard to...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
The Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, the union for workers in retail, fast food and warehousing, has recently launched a class action against Aldi. The class action is the...
- Albanese Government (1 speech)
A headline this week in the Australian newspaper: 'Voters abandon Anthony Albanese as Labor's fortunes nosedive.' You sit and wonder: how did it all go so terribly wrong? Let me have a small...
- Gubecka, Ms Chelsea (1 speech)
Hailing from St George in outback Queensland, I swam in the Balonne River and surfed through a couple of heatwaves as a kid, but being a 10-kilometre marathon swimmer was certainly never anything...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
Recently I met with a young couple from Coombabah who have two young school-age children and a mortgage. These are aspiring middle-class Australians who want to give back to their community...
- Medicare (1 speech)
I've got great news for the House. This government's tripling of the bulk-billing incentive has made a profound change in my electorate of Bendigo. I can proudly say that 18 of the 20 medical...
- Member for Dunkley (4 speeches)
We all know that courage comes in many forms. From my experience, you will see courage on the sporting field, in our health and emergency service workers, and in our Australian Defence Force...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Stevens, Mr Charles Hinchcliffe (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. As the Prime Minister is aware, earlier this month Charlie Stevens, the son of the South Australian Commissioner of Police Grant Stevens, tragically passed...
- Energy (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. How is the Albanese Labor government working to ensure reliable and affordable electricity? What obstacles has the government faced?
- International Relations: Australia and China (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, Australian sailors were injured by the reckless actions of the PLA navy. Why didn't the Prime Minister raise the issue in his meeting with...
- Housing Affordability (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing and Homelessness. How will the Albanese Labor government's Help to Buy scheme help Australians get into their own home, and how does it fit into the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Housing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In August, National Cabinet committed to strengthening renters' rights by ending no-grounds evictions, limiting rent increases to once a year and phasing in...
- Murray-Darling Basin Plan (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Water. How is the Albanese Labor government working to deliver the Murray-Darling Basin Plan after a decade of delay, and why is it...
- Taxation (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing. I refer her to her trainwreck interview this morning on ABC News Breakfast.
- Cost of Living (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How are the Albanese Labor government's actions to relieve cost-of-living pressures specifically helping Australian women?
- Immigration Detention (23 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs. When was the minister first made aware that, after he released 141 hardcore criminals, one of those...
- Economy (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Under Labor net disposable income has fallen by more than five per cent and interest rates have gone up 12 times. Our inflation is home grown, and we now...
- Community Safety (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs. How is the Albanese government working to change laws to keep the community safe, and what approaches has...
- Climate Change: Protests (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Ahead of the global climate summit, thousands have blockaded the world's—
- Vaping (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. How is the Albanese Labor government taking action on vaping to protect the health of Australians, particularly our children? Why is...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Montevideo Maru (3 speeches)
ALBANESE (—) (): Last night at the Australian War Memorial I had the privilege of attending a dinner commemorating the sinking of the Montevideo Maru on 1 July 1942. After that event, which...
- Dodson, Senator Patrick (2 speeches)
At today's caucus meeting, Senator Patrick Dodson returned. Senator Patrick Dodson has undergone a long period of treatment for cancer in Perth from his Broome home. He informed me some time ago...
- 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)
- Albanese Government (27 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable the Deputy Leader of the Opposition proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: Eighteen...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Cybersafety (1 speech)
In accordance with standing order 133, I shall now proceed to put the question on the suspension of standing and sessional orders moved earlier today by the honourable member for Banks on which a...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Immigration Detention (1 speech)
I seek to add to an answer from question time. Today our government received reasons from the High Court. We are moving quickly to finalise a tough preventive detention regime before parliament...
- 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. 9 of 2023: Department of DefenceDefence fuel transformation programTranche 2 facilities...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Conference with the Senate (32 speeches)
I have received the following message from the Senate: The Senate requests a conference with the House of Representatives on the following bills transmitted to the House of Representatives for...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Labor Government (1 speech)
As we barrel towards the end of 2023, I wish every Australian had the resources to have a happy festive season, but I'm afraid that will not be the case. I've been an MP in this place for 18...
- First Nations Australians (1 speech)
(): All of us, regardless of race, culture or gender, share a strong identity as Australians wanting to build a common, tolerant and prosperous future together. These were the words of Senator...
- O'Connor Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
Delivering first-class health care in the bush is always a challenge and, with an electorate spanning over 1.1 million square kilometres of regional, rural and remote Western Australia, O'Connor...
- Thang, Mr Jacob, 100 Story Building (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to Jacob Thang, a leader of the local Chin community, which is a persecuted minority in Myanmar. Jacob arrived in Melbourne 11 years ago with his wife and toddler daughter,...
- Casey Electorate: Volunteer Fire Brigades (1 speech)
What makes our region such a great place isn't just the beauty of the hills, the plains of the valley and the Upper Yarra; it's the people—the people who work hard every day to make our...
- Tasmania: Community Events (2 speeches)
When I was looking to write a speech reviewing 2023, I saw that the global headlines have, sadly, brought pain and despair on a daily basis. Russia's war on Ukraine continues and the harrowing...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Warringah Electorate: Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
Intimate partner violence against women and children is our greatest national shame. Women are dying as a result of domestic and family violence at catastrophic levels in Australia—one...
- Parramatta Electorate: Manufacturing Industry (1 speech)
A few weeks ago I was privileged to visit the local Rheem manufacturing facility in my electorate on the occasion of its 70th anniversary. Today, Rheem is one of Australia's largest manufacturers...
- Western Australia: Local Government Elections (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate all mayors, shire presidents and councillors across O'Connor who were elected at last month's WA local government elections. I also thank outgoing council members for...
- Holocaust Remembrance (1 speech)
Turning 'never again' into action is the baton passed down to us as post-Holocaust generations. The Jewish people are rightly seen as the custodians of Holocaust remembrance, research and...
- Page Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
I want to acknowledge 90 years of the Kyogle branch of the United Hospital Auxiliaries of New South Wales. Its dedicated volunteers raise funds to purchase needed items and medical equipment for...
- Maritime Industry (1 speech)
Australia must have a sovereign shipping capacity. It means having the right ships for all our needs. It means ships that are owned and flagged in Australia. It means the ability to build and...
- Space Exploration: Australian Lunar Rover, Riverina Electorate: Coolamon (1 speech)
Coolamon, in the Riverina area of south-west New South Wales, is a place of history. Indeed, the town boasts a nationally significant part in First World War folklore, with a famous patriotic...
- Assange, Mr Julian Paul (2 speeches)
Since April 2019, Julian Assange has been held in the maximum security Belmarsh prison in England as he fights extradition to the USA, where he faces multiple espionage related charges. For the...
- Raise Our Voice Australia (2 speeches)
I rise to read a speech from Abi Julien, a young person who lives in Noranda, in my electorate of Cowan. Abi wrote this speech for the Raise Our Voice program this year, where members raise the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Petition: US-Australia Force Posture Agreement, Brisbane Electorate: Infrastructure, Australian Society: Social Cohesion (1 speech)
I present a petition that has been considered by the Petitions Committee and found to be in order. This petition urges the Minister for Defence to terminate the US-Australia Force Posture...
- Blair Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
In the area of health, there is no greater priority for the Albanese Labor government than rebuilding general practice, and that's why the centrepiece of the May budget was a commitment to...
- Agriculture Industry (1 speech)
I rise to air my grievance with Labor's treatment of Australian farmers. Labor is punishing farmers in almost every conceivable way. It is nigh on impossible to know where to begin when it comes...
- Early Childhood Education (1 speech)
Over the past few months, I have seen just how important our early education system is, not only for the services that it provides for our youngest Australians but for the community as well....
- Live Sheep Exports (7 speeches)
Mr Deputy Speaker, I'm not sure you'll enjoy my contribution tonight, but I know who will, and they are the members of the North Eastern Wheatbelt Regional Organisation of Councils. They...
- Lyons Electorate: Health Care, Medicare (2 speeches)
Improving access to quality health care in Lyons has been a core issue for me since my election in 2016. That's why I'm so pleased to report to the House that construction of a new GP clinic, in...
