House debates
Wednesday, 7 February 2024
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 21 of the Selection Committee, relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday 12 February 2024. The report will be...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Leadership Taskforce (6 speeches)
Today, on the second anniversary of the adoption of the Set the standard report, I acknowledge that an unacceptably high rate of people, particularly women, in Commonwealth parliamentary...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
It is with great pleasure that I move: That: (1) the House invite the Honourable James Marape MP, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, to attend and address the House on Thursday, 8 February 2024;...
- Consideration of Legislation (1 speech)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the following from occurring in relation to proceedings on the Treasury Laws Amendment (Cost of Living Tax...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Middle East (14 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Melbourne from moving the following motion immediately—That the House: (1) notes that...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Middle East (11 speeches)
I move that so much of standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevented the House of Representatives from debating immediately the motion moved by the member for Melbourne.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Showcase WA Expo (1 speech)
The Showcase WA Expo held in August last year was a resounding success, with more than 1,000 attendees filling the great hall of parliament to experience and taste the best of Western Australian...
- Holt Electorate: Tamil Festival Australia (1 speech)
I had the pleasure of recently attending the Tamil Festival Australia 2024. The festival, held in commemoration of Thai Pongal and Tamil Heritage Month, was a vibrant and culturally-rich event...
- Hyde, Ms Janette, OAM (1 speech)
If you've lived in Port Macquarie for more than five seconds, you're highly likely to have met our wonderful Janette Hyde. This tenacious lady is involved in some way in more community and local...
- Jagajaga Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
Over the past few weeks I have been really pleased to join community groups and people in Jagajaga taking full advantage of summer to get out and about and be active. Last Saturday, I joined the...
- Labor Government (1 speech)
The political and economic system is stacked against everyday people. Here are a few reasons why. Labor will make more money charging interest on your HECS or student debt than they will off...
- Chisholm Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
Australia's strength lays in the amazing mosaic of cultures that contribute to our communities, and I'm so lucky to represent one of the most diverse electorates in the country—Chisholm....
- Fowler Electorate: Lunar New Year (1 speech)
I, too, stand to acknowledge the upcoming lunar new year festival in my community in Fowler, and it's great to hear that the member for Chisholm is also celebrating this very significant cultural...
- Pearce Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
Another school year has begun, and I'd like to give a huge shoutout to all the schools in my electorate of Pearce. To all the principals, teachers, staff and volunteers right around Australia,...
- Parkes Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
On Australia Day, some outstanding citizens from the Parkes electorate were honoured with an Order of Australia medal. I'd like to recognise Mrs Ruth Sandow from Milparinka in the far west of New...
- Stars Foundation, Clontarf Foundation (1 speech)
The Stars Foundation supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls and young women to attend and remain engaged at school, complete year 12 and move into work or further study. The...
- Black Saturday Bushfires (1 speech)
Today is the 15th anniversary of the Black Saturday bushfires on 7 February 2009. It's a day we remember the 173 lives lost on that day. But we also remember the lives lost in the months and...
- Child Care (1 speech)
Recently I had the privilege of visiting Goodstart early childhood centre in Myaree, where I had a chance to engage with a young parent, who was brimming with joy and gratitude due to the...
- Banking And Financial Services (1 speech)
I am quite angry at the hypocrisy of the NAB, particularly their closure of the Pittsworth branch. If you go to Pittsworth, there's a sign on the wall of the bank saying 'NAB, we think local'. If...
- Australian Passport Office (1 speech)
There are words to define the LNP opposition now, and in their time in government: words like 'mismanagement', 'botched' and 'swirling misery'. It's right across the spectrum of policy, whether...
- Lyne Electorate (1 speech)
Congratulations are in order for Trevor and Edna Brooker of Dungog, who will celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary on 12 February. Trevor and Edna were married at the Congregational Church in...
- Hunter Electorate: PCYC Singleton (1 speech)
I've said before and I'll say it again: we do it the best in the Hunter—and once again we have the awards to show for it. PCYC Singleton was recently named New South Wales PCYC Club of the...
- Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation And Disinformation) Bill 2023 (1 speech)
Labor's misinformation law is an absolute disgrace. It's a law that will be an attack on the free speech of ordinary Australians, with the government going into digital platforms and saying,...
- Road Safety (1 speech)
There were 231 truck crash deaths, including 54 drivers. This is a consequence of unviable and deadly contracts that demonstrate a clear link between low pay and poor safety outcomes. Since 2017,...
- Prime Minister (1 speech)
On 26 July 2021 the now Prime Minister said: An Albanese Labor Government will deliver the same legislated tax relief to more than 9 million Australians as the Morrison Government. On 29 May 2022...
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
There's a bit of blockbuster television the moment, and what an insight it has been into the bin fire that was the former government. On Monday, as we watched Nemesis, we were all reminded about...
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme and Minister for Government Services will be absent from question time for the rest of this week. The Minister...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Under this government, Australians are paying on average $8,000 a year in additional costs. People with a mortgage are paying $24,000 a year—they're...
- Taxation (14 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. How will Labor's new tax cuts provide cost-of-living relief to members of the Australian Defence Force, to public servants in the Department of...
- Prime Minister (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Before the election, the Prime Minister promised a $275 reduction in energy prices, no changes to super taxes, no changes to franking credits, cheaper...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How are Australians responding to Labor's plans to give every taxpayer a tax cut?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- ASEAN-Australia Special Summit (1 speech)
I'm pleased to inform the House that present in the gallery today is a group of international journalists who are visiting as part of the outcome of the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit. On behalf...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Housing (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Under Labor's housing and rental crisis, average rents have gone up nearly $100 a week and mortgages $200, while Labor spends billions of dollars a year...
- Cost Of Living (9 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How will the Albanese Labor government's tax cuts provide cost of living relief for middle Australia, and what are the alternatives?
- Albanese Government (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. On 11 December last year, Treasury was instructed to undertake work that included changes to the stage 3 tax cuts. After that date, the Prime Minister and...
- Taxation (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. How are the Albanese Labor government's tax cuts helping with the cost of living for...
- Prime Minister (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister: On Monday evening on ABC's 7.30, the Treasurer confirmed the timing of the government's decision to break its promise on stage 3 was purely political, and,...
- Taxation (5 speeches)
LAXALE () (): My question is to the Minister for Early Childhood Education. How will the Albanese Labor government's tax cuts help workers in female-dominated industries like the highly skilled...
- Family Trusts (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Farming families and small businesses rely on family trusts to manage their assets. Will the Prime Minister rule out any changes to family trusts or will...
- Aged Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Aged Care. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to ensure that our dedicated and hardworking aged-care workers can earn more and keep more of what they earn?
- Integrity in Politics (8 speeches)
My question is the Attorney-General. In 2015, you said to the then Attorney-General that Australians have a right to know what the government is doing, 'what senior government ministers are doing...
- Vocational Education and Training (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Skills and Training. How is the Albanese Labor government making it easier for Australians to undertake education and training and keep more of what they earn?
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. When did the Treasurer or his office instruct Treasury to undertake work on the legislated stage 3 tax cuts?
- Community Services (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. How will the Albanese Labor government's proposed tax cuts benefit workers in the community services sector?
- Taxation (28 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the government consider implementing tax indexation to reduce the corrosive impact of bracket creep on hardworking Australians?
- Medicare (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. Forty years on, why is it important to strengthen Medicare, and what is the Albanese Labor government doing to ensure that Medicare...
- Taxation (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why did the Prime Minister say on 21 December, when asked about changes to the stage 3 tax cuts 'We're not reconsidering that position', when the Treasury...
- Telecommunications (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications. What is the Albanese Labor government doing in the communications portfolio to support Australians with cost-of-living pressures? What...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 13 of 2023-24 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit report No. 13 of 2023-24, entitled Efficiency of the Australian Passport Office. 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)
- Taxation (21 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Curtin proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Australian tax system is...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Taxation (3 speeches)
I rise to correct an answer that I gave earlier today during question time.
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Middle East (11 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the following: (1) the Member for Kennedy moving: That this House: (a) expresses its strong support for the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Human Rights Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, I present the following reports: Human rights scrutiny report: report 14 of 2023 and Human rights scrutiny report: report 1 of 2024....
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- National Broadband Network (1 speech)
A few hours ago, the National Broadband Network released disturbing new figures about its continuing loss of customers. Under the communications minister, the NBN is facing a customer crisis,...
- Black Saturday Bushfires (1 speech)
Today I rise in acknowledgement of the 15th anniversary of the Black Saturday bushfires. On this day 15 years ago, Victorians awoke to an extremely hot and windy Saturday. It's a day etched in...
- Small Business (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to highlight the ever-increasing burdens this Labor government has been piling onto our small and medium businesses. In my electorate of Cowper and, in fact,...
- Assange, Mr Julian Paul (1 speech)
In two weeks time, on 20 and 21 February, the UK high court is scheduled to hear an application by Julian Assange, who is seeking leave to appeal an April 2023 court ruling that he be extradited...
- Wakelin, Barry Hugh OAM (1 speech)
I take this opportunity to acknowledge the life and the contribution of Barry Hugh Wakelin, OAM, my predecessor and former Liberal member for Grey from 1993 to 2007, who passed away on 19...
- Australia Day Honours and Awards (2 speeches)
A number of exceptional residents from Macquarie were recognised in the Australia Day honours this year, and it's with a great sense of pride that I speak of them here tonight. Our Blue Mountains...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Racism (1 speech)
The last few months have been some of the most difficult in memory for the Australian Jewish community. The horrific attacks on 7 October have not only created a war in the Middle East, but they...
- Medicare: Urgent Care Clinics (1 speech)
It was terrific to be back in Tasmania late last week, in southern Tassie, with my colleague the member for Lyons, Brian Mitchell, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Medicare. It was terrific...
- Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
On Australia Day this year, it was wonderful to be able to share in the celebrations with my local community at the Maroondah City Council Australia Day awards and ceremony and, at the same time,...
- Medicare (1 speech)
I'm so very proud to be a member of the Albanese Labor government that is delivering on the promises we made to the people of Shortland before the last election, particularly our efforts to...
- Hume Electorate: Australia Day Honours and Awards (1 speech)
On 26 January many residents of my electorate of Hume were recognised with local Australia Day awards for outstanding contributions to their communities. I'm delighted to extend my heartfelt...
- Richmond Electorate: Feros Village Aged Care (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the very recent and welcome news regarding the Feros Village aged-care facility in my electorate. After nearly a year the residents now have been given certainty on the...
- Wannon Electorate: Ocean Swimming (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate all the surf lifesaving clubs, right across my electorate and Australia, that have been keeping people safe over the summer. In particular, I commend the surf lifesaving...
- Aston Electorate: Knox Festival, Lunar New Year (1 speech)
I rise to speak and welcome my constituents and my colleagues into the new year of 2024. I hope everyone had a restful and refreshing break and gave themselves a pat on the back for seeing off...
- Herbert Electorate: Tropical Cyclone Kirrily (1 speech)
Australia Day looked a little different in Townsville this year. On the eve of our national day, Tropical Cyclone Kirrily crossed the Queensland coast near Townsville, leaving significant damage...
- Parramatta Electorate: Medicare (2 speeches)
A strong Medicare and bulk-billing are among the most important and valuable elements of our community services. In Australia, health care is a right, not a privilege. In Australia, people have...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Annual Climate Change Statement (7 speeches)
It's with great pleasure that I rise to speak to this Annual climate change statement by the Minister for Climate Change and Energy and to lend my full support. Certainly the Albanese Labor...
