House debates
Monday, 12 February 2024
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Petitions Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the 20th report of the Petitions Committee for the 47th Parliament. The report read as follows— HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PETITIONS COMMITTEE REPORT No. 20 Petitions and...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
I present the following 90 petitions:
- Responses (1 speech)
I present the following 108 ministerial responses to petitions previously presented:
- Statements (1 speech)
I want to note that two of the petitions—one paper based, with 12,872 signatures, and one electronic, with 185,795 signatures—concern the conflict in Gaza. From the size of both those...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Intelligence and Security Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, I present the committee's report entitled Annual report of committee activities 2022-2023. I'm pleased to present the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Middle East (7 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that since the House of Representatives' resolution of 16 October 2023 concerning Israel and Gaza, which supported the State of Israel's looming invasion of...
- Economy (8 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that before the election, the: (a) Government promised a $275 reduction in people's power bills; and (b) Prime Minister promised 'cheaper mortgages', and...
- Cost of Living (16 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) acknowledges that cost of living pressures, including the cost of groceries, are putting Australians under the pump; (2) notes that to ensure that Australian...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Tourism Industry (1 speech)
It's no secret that outback Queensland punches well above its weight when it comes to the state's tourism sector. In fact outback Queensland tourism contributes more than $400 million to the...
- Wendt, Mrs Sylvia (1 speech)
It has been quite an innings for Sylvia Wendt who celebrated her 100th birthday last month. A true westie, Silvia has spent 96 of her 100 years in Melbourne's west, spending her childhood in...
- Wright, Connor (1 speech)
I want to wish local cross-country mountain biker, Connor Wright, all the best in 2024. A born talent, Connor has pretty much been racing mountain bikes since graduating from training wheels....
- Water Safety (1 speech)
It has been a horror summer for drowning. Twenty people have drowned in Victoria alone since 1 December, and, with more warm weather predicted, the risk increases. Surf lifesavers do an amazing...
- Queensland: Coalmining Industry (1 speech)
In the past few weeks, the new Queensland Premier, Steven Miles, approved two new coalmines: Winchester South and Vulcan South. We have a new Queensland premier but the same old coalmine...
- Palliative Care (1 speech)
Recently I received correspondence from a constituent named Debbie, who explained her experience with palliative care services on the Central Coast following her husband's diagnosis of lung...
- Wentworth Electorate: Environment (1 speech)
Wentworth is blessed with some of Australia's most iconic beaches. But, sadly, due to the failures of New South Wales state governments and their contractors, one of the community's most...
- Macquarie Electorate: Transport (1 speech)
Today is a great day for the community who use Macquarie Fields railway station. The New South Wales Labor government have announced a long-overdue upgrade of the station to provide disability...
- Tumbatrek (1 speech)
On Saturday with the member for Eden-Monaro, I went on the Tumbatrek. Glen McGrath—not the cricketing 'ooh ahh' Glenn McGrath—is one of the organisers of this trek. There were plenty...
- Evening Under the Stars (1 speech)
I had a great opportunity on Saturday night to attend a wonderful event in my electorate called Evening Under the Stars, which was at the Soldiers' Memorial Gardens in Unley. It's run by the...
- Western Sydney Airport (1 speech)
My community has been campaigning hard. They have been campaigning against unfair flight paths. We are soon to have 220 flights per day at low altitude over thousands of residents in the...
- Road Safety (1 speech)
Thirteen times more likely to die on our roads—that is the statistic for our truckies in Australia. It is Australia's most deadly industry, and what we have just witnessed from the member...
- Flinders Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
My, how ironic. Today is 12 February 2024, 1,776 days since funding was first announced to fix The Forest Drive and Uralla Road intersections with the Nepean Highway in Mount Martha. In 2015,...
- Racism (1 speech)
We are seeing shades of 1930s Germany emerge in Australia. Jewish Australians have received death threats. Families are in hiding. Jewish businesses and the jobs they support are at risk. Jewish...
- Renewable Energy (1 speech)
On Tuesday last week, more than a thousand Australians converged out the front of this building, calling for a Senate inquiry into the economic, environmental and social impacts of...
- Tang, Dr David Minh, Tang, Mrs Tracey (1 speech)
I rise today because I want to recognise the extraordinary contribution of Dr David Minh Tang and his wife, Tracey. By any measure, they are an extraordinary example of the great migrant success...
- Fuel Efficiency Standards (1 speech)
Labor's new family car tax has been announced under the guise of fuel efficiency standards. When Labor first mooted fuel efficiency standards last year, I said the coalition would be constructive...
- Parliamentary Standards (1 speech)
Every member in this place stands here as a community leader, and leadership casts a long shadow. What kinds of leaders do our communities expect us to be? Do they want serious, responsible...
- Albanese Government (1 speech)
Those opposite are setting up quite a legacy. It's a path that's littered with broken promises. There are higher electricity costs despite the Prime Minister promising to save Australians $275 on...
- Nemesis (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, what is the definition of 'nemesis'? According to Oxford publishing, either it is 'the inescapable agent of someone's or something's downfall', as in, 'Injury, consistently his...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Immigration Detention (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs. Evidence in senate estimates has revealed that of the 149 individuals the government has released from...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How will Labor's tax cuts help Australians under pressure, and what is standing in the way of delivering cost-of-living relief to Australians?
- Immigration Detention (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs. Evidence in Senate estimates revealed that, of the 149 individuals the government has released from...
- Taxation (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Why are the Albanese Labor government's cost-of-living tax cuts so important for responsible economic management, and how does that compare to other approaches?
- Gambling Advertising (5 speeches)
This is a question to the Minister for Communications. Last year a parliamentary inquiry recommended banning online gambling ads. During the year of that inquiry, big gambling companies made...
- Taxation (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. How is the Albanese government delivering better tax cuts to support workers across...
- Immigration Detention (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs. Evidence in Senate estimates has revealed that, of the 149 individuals the government has released from...
- Health Care (13 speeches)
My question is to the minister for health. How will Labor's cost-of-living tax cuts help Australia's healthcare workers? How will tax cuts build on the Albanese government's actions to make...
- Immigration Detention (4 speeches)
My question is to the minister for immigration. Evidence in Senate estimates has revealed that of the 149 individuals the government has released from immigration detention—that includes...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. How is the Albanese Labor Government's closing-loopholes legislation helping Australians earn more? How will Labor's...
- Immigration Detention (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration. Evidence in Senate estimates has revealed that of the 149 individuals the government has released from immigration detention, which include seven...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. How will the Albanese Labor government's tax cuts benefit our Australian Defence Force personnel, those at the Department of Defence and workers in...
- Fuel (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, it's heartening to see you changed your mind on the stage 3 tax cuts and taking cost-of-living seriously, but families in Fowler living on a...
- Taxation (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness. How will the Albanese Labor government's tax cuts help tradies building the new homes Australia needs? What has been the...
- Immigration Detention (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration. Can the minister confirm the seven murderers and 37 sex offenders released from detention are all wearing ankle bracelets.
- Taxation (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry and Science. How will the Albanese Labor government's tax cuts help Australian manufacturing workers, and are there any risks to Labor's plan?
- Housing (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Labor's refusal to phase out billions of dollars in property investor tax concessions to property investors like yourself is denying millions of renters the...
- Taxation (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme. How will the Albanese Labor government's tax cuts for every Australian taxpayer benefit those working in the...
- Immigration Detention (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs. Evidence in Senate estimates has revealed the Albanese government has released seven...
- Prisoners of War (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why is it important for Australia to keep telling the stories of Australia's prisoners of war, as they do at the Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial in Ballarat?
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- ASEAN-Australia Special Summit (1 speech)
As members would be aware, on 5 and 6 March Australia will host the ASEAN summit to commemorate 50 years of relationships between Australia and ASEAN. That will be held in Melbourne and will be...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report Nos 14, 15 and 16 of 2023-24 (1 speech)
(): I present the Auditor-General's reports Nos 14, 15 and 16 of 2023-24. Details of the reports will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings. Documents made parliamentary papers.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (14 speeches)
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...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Endometriosis Awareness Month (1 speech)
March is Endometriosis Awareness Month. Endometriosis is an extremely painful disease affecting around one in seven Australian women and teenage girls. It's a long-term inflammatory condition...
- Small Business (3 speeches)
In my job I've been lucky to spend a lot of time travelling all around my electorate. One of the best parts of travelling around the Hunter is being able to see so many small businesses. The...
- Services Australia (1 speech)
I rise to call attention to the declining levels of customer service and the declining performance indicators at Services Australia, which, regrettably, is in the custody of the member for...
- Robertson Electorate: Cost of Living (1 speech)
Addressing cost-of-living pressures is the federal government's top priority. As a government, we have delivered and are delivering a range of measures to help ease cost-of-living pressures on...
- Natural Disasters: Response and Recovery Planning (1 speech)
It's nearly two years since my community suffered one of the biggest disasters in Australia's history, and I want to give the House an update on how our recovery is going. I'd like to say that...
- Albanese Government (2 speeches)
In this inflationary environment, people are hurting. I'd like to pull the veil back as to what's actually going on in my patch. In Higgins, renters are leaving the electorate. I have entire...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Ryan Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
In the northern part of my electorate of Ryan, in suburbs ranging from Upper Kedron through to Mitchelton a number of new developments are happening. On Settlement Road alone there will be 550...
- Coalition (1 speech)
I'm getting in a little bit early to share the love for Valentine's Day today. Labor is red, the Liberals are blue, Teal and Green are colours too. The Greens vote 'no' to housing and tax cuts,...
- Victoria: Public Transport (1 speech)
The Mornington Peninsula deserves better public transport, particularly its rail network. The Mornington Peninsula's population increased by almost 25,000 people over the decade between 2011 and...
- Lee, Ms Belinda, Rossiter, Mr Graeme (1 speech)
The potential diagnosis of breast cancer is terrifying at any time of life, but this situation can be a particular shock for younger Australians. Belinda Lee, a resident of my electorate, found...
- Menzies Electorate: Parish of St Haralambos, Doncaster and Templestowe (1 speech)
We sat here last week, and I was delighted to go home to my electorate for a number of events. One of them is a particularly important event in the Menzies calendar and for the Greek community in...
- Bruce Electorate: Cultural Diversity (2 speeches)
That's actually a lovely springboard into what I was going to say. Bruce, my community, just a little to the south of the Member for Menzies, covering large chunks of the Greater Dandenong and...
- Bonner Youth Advisory Council (1 speech)
Today's students are tomorrow's teachers, doctors, carpenters and politicians. As we continue to grow older, it is our shared responsibility to raise quality members of society who will work hard...
- Health Care (1 speech)
Everyone is getting a tax cut in Hasluck, but they won't have to spend it on access to urgent medical care. That's because the Albanese Labor government has fulfilled its pre-election commitment...
- Cyclone Jasper (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge the recent aftermath of Cyclone Jasper, a natural disaster that struck with ferocity unmatched in recent memory. This unprecedented event was tracked from its...
- Whitlam Electorate: Youth (2 speeches)
For the last 14 years I've been holding an annual youth summit in my electorate. It's a great way to have a direct dialogue with the young people who don't yet get to vote but who have lots of...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Domestic and Family Violence (7 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) domestic and intimate partner violence is a national crisis and whilst impacting all genders, the casualties are overwhelmingly women; (b) on average...
- Education (7 speeches)
I move: That this House acknowledges the Government's commitment and actions to build a better and fairer education system from early education right through to university, by: (1) delivering...
- Early Childhood Education (9 speeches)
by leave—On behalf of the member for Moncrieff, I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) the Government misled the Australian Parliament and Australian people when they falsely claimed...
- Workplace Relations (11 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) acknowledges that through the passage of its 'closing loopholes' legislation, the Government has closed loopholes used by some employers to undercut wages, conditions...
- Australia Day Honours and Awards (7 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) acknowledges the Order of Australia is the highest national honour awarded to Australian citizens for outstanding contributions to our country or humanity at large;...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Queensland: Infrastructure (1 speech)
During the flooding, once again Cairns was completely cut off. The road north was blocked and, for a considerable period of time, the road south was blocked. There are two roads. One is the...
- Great Northern Hotel (1 speech)
It's no secret that I love a good feed and an occasional beer, and there's no better combo than enjoying them both together at a good pub. My electorate has no shortage of great watering holes...
- Coal Industry (1 speech)
Previously I've ventilated in the parliament evidence of widespread fraud in the Australian export coal industry, involving testing laboratories, exporters and auditors. In essence, coal-quality...
- Boothby Electorate: Eden Hills Scouts' Hall (1 speech)
I'm really pleased to be able to inform the House that the long-awaited rebuild of the Eden Hills Scouts' hall and the adjacent Blackwood Rotary building has begun. The existing Eden Hills...
- Middle East: Occupied Palestinian Territories (1 speech)
Hind Rajab was six years old when she had to make an unimaginable call for help. She was trapped in a car with her dead relatives in Gaza city. 'I'm so scared,' she said on the phone. 'Please...
- Taxation (1 speech)
At a time when Australian households have been under pressure, the Albanese government is delivering tax cuts in July for all Australian workers. We're delivering the full value of the stage 3...
- Page Electorate: Grafton Girl Guides (1 speech)
I'd like to acknowledge and congratulate members of the Grafton Girl Guides, who are celebrating their 100th birthday on 26 February. Beginning in 1924, the Grafton Girl Guides comprised two...
- Johnson, Mr Junior (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge and commend Junior Johnson, or the peninsula's answer to Santa Claus, for his dedication to raising funds to purchase presents for children during Christmas. Junior Johnson...
- Fraud (1 speech)
Australia, listen to me. There is a scourge that is running across this country, and it is unabated. It is scamming. In my circle alone I have one very sensible couple who were scammed of...
- Albanese Government (1 speech)
What a fantastic Saturday I had in my electorate of Aston. I was out at the Wantirna Mall for a mobile office. I enjoy being out talking with my constituents. I get to meet so many excellent...
- Petrie Electorate: Crime (1 speech)
It will come as no surprise that Queensland is in the midst of a youth crime crisis. Sadly, I am being contacted every day by concerned people across my electorate, from Burpengary East to...
- Cross, Mr Manfred, AM (1 speech)
Today I rise to remember Manfred Cross AM, who passed away on 30 January aged 94. Manfred was a true stalwart of the Labor Party, first elected to the House of Representatives in the seat of...
- Gillespie Electorate (1 speech)
I'd like to congratulate 16-year-old Dylan Kincaid of the Forster Surf Life Saving Club on his three wins at the country surf lifesaving championship at Warilla Barrack Point on the South Coast....
- International Day of Women and Girls in Science (1 speech)
Yesterday was the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. I would like to take this opportunity to celebrate the amazing women and girls leading the way in science within my electorate...
- Capricornia Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
Today I shed light on a pressing matter affecting the resilient residents of Central Queensland, particularly those bravely facing the battle against cancer. It pains me to share that, despite...
- Fraser Electorate: Lunar New Year (1 speech)
For the past month I've been celebrating Lunar New Year in all corners of my electorate. Over the past weekends, the main streets of St Albans, Footscray and Sunshine have been bustling with...
- World Cholangiocarcinoma Day (1 speech)
Thursday is World Cholangiocarcinoma Day. Cholangiocarcinoma is not a word you often hear. It's a rare and aggressive form of cancer that attacks the bile duct. Because it's a silent cancer, it's...
- Energy (1 speech)
For small businesses, fluctuating energy prices can be a real challenge, driving up costs. That's why I'm excited about the second round of the Albanese Labor government's energy efficiency...
- Surfing (1 speech)
Margaret River's Jacob Willcox is a talented and outstanding figure in surfing. Ten years ago, a 16 year old Jacob actually created his own waves when he beat none other than Kelly Slater to make...
- Australia Day Honours and Awards (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge the residents of the Parramatta and Cumberland council areas who received awards in the Australia Day honours list. These are residents who've made a huge contribution to...
- Riverina Electorate: Tibetan New Year (1 speech)
The Mayor of Wagga Wagga, Councillor Dallas Tout, and I ventured on the 13-kilometre Tumbatrek walk on Saturday, and we were feeling a little worse for wear. Despite that, we were both invited to...
- McGrath Foundation (1 speech)
Over the weekend I had the privilege of attending the Cranbourne Cricket Club's pink stumps day. This event is an annual fundraiser that the club has run for over a decade to raise money for the...
- Casey Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
The community spirit of the Upper Yarra Valley was on full display last weekend. It began with the Jeff Long memorial match between Powelltown and Yarra Junction at Yarra Junction. It was very...
- Fuel (1 speech)
There are only two major advanced economies in the world that don't have new vehicle efficiency standards: Australia and Russia. Thank goodness the Labor government wants to change that....
- Flinders Electorate: Australia Day (1 speech)
At one of the flag-raising ceremonies at my local RSL on Australia Day, I bore witness to two remarkable speeches: one by Peter Rimkevicus, senior vice president of the Sorrento RSL, which I read...
- Renewable Energy (1 speech)
On 4 February, the people of Newcastle came together with representatives of businesses, industry, workers and environment groups to support the newly gazetted Hunter offshore wind zone and the...
- Murdoch, Mrs Carmel, OAM: Australia Day Honours and Awards (1 speech)
Maryborough's beloved cultural figure, Carmel Murdoch, has been honoured with a Medal of the Order of Australia, a well-deserved recognition for her significant contribution to the heritage city....
- Spence Electorate: Community Radio (1 speech)
As members of parliament, listening to our electorates would have to be one of the most important tasks we undertake. In my electorate of Spence, one of the ways I can do this is by tuning into...
- Fowler Electorate: Australia Day (1 speech)
Australia Day is a wonderful day that we celebrate in our community of Fowler. It's something that everybody in our community marks and honours. I want to acknowledge two members of our community...
- Swan Electorate: Lunar New Year (2 speeches)
Gongxi gongxi. On the weekend, my wonderful community of Swan joined millions of people around the world to celebrate Lunar New Year. It's a festival full of colour and festivity—fireworks,...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Financial Abuse (9 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) financial abuse is a form of domestic and family violence; (b) financial abuse has a serious impact on victims and survivors; (c) the rates of the...
- Agriculture Industry (14 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) Jobs and Skills Australia Acting Commissioner, David Turvey, has said overseas agricultural labourers could be included under a new visa for...
- Gender Equality (9 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) recognises the commendable efforts of the Government in addressing the status of women and promoting pay equality; (2) applauds the initiatives the Government has...
- Digital Economy (13 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that the: (a) Digital Economy Strategy 2030 delivered on the former Government's commitment to grow Australia's future as a modern and leading digital economy,...
- Schools (8 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that currently no public schools in Australia, except for public schools in the Australian Capital Territory, are at the full and fair funding level; (2)...
