House debates
Tuesday, 27 February 2024
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Valedictory (5 speeches)
Thank you to all those who have joined us here in the chamber today. I am going to commence my final contribution to this place in the same way I began my first one, in acknowledging the Gweagal...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (5 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 Help to Buy Bill 2023 and the Help to Buy...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Parsons, Mr Cecil (1 speech)
I would like to extend my condolences to the family of Cecil Parsons, known universally as 'Boz', who has died at the age of 105. Boz was a bomber pilot in World War II. He completed 25 missions...
- Rural and Regional Health Services (1 speech)
I rise to again speak about regional health care. Getting an appointment with a GP in my electorate has never been more difficult than it is today. An influx of population coupled with GPs...
- Para Hills Cricket Club (1 speech)
In January the Para Hills Cricket Club celebrated its 60th anniversary with a gala dinner and a night of reunion, reflection, recognition and reminiscing. Established in 1964 when Para Hills was...
- Lindsay Electorate: Luddenham Show (1 speech)
I rise to talk about the amazing village community of Luddenham, which the honourable member for Hume and I proudly share. It will be my pleasure this weekend to officially open the 118th...
- Renewable Energy (1 speech)
Andrew Forrest put it succinctly in his National Press Club address yesterday when he described the difference between a politician and a political leader. The former creates division and...
- Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
I had a person come in. They had lost $32,700 out of their account. They're just an ordinary person. She looked like she'd retired, and $32,700 was taken out of her account. It was robbed from...
- Rochford, Mrs Kerrie (1 speech)
Today I would like to rise to commend Kerrie Rochford on her 40 years of service to Green Point Christian College. Kerrie has a long history at GPCC, where she was instrumental on a committee...
- Housing (1 speech)
There was a time in this country when the great Australian dream of homeownership was the birthright of every Australian. But, with the housing affordability crisis, that dream is slipping away...
- Dunkley By-Election (1 speech)
This Saturday, voters in the electorate of Dunkley have an important choice at the ballot box. Dunkley is an electorate made up of mortgage holders, rent payers and working-class Australians....
- Lyne Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
I'd like to congratulate and extend my thanks to Karen O'Reilly, who, after 40 years of teaching—16 of them at Wauchope Public School—has made the decision to retire. Thank you so...
- Grocery Prices (1 speech)
After Monday last week, many Australians may have felt something known by the German word schadenfreude. That emotion was felt after seeing the Four Corners episode on supermarket power. We got a...
- Sessarago, Mr John (Sess) (1 speech)
I rise to speak in memory of a truly great teacher and mentor, Mr John Sessarago. Sess, as he was lovingly known, was farewelled last week at Fairholme College, a school he had taught at for 36...
- Women's Economic Security (1 speech)
Today the gender pay gap in Australia is at its lowest in history. Last week ABS figures revealed the national gender pay gap has dropped to 12 per cent. This comes as a direct result of the work...
- New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (1 speech)
There's one thing you can guarantee when the Labor Party comes into government, and that's higher taxes. Australians are grappling with a cost-of-living crisis and now Labor is coming for their...
- Gender Equality (1 speech)
What do Aussie women want? They want to be counted, they want to be heard and they want to be paid fairly. The 2022 election saw the highest number of women elected to this place and this is...
- Page Electorate: Dairy Industry (1 speech)
Unfortunately, I have bad news for my community today. Woolworths have withdrawn Norco milk from over 90 of its Sydney stores. Sydney is the biggest milk market in Australia, and this is terrible...
- Housing (1 speech)
I rise to talk about power couples. Let's reflect on some of the very best. We've had Cleopatra and Mark Antony, Barack and Michelle Obama, TayTay and Travis, Beyonce and Jay-Z, and Posh and...
- Services Australia (1 speech)
Services Australia is a shambolic mess, a dysfunctional agency that prioritises itself over customers. As the Sydney Morning Herald has reported, Services Australia has a backlog of about 1.1...
- Taxation (1 speech)
It is a great day here in this parliament and an exciting week because our government's bigger and better tax plan is on its way to be debated in the Senate. We know how important this tax plan...
- Mobile Black Spot Program (2 speeches)
The Auditor-General's investigation continues into the shameful round 6 of the Mobile Black Spot Program, where Labor gave a hundred per cent of funding in New South Wales and Victoria to Labor...
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Treasurer will be absent from question time for the remainder of this week. He is attending the G20 finance ministers meeting, and I will answer questions on his behalf.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Immigration Detention (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs. The Prime Minister promised Australians before the last election that the government's first job is to keep...
- Taxation (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How will the Labor's cost-of-living tax cuts help Australians, in particular women taxpayers, and what is standing in the way of these tax cuts?
- Migration: Housing (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs. Buying a first home is getting harder and harder for young Australians. The share of rental properties...
- Gender Equality (3 speeches)
My question is the Minister representing the Minister for Women. How does publishing of the gender pay gap work alongside other reforms by the Albanese Labor government to lift women's economic...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Dementia Australia (1 speech)
I am pleased to inform the House that present in the gallery today are representatives from Dementia Australia as guests of the member for Forrest and Senator Helen Polley. I welcome the outgoing...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Reserve Bank of Australia (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Since the Reserve Bank review, the Greens have opposed the government's proposal to remove its power to protect renters and mortgage holders from...
- Gender Equality (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. How will be the Albanese Labor government's workplace relations reforms help close the gender pay gap?
- New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (4 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services. I refer the minister to his response in the House yesterday where he asserted that, as a result of the government's...
- Health Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. How many of the Albanese Labor government's 50 Medicare urgent care clinics have now opened, how are they helping to strengthen Medicare...
- Fuel Efficiency Standards (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. The managing director of Mazda Australia, Vinesh Bhindi, has said of Labor's new family...
- Taxation (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. How will the Albanese Labor government's tax cuts support workers who deliver essential support services in the community?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Republic of Fiji: Parliamentary Delegation (1 speech)
I am delighted to inform the House that today we are joined, in the gallery, by my friend the Honourable Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji, who is alongside six Fijian members of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. Yesterday the minister claimed there would be no purchase price impact, despite the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries estimate...
- Taxation (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry and Science. How is the Albanese Labor government supporting our manufacturing industry? How will Labor's tax cuts benefit Australian food...
- Mayo Electorate: Health Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. A Head to Health adult mental health service was promised for my community of Mayo in early 2022, nearly two years ago. When will this...
- Homeownership (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness. How is the Albanese Labor government helping to ease cost-of-living pressures, particularly for those Australians who are...
- New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. I refer to Labor's new family car and ute tax. In my home state in Victoria in 2023 78 per cent of sales were either SUVs or light...
- Taxation, Tertiary Education (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to support workers and students in the education system?
- Donations To Political Parties (9 speeches)
This is a question for the Prime Minister. Voters have a right to know who is funding their candidates before they vote.
- Regional Australia: Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories. How is the Albanese Labor government responding to the economic times and delivering tax cuts for...
- New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (22 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. In my home state of Tasmania in 2023, 81.1 per cent of vehicle sales were either SUVs, light commercial vehicles or utes. The top...
- Financial Scams (12 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services. How is the Albanese—
- Fuel Efficiency Standards (2 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. I refer to Labor's new family car and ute tax. In my home seat of WA in 2023, 79.8 per cent of sales were either SUVs or light...
- New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How will the new vehicle efficiency standard give Australians more choice and make it cheaper to run new cars? What is standing in the way of giving...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 19 of 2023-24 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit report No. 19 of 2023-24 entitled Effectiveness of the Department of Health and Aged Care's performance management of Primary Health Networks: Department of...
- 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)
- Cost of Living (18 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Deakin proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: This Government's bad...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (3 speeches)
In accordance with standing order 133, I shall now proceed to put the question on the amendment moved earlier today by the honourable member for Deakin to the motion moved by the Leader of the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Grocery Prices (1 speech)
In 2018 I made a speech in this place regarding the importance of the agriculture sector. It wasn't my first speech on the topic, but it was the first time I spoke about the great disparity of...
- Migration (1 speech)
If you, Deputy Speaker, are one of those people who have followed my late-night adjournment speeches over the years, you would know that more than once I have excoriated the Department of Home...
- Health Care (1 speech)
Reviews, committees and more reviews do not make good health policy. The lack of action from the Albanese Labor government when it comes to health across the nation is really concerning. There's...
- Reid Electorate: Telecommunications (1 speech)
Good mobile reception and internet connectivity are something many people take for granted. It's not something you think about. But, when you don't have good reception, it can have a profoundly...
- Cybercrime (2 speeches)
A couple of weeks ago, I spoke to a group of eager and very well educated seniors at the Probus Club of Main Ridge in my beautiful electorate of Flinders. They had invited me to come along and...
- Albanese Government (1 speech)
I rise to address this House on a matter of paramount importance: the wellbeing of working Australians. As the federal member for Holt, I'm aware of the challenges families face in Melbourne's...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Small Business: Taxation (1 speech)
Small businesses in Australia are under pressure from inflation, rising interest rates, the increasing cost of goods and services and the challenges of hiring and retaining staff. As my...
- Canberra Electorate: ZamZam Foundation, Canberra Electorate: UNSW Canberra (1 speech)
On Sunday I had the great pleasure of attending a fundraiser with the Zamzam Foundation, an important community organisation based here in my electorate of Canberra. The organisation was founded...
- Morrison Government: Mental Health (1 speech)
In an article in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning former Prime Minister Morrison named the mental health agreements that his government achieved with the states as one of his proudest...
- Shipbuilding Industry, Defence Procurement (1 speech)
Without question, shipbuilding is the apex form of sophisticated manufacturing in Australia, and I am proud to represent one of only two national shipbuilding hubs. We might make other artefacts...
- Cowper Electorate: Mental Health (1 speech)
This week, as many would know, is End Youth Suicide Week, so I thought I would take this opportunity to speak about mental health care in my electorate of Cowper. Over the past five years, or...
- Gilmore Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
I am thrilled to speak today about the Jervis Bay flyover project, which has now moved onto the major construction phase. Last week, I was honoured to join with the federal Minister for Regional...
- Middle East (1 speech)
A lot of people in this place and elsewhere know that I have been a long-time supporter of the Palestinian people. Some years ago, I spent eight days on the West Bank. One of my former mayors is...
- Taxation (1 speech)
I'm rising today to speak about the tax cuts in the electorate of Sydney, but I want to thank the member for Parkes for making those comments. I think there's a lot of agreement on this side with...
- Financial Security (1 speech)
Financial scams are becoming all too common. I wish to draw the attention of parliament to the plight of more than 100 elderly Western Australian retirees who lost their life savings in the...
- Gellibrand Electorate: Telecommunications (2 speeches)
No suburb in Australia does more online shopping than Point Cook in my electorate in Melbourne's west. It's true but it's ironic, because residents in Point Cook have long had to put up with...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Middle East (1 speech)
I'd like to take this grievance debate literally and grieve for all those innocent lives lost in the horrific war between Hamas and the Israeli government, now in its fifth month. Yes, conflict...
- Natural Disasters, Gas Industry (1 speech)
I rise to speak in this grievance debate and, firstly, I want to discuss the impact of natural disasters on our children. This morning I was fortunate enough to host an event for Royal Far West...
- Stronger Communities Program (1 speech)
Last week I made one of my regular trips to the beautiful north-east of Tasmania to meet with local community groups. My first stop was the Bridport Men's Shed, were I met with Terry, Jack, Mick,...
- Albanese Government (5 speeches)
Providing support to the constituents of Newcastle is really the bread and butter of my role as the federal member for Newcastle. Governments play an important part in shaping our society and...
- Gender Equality (2 speeches)
As we approach International Women's Day, I rise to shed light on the pivotal steps taken by the Albanese Labor government in advancing women's economic empowerment. Since forming government in...
