House debates
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 24 of the Selection Committee relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday 25 March 2024. The report will be...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (1 speech)
Australians should decide what car they drive, not the Prime Minister. Labor's new family car tax will add thousands of dollars to cars that Australians love to drive and need to drive. We have...
- Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
I speak today with a heavy heart about the recent action of banks, like Bankwest, who, at short notice, closed all their physical branches and moved everything online in my electorate of Tangney....
- McPherson Electorate: Radio 4CRB, Federal and State By-Elections (1 speech)
I would like to say a huge 'Happy 40th birthday!' to one of my local radio stations, 4CRB. They are a community based radio station broadcasting from their station at Burleigh Heads. They are a...
- Fremantle Electorate: Jilbup Primary School (1 speech)
I was wrapped to visit the brand new Jilbup Primary School in Hammond Park which opened this year. It's named for the Noongar word for grasslands which, in turn, is related to Djilba, one of the...
- Higher Education Contribution Scheme (1 speech)
What sort of country collects more from its student debt than it does from its main fossil fuel tax? We used to think that university was so important it should be free. When I started university...
- Hunter Electorate: Grices Bakery Cafe (1 speech)
I want to wish a happy 95th birthday to Grices Bakery Cafe. Ninety-five years ago this establishment began trading on Vincent Street in Cessnock, and 95 years later they are still here as good as...
- Energy (1 speech)
It's 2024 and, once again, we are facing the prospect of this government passing legislation essentially written by the gas industry for the gas industry. Proposed changes introduced by this...
- Cunningham Electorate: Tonitto Cakes (1 speech)
There is some competition between the Illawarra and the Hunter again, and today it's on baked goods. This year marks 50 years of one of the Illawarra's most loved bakeries, Tonitto Cakes in Port...
- Bass Electorate: Becketts Mining and Civil Contractors (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge an exceptional local family run business celebrating its 60th birthday. In 1964, at just 18, Northern Tasmanian Dick Beckett started Becketts Mining and Civil. Sixty...
- Under Cover (1 speech)
Yesterday I had the pleasure of hosting the parliamentary screening of the Australian documentary UnderCover with my colleagues the member for Moncrieff and, in the other place, Senator Pocock....
- Moncrieff Electorate: St Hilda's School (1 speech)
I've had the absolute pleasure of visiting St Hilda's, a beautiful and prestigious school for girls in my electorate, several times over the last month. First, it was to celebrate the...
- Vocational Education and Training (1 speech)
It's a great day today for the young people in my electorate of Hasluck, and for those not so young, because the Albanese Labor government, under the excellent leadership of the Minister for...
- Nicholls Electorate: Youth Foyers (1 speech)
Yesterday, I met with some people from organisations called FoyerInvest and the Foyer Foundation. Part of the reason they've come to Canberra is because they're looking for the federal government...
- Housing (1 speech)
Around 44 per cent of people who live in my electorate are renters. That's almost 15 per cent more than the national average, so it's clear that renting is an important issue in my community....
- Regional Telecommunications (1 speech)
It's time for the big telcos to put people before profit. There is story after story from constituents in the Flynn electorate about communications problems. Residents around Baffle Creek tower...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
Electricity prices are due to fall midyear following the release of the default market offers. This is welcome news to households and businesses whose budgets have been under pressure and stands...
- Caravan Industry (1 speech)
Today, out on the lawns of our amazing parliament, there's a gathering of the Australian caravan industry—proud Australian manufacturers of caravans, displaying their products. It's an...
- Energy (1 speech)
Yesterday, the Australian Energy Regulator released their draft default market offer, which showed that working people are set to receive some much-needed energy bill relief. This saving comes...
- Stronger Communities Program (1 speech)
The Stronger Communities Program has delivered 15,000 community based projects across Australia, and it's actually the fairest program you could imagine. Every electorate received $150,000 per...
- Cost of Living (2 speeches)
The Albanese Labor government understands that family budgets are tight and that the impact of cost-of-living pressures and inflation are being felt around kitchen tables across the country....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Energy (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. Western Sydney food charity Mama Lana's may close down due to their energy bills increasing by $900, according to media reports....
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Partners Group (1 speech)
I am delighted to inform the House that present today in the Speaker's visitors gallery are members of the Parliamentary Partners Group. I welcome all of our family and friends to parliament today.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (9 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to help Australians manage the cost of living, and what is standing in...
- Energy (16 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. In the last two years, electricity bills in South-East Queensland have increased by up to $622. The minister repeatedly promised to...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer: Last budget, the government promised to support small businesses to save on energy bills with electrification incentives and an instant asset write-off. You also...
- Vocational Education and Training (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. After a decade of neglect, how is the Albanese Labor government helping Australians to get the skills they need for good, secure jobs and to keep more of...
- Australian Ambassador to the United States of America (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Considering our Ambassador to the United States, Kevin Rudd, described Donald Trump as a 'destructive president' and 'a traitor to the West' and given Mr...
- New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. How will the Albanese Labor government's new vehicle efficiency standard deliver...
- Gun Control (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. How is the Albanese Labor government acting to keep Australians safe from the threat of gun violence?
- Energy (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is taking this country in the wrong direction. Families and small businesses in my electorate are facing a 20 per cent rise in electricity...
- Economy (3 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. What progress has the Albanese Labor government made on the major economic challenges it inherited, and what does this mean for the budget in May?
- Child Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. There are two positive economic steps that the government can take right now: abolishing the activity test, which limits subsidised early childhood education and...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Pensions and Benefits (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. How will today's indexation of social security payments help Australians on income support manage cost-of-living pressures?
- National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (14 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. On 7 December last year in the House, the Prime Minister said the National Reconstruction Fund was up and running. On 15 January the Prime Minister said the...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. How have the Albanese Labor government's enterprise bargaining reforms helped Australians to earn more and to keep more of...
- Discrimination (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. My community is deeply concerned about protecting all Australians from discrimination, no matter their gender, sexuality or faith. During the last election,...
- Renewable Energy (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Water. How is the Albanese Labor government's environmental approvals process helping to turn Australia into a renewable energy superpower,...
- Taxation (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, hundreds of thousands of Australian small businesses operate within family trusts. Can the Prime Minister guarantee that he will not impose a...
- Taxation: Manufacturing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry and Science. How will the Albanese Labor government's tax cuts benefit advanced manufacturing workers? What has been the response?
- Immigration (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Permanent long-term overseas arrivals are outpacing the construction of new homes at a rate of almost four to one, with 900,000 net overseas arrivals but...
- Health Care (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. What actions has the Albanese Labor government taken to make medicines cheaper for all Australians? How are 60-day prescriptions helping...
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
These 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)
- Regional Australia: Cost of Living (28 speeches)
I have received letters from the honourable member for Gippsland and the honourable member for Macnamara proposing that definite matters of public importance be submitted to the House for...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Joint Committee; Report (2 speeches)
I present the committee's report entitled Report 214: acts of the Universal Postal Union. Report made a parliamentary paper in accordance with standing order 39(e). by leave—I'm pleased to...
- Human Rights Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, I present the committee's report entitled Human rights scrutiny report: Report 2 of 2024. Report made a parliamentary paper in...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That orders of the day Nos 2 and 3, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Azerbaijan (1 speech)
It's critically important that this evening I shed light on a monumental issue concerning the republic of Azerbaijan, a nation nestled among the Caucasus mountains, next to the Caspian Sea. With...
- Middle East (1 speech)
In the ensuing days after 7 October, I stood up in this place and asked the chamber to imagine what would happen in the event of Israel's invasion on a civilian population of over two million...
- Mental Health (1 speech)
Earlier this year, I received an email. As members of parliament know, we receive many emails, but this one caught my eye, and I'd like to read it here tonight: Hello Dan … How are you? I'm...
- Jindelara Cottage (1 speech)
I'm so lucky to live and work in the most beautiful region with the most beautiful communities and people. It's not something that is lost on me; I truly appreciate it every day. I was firmly...
- HMAS Manoora (1 speech)
It is with great disappointment that I update the House that HMAS Manoora veterans have been told by a government department not to wear their Australian Active Service Medals. These veterans...
- Nuclear Energy (1 speech)
In the last 50 years there have been three significant accidents in nuclear reactors and many more less significant ones. Fifty years ago there was the Three Mile Island accident, in the US. Then...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Grocery Prices, Social Media (1 speech)
When it comes to Coles and Woolworths and their price gouging, the time for talk is over. Now is the time to take action to stop them, and the Greens have introduced a bill to parliament to do...
- Lawrence Dimech OAM, MOM (1 speech)
At the annual Maltese community Australia Day event this year, which is always a great event, there was a significant announcement. Lawrence Dimech, one of the great leaders of the Maltese...
- Member for Hartley (1 speech)
Last week, it was my pleasure to attend the celebration of the 10th anniversary in parliament of my very good friend, state colleague and fellow member in the north-eastern suburbs Vincent...
- Dal Baba Bidhi Chand Ji Khalsa Shaouni Temple, Tripod Farmers, Dingo Discovery Sanctuary and Research Centre (1 speech)
I recently attended the opening of the brand new prayer hall at Khalsa Shaouni Sikh temple in Plumpton. I was joined by thousands of people on the day. It was an exciting event for the whole...
- Rural and Regional Health Services (1 speech)
For many Australians living in regional areas, access to quality health care is a constant worry. In Capricornia the story is no different. Towns like Clermont have faced a critical shortage of...
- West Greenwood Primary School, Lions Club of Noranda, Stirling Adriatic Centre (1 speech)
There's a lot that's been happening in the wonderful electorate of Cowan, and I rise to just give an update on a few of those things that are happening. First of all, last week I visited West...
- Energy (1 speech)
As Australians, we are blessed with an abundance of resources. We are world leaders in coal, gas, uranium, iron ore, critical minerals and rare earths. These commodities are the source of our...
- Watson Electorate: Community Organisations (1 speech)
I want to acknowledge the organisation Human Appeal Australia, based in my part of Sydney, in Lakemba. This is a charity organisation whose work spans four continents, fighting poverty and...
- Fairfax Electorate: Youth (1 speech)
Much is said in this parliament about national leadership. As I witnessed last week, when I held a morning tea forum with student leaders across the Sunshine Coast, leadership is found right...
- Holt Electorate: Telecommunications (2 speeches)
In this digital age, where technology is part of every aspect of our lives, access to good mobile connectivity is not merely a luxury but a fundamental necessity. Whether we are communicating...
- Bills (0 speeches)
