House debates
Tuesday, 14 May 2024
- Parliamentary Office Holders (0 speeches)
- Speaker's Panel (1 speech)
Pursuant to standing order 17, I lay on the table my warrant nominating the honourable member for Flinders to be members of the Speaker's panel to assist the chair when requested to do so by the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Orders of the Day (1 speech)
I declare Federation Chamber order of the day No. 1, government business, relating to the Prime Minister's motion of condolence in connection with the death of Lance Corporal Jack Patrick...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (12 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Melbourne moving the following motion: That the House: (1) notes the world is on track for a...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Petitions Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 25 of the Standing Committee on Petitions. The report read as follows— HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PETITIONS COMMITTEE REPORT No. 25 Petitions and Ministerial Responses...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
by leave—I present the following 81 petitions:
- Responses (1 speech)
I present the following 56 ministerial responses to petitions previously presented:
- 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. 3 of 2024, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation: nuclear medicine...
- Economics Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Economics, I present a corrigendum to the committee's report entitled Better competition,better prices:Reporton the inquiry into promoting economic...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Barounis, Mr John (1 speech)
John Barounis is a Maryborough champion and, like me, is committed to making our homes, streets and public spaces safer; improving health services; building safer roads; and supporting real...
- Assyrian National Council Australia (1 speech)
Last Saturday, I was pleased to join colleagues, especially the member for McMahon and state members, at the opening of the new office of the Assyrian National Council Australia in Fairfield. The...
- Barker Electorate: Community Radio (1 speech)
I rise to speak about community radio in Millicent. Community radio stations across the country play an important role, providing a voice for communities, particularly in rural, regional and...
- Aitken, Mr Robert James (1 speech)
From Parkes to Penrith and across the Blue Mountains and the Rotary District 9685, we have been mourning the loss, the sudden death, of Bob Aitken, a man known to us in the Blue Mountains for...
- Stars of Orange 2024 (1 speech)
Recently, Orange was transformed into a boogie wonderland thanks to the 2024 Stars of Orange fundraiser. The event pairs local business and community leaders with a local dance school. Over 10...
- Bennelong Electorate: Riding for the Disabled Association (1 speech)
Recently I had the great pleasure of hosting the Minister for Social Services in my electorate of Bennelong for a visit to one of our great local volunteer-run organisations. The minister and I...
- Armenia (1 speech)
Anzac Day rightfully honours those who have fought and given their lives for our nation since World War I, and this anniversary has always been important to me, but, as a member of the North...
- Murphy, Ms Caroline (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge a tremendous community champion in my electorate of Robertson, Caroline Murphy. I recently had the privilege of meeting Caroline upon a visit to the Ettalong Baptist Church,...
- Braddon Electorate: Tertiary Education (1 speech)
I'm pleased to inform the House that King Island has now secured a regional study hub. In my maiden speech to this parliament in 2019, I said that where you live should not be a barrier to the...
- Spence Electorate: Australia Post (1 speech)
Many of us spend a great deal of time with our constituents, discussing what we can deliver for them as their members of parliament. This Sunday, I will be out doorknocking in Virginia and...
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (1 speech)
Why has the Bureau of Statistics been so coy about its new official method of estimating excess deaths? In July 2023, the ABS released a new model to calculate excess deaths, created...
- Budget, Australian Public Service (1 speech)
Tonight the Treasurer will hand down the 2024 budget—a budget focused on supporting Australians and laying the future of economic growth. A Commonwealth budget is the culmination of many...
- Budget, Cost of Living (1 speech)
Australians are hurting. They are hurting under the cost-of-living pressures that have been made worse by the mismanagement of this government. The Reserve Bank sent a strong message last week...
- Australian Institute of Sport (1 speech)
Since its establishment in 1981, the AIS in Bruce has supported and inspired generations of Australian athletes, and it has been a centre of sporting excellence. Born out of a disappointing...
- Budget (1 speech)
Finally, here is the big night for the Treasurer. It's time to shine a spotlight on the Treasurer. I'm told that this morning the Treasurer almost quoted the Little River Band—'Hang on,...
- Holt Electorate: Community Language Schools (1 speech)
'Ayubovan' translates to 'may you be blessed with a long life' and is a traditional greeting in Sinhala. Like 45 per cent of my electorate of Holt, English is not my first language. Over 165...
- Durack Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
The WA Cook Labor government has failed to fulfil its promise to Tom Price. In 2021, the Pilbara community was promised $12.8 million for a new hospital. Three years on, this hardworking...
- Economy (1 speech)
It's time to put to bed forever the coalition's most successful propaganda. The coalition, whose economic and legislative mess we are still cleaning up, are continually trying to tell Australians...
- Housing (1 speech)
One thing we know about tonight's budget is that there's absolutely no new money for housing. There's nothing to address Labor's housing crisis: no new money, no new homes, no new ideas, no new...
- Tertiary Education (2 speeches)
I've heard from so many in my community—students, parents and grandparents—about how student loan debt is too high and how change is needed. Our government has listened to these...
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Members Sworn (5 speeches)
I've received the return to the writ which I issued on 11 March 2024 for the election of a member to serve for the electoral division of Cook, in the state of New South Wales, to fill the vacancy...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Cheng, Ms Xixuan, Darchia, Ms Pikria, Good, Ms Ash, Singleton, Ms Dawn, Tahir, Mr Faraz, Young, Ms Jade; Reference to Federation Chamber (1 speech)
I declare that the resumption of debate on the Prime Minister's motion of condolence in connection with the deaths of Yixuan Chen, Pikri Darchia, Ashlee Good, Dawn Singleton, Faraz Tahir and Jade...
- Hand, Hon. Gerard 'Gerry' Leslie; Report from Federation Chamber (1 speech)
I understand it is the wish of the House to consider the matter immediately. The question is that the motion moved by the Prime Minister be agreed to. As a mark of respect, I ask all honourable...
- Fitzgibbon, Lance Corporal Jack Patrick (1 speech)
The question is that the motion be agreed to. I ask all honourable members to signify their approval by rising in their places. Question agreed to, honourable members standing in their places.
- Hoare, Mrs Kelly Joy, Mildren, Mr John Barry, OAM (1 speech)
I inform the House of the deaths of Kelly Joy Hoare and John Barry Mildren OAM, former members of this House. Kelly Joy died on 21 March 2024. She represented the division of Charlton from 1988...
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Treasurer will be absent from question time today. I will take questions on his behalf.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Middle East (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, 130 hostages still remain in tunnels after the October 7 attacks by Hamas on Israel last year in which 1,200 people were massacred. Violent...
- Budget (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How is the Albanese Labor government helping to ease cost-of-living pressures, including in the budget? How does this reflect the priorities of the Albanese...
- International Relations: Australia and China (14 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In November 2023 Royal Australian Navy divers were injured by sonar pulses fired at them by a Chinese navy destroyer. Ten days ago a Chinese fighter jet...
- Manufacturing Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister of Industry and Science. What steps are the Albanese Labor government taking to rebuild Australian manufacturing? What are the barriers to the government's Future...
- Domestic and Family Violence (3 speeches)
When two young men died, the New South Wales government introduced mandatory sentences for one-punch attacks. When it was terrorism, laws were changed to jail people on the apprehended risk of...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Domestic and Family Violence (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. How is the Albanese Labor government leading action to address the national crisis of family domestic and sexual violence?
- Economy (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Australians are poorer than they were two years ago. The cash rate, which this dismal Prime Minister couldn't even name during the campaign, has gone from...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to ease cost-of-living pressures on students and to make the education system fairer after a decade of...
- Cost of Living (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Families are feeling the impact of Labor's homegrown inflation, with the cost of almost everything going up. Food is up 10 per cent, housing is up 12 per...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Nixon, Mr Richard (1 speech)
Before I call the member for Pearce, the member for Kooyong has brought to my attention that Richard Nixon from her electorate is also here today, and he contributed to the building of Parliament...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Australian Defence Force (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. How is the Albanese Labor government investing in greater capability for the Australian Defence Force to keep Australians safe, and how does this...
- Live Animal Exports (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given Labor's rationale for banning live sheep exports is based on animal welfare, can the Prime Minister name one country that has higher animal welfare...
- Infrastructure (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering infrastructure for every Australian while...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Member for Kingsley (1 speech)
Before I call the honourable member for Indi, I'd also like to welcome Jess Stojkovski MP, a member of the Western Australian parliament and Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier. Welcome to...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. When the budget is handed down by the Treasurer this evening, it will include a budget line labelled 'decisions taken but not yet announced'—billions...
- Medicare (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. How are the Albanese Labor government's investments to strengthen Medicare improving GP bulk-billing rates, after a decade of cuts and neglect?
- Live Animal Exports (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister rule out any changes to or any limitations on live cattle exports from Australia?
- Housing (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness. How will the Albanese Labor government's Homes for Australia plan turbocharge home building, and what could be standing...
- Whistleblower Protection (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Today, David McBride was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison for the crime of telling the truth about war crimes. Why won't your government...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Government Services. How will the Albanese Labor government's budget help to ensure the safety of people who work at Services Australia as well as the safety of...
- Asylum Seekers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Before the election, the Prime Minister promised the coalition's Operation Sovereign Borders would remain unchanged. Given there have been three illegal boat...
- Renewable Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. Minister, why is investing in renewables important? Why is the government rejecting proposed plans for risky nuclear power stations...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday the Treasurer claimed inflation will be fixed by Christmas, despite the RBA having forecast that it will be higher for longer. How does the Prime...
- Papua New Guinea (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How is Australia building on our history with Papua New Guinea, and how did the Prime Minister's recent visit there serve to deepen our relationship?
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Budget (1 speech)
I have a statement to make about proceedings for the budget and budget reply. I ask all members to note the usual arrangements in place for budget week and, importantly, the courtesies that will...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Reports Nos 21 to 26 for 2023 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's reports Nos 21 to 26 for 2023. Details of the reports will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings. Documents made parliamentary papers.
- 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)
- Law Enforcement (13 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Wannon proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government's failure to...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
In accordance with standing order 133, I shall now proceed to put the question on the motion moved earlier today for the suspension of standing and sessional orders by the honourable member for...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Trade and Investment Growth Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Trade and Investment Growth, I present the committee's report, incorporating a dissenting report, entitled Strengthening Australia's approach to trade...
- Public Accounts and Audit Joint Committee (3 speeches)
I wish to make a statement on behalf of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit concerning the draft budget estimates for the Australian National Audit Office and the Parliamentary...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Budget (0 speeches)
- Documents (1 speech)
For the information of honourable members, I present the following documents in connection with the budget of 2024-25: Budget strategy and outlook—Budget paper No. 1—2024-25. Budget...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Budget (1 speech)
I also present the following ministerial statements: Women's budget statement 2024-25, 14 May 2024. Regional ministerial budget statement 2024-25—Delivering a resilient and prosperous...
- Bills (0 speeches)
