House debates
Thursday, 16 May 2024
- Statements on Significant Matters (0 speeches)
- Venice Biennale (2 speeches)
A lot of people won't be aware of the Venice Biennale, but effectively this is the World Cup for the arts. The awards have the extraordinary title of Golden Lions. In the history of the Venice...
- Reference to Federation Chamber (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That further statements in relation to Australian recipients of Golden Lion awards be permitted in the Federation Chamber. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Appropriations and Administration Committee; Report (1 speech)
(): On behalf of the Standing Committee on Appropriations and Administration, I present the committee's Report No. 29, Budget estimates 2024-25. Report made a parliamentary paper in accordance...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 5, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Albanese Government; Attempted Censure (11 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the following motion being moved forthwith by the Manager of Opposition Business—That this House...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Procedure (9 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the following motion being moved by the member for Fairfax forthwith: That this House reaffirms the...
- Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (7 speeches)
I seek leave to move the following motion: That the House: (1) notes that: (a) currently in Australia, one woman every 4 days is murdered by her current or former partner and 2.3 million...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Meals on Wheels: 50th Anniversary (1 speech)
I rise today in celebration of the Meals on Wheels 50th anniversary. Meals on Wheels has been an organisation that I've been proud of for as long as I can remember. It holds a special place in my...
- Hignett, Mr James William (Bill), OAM (1 speech)
I rise to recognise the passing of a Vietnam veteran and veterans advocate James William Hignett OAM, known to all as Bill. Bill was conscripted in 1970, aged 20, and he served 469 days of...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
Last Saturday, Minister Watt advised Western Australian farmers and live-sheep exporters the budget would contain a—totally inadequate—$107 million phase-out transition package. I...
- Budget (1 speech)
When people voted in the 2022 election, what they wanted was a government that would listen and act. They also wanted a government that would take responsibility, and that's exactly what we did...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
Constituents who contact me seeking assistance with the NDIS planning and review process are among the most vulnerable people in our community. For many, lack of support has a significant impact...
- Tertiary Education (1 speech)
One in four residents of Holt are under 14, and many will soon transition into TAFE and university. Across many industries, students must undertake hundreds of hours of unpaid work placements to...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
This week's budget was a missed opportunity to roll out the Staying Home Leaving Violence program nationally. However, I do commend the New South Wales government's decision to extend the program...
- Budget (1 speech)
To the people of Australia and to the people of my electorate of Fraser, we have listened. This week the Treasurer delivered a budget that addresses the government's main priority, which is to...
- Anzac Day (1 speech)
Like many in this building and throughout our nation, I wasn't born here. When I first went to school, I learnt about Anzac Day fresh. I remember a moment where a teacher said to me, 'Come into...
- Budget (1 speech)
The Treasurer delivered the federal budget this week, and the Albanese Labor government is a government that has 52 per cent women in our caucus. So we've also delivered a budget for women. Just...
- La Trobe Electorate: Festival of Colours, La Trobe Electorate: Rama Navami Festival (1 speech)
Namaste. I rise today to speak about the recent Hindu festival celebrations I had the great honour of attending in my electorate of La Trobe. The Hare Krishna movement, ISKCON, organised two very...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
People in my community welcome a Labor budget that delivers cost-of-living relief in a responsible way, moderating inflation and investing in a strong and sustainable future. They certainly...
- Budget (1 speech)
On Tuesday night I endured around half an hour of listening to what I've coined 'Labornomics'. This is where the Labor Treasurer of the day basically tells the parliament and the Australian...
- New Vehicle Efficiency Standard Bill 2024 (1 speech)
Today is a good day because the nation's first-ever fuel efficiency standard legislation has passed the House of Representatives. When it comes to advanced economies, only Australia and Russia...
- Hanson, Dr Paul (1 speech)
It gives me great pleasure to stand today to recognise a wonderful local Northern Tasmanian GP, Dr Paul Hanson. Dr Hanson was awarded the 2023 RACGP Tasmanian GP of the year, an incredible...
- Budget (3 speeches)
The Albanese government is investing heavily in regional Australia. Just look at the level of investment in my electorate of Corangamite alone. Whether it is road, rail, health, education,...
- Daniher, Mr Neale, Motor Neuron Disease (3 speeches)
I rise to pay tribute to an extraordinary Australian. Former AFL player and coach Neale Daniher is an inspiration. Neale received a diagnosis of motor neuron disease more than 10 years ago. Since...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (14 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Twelve months ago I asked the Prime Minister: was he adding 1.5 million people from overseas during a rental and housing crisis and a cost-of-living...
- Payman, Senator Fatima (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The chant 'From the river to the sea' demands the destruction of the Jewish state. The Prime Minister has said it's both violent and incompatible with peace,...
- Budget (11 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How does the responsible economic management at the core of this week's budget compare with the situation Labor inherited? And what approaches has the government...
- New Vehicle Efficiency Standards (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. What progress has there been on fuel efficiency standards? Why is this important? What...
- Budget (8 speeches)
Labor's third budget is the wrong budget for Australia. Economist Steven Hamilton called it 'downright reckless'. Economist Paul Bloxham said budget measures 'support underlying inflation, rather...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Christian College Geelong (1 speech)
Before I give the call to the member for Corangamite, I'm pleased to inform her and the House that in the gallery today are students from Christian College in her electorate.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Energy (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. What is the Albanese Labor government's approach to energy policy? What policies have been rejected? Why is it important to be...
- Migration (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Albanese government's first budget forecast net overseas migration of 235,000 people in 2022-23. In this week's budget it was revealed that the 2022-23...
- Budget (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry and Science. How is the Albanese Labor government backing science and industry in this budget to deliver a future made in Australia, and what is...
- Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. What progress has the Albanese Labor government made on getting wages moving again, and what threats are there to this progress?
- Climate Change (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources. Minister, last week you announced your government's Future Gas Strategy, which will put the pedal to the metal on gas production in this country. I...
- Housing (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness. How is the Albanese Labor government's Homes for Australia Plan improving housing in the country, and what is standing in...
- Infrastructure: Regional Australia (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. On 22 July 2021, the Prime Minister sat in the ABC Wide Bay studio and said 'Paradise Dam should be fixed and should be fixed as soon as possible'. On 9...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How is the Albanese Labor government working for middle Australia, and what are the advantages of this approach over others?
- Future Made in Australia (9 speeches)
This is a question for the Prime Minister. The government's Future Made in Australia announcements sound consistent with our need to decarbonise for long-term prosperity, but we need to invest in...
- Cost of Living (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering responsible cost-of-living relief for Australians, and what has been the response?
- Budget (24 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Who will receive the $300 energy rebate announced in the budget? Is it (a) someone who earns over $500,000 a year, (b) someone who owns three properties, (c)...
- Medicare (8 speeches)
My question is to Minister for Health and Aged Care. Can the minister confirm that, under his watch, bulk-billing has fallen 11 per cent since the Albanese Labor government came to office?
- Budget: Health Care (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. How will the additional investment in Medicare urgent care clinics which was announced in the budget make it easier for Australians to see...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Parliament House: Fundraisers (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have a question for you. I wish to seek clarification on the rules regarding fundraisers in Parliament House. In October 2022, the Prime Minister wrote to you and the President of...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Budget (1 speech)
Before members leave the House, I want to give a short reminder about arrangements for this evening with respect to the Leader of the Opposition's budget reply speech. As I outlined on Tuesday,...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
In accordance with standing order 105(b), I wish to draw your attention to an overdue question in writing, question 475. The question related to the negative impacts of this Labor government's...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (2 speeches)
I present the Speaker's responses to certain recommendations of the report of the Standing Committee on Procedure, entitled Raising the standard: inquiry into recommendations 10 and 27 of Set the...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Housing (12 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: The government's failure to...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (1 speech)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Warringah from moving the following: (1) the Member for Warringah moving a motion without...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Domestic And Family Violence (17 speeches)
I move: That the House: (1) notes that: (a) currently in Australia, one woman every 4 days is murdered by her current or former partner and 2.3 million Australian women have experienced violence...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
In order to allow the budget address-in-reply speech to take place, I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 8, government business, be postponed until the next sitting....
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (1 speech)
This budget week, the government has turned its attention to what it would like to do to make up for lost time in addressing climate change. We must be sure the Future Made in Australia program...
- Mildren, Mr John Barry, OAM (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the recent death, on Anzac Day, of John Mildren OAM, who served his community as the member for Ballarat from 1980 to 1990. John's passing last month marked the end of an era...
- Casey Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
Firstly, I do want to extend my condolences to the member for Ballarat and to John's family. All Australians deserve to have access to affordable and accessible health care. In the Yarra Ranges,...
- Northern Territory: Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
Ending violence against women and children is a national priority. Levels of domestic, family and sexual violence across the Northern Territory are unacceptably high, particularly in my...
- Water Safety (1 speech)
I rise to speak about so many tragedies when it comes to drownings, especially in the multicultural community. On Mother's Day a four-year-old boy, Ali Aminzadah, tragically drowned in Officer,...
- Twentyman, Mr Les, OAM, Cuttler, Mr Ian (1 speech)
Today I wish to pay tribute to two men whose passing in recent times has left a void that cannot be filled but whose legacies live on. The first is Les Twentyman, a Victorian to his core, a son...
- Longman Electorate: Charitable Organisations (1 speech)
Amongst all the real issues that people are facing in the Longman community and, indeed, around Australia, with a housing, cost-of-living and domestic violence crisis, I am so proud that amongst...
- Middle East (1 speech)
We live in a world that is growing increasingly polarised, with contested spaces and ideas preventing us from finding our common humanity. While the threads of our common humanity are fraying,...
- South Coast Marine Park (2 speeches)
I rise to inform the chamber of preliminary results of an online survey I'm conducting on the controversial South Coast Marine Park that the state Labor government plans to enforce in my vast...
- Alexandrou, Mrs Georgia, Bean Electorate: Senior Australians (2 speeches)
It is with deep sadness I rise to inform the chamber of the passing of Georgia Alexandrou, a long-serving leader within the Cypriot Australian community. Georgia was president of the Cyprus...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment Bill 2024; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I rise to speak on the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment Bill 2024. The title of this bill is pretty vague; I doubt that a lot of members of parliament, let alone the average...
- Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment Bill 2024; Consideration in Detail (8 speeches)
I seek leave to move amendments (1) and (3), as circulated in my name, together. Leave not granted. I move amendment (1), as circulated in my name: (1) Clause 2, page 2 (at the end of the table),...
- Illegal Logging Prohibition Amendment (Strengthening Measures to Prevent Illegal Timber Trade) Bill 2024; Second Reading (15 speeches)
Organised crime, civil wars, slave labour, corruption, the extinction of species and environmental destruction have all been linked to the global practice of illegal logging. This pernicious...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Taiwan (1 speech)
I rise today to extend my heartfelt congratulations to the newly inaugurated President of Taiwan, Lai Ching-te, and Vice President, Hsiao Bi-khim. This marks a milestone in the vibrant Taiwanese...
- Chinese Labour Corps and Chinese Anzacs (1 speech)
I rise today to advocate for a long overdue recognition of a significant, but often overlooked, group in our nation's history—the Chinese Anzacs. Not far from us, on the Roll of Honour at...
- Budget (1 speech)
Unfortunately, overall this latest budget get an F for fail. Unfortunately, it is very inflationary, with increasing budgets. Increasing deficits that go for the next four years, in ever...
- Indian-Australians (1 speech)
Today I rise to make comment on some of the ridiculous accusations levelled at the federal Labor government. The remarks have been coming from the former twice-failed leader of the Victorian...
