House debates
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Speaker, I present report No. 27 of the Selection Committee, relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday 1 July and...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Environment (10 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Ryan moving the following motion: That the House: (1) notes the Minister for the Environment...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Gippsland Electorate: Hospitals (1 speech)
I believe in localism. It's the very simple idea that the wisdom of local people should be respected, that local people should have more control over what happens in their local areas as much as...
- Assange, Mr Julian Paul (1 speech)
Julian Assange is free. Only a few hours ago, following a brief court process on the island of Saipan, Mr Assange was able to walk free after 14 years without liberty. He is free now to return...
- New England Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I commend the words just said, but I'll go on to another issue because life moves on. It was a number of years ago when I first came to parliament that we fought for the extension of Chaffey Dam....
- Dunkley Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
Dunkley is home to many older Australians, with 27,000 residents over 65 years of age. Many of these people are important contributors to our great community. Last week I followed in the...
- Middle East (1 speech)
I want to put on the record my deep concern about the destructive and destabilising behaviour of the Iranian government and to call on the government to list the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
- MakerSpace (1 speech)
I want to pay tribute to MakerSpace, an Army initiative providing a place for education in innovative approaches, creative thinking and agile methodologies. This is about soldiers solving...
- Goldstein Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
The Suburban Rail Loop is a project of significance and concern to the Goldstein community. The aim is to upgrade public transport and provide new housing as Melbourne grows. What worries me and...
- Energy (1 speech)
Last week we saw the Leader of the Opposition come up with this peculiar thought bubble, which is gambling Australia's energy and economic security, promising untested, uncosted and experimental...
- Cook Electorate: E-bikes (1 speech)
Many local residents have been in touch with me about the use of e-bikes in my electorate. These bikes are capable of going 50 kilometres an hour without pedalling. They're ridden down pedestrian...
- Fraser Electorate: St Albans Dinamo Soccer Club (1 speech)
I visited the St Albans Dinamo Football Club last weekend. This is a club with a long and storied history, having produced many A-League players and, indeed, Socceroos. The club is approaching...
- Jeffcoat, Miss Leesa, AM (1 speech)
Earlier this month, I had the privilege of celebrating the 23-year tenure of Leesa Jeffcoat AM as Diocesan Director Catholic Education Rockhampton. After more than two decades, Leesa made the...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
From 1 July, just five days away, everyone in my community will benefit from the work our government is doing to support them with their cost-of-living pressures. When I think about what this...
- Berowra Electorate: Westleigh Park (1 speech)
The New South Wales Minns Labor government stands condemned for ripping $36 million out of our local community. In 2018, the New South Wales coalition government provided $40 million to Hornsby...
- Universities (1 speech)
Australians with existing HELP debts and current students, like my son Stanley, have all welcomed Labor's decision to change the way their debt is indexed and to fix last year's CPI indexation...
- Murray-Darling Basin Plan (1 speech)
I have an important announcement. The member for Sydney will walk in here in a few minutes with a brand new title: the worst water and environment minister this parliament has ever seen. And it...
- Education (1 speech)
Yesterday, I joined the education minister, Jason Clare, and Chief Executive of the Australian Academy of Science, Anna-Maria Arabia, to launch the reimagined Primary Connections and reSolve...
- Headen, Mr Peter (1 speech)
I rise to give a shout-out to Peter Headen, or 'Heado', as he's affectionately known, in Warrnambool in south-west Victoria. He has been involved in radio broadcasting for 40 years, and he's...
- Taxation (1 speech)
As I woke up this morning, I looked at my phone and it dawned on me that we are so close to 1 July. And that's important for so many reasons. Firstly, it's Territory Day, and I'm sure our friends...
- Albanese Government (3 speeches)
Bring on the election next year, in 2025, because you can't believe a word this mob says. Whether it's the Prime Minister, the Minister for Climate Change and Energy or the Treasurer...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
The countdown is well and truly on. In just five days, Labor's tax cuts will take effect, delivering some much-needed relief—a big tax cut—to every single Australian taxpayer. From...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Solomon Islands: Parliamentary Delegation (3 speeches)
I am pleased to inform the House that present in the gallery today, on the floor of the parliament, is the Hon. Jeremiah Manele MP, the Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, and an accompanying...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister spent the first 18 months distracted by touring the world and spending $450 million on the divisive Voice referendum instead of focusing...
- Cost of Living (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How is the Albanese Labor government helping ease cost-of-living pressures for Australians? What measures will come into effect in July? What approaches has...
- Economy (15 speeches)
Core inflation in Australia is high, and it is rising. It is higher than the UK, Canada, New Zealand, the Euro area, the US, Switzerland, Sweden and Norway. In stark contrast to Australia, in all...
- Assange, Mr Julian Paul (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Millions of people around the world, particularly in Australia, are thrilled by the news that Julian Assange has finally been set free and is on his way back...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Greater South-East Melbourne Councils (1 speech)
I have been advised by the members for Bruce, Dunkley and Chisholm that we have a delegation of representatives from local councils from Greater South East Melbourne, including Councillor Lana...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Gas Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, yesterday your government approved a $1 billion Gina Rinehart-backed, koala-habitat-destroying gas project with over 150 new gas wells able...
- Renewable Energy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. How will the Albanese Labor government's reliable renewables plan deliver the clean, cheap and resilient energy system that...
- Economy (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. After two years of Labor's homegrown inflation, food is up by over 11 per cent, rents are up by 14 per cent, electricity is up by over 21 per cent and gas is...
- Albanese Government (20 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Under this economically illiterate Prime Minister, families and small businesses are hurting.
- Energy (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. Why is it important to have an energy plan for this critical decade? How does this compare with other approaches, and why is it...
- Health Care (2 speeches)
I have a question for the Minister for Health and Aged Care. Minister, the approval and funding of new drugs and novel medical technologies in this country is too slow. Australians deserve best...
- Albanese Government (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. When the Prime Minister condemned the violent 'river to the sea' chant, Labor Senator Fatima Payman publicly rebuked him and repeated it. Yesterday, Senator...
- Renewable Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Water. What progress has the Albanese Labor government made on renewable energy approvals? What approaches has the government rejected?
- Cost of Living (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories. How is the Albanese Labor government investing in regional Australia and easing the cost-of-living...
- Medicare (4 speeches)
My question is to the minister for health. What action is the Albanese Labor government taking to strengthen Medicare? Why is urgent action needed after a decade of cuts and neglect?
- Goldstein Electorate: Suburban Rail Loop (9 speeches)
There's concern in Goldstein about the state government's Suburban Rail Loop project. With plans for many high-rise apartments, residents fear traffic chaos and overwhelmed education and health...
- Workplace Relations (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. How are the Albanese Labor government's reforms to bargaining helping people earn more and keep more of what they earn? How...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 48 of 2023-24 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's performance audit report No. 48 of 2023-24, entitled Transitional Arrangements for the Cashless Debit Card: Department of Social Services and Services Australia....
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Housing Affordability (25 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Griffith proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government's failure...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Accounts and Audit Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, I present the following three reports: Report 502: the never-ending quest for the golden thread: probity and ethics in the...
- Treaties Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, I present the committee's Report216 Nairobi Convention, and I ask leave of the House to make a short statement in connection with the...
- 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 Review of administration and expenditure No. 21 (2021-2022): Australian...
- Human Rights Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, I present the committee's report, incorporating a dissenting report, entitled Human rights scrutiny report No. 5 of 2024. Report...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Nuclear Energy (9 speeches)
I rise tonight to put on record my strong support for the coalition's nuclear power plans and the idea of having nuclear power generation within Australia. Nuclear has delivered so many benefits...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
(): That was an extraordinary display that we saw from previous speaker, the member for New England. Let's be frank: he builds this persona of the Aussie larrikin from the bush who...
- Water Safety (1 speech)
I had the immense privilege of attending the awards ceremonies for the great Bate Bay surf clubs of Cook. North Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club formed in 1925. Wanda Surf Life Saving Club formed...
- Parramatta Electorate: Religion (1 speech)
Today I recognise the contribution of the churches, temples, mosques, and synagogues in my electorate. Let me begin with a simple observation that in my community these places of worship are...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Australian Antarctic Program (1 speech)
I was alarmed to read in the media last week that the Western Australian government is looking to snatch the Australian Antarctic Program away from Tasmania. I was alarmed because Hobart has long...
- Bleasdale, Councillor Tony, OAM, Coral McLean Awards, Bowen, Mr Ross James (1 speech)
At the beginning of May our community lost a great person in Tony Bleasdale, the mayor of the city of Blacktown. He was always and remains in people's memories as a fundamentally decent and...
- Road Safety (1 speech)
I rise today to talk once again about the dire need to address regional road safety. I've previously spoken about the need to seal and widen roads across my electorate of Durack that have...
- Glen Waverley, Nunawading Spectres Tournament (1 speech)
I am so delighted to be collaborating with the Glen Waverley Traders Association to encourage people in Chisholm and right across Victoria to shop local, love local and visit the incredible local...
- Grey Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
On Monday I had a visit from Qantas representatives to inform me that they are retiring their Q200 and Q300 QantasLink aeroplanes around Australia and replacing them with Q400s. For those of you...
- Fremantle Electorate: Arts and Culture (1 speech)
Live music has long been the lifeblood of Freo social and cultural vibrancy. Fremantle has fostered generations of incredible songwriters and musicians, from Bon Scott to San Cisco, from Kavisha...
- Naval Shipbuilding Industry, Nuclear Energy (1 speech)
Naval shipbuilding is vitally important for our national security and for our defence capability—defending our nation and our interests. It's also vitally important economically for our...
- Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
The push by the major banks to phase out the use of cash and cheques, close down bank branches and remove ATMs is causing widespread inconvenience and anger throughout the community. For some...
- Chinese Labour Corps and Chinese Anzacs (1 speech)
This morning I want to shed light on a frequently overlooked aspect of Australia's rich and diverse history. These are the war heroes known as the forgotten Chinese Labour Corps, who shared in...
- Cowan Electorate: Cost of Living (2 speeches)
I firmly believe that every member of this parliament, regardless of their political stripes, knows or at least should know just how tough many Australians are doing it with the cost-of-living...
- Bills (0 speeches)
