House debates
Tuesday, 2 July 2024
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That government business order of the day no. 2 be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Chinese Taipei School Sport Federation (1 speech)
As we all know in this House, sport is one of the great unifiers and a great way to break down barriers, to build relationships and to better understand culture. What better way is there than to...
- Chan's Canton Village (1 speech)
After decades of making the finest Chinese food anywhere in Australia, Chan's Canton Village in my electorate at The Cross Roads is closing, and with it comes the retirement of its owner, Mr...
- Growing Regions Program (1 speech)
The Growing Regions Program has been a disappointment for Mayo. When first announced, we were disappointed that large swathes of the electorate were no longer eligible. Raising the rural and...
- Australian Philippine Association Illawarra (1 speech)
Last month I had the absolute pleasure of attending the Australian Philippine Association of the Illawarra's 43rd annual June ball with the state member for Wollongong. We celebrated the 126th...
- Alan Burge Community Room (1 speech)
Too often I hear clubs and not-for-profits in Bonner are eager to get off the ground but find it difficult to find a space to meet with members and supporters, as many Brisbane City Council...
- Currans Hill Public School (1 speech)
I've had the privilege of visiting Currans Hill Public School on a number of occasions, including when it opened, so it was wonderful to welcome their wonderful staff and students to parliament...
- Payman, Senator Fatima (5 speeches)
Labor is so committed to backing Israel's genocidal invasion of Gaza that every Labor member in this place today voted to suspend one of their own, Senator Payman, and for what? For voting to...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
As a former disability support worker, I remember the days when the NDIS didn't exist for people with disabilities. I can tell you that the NDIS has literally changed lives, giving choice,...
- Conway, Mr Kevin George (1 speech)
This Saturday 6 July, we will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the death of Kevin George Conway, the first Australian soldier killed in action in Vietnam. Conway grew up in Wellington Point...
- Bird, Ms Olivia (1 speech)
Today, I would like to rise to recognise a magnificent young girl and brave hero during an emergency in my electorate of Robertson: Ms Olivia Bird. Olivia came to the rescue of Ms Diana Johnston,...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
As the new financial year kicks off this week, Australians will once again feel the pinch as they lodge their tax returns. While Labor eventually opted to retain and slightly amend the...
- Taxation (1 speech)
When I was growing up, Fridays were a really important day. Not only was it the last day of the week for school before the weekend; it was the day that my dad would arrive home, usually at a half...
- War Memorials: Vandalism (1 speech)
I rise in support of my friend the member for Spence, who is also a veteran, and we will rise together to condemn the graffiti on our war memorials that we saw in the previous few days. Why do we...
- Economy (1 speech)
Last weekend, I was excited to welcome the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, to Pearcedale in my electorate of Holt. On this visit, I showed Prime Minister Albanese around a small business, JD...
- Dawson Electorate: Whitsunday STEM Challenge (1 speech)
I rise today to celebrate the incredibly talented young minds that I met in the 2024 Whitsunday STEM Challenge. Now in its seventh year, I was blown away by the hundreds of regional primary and...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
Some great news for coal workers: yesterday, hundreds of labour-hire workers at Batchfire's Callide mine at Biloela in Central Queensland received some great news from the Fair Work Commission,...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
The Albanese government used to wax lyrical on their failed war on feral cats, but the cost-of-living crisis is the feral dog that is biting and terrorising families and businesses across...
- Solomon Electorate (1 speech)
For the benefit of those in the gallery, I am the federal MP that represents Darwin and Palmerston in the Northern Territory. At the moment, it's the dry season and it's absolutely...
- Live Sheep Exports (1 speech)
I rise today to give a big shout out to Keep the Sheep, a WA grassroots movement of farmers, truckers, shearers, stockies and feed producers all dependent on the live sheep export industry for...
- War Memorials: Vandalism (2 speeches)
As one of the co-chairs of the Parliamentary Friends of Veterans, along with the member for Menzies who spoke so eloquently earlier, I too rise to echo the words of the Prime Minister and the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- National General Assembly of Local Government (1 speech)
I'm pleased to inform the House that present in the gallery today, as was the case yesterday and for the remainder of this week, are the hard-working local councillors and mayors from across...
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Skills and Training will be absent from question time today, and the Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations will answer questions on his behalf.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Two years ago, the Prime Minister promised Australian families cheaper mortgages and that life would be easier, yet the Albanese government has increased...
- Medicare (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. What action is the Albanese Labor government taking to make it easier for Australians to see a doctor for free? Why is the government...
- Payman, Senator Fatima (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Last night Senator Fatima Payman released a statement claiming Labor members were 'attempting to intimidate me into resigning from the Senate'. On 7 November...
- Cost of Living (3 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How is the Albanese Labor government easing cost-of-living pressures and ensuring Australians earn more and keep more of what they earn? What obstacles were overcome?
- Middle East (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs. People within my electorate who have family in Gaza have been advised the quickest way to get them out is to...
- Cost of Living (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. What cost-of-living relief is the Albanese Labor government delivering, and what plans to push prices up have the government rejected?
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to Minister for Climate Change and Energy. What energy bill relief is the Albanese Labor government delivering to help households and small businesses with the cost of living? How...
- Cost Of Living (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Last night young mum Emma Robertson from the Gold Coast told A Current Affair her family is at breaking point. She said, 'The tax cuts come in but do pretty...
- Cost of Living: Women (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Women. How is the Albanese Labor government supporting Australian women with the cost of living?
- Live Animal Exports (10 speeches)
My question is for the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, in the gallery are representatives of the farmers, shearers, truckies and local communities whose livelihoods rely on the live sheep export...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme. How is the Albanese Labor government helping the sustainability of the NDIS, including through cost-of-living support...
- Infrastructure (3 speeches)
To the minister for northern development: Minister, are you aware that 'Red Ted' Theodore's home, the Chillagoe mineral province, was the birth place of a labour movement? Liberals chanted, 'Red...
- Australian Defence Force (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering cost-of-living relief for our Australian Defence Force personnel and how does this differ from other...
- Housing (16 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Analysis shows that due to Labor's migration policies, with nearly a million migrants in the last two years, one new home needs to be built every two minutes...
- First Nations Australians (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Australians. How is the Albanese Labor government helping to reduce overcrowding in housing and creating more real jobs with proper wages and decent...
- National Emergency Medal (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. It was recently announced that emergency responders, volunteers and community workers involved in the February-March 2022 floods in northern New South Wales...
- National Anti-Corruption Commission (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. How has the Albanese Labor government's delivery of the National Anti-Corruption Commission helped improve integrity in government after a decade of inaction?
- Housing (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister agree that his decision to increase migration by a record 547,000 migrants in 2023 has contributed to Labor's homegrown housing crisis?
- Competition Policy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Can the Treasurer outline the steps the government is undertaking to improve competition? What other approaches have been proposed?
- Energy (6 speeches)
My question goes to the Prime Minister. A new UBS report has forecast power prices to soar by up to 50 per cent by 2029 as Labor's renewables rollout stalls, forcing state Labor governments to...
- Workplace Relations: Mining Industry (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. How are the Albanese Labor government's same jobs, same pay reforms helping people in the mining industry earn more and keep...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Live Animal Exports (39 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Page proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: This Government's reckless...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- War Memorials: Vandalism (5 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Canning from moving the following motion: That this House: (1) condemns defacing any war...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Social Media, Mental Health (1 speech)
I want to share the concerns of parents in Wentworth about the harmful impact of social media on young people. Over the past two years, I've had countless conversations with people across the...
- Hamm, Mr Ian, Federation of Nepalese Community Associations in Australia Inc., East African Women's Foundation (1 speech)
Next week is NAIDOC Week, which began nearly 50 years ago to raise awareness and to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. In light of...
- Renewable Energy (1 speech)
Labor is forcing regional Australia and Australians to simply be the repositories of wind turbines and solar panels with its renewables-only energy policies. In my electorate, my communities...
- National Rugby League (1 speech)
The Albanese Labor government is a big supporter of rugby league. The North Ipswich Reserve in my electorate is getting $20 million as part of a $40 million stage 1 upgrade, along with $10...
- War Memorials: Vandalism (1 speech)
On Anzac Day, Australians gather in towns and cities around the structures we know as war memorials, of which there are around 5,000 in towns and suburbs throughout our country. Many small towns...
- Nuclear Energy (1 speech)
This week, the Australian Labor government is wiping $300 from the power bills of every Australian household. At the same time, we continue to roll out the plan we took to the election for...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Warringah Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
This government did promise more transparent and accessible grants programs, but so far nothing has been delivered, and we are well over two years into this term. It is causing significant...
- Cost of Living, Volunteering (1 speech)
People across the community of Barton can look forward to cost-of-living relief thanks to our government. The Albanese Labor government is delivering for every Australian because we are a...
- Veterans: Homelessness, Macgroarty, Murray (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the magnificent work being done in my electorate of Dawson. Sixteen-year-old Cadet Sergeant Murray Macgroarty has taken things into his own hands, raising awareness and...
- National Volunteer Week, Hindmarsh Electorate Volunteer Awards (1 speech)
For 35 years we've been celebrating National Volunteers Week in Australia, and, for all of the time that I've been the member for Port Adelaide and Hindmarsh, I've commemorated that in a...
- The Outback Way (1 speech)
On Sunday I joined the Outback Highway Development Council, who were in Canberra hosting their very first think tank on how to add value to the amazing road infrastructure that is the Outback...
- Blaxland Electorate: Australia Post (1 speech)
Today I want to talk about one of my local post offices. Post offices are important. They're places that we go to for banking, to pay for bills, to pick parcels up and, of course, to send a...
- Menzies Electorate: Food Banks (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the incredible hardship that families in my electorate are experiencing. Like many members of the House of Representatives, there are food banks in the electorate that I...
- Vocational Education and Training (1 speech)
Fee-free TAFE is changing lives and creating invaluable opportunities, particularly for young people seeking new skills and for small-business owners in need of a skilled workforce. The Albanese...
- Wannon Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to raise my serious concerns about what's happening to the health system in Victoria, and I raise this because my local communities are raising it with me. They are deeply,...
- Bowel Cancer (2 speeches)
Bowel cancer is on the rise and is Australia's second-deadliest cancer. Sadly, it claimed my father. It claims the lives of more than 5,350 Australians each and every year. Whilst the risk of...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Australia's International Environment Leadership (5 speeches)
It's great to be able to make a contribution to the debate on this topic. Australia is fortunate to be a place of remarkable biodiversity, and we are all fortunate to have the stewardship of one...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Women's Health (1 speech)
I've previously used my time in this place to discuss inequities in relation to women's health and, in particular, the intersectional health inequities for women who live in the regions. Women...
- Social Cohesion (1 speech)
I rise this evening in this grievance debate to talk about the current state of our national conversation here in Australia and the fact that it seems to be broken. I rise to talk about social...
- Leichhardt Electorate: Cape York Peninsula (1 speech)
I rise tonight to address a matter of great significance for the people of Far North Queensland, the proposed UNESCO World Heritage listing of the Cape York Peninsula region. Queensland state and...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
I am aggrieved at the confected outrage, the absurd criticism and the mindless negativity we see from those opposite towards the Albanese Labor government. They like to carp and moan and accuse...
- Middle East, Environment, First Nations Australians (1 speech)
I'd like to touch on a few things this evening that are of concern to me. I might just comment on the member for Canberra's contribution a little while ago. It was quite a thoughtful...
- Head and Neck Cancer, Health Care (2 speeches)
This month, July, is Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month, and today I want to tell about my own very recent and real journey, about my large oral tumour, which, thankfully, was discovered and...
