House debates
Thursday, 22 August 2024
- Business (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (1 speech)
I will just provide information for members on arrangements for the day. We are in a situation where there may well be legislation coming back from the Senate where transmission will not occur...
- Statements on Significant Matters (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Joint Committee; Approval of Work (1 speech)
I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, it is expedient to carry out the following proposed work which was referred to the Parliamentary Standing...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That notice No. 7, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That order of the day No. 2, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Divers for Climate (1 speech)
I recently had the opportunity to meet with Dr Yolanda Waters, the founder and CEO of an incredible organisation called Divers for Climate. Back when I was first appointed as the Special Envoy...
- Financial Security (1 speech)
No matter who you are or where you are, scams hurt. When the Albanese government came to office, Australians were losing more than $3 billion a year to scams. The opposition had sat on their...
- Gralton, Mr Cliff, Cordery, Ms Dorothy (1 speech)
I'd like to congratulate Tuncurry local Cliff Gralton, who has secured a place in the 2024 Australian Irukandjis para surfing team. Last week Cliff won the prone 2 class at the Australian para...
- Broadband (1 speech)
Labor created the NBN, and Labor will ensure it continues to meet the needs of Australians well into the future. I am thrilled that more than 24,000 households and businesses in Holt can now...
- Horak, Mrs Olga, OAM (1 speech)
I rise today to honour the late Olga Horak OAM, a Holocaust survivor and passionate educator who passed away last week at the age of 98. Olga was a survivor of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Born...
- Parliamentary Standards (1 speech)
There are moments in this place that transcend the cut and thrust of political discourse. This week, we had two of those moments, thanks to the valedictory speeches of the members for Gorton and...
- Calare Electorate: Mudgee Evening Branch, Country Women's Association (1 speech)
Today I rise to pay tribute to the incredible work of the Mudgee Evening Branch of the Country Women's Association. With 34 devoted members, this group works tirelessly for the community,...
- Cancer Council: Daffodil Day (1 speech)
Today, 22 August, is Daffodil Day, an important occasion to raise funding for the Cancer Council. Through the purchase of a daffodil or a pin, or by making a donation, the work of the Cancer...
- Victoria: Agriculture Industry (1 speech)
I rise today to raise the plight of farmers in my electorate. At the moment, they are going through what is called a 'green drought'. This is having implications, whether they be in the west of...
- Tangney Electorate: Sporting Clubs (1 speech)
On a recent cold evening I visited the Melville City Hockey Club in my electorate of Tangney. I watched as some of the junior boys and girls teams trained in the sport they love. With more than...
- Longman Electorate: Youth Rugby League (1 speech)
Recently I was contacted by an old schoolmate of mine who was a local police officer in Caboolture and has now been stationed in northern Queensland for around 20 years. He contacted me and said...
- World Cadet, Junior and Under 21 Karate Championships (1 speech)
We are always so proud of our local Central Coast athletes when they compete for Australia at international events. Three athletes who have recently been chosen to represent Australia are...
- Lebanese Australians (1 speech)
It was an honour this week to host hundreds of Maronite community leaders, who came to Canberra at the behest of the Parliamentary Friends of Lebanon, which I was happy to host with my co-chair,...
- National Leadership Forum (1 speech)
It is my great pleasure as the co-chair, along with the member for Berowra, of the National Leadership Forum to acknowledge the young leaders participating in the National Leadership Forum over...
- Cook Electorate: Gymea Bay Baths (1 speech)
Gymea Bay Baths in my electorate should be revitalised. The Gymea Bay Baths, a place where many children in my electorate learn to swim, are usually unsuitable because of poor water quality,...
- Liberal-National Coalition (1 speech)
It's been just over a week since our record-breaking Olympic team returned home from Paris with a hefty excess baggage bill for all the medals they won—53 in total. I fell just short of...
- Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
The Prime Minister's idea of a joke at the AgriFutures Rural Women's Award gala at Parliament House this week was bad form. While addressing some 600 people, the Prime Minister referred to a meal...
- Liberal Party of Australia (1 speech)
They say a week is a long time in politics, and, boy oh boy, hasn't it been a long week for the Liberals in New South Wales? 'Twas a mild, mid-winter Wednesday when we learnt that the Liberals...
- Pankhurst, Mr Alister (1 speech)
I'd like to offer my condolences to the Pankhurst family. We have very few World War II veterans left, and Alister Pankhurst from my area was one of them. Alister Pankhurst found out that he'd...
- Nuclear Energy (2 speeches)
BURNS () (): It's been over 60 days since the Leader of the Opposition made his big announcement with little detail. He, of course, made his announcement about nuclear reactors in this country....
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Middle East: Migration (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. Yesterday, the Prime Minister couldn't explain if any ministerial intervention had occurred regarding the 20 tourist...
- Cost of Living (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How is the Albanese Labor government helping workers and families with the cost of living and a more secure retirement? What approaches has the government rejected?
- Middle East: Migration (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the government's issuing of tourist visas to nearly 3,000 people from the terrorist controlled Gaza war zone, with nearly 1,300 having already...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme. How do the Albanese Labor government's groundbreaking reforms to the NDIS help participants on the scheme and ensure...
- Public Sector Governance (8 speeches)
My question is for the Treasurer. Just last week the government appointed a former Labor premier to the board of Australia Post. She replaces someone who was a former director of the Liberal...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Paid Parental Leave (2 speeches)
My question as to the Minister for Social Services. How is the Albanese Labor government supporting Australian families? What's been the response to the Albanese Labor government's legislation to...
- Middle East: Migration (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will individuals currently in the terrorist-controlled Gaza war zone who have already been granted a visa by this government be subject to face-to-face...
- Universities (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to support university students across the country?
- Middle East: Migration (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How many people from the Gaza war zone has Qatar accepted?
- Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to combat family and gender based violence online and in the family law system?
- National Security (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. My question is to the Prime Minister. Over the last two weeks, the Prime Minister has dodged about 30 questions on the government's handling of people coming...
- Albanese Government: Women (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Women. How is the Albanese Labor government working to deliver a better future for Australian women, including working to improve the...
- Gambling (2 speeches)
This is a question for the Prime Minister. A mum from Curtin told me that yesterday her 15-year-old son said that he's decided to take up sports gambling as a side hustle because it's easy money....
- Defence Industry (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry and Capability Delivery. What progress is the Albanese Labor government making to improve defence capability and defence industrial capacity?...
- Middle East: Migration (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, when the Rafah Border Crossing reopens, will the thousands of people holding a tourist visa to travel to Australia be eligible to travel...
- Future Made in Australia (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry and Science. How is the Albanese Labor government's Future Made in Australia plan helping regions and suburbs that depend on manufacturing? What...
- Regional Australia: Health Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. According to the National Rural Health Alliance, regional Australians receive $848 less per year in health spend than metropolitan...
- Early Childhood Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Early Childhood Education. How is the Albanese Labor government supporting early childhood educators?
- Middle East: Migration (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. On 7 October, Hamas terrorists went into small Israeli farming villages and a music festival, where they filmed themselves gleefully murdering children,...
- Cost of Living (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering cost-of-living relief, and what approaches have been ruled out?
- Middle East: Migration (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, does supporting Hamas pass the character test for an Australian visa?
- Albanese Government (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. What have been the Albanese Labor government's priorities for the parliamentary sitting, and what has stood in the way?
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Regional Australia: Health Care (1 speech)
In response to a question from the member for Mayo, I wasn't clear, off the top of my head, about where the great electorate of Mayo sits in the bulk-billing table. I can confirm that it has had...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Labor Government (39 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable the Leader of the Opposition proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: This Government's...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (1 speech)
I move: That standing order 31 (automatic adjournment of the House) and standing order 33 (limit on business) be suspended for the sitting commencing on Thursday, 22 August 2024. For the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Australasian Hellenic Educational Progressive Association: 90th Anniversary, Gestetner, Rabbi Elozer, Gestetner, Rebbetzin Miri (1 speech)
Recently I was delighted to attend the 90th anniversary celebrations for the Australasian Hellenic Educational Progressive Association, affectionately known as AHEPA. I joined His Grace Bishop...
- Tradies National Health Month (1 speech)
August is Tradies National Health Month, a time to invest in tradie health. While the original intent of Tradies National Health Month is to encourage tradies to invest in their physical health,...
- Macquarie Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
In a local government area that is 3,000 kilometres square, roads matter. I want to highlight the major funding role the Albanese Labor government has in supporting Hawkesbury City Council to...
- Durack Electorate: Shows (1 speech)
I'm pleased to say show season is up and running in the mighty electorate of Durack. We've already had the Moondyne Festival in Toodyay, which I was pleased to attend earlier this year. It is a...
- Little, Mr Robert (Frog) (1 speech)
On Saturday last week Tathra lost a local legend, Rob Little—known as Frog to so many people. Frog and Val were publicans of the iconic Tathra pub during the eighties and nineties, and...
- Ostwald, Mr Mike (1 speech)
Today I rise to honour the memory of one of Wide Bay's great people, Mike Ostwald. Mike was a long-time resident of Gympie and Monto, and he recently passed away while visiting his daughter and...
- Maini, Vansh, Liverpool Quota (1 speech)
In July 2023, a student of Thomas Hassall Anglican College, Vansh Maini, represented Australia at the US Open ISKA World Martial Arts Championships, held in Orlando, Florida. I had the pleasure...
- Sturt Electorate: Sport Infrastructure (1 speech)
I'm sure most members have the same challenge in their electorates as I do, which is a drastic shortage of quality sporting infrastructure for the great boom that is going on in sports...
- Jagajaga Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
Recently, I had the privilege of presenting leadership, academic and other awards to students at Greensborough College. Greensborough College is a fantastic school, where the principal, staff and...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
There's not a gas shortage in Australia; there's a shortage of integrity. There's a shortage of politicians who actually represent their constituents, not the interests of the coal and gas...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Statements on Significant Matters (0 speeches)
- Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (8 speeches)
Gender based violence is an epidemic in our country. Thirty-nine per cent of women have experienced violence since the age of 15. Thirty-one per cent of women have experienced physical violence...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Mental Health: Youth (1 speech)
I love being a mum. I feel lucky every day I have the opportunity to watch my kids grow. I also feel lucky that when my children were small I had a network of mum friends with whom to share the...
- Albanese Government (1 speech)
We've returned to parliament after the winter break, with every Australian taxpayer having received a tax cut—and that's every taxpayer in my community. The government have been focused...
- Community Legal Centres (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the critical work that's undertaken across the country by community legal centres and the urgent need to address desperate funding shortfalls. There are 166 organisations...
- Rotary Club of Ballina-on-Richmond: Purple Shirt Friday (2 speeches)
I rise today to acknowledge the extraordinary work of Rotary clubs in my electorate. Today, I want to speak particularly about the Rotary Club of Ballina-on-Richmond. My good friend, the...
- Space Industry (1 speech)
Last night the Parliamentary Friends of the Space Industry group convened a very large group of not only space enthusiasts but organisations, companies and businesses from across Australia that...
- Brain Injury Awareness Week (1 speech)
Brain Injury Awareness Week is held annually between 19 and 25 August to raise awareness of brain injury and its impact on everyday Australians. The brain is critical to how we think, feel,...
