House debates
Thursday, 6 February 2025
- 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 entitled Report No. 31: Additional estimates 2024-25. Report made a parliamentary paper.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- COVID 19: Vaccination (1 speech)
More than 140,000 Australians have lodged, on the TGA database, adverse reactions to the not-so-safe and ineffective COVID vaccines. But thousands of these Australians have been unable to access...
- Pickett, Brother Thomas Oliver (Olly), AM (1 speech)
I would like to celebrate an extraordinary individual whose unwavering commitment to service and compassion has transformed the lives of countless children globally. It is my honour to recognise...
- Black Saturday Bushfires: 16th Anniversary (1 speech)
This Friday, 7 February, marks the 16th anniversary of the Black Saturday bushfires. It's a day I remember all too well, as do many residents in my community. Today is a day we remember not only...
- Bombing of Darwin: 83rd Anniversary (1 speech)
As we approach the 83rd anniversary of the bombing of Darwin, I want to remind people that it was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia during the Second World...
- North East Link (1 speech)
The Victorian government's North East Link project was supposed to cost $10 billion. It's now up to $26 billion. It's possibly the most expensive road project in the world per kilometre. It's had...
- Hunter Electorate: Australia Day Awards (1 speech)
This year I was lucky enough to attend Singleton Council's Australia Day ceremony, where they announced their 2025 citizens of the year. This year paramedic Nigel Korff was named the 2025 citizen...
- Australian Society (3 speeches)
Over decades, well-funded far-right groups in the United States have been on a mission to destroy progressive politics and reshape the Republican Party to be one of division, destruction and...
- Lemoine, Ms Pamela (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge Pamela Lemoine, who this year has been recognised and awarded the Jean Arnot Award for her consistent work on behalf of Graduate Women NSW. Pamela is 90 years young...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
Australians are living through a cost-of-living crisis that is induced by this Labor government. Because Labor can't manage their budget, it's impacting the family budget. The cost of everything...
- Cricket (1 speech)
There's nothing better than sitting down on a hot summer's day with a cold drink in hand and watching the cricket. What a summer of cricket it has been. From Australia's dominant Boxing Day Test...
- New South Wales: Infrastructure (1 speech)
After two years and nine months, this Labor government, led by Prime Minister Albanese, has totally failed on infrastructure in New South Wales, particularly in south-western Sydney. Western...
- World Heritage Areas (1 speech)
Last Friday, the Minister for the Environment and Water and I announced that the Victorian Goldfields have been added to Australia's Tentative World Heritage List. This is the first and foremost...
- Cowper Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
I rise again today to speak on a critical issue, and that is the intersection on the Oxley Highway at Wrights Road and Lake Road. In 2022 this project was fully funded with $5 million secured: $4...
- Albanese Government: Health Care (1 speech)
The Albanese Labor government is delivering real investment into our public hospitals, because every Australian deserves high-quality health care no matter where they live or what they earn. This...
- Albanese Government: Infrastructure (1 speech)
The Labor Party has a real problem at the moment. They've just worked out that on the slim chance that they win the next election they'll have nothing to do because they've spent the last 2½...
- Albanese Government: Health Care (2 speeches)
Labor created Medicare, and we will protect it. We are delivering $1.7 billion more for public hospitals and health services next year. Stronger Medicare, better hospitals—a better...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Tambling, Hon. Grant Ernest John, AM (1 speech)
I inform the House of the death on 24 January 2025 of the Hon. Grant Ernest John Tambling AM, a member of the House for the division of Northern Territory from 1980 to 1983 and a senator for the...
- Moore, Hon. John Colinton, AO; Reference to Federation Chamber (1 speech)
I declare that the resumption of debate on the Acting Prime Minister's motion of condolence in connection with the death of the Hon. John Colinton Moore is referred to the Federation Chamber.
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Prime Minister will be absent from question time today as he is in North Queensland visiting severely flood affected communities with the Queensland Premier. I'll...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (10 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Can the Treasurer tell Australians by what percentage the cost of food has gone up during Labor's cost-of-living crisis since the election of the Albanese Labor...
- Housing (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Can the Treasurer confirm that housing rents have risen 17 per cent during Labor's cost-of-living crisis since the election of the Albanese Labor government?
- Cost of Living (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How is the Albanese Labor government prioritising help for Australians with the cost of living? Are there alternative approaches that would leave people worse off?
- Nature Positive (Environment Protection Australia) Bill 2024 (2 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for the Environment and Water. On 21 May 2022, in his victory speech, the Prime Minister said, 'Together we can end the climate wars.' Yesterday, your government...
- Early Childhood Education (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Early Childhood Education. How is the Albanese Labor government reforming the early childhood education and care sector to support families? Is there anything...
- Energy (7 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Can the Treasurer confirm that the cost of gas has risen 34 per cent during Labor's cost-of-living crisis since the election of the Albanese Labor government?
- Universities (6 speeches)
My question is to the education minister. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to cut student debt? Are there any approaches that would leave Australians worse off?
- Insurance (3 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Can the Treasurer confirm that the cost of insurance has risen 19 per cent during Labor's cost-of-living crisis since the election of the Albanese Labor government?
- Queensland: Roads (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to improve safety and productivity on...
- Environment (10 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Water. Does the minister still support the introduction of a federal environmental protection agency, including in Western Australia?
- Aluminium Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry and Science. How is the Albanese Labor government helping deliver greater job security for regional communities that make aluminium? What approaches...
- Morton-Bowles, Ms Holly Jayne, Jones, Ms Bianca Adrienne (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Last week I met with Holly Morton-Bowles's father, Shaun. Holly and her friend Bianca died after consuming bootleg alcohol in Laos last year. Their...
- Department of Veterans' Affairs (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel. How has the Albanese Labor government improved the lives of Australian veterans? Is the minister aware of...
- Environment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Water. I refer the minister to her previous answer. Will the minister rule out the future introduction of the federal environmental...
- Migration (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. What has the Albanese Labor government done to get rid of dodgy visa programs, and are there any proposals that would...
- Small Business (2 speeches)
This is a question for the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Small businesses in Wentworth are really struggling, and one of the main reasons is complex...
- E-Cigarettes and Vaping Products (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. What action has the Albanese Labor government taken to tackle the public-health menace of vaping? Are there any other approaches to...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 22 of 2024-25 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Audit report No. 22 of 2024-25, entitled Audits of the financial statements of Australian government entities for the period ended 30 June 2024. Document made a...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
I present a letter regarding the Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community Council annual report for 2023-24.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Housing (20 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable the Manager of Opposition Business proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: This...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Donations to Political Parties, Aircraft Noise (1 speech)
It's story time. Do you want an example of the blatant power exerted by giant mining corporations over our political system? Labor gets elected in 2022, promising to fix Australia's broken...
- Medicare (1 speech)
My speech in the debate tonight is on a very special birthday that just passed: the 41st birthday of Medicare, an extraordinary social program that has changed the lives of millions of...
- Parliament in Schools Program, Mallee Electorate: Infrastructure (2 speeches)
Before I begin, Speaker, let me tell you how excited the people of Mallee are that you will be joining us in the wonderful north-west of Victoria, visiting our schools and encouraging everyone to...
- Services Australia (1 speech)
Services Australia employees deliver a raft of vital services to Australians, including so many across the communities in my electorate of Bean. Services Australia currently employs over 4,000...
- Bonner Electorate (1 speech)
I stand here as grateful today to be Bonner's representative in Canberra as I was in my first term. Bonner has changed a lot since the last election, and I have delivered 79 important upgrades...
- Social Cohesion (1 speech)
On Tuesday morning, at the ecumenical prayer service for the opening of the 2025 parliamentary year held at St Christopher's Cathedral in Forrest, the Right Reverend Vanessa Bennett delivered an...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Federal Election (1 speech)
Billionaires have too much power over politics, and it's clear they would love nothing more than to export the same destructive US style politics and Trumpism into Australia. It was on full...
- Cyclone Tracy: 50th Anniversary (1 speech)
On Christmas morning in Darwin—in fact, across Australia—everyone came together as a community to remember and commemorate, in small ways and big, the 50th anniversary of Cyclone...
- Moore Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
The upcoming state and federal elections are an opportunity to deliver major infrastructure for the residents of Perth's northern suburbs. I acknowledge the bipartisan efforts of my state...
- Leader of the Opposition (1 speech)
Last week the opposition leader, in his shambles of a show—I say 'shambles' because I can't say the other S-word that goes with 'show' here—reached a new low of disrespect not only to...
- Western Australia State Election (1 speech)
We're at a crossroads over in Western Australia, and, after nearly eight years of Labor, what do we have to show for it? A health system in crisis, rising crime and a cost-of-living crisis making...
- Chifley Electorate: Australia Day (1 speech)
I think a lot of us know that no-one ever leads a perfect life. Everyone has challenges from time to time. Some people have them more than others. It's not always the case that there'll be people...
- Youth Justice (1 speech)
I fully support the Queensland government's adult crime, adult time laws. It's early days yet, and there is much work to do, but, like most Queenslanders, I know that this is the right approach...
- Australian Army: Lucas Family, Eden-Monaro Electorate: Australia Day, Jacyshyn, Ms Paraskevia (1 speech)
I recently had the great privilege of attending a last post ceremony at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra to honour Private Dudley Lucas and his brother Private Basil Albert Lucas. The...
- Mitchell Electorate: Australia Day (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate my community of Mitchell on a wonderful Australia Day celebration of our contemporary Australian nation and our shared history. I had the opportunity to attend events...
- Health Care (2 speeches)
I'm pleased to inform this chamber of an important step that will save lives and help Australians make informed choices about their health care. It was community advocates, parents and patients...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Messner, Hon. Anthony (Tony) John, AM (3 speeches)
I take this opportunity to pay tribute to Tony Messner in contributing to this condolence motion. Yesterday in the House the Prime Minister and the opposition leader put some very poignant...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Health Care (1 speech)
I still remember visiting Fairfield Hospital back in 2019. I was really shocked to learn that the hospital's doctors and nurses were still using clipboards and writing patients' details by hand....
- Medicare (1 speech)
Since coming to office, our Labor government has been focused on strengthening Medicare. After a decade of cuts and neglect under the former Liberal government, we've seen a stabilisation in...
- Manufacturing Industry (1 speech)
I'm pleased to share with the Federation Chamber that innovation is alive and well across my electorate of Forde. Since its early days in 1884, when Australia's first rum distillery opened in...
- Macquarie Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
People west of the Hawkesbury River have waited a really long time to see progress on a new flood-resilient bridge. Fifteen years after the Prime Minister and I stood on the now 121-year-old...
- Federal Election (1 speech)
I rise today on what will most likely be the second-last Thursday of this parliament. I was first elected to represent the mighty electorate of Durack in 2013, and I can confidently say that this...
- Murphy, Ms Samantha (1 speech)
It has been the saddest of years for the family and friends of Samantha Murphy—an unfathomable loss of a wife, mother and friend. We continue to hold them close in our thoughts and to...
