House debates
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Oath or Affirmation of Allegiance (1 speech)
I present an authority I have received from Her Excellency the Governor-General authorising me to administer to members the oath or affirmation of allegiance.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 35 of the Selection Committee, relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday 7 April 2025. The report will be...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Nuclear Energy Select Committee; Report (10 speeches)
On behalf of the Select Committee on Nuclear Energy, I present the committee's interim report, incorporating dissenting reports, for the inquiry into nuclear power generation in Australia,...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (2 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the resumption of the debate on the motion that the bill be read a second time being made an order of the day for a later...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Regional Budget Statement (2 speeches)
by leave—On behalf of the Albanese Labor government, I'm proud to deliver our fourth regional ministerial budget statement. I'd like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of where we...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Forde Electorate: Tropical Cyclone Alfred (1 speech)
When the worst hits a community, we see the best in that community rise to the surface. I never need a reminder of how incredible our Forde region and its people are, but Tropical Cyclone Alfred...
- Lalich, Mr Nickola (Nick) (1 speech)
I rise in relation to the sad news that Nick Lalich, another stalwart of the Labor Party in my part of the world, passed away overnight. He served our community for over 35 years. Nick was old...
- Budget, Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
Last night's federal budget was devastating for the bush. The lack of funding for regional Australia was once again on show for us all to see. There was no new funding for the Local Roads and...
- Cunningham Electorate: Fernhill Football Club (1 speech)
This year the Fernhill Foxes football club are celebrating an incredible milestone: 100 years of football in the Illawarra. In 1925, the club kicked off their first game on 28 March, setting in...
- Federal Election (1 speech)
With the federal election looming, there are two things I want to warn Australians about—lies and data harvesting. There's no law preventing lies in political ads. This is mind blowing....
- Budget (1 speech)
Inflation is down, incomes are rising, unemployment is low, and interest rates are easing. On every front, the Australian economy is in better shape than it was three years ago, but we know...
- Northern Beaches Hospital (1 speech)
Two mornings ago, I attended a strike being held by nurses and midwives at our local Northern Beaches Hospital. The Northern Beaches Hospital is the only privately run public hospital remaining...
- Cragg, Mr David (1 speech)
Last Monday, we lost a giant of the union and labour movement with the passing of David Cragg. David's career and achievements spanned decades. Everything he contributed to our movement and...
- Menzies Electorate: Hong Kong Club (1 speech)
It's hard to hold onto good friends over time, but you've got to make an effort. So, when a club that was formed by friends celebrates its 60th anniversary, we shouldn't just celebrate it; we...
- Australian Public Service (1 speech)
My parents came here in the 1960s to work in the Public Service and play their part in the national story, just like thousands of other Australians who came here and the generations that followed...
- Longman Electorate: Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred (1 speech)
I want to take this opportunity to thank my community for the superb manner in which they dealt with ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred. We were pretty fortunate; we dodged a bullet. We didn't get it as...
- Renewable Energy (1 speech)
I represent a community that understands the value of our land, our industries and our future. That's why there is so much community opposition to the proposed Mitchells Flat Solar Farm. We all...
- Micah Women Leaders Network (1 speech)
ARCHER () (): Last week, a group of 120 Tasmanian women gathered in Launceston for the Micha Women Leaders Network dinner. The event brought women together for an important conversation on social...
- Medicare (1 speech)
There was a lot of good news in last night's budget. We had tax cuts and we had more policy for housing and help for people to buy their first home. But something that my community are really...
- Albanese Government (1 speech)
A glimpse into the future can be inspiring, it can be exciting or it can be frightening. The view of the future is often informed by the deeds of the past, or, as the philosopher George Santayana...
- Budget (1 speech)
As my wonderful colleague the member for Reid, Sally Sitou, said last night about the budget, 'It's like a fourth child.' It was unexpected but a very pleasant surprise. I tell you, last night...
- Federal Election (1 speech)
There's only one thing that regional Australians fear more than the second term of the Albanese-Marles government and that would be the first term of an Albanese-Bandt government backed by their...
- Budget (1 speech)
The No. 1 priority of the federal Labor government is fighting the cost of living. As the Treasurer got to his feet in this place last night, Australia took another step to undo the rot that set...
- Economy: Regional Australia (1 speech)
As a regional MP, what I like to remind everyone in this chamber when I get up—everyone opposite and especially on the crossbenches—is that regional Australia is the economic...
- Labor Government (1 speech)
Australians know the Albanese government represents all—everyone—because we too come from all walks of life. We are tradies, we are small-business owners, we're lawyers, and we're...
- Budget (2 speeches)
This Treasurer has delivered a disastrous, appalling, embarrassing budget. There are massive deficits as far as the eye can see. Here are the numbers: $28 billion deficit, $42 billion deficit,...
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Education will be absent from question time today, fulfilling ministerial duties. The Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Sport will answer questions...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given last night's cruel hoax of a budget, can the Prime Minister explain how giving struggling Australians just 70 cents a day in 15 months time will help...
- Cost of Living (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How is the Albanese Labor government providing more cost-of-living relief to every taxpayer, and is there any opposition to this plan?
- Budget (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister's cruel hoax of a budget offers cash-strapped Australian families 70c a day in 15 months time. Prime Minister, when Australians with a...
- Migration (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. The Albanese Labor government will bring in over 1.8 million immigrants over five years, whilst Labor's housing crisis escalates. When will the Treasurer come...
- Economy (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Workplace Relations. How is the Albanese Labor government helping Australians earn more and keep more of what they earn? Are there any...
- Cost of Living (3 speeches)
My question's to the Treasurer. Under the Albanese Labor government, the cost of groceries has now increased by 30 per cent. This means, for the average family, they are around $3,000 a year...
- Budget (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering tax relief for Australians in the budget? What is standing in the way of tax cuts for Australians?
- Economy (5 speeches)
TAYLOR () (): My question is to the Treasurer. A short time ago the Treasurer suggested the instant asset write-off was already budgeted for. Can the Treasurer confirm that there are no budgeted...
- Energy (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. Minister, how does the budget help with household energy bills, and what are the risks to more affordable energy bills?
- Environment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Australia's biggest environmental organisation, the Australian Conservation Foundation, said that your gutting of environment laws with the coalition today...
- Cost of Living: Women (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Women. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to support Australian women with the cost of living? What threats are there to this...
- Budget (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business. Can the minister confirm that there is no provision for the ongoing instant asset write-off of $20,000 in the budget and that the instant asset...
- Early Childhood Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Early Childhood Education. What action is the Albanese Labor government taking to make early childhood education more affordable for families [inaudible] to...
- Small Business (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business. Minister, the instant asset write-off is before the House at the moment. If it's not passed this week, the small businesses of Kooyong won't get...
- Veterans (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Defence Personnel. How is the Albanese Labor government supporting veterans and are there any threats to this?
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will Australia's gross government debt hit more than a trillion dollars next year?
- Women's Health (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering more choice and cheaper medicines for Australian women? Why is it important to deliver more choice,...
- Migration (15 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. I refer to the government's increase to the Migration Program to 1.8 million people over five years. Will the Treasurer guarantee it will not go higher than 1.8...
- Cost of Living: Aged-Care Workers (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Aged Care. How is the Albanese Labor government supporting aged-care workers with pay rises and tax cuts? Are there any threats to this?
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Documents are tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Full details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Budget (28 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Hume proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The government's budget is...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (4 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the following from occurring immediately: (1) the Member for Calare presenting a Bill for an Act to stop...
- Rearrangement (14 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the following from occurring: (1) government business order of the day No. 5 relating to the Treasury Laws...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present the following reports: report No. 1 of 2025: Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and...
- Human Rights Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, I present the following reports: Human rights scrutiny report: report 2 of 2025; Human rights scrutiny report: report 3 of 2025,...
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, I present the committee's report incorporating a dissenting report entitled A review of the operation of the amendments made by...
- Public Accounts and Audit Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, I present the following reports: Report 509: inquiry into public sector information technology procurement and projects, Report 510:...
- Northern Australia Joint Select Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Select Committee on Northern Australia, I present the committee's report Final report on the cyclone reinsurance pool, incorporating a dissenting report. Report made...
- Trade and Investment Growth Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Trade and Investment Growth, I present the committee's report entitled Final report:inquiry into the understanding and utilisation of benefits under...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (3 speeches)
If you're worried about the cost-of-living crisis, you're not alone. If you're worried about how you or your kids might be able to afford a home, you are not alone. If you think that, in a...
- Budget (2 speeches)
This budget provides responsible cost-of-living relief for working families in my community, while building a strong economy for everyone in Blair. The budget delivers new help with...
- Macnamara Electorate: Jewish Community (1 speech)
As everyone in this place will know, I have stood up countless times over the past 18 months to share some of the difficult days that my community, the Jewish community of Australia, have faced....
- Budget (2 speeches)
My constituents, particularly older constituents, often talk to me about government no longer governing with long-term vision or for nation-building projects. Last night's budget was one of the...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Tasmania: Salmon Farming Industry (1 speech)
I rise to amplify the concerns of Kooyong constituents about the government's failure to protect our marine environment and endangered species. Yesterday, in the most cynical of ploys, the...
- Health Care (1 speech)
When our kids twist an ankle during their weekend footy match or break a finger playing netball, they shouldn't have to sit in pain for hours in a busy emergency department waiting room. When we...
- Budget (1 speech)
We had a budget last night, and I am reminded of Maggie Thatcher's famous words: The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. It's quite clear that this...
- Youth Empowerment Program (1 speech)
I was so pleased to visit two fantastic services in my electorate a couple of weeks ago: Tribal Warrior and Youth Off The Streets. I heard from the workers at both Youth Off The Streets and...
- Budget (1 speech)
We South Australians all waited with bated breath last night to see what would be committed in the budget to invest in our state, and I congratulate the member for Spence in the chamber for what...
- Hunter Electorate: Vocational Education and Training (1 speech)
I had the pleasure of attending the 10th anniversary of the Huntlee Academy. Huntlee Academy is a not-for-profit established in 2014 to provide work, skills and higher-level career opportunities...
- Bradfield Electorate: Sport (1 speech)
The Lindfield Cricket Club and the Lindfield Rugby Club—and the junior rugby club—are very important institutions in the electorate of Bradfield, and both of them play at the oval at...
- Robertson Electorate: Medicare (1 speech)
Over the past several months, my team and I have been leading a campaign for another Medicare urgent care clinic for Robertson on the Central Coast. My team and I have door-knocked and...
- Casey Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
Festivals and markets are an important part of our community in Casey. They are run by community groups and volunteers who put in so much time and effort to support those in our community. It was...
- Hawke Electorate: Community Services and Infrastructure (2 speeches)
Hawke is one of the fastest growing communities in this country. That growth brings enormous opportunity, but it also brings pressure on infrastructure, on services and on the people who call our...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Crowley, Hon. Dr Rosemary Anne AO (10 speeches)
I'd like to echo the Prime Minister's and opposition leader's fine words yesterday to offer my heartfelt condolences to the loved ones of the Hon. Dr Rosemary Crowley AO, a former senator and...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Tropical Cyclone Alfred (13 speeches)
It's commonly said that the Brisbane River is a river with a city problem. If you actually have a look at where the cities and towns in South-East Queensland are established, they're on the main...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Nuclear Energy Select Committee; Report (24 speeches)
It gives me great pleasure to stand to speak on the Interim report for the inquiry into nuclear power generation in Australia. I want to start out by acknowledging our chair, the fantastic member...
