House debates
Monday, 18 February 2019
- National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Small Amount Credit Contract and Consumer Lease Reforms) Bill 2018; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. It is difficult to fathom why this bill, which seeks to protect vulnerable consumers from the unscrupulous practices of many operators in the... - Refugee Protection Bill 2019; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Last week in this place humanity triumphed over cruelty and illegality when late Tuesday afternoon the so-called 'medevac' bill passed this place... - Galilee Basin (Coal Prohibition) Bill 2019; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Unprecedented bushfires in Tasmania, the slow death of the Murray-Darling river system, the flooding of northern Queensland. We are in the middle... - Coal Prohibition (Quit Coal) Bill 2019; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Australia exports 80 per cent of its thermal coal—80 per cent. That is coal that we use for electricity. Until we stop exporting thermal... - Banking Amendment (Rural Finance Reform) Bill 2019; Second Reading (4 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. All too often we have heard the stories of farmers who, during drought times or difficult times, are forced into debt and despair. For some,... - Office for Regional Australia Bill 2019; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. In summary, in presenting this bill I would like to continue my call for the need for an overarching, comprehensive, long-term and non-partisan... - Reserve Bank Amendment (Australian Reconstruction and Development Board) Bill 2019; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. I represent my homeland, where my family have lived for around 120 years. My son is living there now. We got hit with the TB eradication program.... - Export Control Amendment (Banning Cotton Exports to Ensure Water Security) Bill 2019; Second Reading (3 speeches)
I move: That this bill now be read a second time. The Murray-Darling Basin Plan is our greatest river system in Australia and it is in crisis. The river and its communities remember the social,... - Queensland: Floods (7 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) Townsville has experienced the worst floods in recorded history; (b) Townsville received a year's rainfall in nine days, with 1,134 millimetres...
