House debates
Thursday, 18 June 2015
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (13 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the remaining stages of the bill being passed without delay.
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- National Security (26 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the extraordinary leaks from cabinet on important national security matters. Can the Prime Minister confirm that the reason his legislation will...
- Northern Australia (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister inform the House how the government's white paper on developing northern Australia will foster opportunity and create jobs in my...
- National Security: Citizenship (9 speeches)
): My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm to the House that on 23 April, in answer to a question about terrorists, he said the following words: And then, if people...
- Northern Australia (4 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development. Will the Deputy Prime Minister inform the House how the government's plan for...
- National Security: Citizenship (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Given the Minister for Communications continues to raise serious concerns about the government's citizenship proposal and the extraordinary leaks from...
- Forestry Tasmania (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The GBE Forestry Tasmania has collapsed financially, and, bizarrely, the state government inquiry did not seek to find out why. Almost $2 billion in assets...
- Northern Australia (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer inform the House of the importance of the budget in creating jobs and opportunity in northern Australia?
- National Security: Citizenship (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications.
- Northern Australia (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture. Will the minister update the House on how the government's northern Australia white paper will help rural and regional Australia, including my...
- National Security: Citizenship (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Isn't it the case that the Minister for Communications, the Minister for Agriculture, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Minister for Defence, the...
- China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, representing the Minister for Trade and Investment. Will the minister update the House on the economy-wide benefits of the landmark...
- National Security: Citizenship (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, who has actually seen the government's proposed citizenship legislation?
- Workplace Relations (19 speeches)
My question—
- National Security: Citizenship (27 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister.
- National Security (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Justice and the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Counter-Terrorism. Will the minister advise the House of the steps the government is taking to...
- National Security: Citizenship (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. This week the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor completely refuted the Prime Minister's claim the citizenship proposal is consistent with his...
- Pensions (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services Services. Will the minister inform the House of action the government is taking to ensure a fairer and more sustainable pension system?
- Asylum Seekers (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yohanes Humiang, the captain of a asylum seeker boat, is reported in the media as saying, 'As captain I got $6,000, the five crew got $5,000 each.' When will...
- Workplace Relations (10 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Minister for Employment. Will the minister update the House on action the government is taking to ensure safe and fair workplaces for all Australians. What...
- Renewable Energy (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister.
- Manufacturing (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry and Science. Will the minister update the House on the policies and programs the government has in place to assist traditional manufacturers as they...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the amended report of the Selection Committee: Report No. 28 relating to the consideration of committee and delegation reports and private members' business on Monday, 22 June 2015, as...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Chamber Procedures (4 speeches)
Madam Speaker, I have question of you. I am advised that just as the Federation Chamber was adjourning prior to question time, the Minister for Agriculture attempted to seek the call to, as I...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Chamber Procedures (9 speeches)
Earlier in the week in the Federation Chamber, the member for Grayndler raised questions about the allocation of the call during consideration in detail of the main appropriation bill,...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Agriculture (1 speech)
Yesterday in the Federation Chamber the member for Hunter was asking some questions about the government's concessional loans scheme in agriculture. I said that I would get back to him with what...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Documents are tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Budget (70 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: The Government...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Abbott Government, Blair Electorate: Health (1 speech)
Today marks 650 days since the election of the Abbott government on 7 September 2013. While we do not know the date of the next election, we do know this parliament has passed its halfway mark....
- Macarthur Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours List (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate six residents from my electorate of Macarthur who have been honoured in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. In many ways, we are all beneficiaries of the Australian...
- Cunningham Electorate: Surf Life Saving Awards (1 speech)
I was able to attend a fabulous event in Parliament House this morning, in which I joined you, Madam Speaker, for a great opportunity to recognise the volunteer work of some of our surf life...
- Bowel Cancer, Broadband (1 speech)
Yesterday, on Red Apple Day, Nationals MPs Barnaby Joyce, David Gillespie and I joined forces with Bowel Cancer Australia to encourage people to screen themselves for bowel cancer. During an ad...
- Innovation, Telecommunications (1 speech)
We are living at a great time of economic liberalisation where the way we live and work is being transformed largely through the internet. It is seeing the way that we produce and distribute...
- South Australia: Budget (1 speech)
Today is budget day for South Australia. This should be a day of great expectation and great hope for South Australians. Thankfully, the state government has finally done something about the...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Renewable Energy (1 speech)
Today I am speaking on behalf of a special constituent, a whirling white giant, whose tireless work provides more than a third of all the electricity needed at Rottnest Island, one of WA's...
- Hinkler Electorate: Toogoom and District RSL Club (1 speech)
On Saturday last week, I attended the official opening of the Toogoom and District RSL Sub Branch. I was joined by state president of the Queensland RSL Terry Meehan, the Wide Bay and Burnett...
- Holt Electorate: Afghan community (1 speech)
Last Friday night I was honoured to attend a local Afghan community meeting at the John Pandazopoulos Hall in Doveton, which was organised by the Afghan Islamic Centre and Omar Farooq Mosque. I...
- Macquarie Electorate: Tom Quilty Gold Cup (1 speech)
The 50th anniversary of the Tom Quilty Gold Cup endurance ride was held in the Hawkesbury region earlier this month, near Wisemans Ferry. I was delighted to attend the presentation of the gold...
- Arts Funding (1 speech)
There is grave concern in the arts community in Western Australia about the changes to the arts budget. It is pretty symptomatic of what we are seeing happening in the arts area across the board...
- Australia Post (1 speech)
For over 200 years Australia Post has been trusted by Australians to provide postal service stamps and parcels. Every day, your local postie provides a great national service. However, with the...
- Human Rights (1 speech)
I rise today to highlight a tour that is currently underway by Lorena Pizarro, a human rights activist from Chile. Ms Pizarro is President of the Association of Relatives of the Detained and...
- Cowan Electorate: Broadband (1 speech)
This is the 500th speech I have made since the people of Cowan first elected me to represent them in federal parliament in November 2007. My three predecessors in Cowan between them made 467...
- Gellibrand Electorate: Williamstown Shipyard (1 speech)
It is a bleak day in Canberra today and it is a bleak day back at my electorate at the Williamstown shipyards in Melbourne's west. Since the election of the Abbott Government, the future of the...
- Lindsay Electorate: Illicit Drugs (2 speeches)
In my adjournment debate on 17 March this year, I addressed parliament about the scourge of ice right across our communities and what it is doing to devastate families all across Australia....
- Bills (0 speeches)
