Barnaby Joyce's recent appearances (OpenAustralia.org)
type: channel
language: en-gb
creator: OpenAustralia.org, mprss.php script
date: 2026-02-10T22:05:29+00:00
items: Migration | Adjournment | House debates
items: g99.1
items: Budget | Questions without Notice | House debates
items: Translating and Interpreting Services Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Gun Control, Freedom of Speech, Australian Society, Renewable Energy | Constituency Statements | House debates
items: Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 2) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Excise Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025, Customs Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Standing and Sessional Orders | Business | House debates
items: Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Criminal and Migration Laws) Bill 2026; Consideration in Detail | Bills | House debates
items: Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Criminal and Migration Laws) Bill 2026; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Bondi Beach Attack Victims | Condolences | House debates
items: Member for New England | Statements by Members | House debates
items: Migration Amendment (Combatting Migrant Exploitation) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Member for Indi | Statements by Members | House debates
items: New England: Honours and Awards | Constituency Statements | House debates
items: Freedom of Information Amendment Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates

Migration | Adjournment | House debates
type: item
description: I wished to speak on today's matter of public importance, but I unfortunately missed out. I would take issue with the member for Wentworth's statement, which was: I think we need to build a...
encoded: I wished to speak on today's matter of public importance, but I unfortunately missed out. I would take issue with the member for Wentworth's statement, which was: I think we need to build a modern version of the Australian story, because we have this Gallipoli myth about who we were back in 1914. I'll start by saying that the 'Gallipoli myth' is not a myth; it is one of the fundamental parts of what is Australia. It is part of our iconography. It is something that we hold so firmly because it identifies Australians at their very best. What we should be doing is attaching where Australia is now to that Gallipoli ethos more than what we saw with the disgusting behaviour of Grace Tame, who was apparently Australian of the Year. I don't dispute for one second the trials of her life, but that does not give her licence to go out and carpet the rest of Australia from the front of the town hall. She's brought the award into disrepute. She should hand it back if that is her belief about Australia. If not, the National Australia Day Council should explain why she should keep it. If you were to go out and promote the intifada in the form of—I don't know what you would call it—an abrasive, piercing caterwaul, the approach of inspiring that violence would absolutely be to the detriment of Australians of the Jewish faith. It would bring about friction, which would inevitably lead to further deaths. A person who does that needs to be called to account, no matter what former laurels they may have attained or what former life experiences they may have had. I do not believe in multiculturalism. I believe in an Australian culture. I believe in an Australian culture that is formed by legacy, heritage issues, such as Gallipoli. I believe in some of the heritage issues that have been given to us by the Aboriginal people. I believe in an Australian culture. I don't believe you can have this amorphous mass of multiple cultural perspectives on how we should be Australian, because inevitably…
date: 2026-02-10T19:30:00+00:00

g99.1
type: item
title: National Commission for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People Bill 2026, National Commission for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People (Transitional Provisions) Bill 2026; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
description: I do look into my conscience about how I deal with one of the largest communities, one of the strongest proportions of Aboriginal people in an electorate in Australia, which is in New England....
encoded: I do look into my conscience about how I deal with one of the largest communities, one of the strongest proportions of Aboriginal people in an electorate in Australia, which is in New England. There are vastly more Aboriginal people in my area. They call themselves Aboriginal, so I will say Aboriginal. There are more Aboriginals than farmers, to be quite frank. I win the booths, and I suppose, in a little way, that is because I grew up in an Aboriginal area. My children, my sons, still go to the state school, which is a black and white school and always has been. We really love it. That's our community. We've known each other for generations, so this is very close to my heart. What always worries me is we seem to throw an inordinate amount of money—I'm a white fella, obviously; I'm not pretending to be anything else but that—towards things that don't have any efficacy, that don't actually result in people's lives changing. Sometimes I genuinely believe we have sort of a political correctness about trying to deal with issues that are so self-evident when you live there. In my time I've lived in Werris Creek, which has a strong Aboriginal community; Moree, and obviously we all know about that; and Charleville, St George and Danglemah, where I grew up and where I still am. Up the road is Woolbrook, and it was like Canberra; Aboriginal people from Gympie to Dubbo would come into those come into those areas. My childhood was spent growing up with Aboriginal people around me. They certainly had an effect on how I saw the world. What I don't see in the administration of this—I bet you right from the start that it's administered down here in Canberra. That's the first step it gets wrong. If you want to deal with a problem, put the administration and the bureaucracy in the areas where the issue is. You get up close and actually understand it a lot better when it's outside your back door. Look for those within communities, especially when kids go off the rails, who have the c…
date: 2026-02-10T18:29:00+00:00

Budget | Questions without Notice | House debates
type: item
description: My question is to the Treasurer. Can the Treasurer please inform the House of the cost to the Commonwealth budget for 2025-26 for the Commonwealth's Capacity Investment Scheme? To assist the...
encoded: My question is to the Treasurer. Can the Treasurer please inform the House of the cost to the Commonwealth budget for 2025-26 for the Commonwealth's Capacity Investment Scheme? To assist the Treasurer, I believe they should be noted within the quantified contingent liabilities.
date: 2026-02-05T14:56:00+00:00

Translating and Interpreting Services Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
type: item
description: There is one strong point of difference I have with the previous speaker, and that is that I don't believe in multiculturalism. I believe that there overwhelmingly is an Australian culture and...
encoded: There is one strong point of difference I have with the previous speaker, and that is that I don't believe in multiculturalism. I believe that there overwhelmingly is an Australian culture and that the Australian culture itself provides guardrails that temper what, in some instances, might be alternative views that work at angles to what is acceptable in Australia. I think that, if you believe all cultures have an equivalence, then, of course, you condone a whole range of things that I and many would find completely and utterly noxious. Being part of the Australian community means that you have to comply with the mores and edicts of what we see as acceptable behaviour. So I come at this from a slightly different position. Part of complying with the Australian culture is the necessity to understand English. It is essential. There are no problems with being bilingual. There are no problems with your faith, your creed or your colour. They're absolutely and utterly part and parcel of the egalitarian nature of Australia. But, to maintain that egalitarian nature of Australia and to give people the greatest opportunities, it is essential that they are able to speak English. So many people isolate themselves from all the protections that are warranted in the Australian system because of their inability to speak English. I won't refer to who they are, but there are people who have worked especially on trying to deal with sex slaves in Sydney, and one of the greatest problems they had was that they couldn't speak English and so they couldn't convey the issues that were before them. So, although we must have a mechanism to assist people who struggle with English, the absolute emphasis must be on speaking English. You must get to a point where you can speak English. If I'm to go to France, I must get to a point where I can speak French. If I'm to go to Thailand, I must get to a point where I can speak Thai. And if you come to Australia, you must get to a point where you can spe…
date: 2026-02-04T16:43:00+00:00

Gun Control, Freedom of Speech, Australian Society, Renewable Energy | Constituency Statements | House debates
type: item
description: This is my first constituency statement since coming back after the Christmas break, and there are a range of important issues that I want to convey to my electorate and to the Australian...
encoded: This is my first constituency statement since coming back after the Christmas break, and there are a range of important issues that I want to convey to my electorate and to the Australian parliament. Overwhelmingly, people are very angry about the changes to firearms legislation. They can't understand why their freedoms have yet again been intruded upon when they have never committed a crime. No farmer, no sports shooter, no recreational shooter was part of the outrageous massacre at Bondi Beach, yet we are the people they've come to as they try to placate those who require something to be done. People say, 'Why do you need more than four firearms if you're a recreational shooter?' Well, why do you need more than one bathroom? You've only got one neck—why do you need 12 ties? You have only yourself—why do you need three cars? We have our right. It's a private right. It's a right of ownership. It's been intruded upon. People really have a problem with the censorship laws, which are masquerading as hate laws, because they see it as the creep of censorship. We know that what would end up being censored is, basically, right-wing views against a left-wing socialist government. We could see this coming, and we didn't want to have these censorship laws placed on us. We will back antisemitic policy 100 per cent. We'll be at the forefront, but we've got to be focused on the antisemitic issues of fundamental Islamic terrorists against Jewish people and not draw in this net of other things. We've had an enormous requirement in our office for new flags, because people believe that we should have an Australian culture. It's not a multicultural nation; it's an Australian culture. Many cultures may be part of it, but overwhelmingly the guardrails are for the Australian culture. The rollout of intermittent power—the wind turbines, the solar panels—continues to be at the forefront. One Nation has come forward and said, 'Let's build the coal-fired power stations and go back to what a…
date: 2026-02-04T09:36:00+00:00

Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 2) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
type: item
description: I acknowledge that obviously you, Deputy Speaker Wilkie, served. Obviously it runs in families a bit. Both my grandfathers served; my father served, and I served in the reserves. Veterans affairs...
encoded: I acknowledge that obviously you, Deputy Speaker Wilkie, served. Obviously it runs in families a bit. Both my grandfathers served; my father served, and I served in the reserves. Veterans affairs was such a fundamental part of the iconography of the family—a bizarre anger sometimes and an attachment to their service. My father was repatriated during the Second World War; he was smashed up. He became a very successful person in business, but I remember he would spend an inordinate amount of time arguing about his pension. At the time he'd become a little bit serious. He wasn't easy going, but things never fussed him. But he would get a little bit angry when he was arguing about his pension. I can't remember the exact form of the conversation, but it was something like: 'Dad, you've done so well in life. You're turning over places worth millions of dollars. Why would you worry about whether it's $40 or $60?' And I remember him abruptly saying, 'You give me back my leg, and I'll give you back your 20 bucks.' It was something that he'd held on to. When he passed away, we found an account that had all his pension money in it; he'd never spent a cent of it and had just put it in an account. I don't know why. It was something he argued about but never actually used. What it shows is the depth of feeling—you've got to understand that—that veterans have about their service. They get a sense that, in many instances, they were just sort of kicked out the door. You sign on the dotted line to offer your life for your nation, and then, at the end, it's, 'See you later.' Dad always said, 'When I got out of hospital'—after his fifth or sixth or 10th operation—'they literally just parked my wheelchair on the side and said, "Well, if your family can come and pick you up, that would be great."' With the Veterans' Affairs Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures No. 2) Bill 2025, you've got to understand that this is seminal. Veterans' Affairs is something that most people know no…
date: 2026-02-03T19:02:00+00:00

Excise Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025, Customs Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
type: item
description: Yes, 'queen of the desert'. Yet we are doing our very best to try and put them out of business, and we will successfully put them out of business, even in my area such as Urbenville or Drake. In...
encoded: Yes, 'queen of the desert'. Yet we are doing our very best to try and put them out of business, and we will successfully put them out of business, even in my area such as Urbenville or Drake. In Drake there's a hotel called the Lunatic Hotel. They're always trying to get me to have my photo taken underneath it, but I'm not game. But these places just won't exist as that centre of a community, where you organise everything from your camp drafts to your bushfire rosters. But, most importantly, what are you going to do on the weekend? You've got to do something. You can go have a beer, have a 'countery', get away from the property for a bit and just relax. If we lose our hotels in Australia, if we lose our little regional pubs, then we will be diminished as a nation. We are not going to maintain these hotels unless we remove the excise completely. Now, I believe the cost of removing the excise from hospitality venues is around about $2 billion. I can understand when people say, 'Well, where are you going to get the money from?' We are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on intermittent power, the so-called renewables, the euphemism for basically butchering our power grid, so you can find the money. The money is there. They say that intermittent power renewables are going to look after regional Australia. Well, they're doing a fine job of it. They're wrecking our roads. They're destroying our communities. They're putting pensioners out of their houses. Even for construction in a lot of areas, we can't find the water for the mixing of the concrete. They're a disaster. We believe that it's not that you should slow them down. We believe the construction of them should stop. That's enough. We've got enough. If you want them on your roofs, in your cities, knock yourself out. We have no problems with that. It's none of our business. But, if you want them in our areas, it is. This goes to show you the juxtaposition of things that are relevant to us in regional areas and w…
date: 2026-02-03T17:51:00+00:00

Excise Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025, Customs Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
type: item
description: It was Slim Dusty who said, '… there's-a nothing so lonesome, morbid or drear than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer.' But there is. It's to stand at the bar of a pub with no...
encoded: It was Slim Dusty who said, '… there's-a nothing so lonesome, morbid or drear than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer.' But there is. It's to stand at the bar of a pub with no patrons. If we don't start doing something about the cost of the fundamental core reason why people go to a hotel, there won't be patrons there because the obvious place to be will be to stand at the bottle shop with the slab with no fear, rather than the pub with no beer. Where the local hotel resides is embellished in the Australian psyche. We talk about it in everything from Crocodile Dundee to 'Priscilla of the desert'—what's that one?
date: 2026-02-03T17:51:00+00:00

Excise Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025, Customs Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
type: item
description: It has been circulated.
encoded: It has been circulated.
date: 2026-02-03T13:22:00+00:00

Excise Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025, Customs Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
type: item
description: I rise to foreshadow an amendment to the amendment but not to move it at this stage. In so many regional areas, the issue surrounding the excise is closely related to the viability of local...
encoded: I rise to foreshadow an amendment to the amendment but not to move it at this stage. In so many regional areas, the issue surrounding the excise is closely related to the viability of local hotels, local restaurants and suchlike. I believe that, to maintain the viability of these crucial parts of local communities and to support the hospitality venues struggling under the growing burden of government regulation, we should be eliminating the alcohol excise duty on any alcoholic product sold for consumption on premises in a hospitality venue. In a local area such as Walcha Road or right out west in Thargomindah, if you didn't have a hotel you'd have nothing at all. In so many instances, you wouldn't have that fabric; you wouldn't have that community involvement. The local hotel is also the cornerstone of the local cricket club. It's the cornerstone, for many people, of any social outing. But it is beyond the scope of people to be able to recreate, commune or be part of their community with the price of alcohol as it currently is within those premises. There are other things in regional areas where we can find the offset for this. Obviously, in balancing the books, the offset can easily be found in such things as the 'intermittent power swindle', where the hundreds of billions of dollars are floating out the door to support billionaires—domestically and overseas—and foreign companies. Rather than sponsor them, we should be sponsoring local communities. If we do not solve this, another string of hotels will close down. It is just beyond the scope of a working person's budget to be able to take a family out, or to actually take themselves out, to a hotel and drink at the bar, so what they do is grab a case of beer—grab a slab—and take it home. This is a very unhealthy way to live, and it would be a lot better if people were with other people rather than taking a case of beer home, sitting on the verandah and working their way steadily through it. You're seeing this more …
date: 2026-02-03T13:22:00+00:00

Standing and Sessional Orders | Business | House debates
type: item
description: Obviously, the issue we have is that there is no coalition. Just looking at it, if the Liberal Party have eight then obviously the crossbench will have to get eight, which means that the...
encoded: Obviously, the issue we have is that there is no coalition. Just looking at it, if the Liberal Party have eight then obviously the crossbench will have to get eight, which means that the government will have to get 16. That's 32 questions. So what are we looking at? About 112 minutes. And with the condolence motions and everything else, that means question time is going for around two hours every day. And then, after that, you're going to have the MPI. You're starting to tie things up quite considerably. The one thing you don't want to draw attention to is exactly what's happening. Staying here for two hours with the cameras focusing on what inevitably will be sorted out, but currently is a total fiasco, is probably not the best thing for the Australian people. It's a little bit of an indictment. I ask the coalition to just get it together and get us back to a normal parliament.
date: 2026-02-03T12:21:00+00:00

Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Criminal and Migration Laws) Bill 2026; Consideration in Detail | Bills | House debates
type: item
description: by leave—I move amendments (1) and (2) on sheet 2, as circulated in my name, together: (1) Schedule 1, item 13, page 12 (lines 18 to 27), omit subparagraphs 114A.3(2)(a)(ii) and (iii). (2)...
encoded: by leave—I move amendments (1) and (2) on sheet 2, as circulated in my name, together: (1) Schedule 1, item 13, page 12 (lines 18 to 27), omit subparagraphs 114A.3(2)(a)(ii) and (iii). (2) Schedule 1, item 13, page 12 (line 32) to page 13 (line 4), omit subsection 114A.3(3). I believe that it is incredibly important that we understand that in the division, in the bifurcation of this omnibus bill, we now have a complete change in what went before the committee for inquiry. As that is the case, I have seen an enlargement of the scope and the net of what this bill now brings about. I bring your attention to this section and this amendment because a hate crime is also conduct whether engaged in before or after this section commences, as would constitute an offence and provision of a law of the Commonwealth. We can understand that. We're in the Commonwealth parliament. We have the authority, and that is our remit. It also goes on to say that it would constitute an offence against a provision of a law of a state parliament. It would constitute a provision of a law of a territory parliament, enforced at the commencement of this section, and if engaged before a provision referred to in subparagraph 1 or 2 commenced, would have constituted an offence against the provision had the provision been enforced at the time the conduct was engaged in. This is getting awfully large. There seems to be an awfully large net here. We have a lot of policemen and a whole range of people who can now get caught up in this. We can have dualling views of what hate crimes are by respective parliaments and respective territories. They could actually take retribution against another person's view by deeming something a hate crime in their state parliament and then relying on the Commonwealth to enforce it. At the end, an aggravated form of this has 15 years in jail. This is way beyond anything discussed at the inquiry that was rightly held. This issue has only just appeared. If I had had a little …
date: 2026-01-20T13:26:00+00:00

Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Criminal and Migration Laws) Bill 2026; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
type: item
description: I rise to say that we have been absolutely jammed in consideration of this. The first bill, which was part of the omnibus bill, arrived at 7.09 in the morning and was guillotined at 10.00. This...
encoded: I rise to say that we have been absolutely jammed in consideration of this. The first bill, which was part of the omnibus bill, arrived at 7.09 in the morning and was guillotined at 10.00. This bill arrived sometime later. It's substantially different to what was in the omnibus bill, and now we're about to be guillotined again. I might just take you to one section of it that really concerns me. It concerns me that a hate crime, as of now, would constitute an offence against provisions of a law of a state or territory. What we are now relying on—and this is very concerning—is that you will come under the remit of the Commonwealth for a hate crime in aggravated circumstances, punishable by up to 15 years in jail, premised on what a state or territory might deem to be a hate crime. We're starting to get an awfully wide net on what was supposed to be succinctly dealing with the issue of antisemitism. If we had had a clarion focus on antisemitism—that is, the hatred and attacking of the Jewish people, which has been done in this instance by fundamental Islamic terrorism—then this would be so much cleaner, but you have broadened this in such a form that stapled to a very noble cause is a whole range of peripheral issues. That really causes great concern. When people vote against this—and they will—it has to be understood that it is because of the mischievous nature of attaching other circumstances to the bill that it has to be voted down in bulk. This bill has not been to a committee. There's an omnibus bill that has, but this section of that omnibus bill is substantially different. It has not been to a committee. It has not had the proper transparency. A bill that has not been to a committee is nonetheless going to be guillotined. Why are you voting for something that, might I suggest, you haven't even read? What other things that you haven't even read are you now going to just vote for? You definitely haven't read the 89 pages of this. I have to admit there are not a lo…
date: 2026-01-20T12:57:00+00:00

Bondi Beach Attack Victims | Condolences | House debates
type: item
description: We all will remember the time that we found out about this. I was at Danglemah. I was just coming in from work, and Vikki came to the fence crying and saying: 'They are murdering people at Bondi....
encoded: We all will remember the time that we found out about this. I was at Danglemah. I was just coming in from work, and Vikki came to the fence crying and saying: 'They are murdering people at Bondi. There is someone; there is a gunman. They are murdering people.' She's a tough lady, but it was devastating. We all knew at that point that something evil had occurred. We think about that evil. Who sowed that foul seed? Where did this hate come from? Who tended it? Who watered it? Did we ever see that malignant pest, that malignant bush, that burr that grew up? Did we walk past it? Was it too difficult for us to deal with? We have to show the resolve now to deal with this issue. On that day, Boris and Sofia showed resolve. As an older couple, they decided to do something about it, and they died for it. Ahmed al-Ahmed decided to do something about it. He stood up and put his own life on the line. He walked forward when others were rightly taking cover. He sought out and closed in on the person who was murdering people. And, if he hadn't, more would've been murdered. But we have to be honest about exactly what is going on. We are having a condolence motion today for the mass murder of innocent people at a park at a beach in Sydney on a Sunday by Islamic fundamentalists. Did we ever think that day would happen in Australia? Did we ever believe that day would come? On that day, 14 December, 15 people were murdered; 40 people were injured, some critically; and our nation was torn apart at the fabric of how we saw ourselves. We felt sullied. We felt there was something dirty that had happened in our country—because this was not inspired by rage; it was not inspired by drugs. It was done coldly and calculatedly by a father and his son, who planned it and walked out of their flat like they were walking out for a morning jog. We have to do something about this. We've got to ask ourselves: How did they come to that view? How did they justify it and reconcile it in their own minds? I…
date: 2026-01-19T13:49:00+00:00

Member for New England | Statements by Members | House debates
type: item
description: There's no doubt about it: this is the ejection seat. It's about as far away as you can get from the dispatch box. If you're sitting here, they want you out there. In the past, I was asked to...
encoded: There's no doubt about it: this is the ejection seat. It's about as far away as you can get from the dispatch box. If you're sitting here, they want you out there. In the past, I was asked to leave twice by Peter Dutton. I suppose, when they talk about generational change, it's pretty clear what people want. One of the biggest things, though, is that, after five weeks—I announced this about five weeks ago—apart from a 90-second phone conversation with the Leader of the Nationals, I've had no communication with either the leader or the Deputy Leader of the Nationals to try and resolve this, and that's disappointing. So, after 30 years with the National Party, I am resigning from the party. That really leaves me with a heavy heart. I apologise for all the hurt that that will cause other people. I really do. But it's not the most important thing. What is really important is that we understand those dealing with the cost-of-living crisis and that we go in to bat for them. What is really important is that they're still building intermittent power precincts and swindle factories in regional areas and destroying communities such as my own. What is really important is that the Chinese communist government are breathing down our necks and each day become more provocative. What is really important is that we have regional hospitals without doctors in them. What I have to do, if I'm going to continue with that fight, is get myself into a better position than the ejection chair at the back bench of the coalition in opposition.
date: 2025-11-27T13:47:00+00:00

Migration Amendment (Combatting Migrant Exploitation) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
type: item
description: I concur with some of the remarks and disagree slightly with others that have been made. A large section of this revolves around the insertion into the Migration Act of section 140GD by the...
encoded: I concur with some of the remarks and disagree slightly with others that have been made. A large section of this revolves around the insertion into the Migration Act of section 140GD by the Migration Amendment (Combatting Migrant Exploitation) Bill. One of the issues there is that it comes with an assumption that all could be bad when all is not. There are times where—I've worked as an accountant in areas of labour hire—you have to call people to account and say, 'I do not believe that you have a person working for you called Jim Bean, nor do I believe you have a person working for you called Johnnie Walker or Evel Knievel.' Yes, of course, this has to be dealt with because, especially in some areas, it becomes a vessel for a collection of people who are basically absconding from oversight and being exploited by people who can make money out of them. Okay—go out, catch the criminal and do what you've got to do. But don't presume everybody is a criminal. That's one of the things that is happening too much. We use a virtuous message—'We've got to catch those who are breaking the law'—but we cast a net that impinges on every person's right as if they were criminals, and they're not. We are losing more and more in this nation—the right to be anonymous when you have done nothing wrong. It's no good to say, 'If you're doing nothing wrong, you don't have anything to worry about.' I just don't want to be watched all the time. I just don't want the government watching me all the time. Part of my freedom as an Australian is for people to have the presumption that I'm doing the right thing. I don't need observation. This is another exercise—in the inclusion of section 104GD—where we get the government saying, 'It's just to catch the baddies.' Well, everything these days apparently is 'just to catch the baddies'. On an issue that has been brought up a number of times that, when we use the word 'multicultural'—every person in this building can connect themselves somewhere to an …
date: 2025-11-26T18:06:00+00:00

Member for Indi | Statements by Members | House debates
type: item
description: We had a rather remarkable issue this morning with the Repeal Net Zero Bill 2025 in the main chamber. The member for Indi, Dr Helen Haines, came in—I just want to congratulate her for...
encoded: We had a rather remarkable issue this morning with the Repeal Net Zero Bill 2025 in the main chamber. The member for Indi, Dr Helen Haines, came in—I just want to congratulate her for actually turning up to the bill—and had some remarkable statements which I want to take her to task on. She said that, if we repeal the net zero bill, it will threaten thousands of jobs. Where are these thousands of jobs? Where about? What town? If you can just nominate where these jobs are, I'd like to hear it. She said there's an opportunity to make Australia's path to net zero deliver substantial, tangible, lasting benefits to regional and rural communities—while dividing them down the middle by putting in transmission lines, swindle factories, solar panels, wind towers. And I thought about it. I thought: 'Isn't VNI West in Victoria? Does Dr Helen Haines, the member for Indi, support VNI West? I wonder if Andrew Wiedemann and all these people know this.' They've got such a great supporter, and it's up to the people of Victoria to understand they actually have a champion for VNI West, a champion for the swindle factories, a champion for the Chinese state-owned enterprises that are involved in the capacity investment scheme, the domestic billionaires, the foreign multinationals, the division of the communities. Their champion, ladies and gentlemen, is the member for Indi, Dr Helen Haines. So go out, give her a bell and say: 'Thank you, Doctor. Thank you very much.'
date: 2025-11-24T16:37:00+00:00

New England: Honours and Awards | Constituency Statements | House debates
type: item
description: I rise today because of a marvellous lady who lives in Tamworth . She was selected as a finalist in the 2025 National Rural & Remote Health Awards held in Canberra. I couldn't get there last...
encoded: I rise today because of a marvellous lady who lives in Tamworth . She was selected as a finalist in the 2025 National Rural & Remote Health Awards held in Canberra. I couldn't get there last night. The reason she's a marvellous lady is because Dr Miriam Grotowski is my local doctor. Dr Miriam is the reason—she was emphatic that I had to get my prostate checked, and that's why I'm standing here. A division having been called in the House of Representatives— Sitting suspended from 11:58 to 12:03 Before I was so rudely interrupted by a division in the main chamber, I was talking about Dr Miriam Grotowski and what a marvellous person she is—as my local doctor and as a finalist for the 2025 National Rural and Remote Health Awards. It's a shame she didn't quite get there, but congratulations on getting so far. Next, we'll go up the road to Glen Innes, and Matt Dodds from Glen Innes High School was awarded the Prime Minister's Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Secondary Schools. Matt is working in the STEM subjects, which are science, technology, engineering and mathematics. I had Matt to my office—he's great mates with Leigh Tschirpig, who works in my office. They like looking at the stars and they're obviously into astronomy as well. Matt is so dedicated to getting kids interested in those core subjects which are so vitally important for all the things that we do away from the arts. If you're looking at chemistry, you're talking about medicine. If you're looking at physics, you're talking about rockets. If you're looking at engineering, you're building dams and building marvellous things that make our nation stronger. Then there's Dr Cheryl McIntyre. She's been a rural generalist for 25 years and has been named the Rural Doctors Association of Australia's rural doctor of the year for 2025. Cheryl, as a rural generalist, is so important. So many towns don't have a GP. People get very scared when they have no local doctor. If something goes wrong—an asthma attack…
date: 2025-11-06T11:57:00+00:00

Freedom of Information Amendment Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
type: item
description: Thank you very much.
encoded: Thank you very much.
date: 2025-11-05T10:43:00+00:00

Freedom of Information Amendment Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
type: item
description: (): Just a point of order. Madame Deputy Speaker, we've just been informed recently—we thought we were going to government business, the defence amendment. I've just been talking...
encoded: (): Just a point of order. Madame Deputy Speaker, we've just been informed recently—we thought we were going to government business, the defence amendment. I've just been talking to the whip's clerk in our office to get the change in speakers. Because we've changed the order of business, we don't have speakers here who do want to speak on this. I know they've got three on the list. I can't remember the names. When was this change made, to go to this bill?
date: 2025-11-05T10:43:00+00:00