Paul Fletcher's recent appearances (OpenAustralia.org)
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date: 2025-09-07T23:05:12+00:00
items: Bradfield Electorate: Sport | Constituency Statements | House debates
items: Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2024-2025, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2024-2025, Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2024-2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Valedictory | Parliamentary Representation | House debates
items: Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill 2024; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Bradfield Electorate: Community Services | Constituency Statements | House debates
items: Services Australia | Statements by Members | House debates
items: Handa Opera at Millthorpe, Craven Creek Music Festival | Statements by Members | House debates
items: Economy | Questions without Notice | House debates
items: g37.7
items: Surveillance Legislation (Confirmation of Application) Bill 2024; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Energy | Questions without Notice | House debates
items: Climate Change | Questions without Notice | House debates
items: Economy | Statements by Members | House debates
items: Early Childhood Education | Questions without Notice | House debates
items: National Broadband Network Companies Amendment (Commitment to Public Ownership) Bill 2024; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Vocational Education and Training | Questions without Notice | House debates
items: Services Australia | Private Members' Business | House debates
items: Select Committee on PsiQuantum Funding | Private Members' Business | House debates

Bradfield Electorate: Sport | Constituency Statements | House debates
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description: 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...
encoded: 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 the Lindfield Soldiers Memorial Park on the corner of Tryon Road and Eastern Arterial Road. The clubhouse there, which is shared by the two clubs, was constructed in 1960, and I have to tell you, it's a little bit tired. It needs some improvement. It needs much better facilities for girls and women. There's been a dramatic increase, a very pleasing increase, in the number of girls and women playing both cricket and rugby, but the facilities are not up to the needs of the current club members. The two clubs have done a lot of work to raise money to fund an upgrade. Just last Friday, I was very pleased to be with Gisele Kapterian, our hardworking Liberal candidate for Bradfield, along with Greg Cook, the president of the Linfield Cricket Club; Ben Dibden, who leads on special projects for the Lindfield Junior Rugby Club; and a number of others, to visit the clubhouse and the oval to announce that, if a Dutton government is elected, we would commit $1.5 million towards the redevelopment of the clubhouse. This is a very significant announcement. The Ku-ring-gai Netball Association is another very important sporting institution in the electorate of Bradfield. There are some 11 clubs and over 5,000 members. They do such a great job making this wonderful sport accessible to every girl who wants to play, and there is a particular focus on attracting more girls of Chinese background and many other backgrounds because Bradfield is a highly multicultural electorate. There's a lot of work underway on plans to upgrade the facilities at the Canoon Road netball courts in South Turramurra, and just recently I was there with Gisele Kapterian, our hardworking Liberal candidate for Bradfield. Gisele was there to announce that, if a Dutton government were elected, we would commit $1 million towards 50 per …
date: 2025-03-26T09:58:00+00:00

Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2024-2025, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2024-2025, Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2024-2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I'm pleased to have the opportunity to speak on Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2024-2025. I want to deal with what is, in my view, a very interesting case study of the issues raised by Labor's...
encoded: I'm pleased to have the opportunity to speak on Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2024-2025. I want to deal with what is, in my view, a very interesting case study of the issues raised by Labor's wrongheaded decision to employ 36,000 more public servants at a cost of an extra $24 billion. Since we've been talking about this, the usual union bosses and other bloviating bloodsuckers and parasites on the long-suffering Australian taxpayer have been out there complaining that if you cut public servants then service levels will fall. Services Australia is designated to receive 7½ thousand of these new public servants over the next three financial years under Labor's most recent budget announcement. Services Australia is huge. It now has around 34,000 people and it has the largest call-centre operations of any organisation in Australia. But its service outcomes have collapsed over the last two years, and what has happened under the disastrous leadership of Bill Shorten is a very informative case study. The number of public servants has gone up, while the customer service performance has gone down. Let's have a look at some of the data. One of the core jobs of Services Australia is to process claims made by Australians to receive a government benefit. If you made a claim for the age pension in financial year 2021-22 under the coalition, on average it took 35 days. In financial year 2023-24 under Labor, it was 76 days. If you applied for dad and partner pay in 2021-22, it took 14 days; under Labor, in 2023-24, 63 days. For the disability support pension, in financial year 2021-22, it took 40 days for Centrelink to process your claim; on average in 2023-24, under Bill Shorten's tender care, it took 93 days. How long does it take you if you are so unwise as to call Centrelink seeking assistance? Well, if you called the families and parenting line, under us, in 2021-22, on average you waited 24 minutes and 45 seconds. That's not a great performance, but that's what it was in 2021-22.…
date: 2025-02-11T18:56:00+00:00

Valedictory | Parliamentary Representation | House debates
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description: Like just about everybody who gets to this place, my journey was not entirely straightforward. In 2007, Manuela, Gabriel and I were living in Surry Hills—a lovely part of Sydney but not...
encoded: Like just about everybody who gets to this place, my journey was not entirely straightforward. In 2007, Manuela, Gabriel and I were living in Surry Hills—a lovely part of Sydney but not very fruitful territory if you wanted to be a Liberal MP. So we moved to Miranda, and I sought Liberal preselection for the seat of Cook, covering the Sutherland shire of Sydney. As history records, I did not succeed. But, just 18 months later, Dr Brendan Nelson announced he would be stepping down in Bradfield. Manuela, Gabriel and I were now back in Surry Hills, living in a recently, and rather expensively, architecturally renovated terrace house with our family expanded by the happy arrival of Hugo, then around six months old. So when I told Manuela that I was turning my attention from the southern suburbs of Sydney to the northern suburbs of Sydney she took a moment to gather her enthusiasm, but very soon she was fully on board for this latest quest—and, if the Princess Highway heading south had been the boulevard of broken dreams, the Pacific Highway heading north turned out to be the yellow brick road. Within a few short months I was standing in this chamber giving my maiden speech, as it happens, precisely 15 years and one day ago—although it feels like five minutes. In that speech, I said: I want to be a voice for rational policymaking which recognises some basic realities—the reality that we are a small country in a large world which does not owe us a living; the reality that the prosperity we enjoy today is not guaranteed but needs continual work; the reality that our prosperity depends much more on the efforts of the private sector than the public sector; … How would I assess my performance against the aim of being such a voice for rational policymaking? In the marking scale used when I was a student at Sydney university in the 1980s, I would not give myself a high distinction or even a distinction, but I think it's probably worth a credit. I was lucky to work on some issue…
date: 2025-02-10T17:01:00+00:00

Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill 2024; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I'm pleased to rise to speak on the Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill 2024. This is an issue—the challenge of antisemitism and how we respond to it as a nation—which is of...
encoded: I'm pleased to rise to speak on the Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill 2024. This is an issue—the challenge of antisemitism and how we respond to it as a nation—which is of great concern to many, many Australians. It is certainly an issue of very considerable concern in the electorate of Bradfield, which has the second-largest Jewish community of any federal electorate in New South Wales. It has four synagogues and a Jewish school, Masada College. Just last Friday, I was at a service at one of those four synagogues, North Shore Synagogue in Lindfield, at the invitation of Rabbi Lewin. I was joined by the mayor of Ku-ring-gai, Christine Kay; the state member for Davidson, Matt Cross; and the Liberal candidate for Bradfield, Gisele Kapterian. We were there along with other local dignitaries and leaders to express our concern for our local Jewish community and for the Jewish community of Australia. I know our local Jewish community, along with the Jewish community all across Australia, is rightly enormously concerned about the shocking upsurge in antisemitism that we have seen throughout Australia since the 7 October 2023 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel. Indeed I've attended numerous events in my electorate over the last year and a half in response to the enormous and entirely justifiable and understandable concerns of my Jewish constituents and, I might say, of the broader body of my constituents in Bradfield. In Bradfield, as around Australia, alarm and concern about the outbreak of antisemitism in Australia is certainly felt by Jewish Australians, but it is also felt by Australians of goodwill of all faiths and none, because it is a threat to social cohesion, it is a threat to social order and it is a threat to civilisation and to the values which underpin our modern Australian nation. In October 2023, shortly after the appalling 7 October terrorist attack, I attended a moving service at Kehillat Masada synagogue in St Ives. Several North Shore synagogues c…
date: 2025-02-05T11:59:00+00:00

Bradfield Electorate: Community Services | Constituency Statements | House debates
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description: I want to speak about the remarkable community spirit in Bradfield, the electorate that I've been privileged to represent in this place for 15 years. Last Saturday, as one manifestation of that...
encoded: I want to speak about the remarkable community spirit in Bradfield, the electorate that I've been privileged to represent in this place for 15 years. Last Saturday, as one manifestation of that community spirit, the Killara Rural Fire Service station opened. This has been the culmination of many years of work and planning to establish the new Killara Rural Fire Brigade in 2017 and to build this magnificent new station in Koola Avenue in East Killara opposite Killara High School. I particularly congratulate deputy captain and brigade president Stuart Clark, who has worked for many years to achieve this outcome, as well as brigade captain Andrew Wilson and all of the volunteers who serve in the NSW Rural Fire Service, not just in the Killara brigade but locally in the Ku-ring-gai brigade and of course across New South Wales and Australia. Late last year, I held my annual Bradfield community Christmas drinks, and we recognised three outstanding local organisations and asked each of them to brief the assembled group of over 100 people on the great work that they do. We heard from Liz Lovell of Lifeline Harbour to Hawkesbury. There's a very big facility that they have in Gordon, in the electorate of Bradfield, and, as the name suggests, they serve people from the harbour up to the Hawkesbury River and beyond, including through the lots of counsellors who work on the enormously valuable Lifeline telephone counselling service. I've heard from many of them stories about people they have helped—people who are in considerable distress and, in some cases, considering ending their own lives. We also heard at this event from Kevin Hao, a very impressive young man in my electorate who has just finished year 12 with outstanding results. While he was at high school he founded an organisation called Youth 4 Difference, which has attracted large numbers of high-school students to volunteer for a whole range of important causes. I joined them last year along with Gisele Kapterian, the…
date: 2025-02-05T09:47:00+00:00

Services Australia | Statements by Members | House debates
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description: Bill Shorten has left the building, but the damage that he has done will linger on. We know that what Labor wants to do—and is in the course of doing—is put on 36,000 additional...
encoded: Bill Shorten has left the building, but the damage that he has done will linger on. We know that what Labor wants to do—and is in the course of doing—is put on 36,000 additional public servants, $24 billion of extra cost. Services Australia, for which he had responsibility, is at the epicentre of this. The head count of Services Australia has gone up from 32,310 in 30 June 2022 to 33,554. So we've seen a strong increase in head count, but service levels have gone down. The average time taken to process an age pension claim has more than doubled. In 2021-22, it took on average 35 days. In 2023-24, it took 76 days. The average wait time when you called the older Australians line was 14 minutes and 14 seconds in 2021-22, and 44 minutes and 31 seconds in 2023-24. So what is Bill Shorten's record? This is typical of Labor's approach to productivity in government. Productivity has collapsed. Services Australia has more staff doing less work, processing fewer overall claims. Service delivery outcomes have become worse. Do not believe this incorrect claim from the other side that there's a one-to-one correlation between people and outcomes; under Bill Shorten, it has been the reverse.
date: 2025-02-05T13:42:00+00:00

Handa Opera at Millthorpe, Craven Creek Music Festival | Statements by Members | House debates
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description: At Easter this year there will be a three-day opera festival in the New South Wales country town of Millthorpe, near Orange. It's being put together by Lyndon Terracini, who was formerly the...
encoded: At Easter this year there will be a three-day opera festival in the New South Wales country town of Millthorpe, near Orange. It's being put together by Lyndon Terracini, who was formerly the artistic director of Opera Australia. He's secured sponsorship from the billionaire Japanese businessman and arts patron, Haruhisa Handa, the same man who has long sponsored Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, one of Lyndon's signature initiatives in his previous role. The festival in Millthorpe will feature the Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra, which is much loved in my electorate of Bradfield and features many talented musicians who have day jobs. Lyndon Terracini was recently interviewed and he said: I wanted to start modestly this year, and I haven't applied for any government funding. As a former arts minister, I love that attitude, just like I love the Craven Creek Music Festival—organised by Greg Lindsay, former director of the Centre for Independent Studies—near Gloucester in country New South Wales, which is typically held in the second half of the year. I went last year and loved it. There is great music at events organised by great Australians, with no government handouts involved. So google them—Handa Opera at Millthorpe and Craven Creek Music Festival. Get yourself some tickets. You won't regret it. These are terrific events in wonderful parts of country Australia, organised by very distinguished Australians. I congratulate them both. There's going to be some great music.
date: 2025-02-04T13:50:00+00:00

Economy | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: Mr Speaker, standing order 91(c) states that a member's conduct is disorderly if they wilfully refuse to conform to a standing order. You rightly directed the Prime Minister to come back to the...
encoded: Mr Speaker, standing order 91(c) states that a member's conduct is disorderly if they wilfully refuse to conform to a standing order. You rightly directed the Prime Minister to come back to the subject of the question, to comply with the relevance requirement, and he is flouting your order, your direction.
date: 2024-11-27T14:56:00+00:00

g37.7
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title: Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin) Bill 2024, Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin Charges) Bill 2024, Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2024; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
description: by leave—There was confusion as to whether we were on the amendment or on the second reading question, that the bill be agreed to. We certainly want a division on that second reading. I...
encoded: by leave—There was confusion as to whether we were on the amendment or on the second reading question, that the bill be agreed to. We certainly want a division on that second reading. I move: That the second reading of the bill be rescinded and the question on the second reading be put again. Question agreed to.
date: 2024-11-27T12:18:00+00:00

Surveillance Legislation (Confirmation of Application) Bill 2024; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I rise to speak on the Surveillance Legislation (Confirmation of Application) Bill 2024. This bill relates to information obtained in the course of Operation Ironside, which was conducted by the...
encoded: I rise to speak on the Surveillance Legislation (Confirmation of Application) Bill 2024. This bill relates to information obtained in the course of Operation Ironside, which was conducted by the Australian Federal Police between 2018 and 2021. As of June 2024, Operation Ironside has resulted in 392 alleged offenders being charged with 2,355 offences. These offences include crimes such as trafficking in illicit drugs, money laundering and dealing in the proceeds of crime. One of the central features of Operation Ironside was the use of a dedicated encrypted communications application, the ANOM app, which allowed surveillance of alleged organised crime networks. Relevantly, the bill before the House clarifies certain aspects of the operation of Australia's Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 and other relevant legislation as they apply to information obtained during the police operation. The use of information obtained through the ANOM app has been challenged on at least two occasions in courts. The central basis for those challenges has been a claim that the information was obtained by 'intercepting' of messages sent through the ANOM app. Section 7 of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act prohibits the interception of communications passing over a telecommunications system, except where certain criteria apply, such as where the interception is authorised by a warrant. You cannot intercept communications unless authorised. However, the word 'intercept' is not defined in the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act . Instead, section 6 of that act explains what is meant by the phrase 'interception of a communication passing over a telecommunications system'. It says that interception 'consists of listening to or recording, by any means, such a communication in its passage over that telecommunications system without the knowledge of the person making the communication'. It is clear that, under the law, for there to be an intercep…
date: 2024-11-26T12:06:00+00:00

Energy | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: Thank you, Mr Speaker. It is on relevance. The fact is that emissions have gone up. Can the minister—
encoded: Thank you, Mr Speaker. It is on relevance. The fact is that emissions have gone up. Can the minister—
date: 2024-11-25T14:19:00+00:00

Energy | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: My question is to the Prime Minister. Given emissions have gone up under the Albanese Labor government, how does the Prime Minister expect Australians to take this government seriously on climate...
encoded: My question is to the Prime Minister. Given emissions have gone up under the Albanese Labor government, how does the Prime Minister expect Australians to take this government seriously on climate action?
date: 2024-11-25T14:18:00+00:00

Climate Change | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: On relevance. It was a very specific question: can the Prime Minister guarantee it won't lead to increased energy prices for Australian families? If he can't give that guarantee, he should admit it.
encoded: On relevance. It was a very specific question: can the Prime Minister guarantee it won't lead to increased energy prices for Australian families? If he can't give that guarantee, he should admit it.
date: 2024-11-25T14:10:00+00:00

Economy | Statements by Members | House debates
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description: The Albanese government's time in office has been all about reckless spending, with Canberra's already bloated bureaucracy growing by an additional 36,000 public servants under Labor's watch....
encoded: The Albanese government's time in office has been all about reckless spending, with Canberra's already bloated bureaucracy growing by an additional 36,000 public servants under Labor's watch. Labor has now hired almost 50 new bureaucrats each and every day. Economist Shane Oliver told the Senate Select Committee on the Cost of Living: … the RBA's job would be a lot easier if they didn't have the surge in government spending that has been occurring over the last few years— government spending rates of 27.3 per cent of GDP in the June quarter. Services Australia is a good case study of the reckless spending. There is $1.8 billion now committed for an extra 7,500 public servants, but here are some facts on Services Australia's plummeting performance—something you probably won't hear in the member for Maribyrnong's valedictory speech. When the coalition was in government, it took, on average, 35 days to process a claim for an age pension. From 1 January this year to 1 May this year, the average time was 84 days. The member for Maribyrnong gives the excuse that customer demand for services is increasing. Not true! Demand was 126 million in 2021-22; it has dropped to 92 million in the most recent year. More government spending, poorer outcomes—that is a record of the member for Maribyrnong.
date: 2024-11-21T13:57:00+00:00

Early Childhood Education | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: On relevance, there was no reference in the question to alternative policies, opposition or any of that. The minister is now straying into opposition policies and statements. She's not being...
encoded: On relevance, there was no reference in the question to alternative policies, opposition or any of that. The minister is now straying into opposition policies and statements. She's not being relevant, and she should be directed to be relevant. If she can't be, she should be asked to sit down.
date: 2024-11-20T14:19:00+00:00

National Broadband Network Companies Amendment (Commitment to Public Ownership) Bill 2024; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I'm pleased to speak on the National Broadband Network Companies Amendment (Commitment to Public Ownership) Bill 2024. The National Broadband Network was first dreamt up as a policy by former...
encoded: I'm pleased to speak on the National Broadband Network Companies Amendment (Commitment to Public Ownership) Bill 2024. The National Broadband Network was first dreamt up as a policy by former Labor senator Stephen Conroy in the lead up to the 2007 election. It was an ill-thought-through, careless and lazy piece of policy. I was so frustrated by it that I wrote a book, Wired Brown Land?, about the broadband battles in Australia. The book came out in 2009, and I'm often asked, 'How did it sell?' Well, for a book about telecommunication economics, extremely well! My central point was that the policy that then Senator Conroy devised dismally failed because it sought to get Telstra to do something that it did not want to do—namely, to build a national fibre-to-the-node network for $4.7 billion and give its competitors access to that network. An even more ill conceived policy was then dreamt up by Stephen Conroy and Kevin Rudd. Notoriously, the details were sketched out on the back of a beer coaster on a flight on a government jet. Under that policy, the commitment was to spend what was supposed to be $43 billion on a fibre-to-the-premises network. If you go back and look at what was promised in the 2009 media release and press conference by Kevin Rudd, Stephen Conroy, Wayne Swan and Lindsay Tanner, just about every aspect of what they promised has been a manifest failure. As a result of this policy, some $30 billion of taxpayers' money has been spent, and the value for money taxpayers have received has been absolutely appalling, in stark contrast to the frugal Kiwis, who managed to get a national fibre network for a total taxpayer commitment of NZ$1.5 billion. In the nearly 15 years I've been in the parliament, and having taken quite an interest in this issue, I've spoken many times on stupid pieces of legislation associated with Labor's National Broadband Network, yet the bill before the parliament today achieves an unenviable distinction. It is the most stupid, pointle…
date: 2024-11-19T20:00:00+00:00

Vocational Education and Training | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: Mr Speaker, the question was clearly structured to deal with, firstly, what the minister's responsible for, and then opposition. It could not be clearer, on the wording of the question, that what...
encoded: Mr Speaker, the question was clearly structured to deal with, firstly, what the minister's responsible for, and then opposition. It could not be clearer, on the wording of the question, that what the minister is being asked about is not within his responsibilities.
date: 2024-11-19T14:35:00+00:00

Vocational Education and Training | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: This has been a pattern from the government in questions which I'd suggest to you are not consistent with standing order 98(c). Ministers can be questioned on matters for which they're...
encoded: This has been a pattern from the government in questions which I'd suggest to you are not consistent with standing order 98(c). Ministers can be questioned on matters for which they're responsible or officially connected. By definition, the minister is not responsible for opposition.
date: 2024-11-19T14:35:00+00:00

Services Australia | Private Members' Business | House debates
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description: I move: That this House notes that: (1) according to Services Australia's 2023-24 annual report: (a) customer satisfaction was 79.1 out of 100, against a target of 85; (b) only 55.2 per cent of...
encoded: I move: That this House notes that: (1) according to Services Australia's 2023-24 annual report: (a) customer satisfaction was 79.1 out of 100, against a target of 85; (b) only 55.2 per cent of customers were served within 15 minutes, against a target of 70 per cent; (c) the percentage of work processed within timeliness standards was 71.8 per cent, against a target of 90 per cent; and (d) only 58.5 per cent of Centrelink claims were processed within their respective timeliness standards; (2) under the watch of the Minister for Government Services, Australia has recorded its worst result for digital government in over a decade, according to the latest E-Government Development Index; and (3) the previous Government was doing a much better job of delivering a better customer service experience, with the 2023 OECD Digital Government Index, based on data for the period from January 2020 and October 2022, placing Australia in the top five best performing countries. I am prompted to do this because, last week, the member for Maribyrnong, the Minister for Government Services, delivered a speech which he billed as containing a stocktake of his achievements in the government services portfolio. It turns out that the Minister for Government Services, when he comes to assess his own performance, gives himself a very high mark. He didn't put it in exactly these terms, but certainly when I was at Sydney university it went from pass to credit to distinction to high distinction. I think it's pretty clear that the Minister for Government Services regards himself as being worthy of a high distinction. He had this to say: When I took over the portfolio it was obvious that staffing cuts—thousands of jobs being abolished—had left the Agency unable to meet customer expectations … By the way, he was referring to those dreadful Liberals who had done this. He said further: I fought very hard to get Services Australia properly resourced and was able to secure record funding in this year's B…
date: 2024-11-18T17:32:00+00:00

Select Committee on PsiQuantum Funding | Private Members' Business | House debates
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description: I move: That: (1) a select committee, to be known as the Select Committee on PsiQuantum Funding, be appointed to inquire into and report on the process undertaken by the Australian Government to...
encoded: I move: That: (1) a select committee, to be known as the Select Committee on PsiQuantum Funding, be appointed to inquire into and report on the process undertaken by the Australian Government to provide $470 million to American-based company PsiQuantum Pty Ltd; (2) the committee is to inquire into the following matters: (a) the process by which the Australian Government selected PsiQuantum Pty Ltd for investment; (b) the expression of interest process; (c) the financial implications of the investment; (d) the commercial and scientific terms of the investment; (e) whether actual or potential conflicts of interest have been appropriately managed; (f) the nature and extent of interactions between PsiQuantum or its external advisers and the Minister for Industry and Science, the Minister's personal staff and officials of the Australian Public Service; and (g) any other matters necessary or incidental to the committee forming a view as to whether the investment in PsiQuantum is a proper expenditure of public money; (3) the Minister for Industry and Science be called by the committee to appear as a witness to assist the committee in its deliberations; (4) the committee consist of seven members, three Members to be nominated by the Chief Government Whip and four Members to be nominated by the Chief Opposition Whip of whom at least two must be a crossbench Member; (5) every nomination of a member be notified in writing to the Speaker of the House of Representatives; (6) the committee may proceed to the dispatch of business notwithstanding that not all members have been duly nominated and appointed and notwithstanding any vacancy; (7) the members of the committee hold office as a select committee until presentation of the committee's final report or until the House of Representatives is dissolved or expires by effluxion of time, whichever is the earlier; (8) the committee present its final report no later than 1 March 2025; (9) the committee elect an Opposition member as its…
date: 2024-11-18T11:42:00+00:00