Jenny Ware's recent appearances (OpenAustralia.org)
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date: 2025-09-07T23:05:16+00:00
items: Hughes Electorate: International Women's Day Awards | Statements by Members | House debates
items: Albanese Government | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
items: Early Childhood Education and Care (Three Day Guarantee) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Electricity Infrastructure Legislation Amendment Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | 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: Cost of Living | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
items: Medical Workforce | Questions without Notice | House debates
items: Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2024-2025, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2024-2025, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2024-2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Classroom Disruption | Private Members' Business | House debates
items: Education | Private Members' Business | House debates
items: Apprenticeships | Private Members' Business | House debates
items: Medicare | Private Members' Business | House debates
items: Child Care | Private Members' Business | House debates
items: Housing | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
items: New South Wales: Infrastructure | Statements by Members | House debates

Hughes Electorate: International Women's Day Awards | Statements by Members | House debates
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description: This year, the women of Hughes celebrated International Women's Day at my breakfast at beautiful Doltone House, Sylvania, on 6 March. This was an opportunity for me to recognise and value the...
encoded: This year, the women of Hughes celebrated International Women's Day at my breakfast at beautiful Doltone House, Sylvania, on 6 March. This was an opportunity for me to recognise and value the contribution the women of Hughes make within our local community. My Young Woman of the Year was Grace Thorton. Aged only 21, Grace is an inspiring single mother of two who has designed the THRIVE program—a peer support program for young mothers facing trauma, homelessness, domestic violence, substance dependency and mental health struggles. THRIVE empowers women to build their parenting capacity and break cycles of intergenerational disadvantage. My Senior Woman of the Year was Dolores Gonsalves, who supports the homeless around Central Station in Sydney by personally providing essential toiletries, ensuring that people who are often overlooked can feel refreshed, more confident, respected and valued. With kindness and conversation, Dolores reminds some of our most vulnerable Australians that they do matter. My Woman of the Year was Dr Alison Short. Alison was recognised for her lifelong commitment to the allied health profession of music therapy, through which she currently mentors and supports a range of evidence based music projects that make a difference across mental health, special education, palliative care and aged care. Most recently, her research work used music to support anxiety around fertility treatment. I give a big shout-out to the women of Hughes.
date: 2025-03-25T13:44:00+00:00

Albanese Government | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
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description: I bet there is not a single person in the electorate of Hasluck who can turn around and say to that member that they are doing it better. And if we're not going to stand up for Jewish Australians...
encoded: I bet there is not a single person in the electorate of Hasluck who can turn around and say to that member that they are doing it better. And if we're not going to stand up for Jewish Australians or for Australians generally, what about we stand up for those who have been under the scourge of gambling addiction and gambling harm? The Murphy report was delivered to the minister in June 2023, and I sat on that inquiry, as did my good friend the honourable member for Menzies. Why is it up to the Reverand Tim Costello to have to be advocating for the recommendations of that report to be put into law? It is a disgrace that this Prime Minister put the interests of his mates in big business before the interests of Australians. We need a coalition government now to get Australia back on track.
date: 2025-02-13T15:59:00+00:00

Albanese Government | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
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description: Under Labor, Australians have endured a cost-of-living crisis, an energy crisis, a housing crisis, a youth-crime crisis and now a national security crisis. These crises have been brought about by...
encoded: Under Labor, Australians have endured a cost-of-living crisis, an energy crisis, a housing crisis, a youth-crime crisis and now a national security crisis. These crises have been brought about by rising prices, radical policies and the wrong priorities under the leadership of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. This is a prime minister who is out of his depth and taking the country in the wrong direction. Well, in a couple of months, or maybe even only a couple of weeks, Australians will get the choice at the ballot box to vote out one of the worst governments since Federation—vote in the coalition and get Australia back on track. Let's look first of all at national security. The response by the Prime Minister and those on that side to the appalling attacks of 7 October 2023 have demonstrated why those on that side are not fit for government and why this Prime Minister is not fit to lead this country. Following 9 October, this Prime Minister had the opportunity to behave in the same manner as John Howard did in 1996 at Port Arthur with gun control. John Howard had to stand up to the conservative faction and farmers within his party to bring about change that he knew was right for the rest of the country. This Prime Minister has failed to stand up and do what was right for Australians. If he doesn't stand up for Jewish Australians, what guarantee is there that he's going to stand up for any other Australians? When you are Prime Minister of the country you need to be leading for all Australians, and this Prime Minister has failed. And who is next? Catholics? Hindus? Who will this Prime Minister let down next and refuse to support? When university students are terrified on campus, when four-year-olds are being accompanied to their preschool by armed guards and when synagogues are being firebombed, we see the beginning of the breakdown of the fabric of society. That is why we also have a youth-crime crisis in many parts of this country. And it has all come about under this…
date: 2025-02-13T15:59:00+00:00

Early Childhood Education and Care (Three Day Guarantee) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I rise to speak on the Early Childhood Education and Care (Three Day Guarantee) Bill 2025. As has no doubt already been highlighted, the opposition will be opposing this bill for some of the...
encoded: I rise to speak on the Early Childhood Education and Care (Three Day Guarantee) Bill 2025. As has no doubt already been highlighted, the opposition will be opposing this bill for some of the reasons I intend to set out. If we just go back to the background of this legislation, the bill's intended to amend the A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999, and replaces references to the childcare-subsidy activity test with a new three-day guarantee. The legislation, at this point, is set to commence in January 2026, and the three-day guarantee is intended to provide all families that have up to a combined income of $533,000 with access to 72 hours a fortnight of subsidised childcare. That all sounds absolutely fabulous as a motherhood statement—no pun intended—but this legislation does not guarantee or prioritise access for working families over non-working families, and it's absolutely crucial, when parents return to work, that they are able to access and have choice about the type of childcare and early learning that is most appropriate for their family. The government estimates the cost of the measure is $426.7 million over five years, despite the policy not rolling out until January 2026. That's $426.7 million over five years from 2024-25. The Productivity Commission's report on this, though, estimated the cost of the full removal of the activity test, which this legislation would do, as being over $2 billion per year. As usual, the Albanese Labor government love to spend money, splash money around and make headlines, but, as always, the proof is in the pudding and whether or not this will actually deliver any additional assistance for working families is really completely questionable. To highlight the finances of this, the explanatory memorandum to the legislation states that the activity test changes will cost, as I said, $426.7 million, but the MYEFO outlook for 2024-25 stated the measure would cost $291.2 million over three years. The Productivity Commission…
date: 2025-02-12T12:28:00+00:00

Electricity Infrastructure Legislation Amendment Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I rise to speak on the Electricity Infrastructure Legislation Amendment Bill 2025. We are opposing this bill, on our side. I think we need to start with looking at what this legislation is all...
encoded: I rise to speak on the Electricity Infrastructure Legislation Amendment Bill 2025. We are opposing this bill, on our side. I think we need to start with looking at what this legislation is all about. This legislation is in response to a massive loss that the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, had in the Federal Court at the end of last year. I say that as a recovering planning, environmental and housing lawyer! In the case of Seadragon Offshore Wind Pty Ltd v Minister for Climate Change and Energy, the Federal Court held at the end of last year that the federal Minister for Climate Change and Energy may lawfully grant a feasibility licence for an offshore wind farm development over a smaller area than applied for by the applicant. So this legislation concerns offshore wind. About 20 years ago, when I was a partner in a law firm, I had a client who was looking at onshore wind projects down in the state of Victoria. We negotiated and negotiated, and in the end the deal did not go ahead for the simple reason that the economics of onshore wind did not stack up in that particular location. I have always been absolutely committed to net zero. Those on our side have said—and through our leader, Peter Dutton—that we have absolutely committed to the net zero target by 2050. How we get there is where we disagree with those on the other side. The Minister for Climate Change and Energy and the Prime Minister have completely and utterly stuffed energy policy in this parliament under this Albanese Labor government. We have some ridiculous examples of energy policy. Let me start with the big announcements during the election campaign. We're coming up to the three-year anniversary of the $275 cut to power bills' that we were allegedly all going to get. Instead, most Australians have seen their power bills increase by a thousand dollars. That was the big headline—they were going to reduce; they haven't. Let's look at some of the ridiculous examples of how their ene…
date: 2025-02-11T19:41:00+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: That's why we say that Labor simply cannot manage the economy. That's why we've seen inflation far too high for far too long. Labor cannot manage the budget. That's why we've seen $347 billion in...
encoded: That's why we say that Labor simply cannot manage the economy. That's why we've seen inflation far too high for far too long. Labor cannot manage the budget. That's why we've seen $347 billion in additional spending that has fuelled inflation. The evidence of the Albanese Labor government's failures has been mounting since first elected in May 2022. We have to remember that is only two years and nine months—that's all it's taken for our economy to almost completely collapse. They've had $347 billion in expenditure, but what do they actually have to show for this? What they have to show for it is higher prices, higher interest rates, more small businesses collapsing, and lower living standards. Since Labor was elected, prices overall are up more than 10 per cent. This includes double-digit increases across the board for many of our essentials. Health is up by 10 per cent. Education overall is up by 11 per cent. Food is up by 12 per cent. Housing is up by at least 14 per cent. Rents are up 17 per cent. Insurance and finance are up 18 per cent. Electricity is up 32 per cent—that's without the rebates. Gas is up by 34 per cent. Under Labor's economic mismanagement ,we're witnessing the longest sustained period of inflation since the 1980s. We've seen, for example, interest rates that have been hiked 12 times. In relation to energy bills, we were promised in the last election campaign—how many times?—97 times that the now Prime Minister would cut your power bills by $275. Since then, instead, we've seen energy bills rise by an average of $1,000 per household. In my home state of New South Wales, we are now in the ridiculous situation where during summer in Sydney, we've been asked by the New South Wales government not to use our washing machines during the day, and, also, to please try not to use our air conditioning during the day. Almost every day is over 30 degrees in Sydney during summer. That is the position that we have gotten to because of the decisions that have …
date: 2025-02-11T17:32:00+00:00

Cost of Living | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
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description: I note that members over there are interjecting, but we've also heard announcements about women's health. Let me tell you what this government has delivered for the women in my electorate since...
encoded: I note that members over there are interjecting, but we've also heard announcements about women's health. Let me tell you what this government has delivered for the women in my electorate since being elected: absolutely nothing. They told me about it in Engadine on Saturday. I had a number of women come up to me and say that we need endometriosis and pelvic pain clinics. I'm in southern and south-western Sydney. Our nearest pelvic pain clinic is down in the Southern Highlands. I have written to the minister about this and said, 'We need one in southern Sydney to service the women in Hughes and adjoining electorates such as Cook,' and I have been refused that request. Also, on menopause clinics, there's been no assistance whatsoever from this government for the women in my electorate who are battling with menopause. This government has totally failed on some of the very key issues that it should be addressing. Thank you.
date: 2025-02-11T16:18:00+00:00

Cost of Living | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
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description: I rise to speak on the government's failure to manage its crippling cost-of-living crisis. I thank the honourable member for Hume for bringing this matter of public importance to this place....
encoded: I rise to speak on the government's failure to manage its crippling cost-of-living crisis. I thank the honourable member for Hume for bringing this matter of public importance to this place. Labor cannot manage the economy. We have said so many times in this place. My parents have actually said to me, after about six months of Labor, 'We didn't think that we would ever have a government that spent and mismanaged the economy the way that Gough Whitlam did,' but we've got it here. We have seen it in all of the numbers. We have seen inflation far too high for far too long. The Treasurer says things like, 'Inflation is coming down,' but I have not met anyone in the electorate of Hughes who has said to me that they now feel that their grocery prices are any less. They don't feel that their insurances are any less. They don't feel that their sports registration fees are any less. They don't feel that their fuel is any less. Certainly their mortgages are no less, because, with 12 interest rate rises under this Labor government, people in my electorate have paid more than $50,000 in additional interest payments over what they were paying under the former coalition government. What has fuelled this inflation rate is $347 billion in additional spending. Labor sit there and say that spending has gone to better TAFE services, for example—actually, they don't say it's better TAFE services; they say it's fee-free. Free TAFE. But what is the use of throwing money at supposedly free TAFE when only about 50 per cent of students that start at TAFE are finishing? Why not give students the opportunity to also attend a private vocational education training service? It's because underlying all of Labor's philosophy and thinking is centralising control—centralising control even of the VET sector. We have seen no assistance whatsoever for any apprentices who wish to avail themselves of private training. We've also heard that a lot of this spending has gone on Medicare. I'm glad I have the …
date: 2025-02-11T16:18:00+00:00

Medical Workforce | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. Under the Albanese Labor government, 27,000 small businesses have collapsed since the last election. Minister, how many GP clinics have...
encoded: My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. Under the Albanese Labor government, 27,000 small businesses have collapsed since the last election. Minister, how many GP clinics have closed since the election of the Albanese Labor government?
date: 2025-02-11T14:25:00+00:00

Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2024-2025, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2024-2025, Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2024-2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I rise to speak on these bills, the Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2024-25, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2024-2025 and Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2024-2025. These bills do,...
encoded: I rise to speak on these bills, the Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2024-25, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2024-2025 and Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2024-2025. These bills do, of course, provide the necessary appropriations to ensure the continued delivery of essential government services and to fund decisions made since the 2024-25 budget was announced in May last year. In total, these bills appropriate $12 billion for the remainder of the financial year, the majority of which, some $7 billion, is directed towards the ordinary annual services of government. The coalition supports this legislation to ensure the smooth operation of government and the uninterrupted provision of services upon which Australians rely. However, while we support these bills as a matter of necessity, we must also use this opportunity to highlight the grave economic mismanagement that has led us to this point and put Australians under so much cost-of-living pressure. These bills, like the budget bills before them, were introduced in the context of a budget and MYEFO update that yet again exposed the Albanese Labor government's utter failure to tackle our current cost-of-living crisis. We need to get Australians back on track—
date: 2025-02-11T13:28:00+00:00

Classroom Disruption | Private Members' Business | House debates
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description: I rise to speak in favour of this motion, and I thank the honourable member for Nicholls for bringing this motion. And I also commend the honourable member for spending a day at a school within...
encoded: I rise to speak in favour of this motion, and I thank the honourable member for Nicholls for bringing this motion. And I also commend the honourable member for spending a day at a school within his electorate. It's something that, I must admit, I've not done yet. I am going to do it, now that I've heard from the honourable member. I think that the confected outrage from the member for Lalor is really quite extraordinary. I don't know how it can be suggested by the member for Lalor that the member for Nicholls, an elected representative, cannot get up and speak about education within his electorate and, indeed, within his state and nation. I remind the honourable member for Lalor that the honourable member for Nicholls has been elected to represent his constituency and has just as much right to stand and talk about education—or about any other topic that he would like to talk about—as the member for Lalor. Simply because the member for Lalor was a teacher and a principal for many years does not mean that she is the only person in this place that has any right to speak on education. That is complete and other nonsense. The bad weekend down in Victoria that my friend the member for Nicholls has just referred to could well be part of it! The member for Nicholls has brought a very important matter to this place, and that is that the government is yet again sitting on an inquiry that had many, many recommendations. The inquiry included a recommendation that the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority strengthen the focus on behaviour within the Australian curriculum by specifically introducing a behaviour curriculum. Just as an aside, I'd be very interested in a count being made of how many reports that have been done in this place and in the other place during the term of this government and that have been presented to the government and have not been acted upon. I note that many, including me, have spoken in this place about the failure of the Albanese…
date: 2025-02-10T19:05:00+00:00

Classroom Disruption | Private Members' Business | House debates
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date: 2025-02-10T18:54:00+00:00

Education | Private Members' Business | House debates
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description: I rise to speak against this motion that's been moved by the member for Lalor, and I do it for a number of reasons. First of all, I was glad I was present for the honourable member's speech today...
encoded: I rise to speak against this motion that's been moved by the member for Lalor, and I do it for a number of reasons. First of all, I was glad I was present for the honourable member's speech today when she moved this motion. This motion refers to cheaper child care, record needs based funding for schools, free TAFE and student debt relief. What this motion refers to—and all that I have heard from the honourable member's speech—are just the amounts of money that are being spent. We are opposing the fee-free TAFE legislation, and it is not because we do not support the vocational and educational training sector. On the contrary, we support all students who want to get a vocational educational qualification, regardless of where they choose to be educated. That is the whole premise. That is one of the major differences between our side and Labor. Labor love a centralised bureaucracy. I heard mention then of the public school sector. I'm very supportive of the public school sector; I'm proudly a product of public schools. But it was the Liberals who first decided to fund non-government schools, and that was one of the guiding values of our party—that parents should have choice as to where their children are educated. Parents who choose to send their children to a non-government school should not be punished for that choice, in the same way that students should have the choice as to whether they go to a non-government school or attend a government school. The reason that Labor has only funded places in the VET sector for TAFE is because the TAFE system is centralised; it's very heavily unionised. They love TAFE. They don't, for example, want to fund the National Electrical and Communications Association, which has 500 to 600 apprentices at the moment all doing training through the private sector. That money is very well spent. At TAFE, people in the building and construction sector at the moment—trainee apprentices in carpentry–have only a 50 per cent completion rate. If t…
date: 2025-02-10T18:34:00+00:00

Apprenticeships | Private Members' Business | House debates
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description: I thank the member for Hunter for bringing this motion, because it gives me an opportunity to say to the member for Hunter that I am similarly very proud of him—that he went through the...
encoded: I thank the member for Hunter for bringing this motion, because it gives me an opportunity to say to the member for Hunter that I am similarly very proud of him—that he went through the vocational education training sector. I'm similarly very supportive of that sector, as it is the sector that builds Australia. I have said in this place a couple of times how proud I am of my first-born son, who has just commenced a plumbing apprenticeship. I am certainly very supportive of the skills and training sector. The issue that I have, though, with the government's approach to this sector is that it only ever talks about TAFE. We hear, 'fee-free TAFE', and for the reasons I'm going to set out shortly, the fee-free TAFE legislation is simply not going to do what it was designed to do, because, yet again, Labor loves the big slogan, the big headline, 'It's all going to be free.' But over and over again, their delivery on policy demonstrates that they cannot deliver that that they proclaim so loudly through a megaphone. Data released by the National Centre for Vocational Education and Research has confirmed that, instead of trending up, as we were under the former coalition government, Australia has lost over 80,000 apprentices and trainees from the national training pipeline since the Albanese Labor government took office. Why is it that the government will only fund TAFE? Why do we just hear, 'TAFE, TAFE, TAFE, TAFE, TAFE'? On our side of the House, we support students who wish to go into vocational education and training if they want to go and get that training from a private registered operator. For example, I've met with the National Electrical and Communications Association. They currently have between 500 and 600 apprentices on their books in the carpentry and building trades. There is no funding available to this organisation from the fee-free TAFE legislation, but this organisation has a 90 per cent apprenticeship completion rate. TAFE has a 50 per cent completion rate…
date: 2025-02-10T12:28:00+00:00

Medicare | Private Members' Business | House debates
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description: I hear some sort of interjections on the other side, so I will back up this statement. In south-west Sydney, our nearest women's health centre is in Mittagong—hundreds of kilometres away....
encoded: I hear some sort of interjections on the other side, so I will back up this statement. In south-west Sydney, our nearest women's health centre is in Mittagong—hundreds of kilometres away. Mittagong is not even in Sydney; this is the Southern Highlands. So, women in my electorate who need to access a pelvic pain clinic—whether it is for endometriosis, PCOS or menopause—are required to travel hundreds of kilometres. I have been petitioning the Minister for Health, Mark Butler, almost since the day I got here requesting that one of these clinics be placed in my electorate, either in the Sutherland shire, in southern Sydney, or in south-western Sydney. To date, that has fallen on deaf ears. The minister does not appear to be terribly interested in women's health in my part of the country. It might be useful if he came out and actually saw the lack of infrastructure that's in place for women in my electorate. What the coalition will do for women, if elected, is match the government's funding that was announced only today. But we will also enhance menopause care for women. We'll have a new Medicare rebate. We'll expand health professional training. We'll develop national clinical guidelines and increase funding for endometriosis and pelvic pain clinics. And it is noted that some of the good work that the other side have done on pelvic pain clinics was started under the former coalition government when we first committed to developing a nationwide strategy and framework on endometriosis. I thank the House.
date: 2025-02-10T11:23:00+00:00

Medicare | Private Members' Business | House debates
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description: It's always a pleasure for me to stand and talk about health and Medicare. My speech today is also going to focus on women's health. Since being elected nearly three years ago, I have on every...
encoded: It's always a pleasure for me to stand and talk about health and Medicare. My speech today is also going to focus on women's health. Since being elected nearly three years ago, I have on every occasion possible spoken about health in this place, particularly as it relates to those in my electorate and also particularly on women's health issues. This motion is about the government's legislation strengthening Medicare. I do not agree with most of the statements within the motion, despite my respect for the honourable member for Robertson. But there is one part of this that I do agree with. The free Medicare urgent care clinics are, in my view, the one area where this government, to give them credit, has improved health services. Unfortunately, though, it is just the one area, and unfortunately there are no free Medicare urgent care clinics provided in my electorate. My electorate is the western end of the Sutherland shire—the Liverpool area—and now stretches down into south-west Sydney. Despite there being a number of doctors and also that south-west Sydney has been represented by Labor members for a long time, there has been very little investment in the south-west of Sydney. I am calling upon this government to, before the election, make a commitment to a free Medicare urgent care clinic within my electorate. South-western Sydney is one of the fastest growing areas in our country, in our state and in the very large city of Sydney. It is unacceptable that this area has been so neglected on health, that this government was very choosy about the electorates in which these urgent clinics would be placed, and my electorate missed out. So I'm now calling upon this government to ensure that, before we adjourn and go into full campaign mode, the Prime Minister—who says he cares about health and says he cares about south-west Sydney—will make that commitment to the people in my electorate. And while the Prime Minister is there, I would ask him to make a similar commitment fo…
date: 2025-02-10T11:23:00+00:00

Child Care | Private Members' Business | House debates
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description: It's a pleasure for me to stand here to second and support the motion brought by the honourable member for Moncrieff in relation to, particularly, the government's failure on the cost of child...
encoded: It's a pleasure for me to stand here to second and support the motion brought by the honourable member for Moncrieff in relation to, particularly, the government's failure on the cost of child care. I also commend the honourable member for the work that she has done as our shadow minister in the portfolio of early child care, early childhood education and youth services. After two years and nine months of this Albanese Labor government, the cost of child care has increased by a whopping 22.3 per cent. During the last election campaign, Anthony Albanese promised cheaper child care. What have we seen instead? Yet another broken Labor promise. The data is out, and it clearly shows that this is not the case. Australians do not have cheaper child care at all. I hear this when I'm going around my electorate, whether it's doorknocking, at mobile offices or going out to the kindergartens and childcare centres. Parents and the directors of these centres tell me that child care is not cheaper. I was recently at Connect Preschool at Sutherland, for example, and parents are now pulling their children out of this preschool due to the cost. Where they were before averaging three to four days a week, they're now down to two days a week. I heard the member for Newcastle standing there spruiking cheaper child care over and over again, but the reality is completely different. Do we need cheaper child care? We need cheaper child care, but we also need better quality child care. Parents need to be assured, when they are going to work, that their children are being looked after and quality education is being provided. The other thing that Labor has completely failed to do in the area of early child care is to look at the preschool and kindergarten model. Instead, this is a return to the Rudd era of trying to subsidise early child care without the benefits actually reaching the hip pockets of parents. I particularly remember those failed reforms of the Rudd era because my children were a…
date: 2025-02-10T11:02:00+00:00

Child Care | Private Members' Business | House debates
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description: It is, Deputy Speaker, and I reserve my right to speak.
encoded: It is, Deputy Speaker, and I reserve my right to speak.
date: 2025-02-10T10:52:00+00:00

Housing | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
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description: I was present in the chamber just now when I heard the member for Fraser say a number of, frankly, quite outrageous statements. He has described our housing policies, which we have released well...
encoded: I was present in the chamber just now when I heard the member for Fraser say a number of, frankly, quite outrageous statements. He has described our housing policies, which we have released well and truly before the next election, as 'populist politics'. I say that—and I'm going to talk about our policies—this is a very interesting statement, coming from a member of a government that has completely failed on housing policy. If nothing else, the failure on housing policy completely demonstrates that the Albanese Labor government stands for nothing and has not addressed any of the crucial elements that really affect and matter in the lives of Australians. Homeownership is one of those. If, over on that side, they were serious about really addressing housing affordability, they would have looked at our policies and agreed to them, or at least had a bipartisan approach, as the member for Fraser has just said. I know that there are many members of this government—and I have been in this chamber when they've said it—particularly the female members, who have said how important it is that we get housing for older women, for women who are fleeing domestic violence or for women who, for example, are going through a grey divorce. These are women who have never earnt a lot of money in their lives. They get divorced, often in their 50s or 60s, and end up in a divorce settlement, often with a matrimonial home and a large mortgage and a very small superannuation pool, but their former partner walks away with significantly more superannuation. We know that because there are many members—and I'm one of them—in this place who have spoken, over and over again, about the complete gender inequity in superannuation. So I know that this is an area of real interest and real concern to those on the other side. It really is. I also note that the Prime Minister has been very proud of the fact that he grew up in social housing with a single mother. He has now risen to be the leader of our coun…
date: 2025-02-06T15:42:00+00:00

New South Wales: Infrastructure | Statements by Members | House debates
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description: After two years and nine months, this Labor government, led by Prime Minister Albanese, has totally failed on infrastructure in New South Wales, particularly in south-western Sydney. Western...
encoded: After two years and nine months, this Labor government, led by Prime Minister Albanese, has totally failed on infrastructure in New South Wales, particularly in south-western Sydney. Western Sydney airport is opening next year. It is to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It's to service the whole new city of Bradfield. It's supposed to be supported by an aerotropolis of 100,000 jobs and 10,000 homes. Instead, the Ingleburn Business Chamber and Campbelltown City Council are left doing the advocacy for south-western Sydney. It is now time that Campbelltown be prioritised. It needs a north-south rail link which will open from St Marys to the aerotropolis via Western Sydney airport. It needs rapid bus services linking Liverpool, Penrith and Campbelltown with the aerotropolis by the opening of the airport. Where has the federal minister for infrastructure been on this? She has been nowhere. Has she even been out to Campbelltown? Has she been out there and even started to consider delivering on some of the priorities that the former federal government and the former state coalition government put into place? Has she looked, for example, at the metro routes or at a rapid bus service? I put it to you that she has not done any of this. This government has failed in infrastructure in Campbelltown, and so too has the infrastructure minister.
date: 2025-02-06T13:52:00+00:00