House debates
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
- Personal Explanations (0 speeches)
- (12 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (7 speeches)
In my maiden speech in this parliament, I stated clearly that I do not believe, and our party does not support, the development of professional politicians. I believe that a parliament should be...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That standing order No. 43 (members’ statements) be suspended for the duration of the speech of the member speaking at 1.30 pm. Question agreed to.
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (2 speeches)
Let me commence by saying thank you to the very people who allowed me to be the member for Paterson: my constituents. It has been an honour, it has been a pleasure to serve you, but now is the...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Gellibrand Electorate: Altona Miniature Railway (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate the Altona Miniature Railway for receiving departmental approval for a Stronger Communities grant yesterday. The Altona Miniature Railway is a hobby club run by members...
- Leichhardt Electorate: Stronger Communities Program (1 speech)
Residents of Cape York and the Torres Strait will be very pleased to hear that three community focused infrastructure projects will be funded under the federal government's Stronger...
- Budget (5 speeches)
Canberrans feared the worst from the Abbott-Turnbull government's budget last night, because we know what Liberal government budgets mean for Canberra. We saw it under former Prime Minister...
- Youth Suicide (1 speech)
Last month, I led a team of local leaders from the Peel region to meet with the Prime Minister and the Minister for Health about the alarming rate of youth suicides in our community. The team of...
- Budget (3 speeches)
Yesterday, when Scott Morrison delivered his first budget and you scanned that side of the parliament, everyone was up and clapping, except one person.
- Corangamite Electorate: Budget (1 speech)
That is the sort of arrogance we hear from those opposite. Last night, the Turnbull government released our economic plan for jobs and growth. This is a national economic plan which drives...
- Budget (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the budget—a budget that promised so much but delivered so little for working Australians. The budget cut $1.2 billion from infrastructure, delivered zero for the...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
Multinationals need to pay their fair share of tax. The new diverted profit tax announced last night will make sure large multinationals are paying the tax they should on profits made in...
- Shadow Ministerial Arrangements (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
For the information of the House, I present a revised list of the shadow ministry. In addition to his responsibilities as shadow minister for communications, the member for Blaxland will be the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Housing Affordability (5 speeches)
My question is the Prime Minister. On ABC radio this morning when Jon Faine told the Prime Minister his children were locked out of the housing market the Prime Minister replied, and I quote:...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on how the government's economic plan is driving jobs and growth to secure a strong economic future for all...
- Housing Affordability (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that in the past two weeks his advice to young Australians struggling to buy their first home was to have rich parents or to...
- Budget (2 speeches, 1 comment)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister outline to the House the importance to jobs and growth of a strong and successful small-business sector in Australia? What incentives...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the Hon. Bruce Baird AM, the former member for Cook. We welcome you back to the House. Also is present my friend Mr Peter...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (14 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How can the Prime Minister justify giving someone earning $1 million a tax cut of nearly $17,000 every single year, confirmed in last night's budget?
- Asylum Seekers (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. With two refugees setting themselves on fire after being sent to offshore detention camps, will you finally accept the...
- Budget (16 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on how the Turnbull government's economic plan for jobs and growth ensures Australia continues to successfully transition from...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I would like to inform members that we have present in the gallery this afternoon an APEC delegation from Japan. On behalf the House, I extend to you a very warm welcome. Honourable members:...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Defence Procurement (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science. Will the minister advise the House how the Turnbull government's Defence plan for local high-tech manufacturing will improve...
- Budget (3 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Treasurer, the 10-year corporate tax cut plan was your self-described centrepiece of last night's budget. Is the Treasurer seriously telling the House that he did...
- Trade (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Will the minister advise the House how the government's economic diplomacy strategy is helping Australian businesses access new export...
- Budget (36 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Why is the Prime Minister cutting $4,463 every year from a single working mum with two kids in high school on $87,000 a year while he is giving someone...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 29 of 2015-16 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Performance Audit Report No. 29 of 2015-16, entitled Implementing the deregulation agenda: cutting red tapeacross entities. Ordered that the report be made a...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Economy (33 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for McMahon proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The failure of the...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before notice No. 3, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Privileges and Members' Interests Committee (1 speech)
I move: That this House, for the purposes of considering the notice given by the Member for McMillan in relation to the report of the Committee of Privileges and Members’ Interests into...
- Privileges and Members' Interests Committee; Report (3 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) agrees with the recommendation of the report of the Committee of Privileges and Members’ Interests presented on 17 March 2016 about whether the former member...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (14 speeches)
Today's address-in-reply is my last opportunity to speak to the parliament and say a few words of thanks. When I was first elected in October 1998, Oxley was a very different place and I was a...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Infrastructure (4 speeches)
What a class act the member for Maranoa is. From all of us on the Labor side, we wish him all the very best in his retirement, and we wish his family well too. The member for Maranoa is a...
- Same, Mr Saul, AM (1 speech)
I stand today to speak of the recent passing of Saul Same AM. Saul Same was a tremendously talented businessman and a magnificent philanthropist. I am proud to have been one of his multitude of...
- Retiring Politicians (1 speech, 1 comment)
This evening I rise briefly to pay tribute to former frontbenchers in the Abbott government who have retired or are retiring. Obviously, we heard today valedictory speeches from the members for...
- Defence Procurement (1 speech)
Labor, of course, has announced through our shadow defence spokesman, Stephen Conroy, that we have no particular preference as to which company or country should be selected for the submarine...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Serana (WA) Pty Ltd (1 speech)
More than 18 months ago I raised the case of the innovative biotech company, Serana Pty Ltd, which was being hounded out of business by the highly dubious actions of the federal department of...
- Budget (1 speech)
Today I rise to speak about the 2016 budget delivered last night, which depicted the Turnbull government's economic plan to ensure Australia continues to successfully transition from the mining...
- Fowler Electorate: Vietnamese Community in Australia (1 speech)
Last Saturday, 30 April, I, together with many hundreds of Australian Vietnamese people, attended the Australian War Memorial to commemorate the 41st anniversary of the fall of Saigon. Of the...
- Banks Electorate (1 speech)
I was shocked and saddened to hear about the fire that broke out in the Macedonian Orthodox Church of the Resurrection in Rockdale earlier this week. The fire occurred at Orthodox Easter, which...
- Blaxland Electorate: Mr Jack Bedford OAM (1 speech)
A couple of years ago on my wedding anniversary the phone rang, and I gave the phone to my wife, Louise, to answer. On the other end of the line was my mate, Jack. When she answered the phone he...
- Automotive Industry (1 speech)
The Motor Trade Association of Western Australia through its Chief Executive Officer, Mr Stephen Moir, has made representations on behalf of automotive dealerships, particularly local businesses...
- Budget (1 speech)
In footballing terms, if the 2014 federal budget was the Freemantle budget, a case of the minor premiers crash landing in spectacular fashion in the year after, last night was the Richmond of...
- Bennelong Electorate: Budget (1 speech)
It gives me great pleasure to stand up in this parliament the morning after our nation's Treasurer delivered a deeply considerate, responsible and fair budget. The Treasurer deserves great praise...
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1 speech)
The CSIRO is one of Australia's most respected institutions. Since its establishment 100 years ago in 1916, the CSIRO has been responsible for countless discoveries that have benefited our great...
- Flynn Electorate: Carbon Pricing (2 speeches)
I rise to speak about some of the measures we need in order to keep our economy strong. Jobs are incredibly important throughout the country, and nowhere more so than in my electorate of Flynn....
- Grayndler Electorate: WestConnex Project (1 speech)
Last Saturday, I attended a public meeting in Rozelle, following an invitation by a member of the Annandale WestConnex Action Group who came to one of the street meetings that I regularly hold on...
- Leichhardt Electorate: Mr Barry Wilson (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate Barry Wilson of Cairns Glass & Glazing, who has become the first glazier in Australia to receive a master glazier certification. This is a major step for the...
- Shortland Electorate: Stronger Communities Program (1 speech)
The second round of the Stronger Community Program grants has closed. In Shortland electorate, we have some fantastic applications that have been put in for grants between $5,000 and $20,000, and...
- Bradfield Electorate: The Novus Foundation (1 speech)
I am very pleased to rise to speak about The Novus Foundation, which this weekend is hosting the Novus gala dinner to support many worthwhile causes in the electorate of Bradfield and causes...
- Holt Electorate: Budget (1 speech)
We are coming to the end of the 44th Parliament, and we have just had budget night and listened very closely to what the Treasurer had to say. But there was one thing that the Treasurer did not...
- Solomon Electorate (1 speech)
I rise reflecting on my favourite paper, the Northern Territory News and their fair go campaign where they made a very strong case for a fair go by government for regional Australia. They looked...
- Budget (2 speeches)
I rise today to make some comments about last night's incredibly disappointing budget. The core of this budget will have an enormous impact on the electorate of Lalor. People are waking up this...
- Ipswich Motorway (1 speech)
The Ipswich Motorway linking Ipswich to Brisbane is a vital piece of infrastructure in South East Queensland. When last in government, the Labor government invested $2.8 billion to upgrade from...
- Budget (3 speeches)
I rise to talk about a few quick points in relation to last night's budget. The federal budget is a plan for jobs and growth. It is part of our new strong economy for more jobs and growth, and as...
- Building and Construction Industry (1 speech)
A few weeks ago there was a big protest in Melbourne followed by a protest in Bendigo. It was in relation to the Lend Lease building of the new Bendigo hospital, which is a $630 million...
- Dobell Electorate: Central Coast Country Music Association (1 speech)
I often share with the House many outstanding organisations and associations on the Central Coast of New South Wales. It is a pleasure to highlight another, which is a bit of a hidden treasure on...
- Greenway Electorate: Defibrillators at Sporting Venues (1 speech)
I am delighted to report to the House on another successful partnership that I have been able to deliver in conjunction with Blacktown City Council and one that has attracted widespread support...
- Valedictory, Budget (1 speech)
It gives me great pleasure to rise. It may be the last time I get an opportunity in this parliament—who knows? Ultimately, that is a decision for the Prime Minister. I just wanted to say...
- Budget (9 speeches)
Last night the Treasurer delivered the Turnbull budget, which purported to be a plan for jobs and growth but is really a plan for cuts and unfairness. It delivers tax cuts for the banks and...
- Education Funding (1 speech)
We have had a lot of talk in this country about an ideas boom, but how do you have an ideas boom if you are a dud on school funding? In last night's federal budget, Malcolm Turnbull committed to...
- Budget (1 speech)
Last night, we saw the Treasurer deliver the 2016 budget for more jobs and growth. The 2016 budget is an economic plan for Australia, for a strong new transitioning economy, again with more jobs...
- Rolfe, Brigadier Bill, AO (1 speech)
I rise today to mourn the passing of a very great Australian, Bill Rolfe. Bill Rolfe was an Army officer who stepped on a mine in Vietnam and lost both his legs. When he returned to Australia he...
- Budget (2 speeches)
It is my great pleasure to rise to speak about our budget, which delivers our national economic plan for jobs and growth. There is some great news in the budget this year for Corangamite...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That the Federation Chamber do now adjourn. Question agreed to. Federation Chamber adjourned at 11:02.
