House debates
Thursday, 1 December 2016
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Zone (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I move: That, in accordance with section 5 of the Parliament Act 1974, the House approves the following proposal for work in the Parliamentary Zone which was presented to the House on 30 November...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Privileges and Members' Interests Committee; Report (3 speeches)
I move: That: (1) the House: (a) agree with the recommendation of the report of the Committee of Privileges and Members’ Interests, presented to the House on 28 November 2016, in relation...
- Register of Members' Interests (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
As required by resolutions of the House, I table copies of notifications of alterations of interests received during the period 27 September 2016 to 29 November 2016.
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Taxation (14 speeches)
I seek leave to move the following motion: That the House: (1) notes that: (a) in the Budget, the Government blindsided rural and regional Australia with an internationally uncompetitive 32.5 per...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Valedictory (4 speeches, 1 comment)
I rise on behalf of the government to bid farewell to the parliament for another year. As the parliamentary year—and, indeed, 2016—draws to a close, it is important that we come...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Committee; Reference (1 speech)
I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, the following proposed work be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works for...
- Membership (1 speech)
I have received two messages from the Senate informing the House of the appointment of senators to certain joint committees. As the list of appointments is a lengthy one, I do not propose to read...
- Publications Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the report of the Publications Committee sitting in conference with the Publications Committee of the Senate. Copies of the report are being placed on the table. Report—by...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Gastroparesis (1 speech)
Today I would like to bring to the attention of the House a little-known disease afflicting some people in our communities. This condition is gastroparesis. One of my constituents, Denis Turner,...
- Perth Airport (1 speech)
Western Australia has a game-changing opportunity with the potential of nonstop direct flights between Perth and London or Europe. We must make sure this opportunity is not lost. Do not...
- Lalor Electorate (1 speech)
I wish to speak to the people of the vibrant electorate of Lalor today: to those who are feeling the effects of the service cuts being implemented and driven by this chaotic, divided and divisive...
- Flynn Electorate: Christmas (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to wish a very Merry Christmas to the electorate of Flynn and to my parliamentary colleagues in this House. This time of the year always leads to reflection...
- Mayo Electorate: Christmas (1 speech)
Like many in this chamber, I am counting the hours until I can head home, because Christmas has arrived in my community. There are so many carol nights, concerts, pageants and festivals it would...
- Bethesda Lutheran Church Beenleigh (1 speech)
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Bethesda Lutheran Church in Beenleigh on celebrating, over the weekend, the 150th anniversary of the first Lutheran divine service in the...
- Nixon, Mr John 'Curly' (1 speech)
Today I would like to take the opportunity to celebrate the life of John 'Curly' Nixon, a Northern Territory resident who is gravely ill. Curly is an iconic figure in the history of Labor...
- Valedictory (1 speech)
On the last sitting day for 2016, I extend to my electors my best wishes for a merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year. I also thank my staff for their work this year. Barbara Morris,...
- Shipping (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the regulation which I proposed last week in this parliament about dangerous air pollution coming from cruise ships at White Bay. The regulation will now be implemented as a...
- Durack Electorate: Melissa Price Mid West Basketball Competition (1 speech)
The 2016-17 Melissa Price Mid West Basketball Competition tipped off last month in stellar fashion. Teams from right across the Mid West from towns such as Mount Magnet, Morawa, Mullewa and...
- Canberra Electorate (1 speech)
On this last day of parliament I want to take this opportunity to thank the many people who have helped me be standing here today. There are many in my team, there are many across Canberra, there...
- Grey Electorate: Arrium (1 speech)
I am pleased to come into the parliament today to speak about the direct impact that federal government assistance is having on Whyalla steelmaker Arrium in my electorate. I am pleased to advise...
- Volunteers (1 speech)
Today is the first day of summer, and over the course of summer millions of Australians will flock to our beaches and enjoy our nation's natural beauty. But the Australian summer brings...
- Fuel Prices (1 speech)
I am angry, and that does not happen often. It is about my local fuel prices, and many of my Gilmore residents are angry too. Peter says: Once again Nowra is stuck in the high price cycle for...
- Solomon Electorate (1 speech)
I am very proud to have been elected as the member for Solomon, and I thank my team, I thank my colleagues and I thank Territory Labor. But, most of all, I thank the constituents of Solomon who...
- East West Link (1 speech)
Another year draws to a close, and traffic in Melbourne is worse than ever before. Thanks to the reckless decision of Daniel Andrews and Bill Shorten 18 months ago to cancel the contracts for the...
- Franklin Electorate: Housing (1 speech)
'Our whole lives are on this street,' is what Margaret, Kevin, Craig and Janet told me about their home in Warrane, in my electorate. Earlier this year they had been told by the state Liberal...
- Turnbull Government (1 speech)
This chamber sometimes feels like a bit of a footy field, where the grandstand for the losing team seems to get louder and louder by the day. This often happens in footy games, when the...
- Sciacca, Hon. Con, AO (1 speech)
Before the parliament rises, I want to say a few words about my friend Con Sciacca. Con is a much-loved member of our Labor family—a mentor, a friend, a source of wise and fearless counsel...
- Walker Seafoods Australia (2 speeches)
Today I want to pay tribute to Pavo and Heidi Walker from Walker Seafoods Australia. Pavo and Heidi operate their Queensland tuna-fishing business of four vessels, 39 crew and a shore based...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Working Holiday Maker Program (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Today the President of the National Farmers Federation has called on the government to adopt Labor's position on the backpacker tax, stating: 'Do the deal...
- Turnbull Government (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister update the House on the government's achievements? How are those achievements, including reinstating the Australian Building and...
- Working Holiday Maker Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. On the backpacker tax, the Prime Minister has gone from zero per cent to 32½ per cent, then to 19 per cent, then threatened 32½ per cent again,...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
Before I call the member for Maranoa, it is fitting that I inform the House we have present on the floor of the chamber the former member for Maranoa and former Deputy Speaker, the Hon. Bruce...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Agriculture Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. Will the Deputy Prime Minister explain to the House how the government's achievements support the...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I would like to inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon the former member for Hinkler, Mr Paul Neville, and the former member for Gilmore, Jo Gash. Welcome back to you...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Working Holiday Maker Program (6 speeches)
) ( ): My question is to the Treasurer. Last week, the Treasurer declared that there was no room for compromise on a backpacker tax of 19 per cent. Today, the Treasurer shouted that 15 per cent...
- Biofuels (2 speeches)
My question is to the . Frydenbergs are known for integrity, honour and incorruptibility. Assure us that you will not follow your predecessors' path to perdition. Minister Anderson rejects...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- (1 speech)
I inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon, in the front row, the three winners of the My First Speech competition. On behalf of the House we extend a very warm welcome...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer update the House on Australia's progress in reducing the deficit, arresting debt and protecting Australia's AAA credit rating? How does a...
- Working Holiday Maker Program (6 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Is it seriously the government's position that it would rather inflict a 32.5 per cent tax on rural and regional Australia than accept Labor's...
- Workplace Relations (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry representing the Minister for Employment. Will the minister outline how industrial relations reform will help restore the rule of law on...
- Working Holiday Maker Program (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister seriously going to let the parliament rise for the year without fixing the mess of the backpacker tax?
- Skilled Migration Program (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Will the minister update the House on the importance of ensuring the effective management of the 457 visa program and on how...
- Working Holiday Maker Program (22 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's previous answer. Is the Prime Minister saying that the following words were not said by the president of the NFF on Sky News...
- Trade with Korea (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment. Will the minister update the House on how the Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement is giving new export opportunities for...
- Working Holiday Maker Program (15 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Since being elected Prime Minister, the Prime Minister has been willing to back down on everything that he has ever believed in. Why won't he back down on...
- South Australia: Electricity Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Energy. I know the minister is aware that South Australians have the most expensive and unreliable electricity grid in the nation and last...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Counter-Terrorism. Will the minister update the House on the government's efforts to keep Australians safe from the threat of terrorism?
- Working Holiday Maker Program (16 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer, and I refer to the Treasurer's claim in question time that a 32½ per cent backpacker tax was introduced in the 2012 budget. If that is true, why was no...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Working Holiday Maker Program (9 speeches)
I seek leave to move the following motion: That the House: (1) Notes that on the backpacker tax the Prime Minister has: (a) gone from zero per cent to 32.5 per cent; (b)...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Government Response (1 speech)
For the information of honourable members, I present a schedule of outstanding government responses to reports of House of Representatives and joint committees, incorporating reports tabled and...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
Documents are tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Full details of the documents will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Business (0 speeches)
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
I move: That leave of absence be given to every Member of the House of Representatives from the determination of this sitting of the House to the date of its next sitting. Question agreed to.
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Parliament House: Security (5 speeches)
I wish to update the House following yesterday's events when question time was interrupted by a group of protesters in the public gallery. I made the decision to suspend proceedings yesterday as...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Turnbull Government (7 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable Leader of the Opposition proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government's year...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (5 speeches)
I move: That the business of the day be called on.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (12 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the resumption of debate on the motion that the bill be read a second time being made an order of the day for a later hour.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Resolutions of the Senate (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- WEstjustice (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge the great work done by WEstjustice in my electorate. WEstjustice is a group of community legal centres that provides free legal help to people in the western suburbs...
- Fadden Electorate (1 speech)
It is a wonderful time of year, the end of the year: a time to reflect on how things have gone in our respective communities, and on the Gold Coast, I think, we can look back with considerable...
- Turnbull Government (2 speeches)
I rise in this place to tell you a tale of desperation, devastation, corruption and endless fail. For it was the sitting before Christmas where not a member of government was stirring, not even a...
- Moncrieff Electorate: Criminal Motorcycle Gangs (1 speech)
I rise to talk about the very serious issue which now confronts the Gold Coast following the very myopic decision of the Queensland state Labor government to, in many respects, water...
- Burge-Lopez, Mr Daryl, Dawson, Mr David (1 speech)
I rise today to pay tribute to Barton's much-loved odd couple, Daryl Burge-Lopez and David Dawson. Both are incredible assets for Labor and for the broader community, and they are almost...
- Gilmore Electorate: Your Gilmore Opinion Network, International Day of People with Disability (1 speech)
We have all heard of Y gen., a name for a particular generation, but today I am giving an introduction to YGON. It stands for Your Gilmore Opinion Network. It is a plan for community members to...
- Petition: Mobile Black Spot Program (4 speeches)
I rise today to table a petition regarding mobile blackspots in Haynes and Hilbert, in my electorate, which has been found to be in order by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on...
- McPherson Electorate: Vocational Education and Training (1 speech)
I would like to bring to the attention of the House a very important initiative in my electorate and throughout the Gold Coast that is putting young people on the road to a rewarding job and...
- Sanderson, the Hon. Amber-Jade MLC (2 speeches)
It is with great pleasure that I rise this morning to pay tribute to my incredibly hardworking colleague and friend, Amber-Jade Sanderson, who is a member of the Legislative Council for the East...
- New Colombo Plan (1 speech)
Earlier this week, I had the great pleasure of attending the New Colombo Plan Scholarship 2017 presentation dinner here at Parliament House. The New Colombo Plan is a signature initiative of the...
- Oxley Electorate: Ipswich Motorway (1 speech)
The Ipswich Motorway is a vital link supporting the Queensland economy. It forms part of the national land freight network providing connectivity for industry to the Acacia Ridge intermodal...
- Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about Western and south-western Sydney. Whichever way you look at it, this region is becoming a city in its own right. There are about two million people living west...
- Mayo Electorate: Community Service Awards (1 speech)
My electorate office staff have been fortunate enough to present the Mayo Community Service Awards at local schools in my terrific electorate in the last two weeks while I have been in this...
- Brisbane Electorate: Australian Defence Force (1 speech)
I wish to say something about the importance of the defence industries in Brisbane. The coalition government remains committed to not only a strong Defence Force in the interest of service...
- Lemarseny, Mr John, Lemarseny, Mrs Margaret (1 speech)
I wish to pay tribute to two giants of the Coogee community and surf life saving, John and Margaret Lemarseny, who passed away recently. John 'Lemo' Lemarseny showed a keen interest in surfboard...
- Martin, Mr Harold (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge a living legend of my electorate of O'Connor—World War II veteran Harold Martin, who is soon to turn 100. Harold Martin was a prisoner of war during World War...
- Solomon Electorate: Working Holiday Maker Program (1 speech)
I want to use my constituency statement to talk about the damage that has been done by the backpacker tax in the Northern Territory, where I am from. I have been representing the constituents who...
- Wilmar Sugar Australia Ltd (1 speech)
I rise today to remind the House that there is a serious issue, as yet unresolved, facing local sugarcane growers in my electorate of Capricornia. I refer to a David and Goliath battle: a long,...
- Australian Health Humanitarian Aid (1 speech)
As John Bunyan once said, 'You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.' These words certainly apply to a group in my community, the Australian...
- Goldstein Electorate (2 speeches)
Today I am very proud to launch the inaugural Goldstein Christmas giving appeal. This year we have partnered with Bayside Community Information & Support Service, which is an independent,...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Joint Standing Committee on Treaties; Report (3 speeches)
I am glad to have this opportunity to make some remarks about Report 165: Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties. I am a member of that committee and I am...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Longman Electorate: Morayfield Health Hub (1 speech, 3 comments)
Today, I rise to speak about an exciting new facility under construction in my electorate, the Morayfield Health Hub. This health hub concept is the brainchild of Health Development Corporation....
- Swan Electorate: City of Canning, Building and Construction Industry, Valedictory (1 speech)
Mr Deputy Speaker Hastie, I rise to speak in the adjournment debate. It is great to see another Western Australian in the chair. I just want to update the House on one of the local governments in...
- Department of Human Services (5 speeches)
One of the most important tasks performed by a local member is assisting constituents with Centrelink and Medicare matters. For many, these two services are the face of government; but cutbacks,...
- Banks Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
Recently I visited the REDsugar Arts Centre in Hurstville to present the Banks Outstanding Artistic Achievement Awards. A total of 26 awards were presented and it was a great afternoon to visit...
- Renewable Energy (1 speech)
I rise today to celebrate the fantastic end-of-year news that CSIRO has signed a lucrative international deal to license technology that was designed right here in Australia—indeed, in my...
- Petition: Child Labour (1 speech)
I present a petition from my electorate that has been before the Petitions Committee of the parliament. The petition read as follows— To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House...
- Health Care (1 speech)
I would like to raise the Baird government's announcement this month of the $550 million redevelopment of Nepean Hospital. This very significant announcement of huge capital works funding for one...
- Tasmania: Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
I would like to take this opportunity as we head into the holiday period to speak about the tourism industry in Tasmania and the hospitality workers that help make that happen. The tourism...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
We are getting a lot of Christmas wishes and a lot of valedictory speeches today in parliament. But what I want to put on the record in this debate is that for many Australian workers all they...
- Powell, Mr Kaiden, Page Electorate: Novaskill Awards, Whitton, Ms Karlee (1 speech)
Dedication, commitment and perseverance are fantastic attributes for any athlete. Most of us would agree that the top of the pinnacle is to represent Australia, and that is exactly what...
- Chifley Electorate: Midnight Basketball Mt Druitt Tournament (1 speech)
It gives me, truly and sincerely, great pleasure to talk about a terrific organisation that is now in its 10th season in my area, the Midnight Basketball Mt Druitt Tournament. The tournament is...
- International Day of People with Disability (1 speech)
I rise today to recognise the contribution that people with disability make to communities right across Australia. This Saturday 3 December is International Day of People With Disability. It is a...
