House debates
Thursday, 21 June 2018
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Taxation (13 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Manager of Opposition Business from moving the following motion immediately: That the House (1) notes...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- National Disability Insurance Scheme; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme, I present the committee's report, entitled The provision of hearing services under the National Disability...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Macquarie Electorate: Breast Cancer (1 speech)
As I speak, family and friends are celebrating the life of 27-year-old Jane Bryant, a nurse from the Blue Mountains who last week lost her battle against metastatic breast cancer, having made the...
- Hodder, Mr Tahj, Page Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours (1 speech)
Evans River K-12 School year 7 student Tahj Hodder has recently been selected to dance in the 2018 NSW Public Schools Aboriginal Dance Company. He attended a workshop in Lismore that was run by...
- Scully, Private William Jack (1 speech)
At the close of sittings today, I'll be attending a Last Post ceremony at the Australian War Memorial with Territorians Jack Nicholson and his granddaughter Christina, who are here with us in the...
- Hughes Electorate: Rural Fire Service (1 speech)
Over the past fortnight, I've had the great pleasure to visit many of the Rural Fire Service brigades around my electorate for their annual general meetings. I would like to congratulate all the...
- Cooper, Professor David, AC (1 speech)
On Thursday, I joined over a thousand people at a memorial service at the Sydney Town Hall celebrating the life and legacy of Professor David Cooper AC. David was an immunologist and a director...
- Bowman Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
After the Queensland budget last week, Redlands are the forgotten people. We're watching our state debt tick up to $83 billion and we're hearing promises of more bus and boat stops, but, in...
- Spain (1 speech)
I rise to express my concerns about aspects of the long-running political contest between unionists and separatists in the Spanish region of Catalonia. This is, of course, a complex debate around...
- Forrest Electorate: Australind (1 speech)
Australind is one of the fastest-thriving coastal communities in regional Australia. Boarded by the Brunswick and Collie rivers and Leschenault Estuary, in 1840, the West Australian Land Company...
- Immigration Detention (1 speech)
Ali—that's not his real name—is a 63-year-old man who has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. Doctors have told him he does not have long to live. That's a devastating diagnosis...
- Political Correctness (1 speech)
I rise to raise the issue of the moralistic persecution being committed across our society. This persecution is not being committed against people for their heritage or their age, nor for their...
- Esso (1 speech)
I rise to commend the 200 Esso Longford workers who have been locked out of their place of employment for 365 days. That's right: it is a year since the Esso Longford workers were originally...
- Berowra Electorate: Pie of Origin (1 speech)
While at this time of the year many Australians are focused on the annual New South Wales-Queensland grudge match known as the State of Origin, there's another important grudge match, which is...
- Esso (1 speech)
I also rise to talk about Esso's ugly dispute and what they're doing to 200 families in Gippsland. So far, these brave men and women have been out of work for 8,760 hours. Two hundred and thirty...
- Pie of Origin (1 speech)
On Sunday the second game in the battle between the cane toads and the cockroaches kicks off. But instead of telling you all how New South Wales is going to bite the dust, I need all the...
- Income Tax (1 speech)
Question time starts in 10 minutes, and I guarantee the epithet of class war will be thrown about an awful lot from the government. It is true that a class war is happening right now. It is a...
- Moore Electorate: Local Government Week (1 speech)
Earlier this week, I hosted visiting local government representatives from my electorate as part of national Local Government Week. From the City of Joondalup, Mayor Albert Jacob, Councillor Nige...
- ExxonMobil (1 speech)
Three hundred and sixty-five days ago, ExxonMobil's Longford maintenance workers were sacked by ExxonMobil and offered their jobs back with a significant pay cut. Esso, which is one of the...
- Schools (1 speech)
In this year's budget, we secured funding for the School Chaplaincy Program. It has been locked in and supported by all in this House. It is vital funding for vital, effective programs. However,...
- Income Tax (1 speech)
On Tuesday, we saw how this Prime Minister really looks at the world. He said that if a 60-year-old aged-care worker was wondering why she only gets $10 a week from this government, while an...
- Australian Labor Party (6 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I'm afraid that the Australian Labor Party has become morally bankrupt.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Income Tax (26 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. This week the Prime Minister told a 60-year-old aged-care worker in Burnie to get a better job. Is he aware that 65-year-old aged-care worker, Elaine Smith...
- Interstate Business (2 speeches)
My question is to the minister for small and family business. We know that red tape, inconsistent regulations and disparities across borders are severely limiting economic opportunity for...
- Income Tax (13 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. Will the Deputy Prime Minister update the House on how the government is securing a stronger and...
- Law Enforcement (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister outline what steps the government has taken to protect Australian families from dangerous non-citizens, including criminal gang...
- Income Tax (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How is it fair that this Prime Minister teamed up with One Nation to give themselves a $7,000 tax cut while giving a nurse in Caboolture a tax cut of only...
- Health Care (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister outline to the House how a stronger economy enables the government to deliver the essential health services Australians rely on and...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Health Care (2 speeches)
The Minister for Health has the call.
- Economy (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. By the time they are fully implemented, stage 3 of the government's personal income tax scheme and its big business handout will cost the budget at least $25...
- 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.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Income Tax (60 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Maribyrnong proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government looking...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Employment (1 speech)
Insecure work is a growing problem. Academics have written about it; economists have acknowledged it. Paper after paper that has been published on it has talked about the growing insecure work...
- Mallee Electorate: Redistribution (3 speeches)
I am quite pleased with the redistribution that has happened in Victoria in that I get to represent even more people across the great state of Victoria. Previously, the electorate of Mallee was...
- Marine Sanctuaries, Live Animal Exports (1 speech)
It's no secret that the Liberals have a shameful record when it comes to the environment. There's never been a critical watertable they wouldn't sell off, an endangered species they wouldn't...
- Robertson Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to some outstanding Central Coast locals who were included in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List. None of these people do the work they do for praise, recognition or...
- Richmond Electorate: Seniors Forum (1 speech)
Almost a quarter of people living in my electorate of Richmond are aged 65 years and over. Seniors are such an integral and vibrant part of our community, but they are being neglected by this...
- Income Tax (4 speeches)
It's a great privilege to be able to stand today to sum up what the week looked like. Earlier on in the day there was a Q&A that one of our little local papers, the Gatton Star, sent out to...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- FIFA World Cup (5 speeches)
I rise today to talk about the 2018 FIFA World Cup fever gripping the nation. I'm delighted that so many residents in Holt have been watching the games. The FIFA World Cup is an event that truly...
- Boothby Electorate: Queen's Birthday Honours (1 speech)
I would like to congratulate the Queen's Birthday honours recipients from my electorate of Boothby. As Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove says: The Australian honours system is a vital part of...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Cooper, Mr William (1 speech)
Yesterday, we were thrilled to hear that the Australian Electoral Commission announced that my seat of Batman will be renamed Cooper. This is indeed an honour. When I was elected I threw myself...
- O'Connor Electorate: Cashless Debit Card (1 speech)
I rise today to provide an update on the rollout of the cashless debit card trial across my electorate of O'Connor. While some of the local media and social media sites have focused on any...
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Special Broadcasting Corporation (1 speech)
We all remember the infamous words of the member for Warringah when he said, as opposition leader in 2013, 'No cuts to the ABC or SBS under a coalition government.' The member for Warringah made...
- Loganlea State High School: MultiLit (1 speech)
I thought the member for Wills was on such a roll he was going to use up the remaining 40-odd seconds of his time in defence of the— An honourable member: Efficiency. That's exactly what...
- Canberra Electorate: National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
My community was one of the first in Australia to experience the benefits, the value, of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, when the trial began here in 2013. Since then, the full scheme...
- Dividend Imputation (1 speech)
Today, I rise to defend the hardworking residents of Goldstein that have sacrificed and saved to be able to stand with dignity and purpose in their retiring years. That stands in direct contrast...
- Motor Neurone Disease (1 speech)
Along with many of my colleagues across the chamber today I'm wearing a blue flower. This signifies support for global motor neurone disease day, Blue Cornflower Day. We know the ravaging and...
- Queensland: Energy (1 speech)
I have been working with the community north of the Daintree River since I was elected in 1996 in an effort to bring them into the 20th and now 21st century. This is a very vibrant community of...
