House debates
Thursday, 25 November 2021
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Religious Discrimination Bill 2021; Second Reading (1 speech)
I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Our antidiscrimination laws play an essential role in protecting the liberty of our citizens, each as individual human beings. Today, we fix an...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (48 speeches)
I seek leave to move the following motion: (1) the private members' business order of the day relating to the Australian Federal Integrity Commission Bill 2021 standing in the name of the member...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Communications and the Arts Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts, I present a corrigendum to the committee's report entitled Sculpting a national cultural plan: Igniting a post-COVID economy...
- Intelligence and Security Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, I present the committee's report entitled Reviews of Administration and Expenditure: No. 18 (2018-2019) andNo. 19...
- Health, Aged Care and Sport Committee; Report (5 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport, I present the committee's report entitled The new frontierdelivering better health for all Australians: inquiry into approval...
- Health, Aged Care and Sport Committee; Reference to Federation Chamber (1 speech)
I move: That the order of the day be referred to the Federation Chamber for debate. Question agreed to.
- Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, I present the committee's report entitled Inquiry into the Department of Defence annual report 2019-20. Report...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Investment (4 speeches)
by leave—I stand to present the government's annual investment statement. The government first committed to deliver this annual statement in 2013. At the same time, it created the first...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
While many of us were safe and warm at home last night, a shocking number of Australian women weren't. Women and children fleeing violence are being turned away from shelters across our nation....
- Cowper Electorate: King Tide Brewpub (1 speech)
Most of us love a beer, and there's nothing better than a local beer. I'm pleased to say that last Friday the King Tide Brewpub, Coffs Harbour's first-ever pub brewery, swung its doors open....
- El Halabi, Mr Mohammad (1 speech)
I draw the House's attention, and in particular the government's attention, to the plight of Mohammad El Halabi, who, for over five years, has languished in an Israeli jail. Mohammad is the...
- Renewable Energy (1 speech)
Last Friday I had the pleasure of representing the Australian government at Lake Cargelligo, in my electorate, to announce $9.8 million towards a $20 million project to produce hydrogen from...
- Macintyre, Prof. Stuart (1 speech)
I rise to mourn the passing of Professor Stuart Macintyre on 22 November and to recognise his contribution to the discipline of history and to this country. I was privileged to have him mark my...
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1 speech)
[by video link] News of the defamation decision in favour of the member for Dickson yesterday reminds us that, while there'll always be worms and grubs in public debate, we're seeing a return to...
- Petition: Cystic Fibrosis (1 speech)
I table a petition regarding the use of Trikafta as a cystic fibrosis treatment. The petition read as follows— Trikafta is a transformative medicine that can change the lives of 90% of...
- Nicholls Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
As the proud member for Nicholls in this government, I rise to bring to the House's attention some of the work that the government has recently been delivering for the people of Nicholls. Last...
- Immigration Detention (1 speech)
It is costing the Australian taxpayer more than $350,000 per month to hold a single refugee in immigration detention on Nauru. That's right—$350,000 per month, nearly $4.3 million per year,...
- Wilson, Mr Alan (1 speech)
I recently travelled to Lakeland, located a few hundred kilometres north-west of Cairns, for the official opening of a new sporting oval and facilities. This wasn't just another sporting field or...
- Davidson, Mr Alan Keith AM MBE (1 speech)
The Central Coast is mourning the loss of its famous sporting son, cricketer Alan Davidson, who died surrounded by family on 30 October, age 92. Alan was born in Lisarow in 1929 and grew up on...
- Coombes, Mr Geoff OAM (1 speech)
I rise is to give my congratulations to Geoff Coombes of Frenchs Forrest, who was recently awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia. Mr Coombes is a co-founder of the charity Tour de Cure and...
- Cowan Electorate (1 speech)
This morning I got an email from Steve in Cowan, informing me that, during a live teleconference with the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister referred to the member for Stirling as the member for...
- Boothby Electorate: Repat Veteran Wellbeing Centre (1 speech)
Looking after our Defence Force veterans is one of the most important tasks we have as a nation, and that is exactly what we are doing at the brand-new veterans wellbeing centre located within...
- Senior Australians (1 speech)
Recently I received an email from Michael in Seaford, who asked me to 'encourage the government to think more APPROPRIATELY'—in capital letters—'about aged persons'. So I'm here to...
- North Sydney Electorate: Christmas (1 speech)
Well, ho, ho, ho! Christmas lights are beginning to coruscate in the streets of North Sydney as residents prepare to embrace this upcoming Christmas season. Adding to the joyous Christmas spirit,...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
There are lots of moments this week that are in competition for the top 10 terrible moments of this government, but one that is definitely on the list involved the Minister representing the...
- Curtin Electorate: Remembrance Day (1 speech)
As part of their education on the Great War, students from Freshwater Bay Primary School recently marked the unmarked graves of fallen soldiers at Karrakatta Cemetery. These soldiers have been...
- Commonwealth Integrity Commission (1 speech)
In the Americas it's Thanksgiving today and, as you'd know, it's practice over there to pardon a turkey. That's good for the turkeys because nobody is going to pardon any of this mob over here...
- Mobile Black Spot Program (1 speech)
With apologies to the late, great Geoff Mack, and to the member for Parkes, a country and western aficionado beside me: I was humpin' my bluey on the upgraded Newell Highway When along came a...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Today a majority of the House voted against the Prime Minister not once but twice. Hasn't the Prime Minister lost control of the House, lost control of his...
- COVID-19: Economy (2 speeches)
ND () (): My question is to the Prime Minister. Australia has fared better through the pandemic than virtually all advanced economies, and, as our recovery progresses, we are faced with the...
- Commonwealth Integrity Commission (4 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. A majority of Australians and a majority of their representatives in this House of Representatives want an anticorruption commission now. Why has the...
- Infr (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Our government is rebuilding this nation. Whether it's in our most heavily populated cities or in remote corners of the country, we are delivering the...
- Commonwealth Integrity Commission (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In December 2018 the Prime Minister stood next to the member for Pearce and announced he would deliver a national integrity commission. But, more than a...
- Veterans (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, in 2019 you explicitly stated that the TPI Federation had a compelling case to restore the eroded compensation of Australia's 28,000 totally...
- Taxation (5 speeches)
My question is to our Treasurer. How is the Morrison government's well-established record of providing tax incentives and tax cuts to small family businesses, especially in my electorate of Reid,...
- Commonwealth Integrity Commission (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the reason the Prime Minister is blocking an anticorruption commission to avoid scrutiny of the forging of documents to discredit the lord mayor of...
- Taxation (5 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer remind the House how the Morrison government's tax-cutting agenda will abolish an entire personal income tax bracket and how it has ensured...
- Morrison Government (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that this week five government senators voted for a One Nation bill on vaccines, one government member crossed the floor last...
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is delivering the secure, affordable, reliable...
- Prime Minister (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm this week that he has been forced to correct himself twice over the Hawaiian holiday he took while Australia burned, denied...
- Housing Affordability (6 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer, Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness, Social and Community Housing. Will the minister please update the House on how the Morrison...
- Morrison Government: Research and Development (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister says he cares about university research, but he abandoned universities during COVID, leading to 40,000 job losses, including 7,000...
- National Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister please update the House on how the Morrison government is ensuring our intelligence and law enforcement agencies have the...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (8 speeches)
Thanks, Mr Speaker, and congratulations on your election. My question is to the Prime Minister. Eligibility for the National Disability Insurance Scheme requires that a person have a profound and...
- Small Business (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is acting to strengthen Australian...
- Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The report of the Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces by the Australian Human Rights Commission is due next week. To ensure that...
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for the Environment, representing the Minister for Women. As today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, will the minister advise the...
- Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces (3 speeches)
My question is again to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Jenkins Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces by the Australian Human Rights Commission. Isn't it the case,...
- Veterans (3 speeches)
I ask the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel if he would update the House on how the Morrison government is ensuring that Australian veterans continue to receive...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (1 speech)
Before honourable members leave the chamber, there are a number of matters I'd like to raise. I won't keep the House too long. The first matter is in relation to the suspension motion that was...
- Privilege (0 speeches)
- Member for Pearce (1 speech)
I have another matter, and that is in relation to the matter of privilege that was raised by the Manager of Opposition Business on Tuesday. The Manager of Opposition Business raised as a matter...
- 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.
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 10 of 2021-22 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's performance audit report No. 10 of 2021-22, entitled Administration of the research and development tax incentive: Industry Innovation and Science Australia;...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Morrison Government (16 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable the Leader of the Opposition proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The Government...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Fraser Electorate: Schools, Trade Unions (1 speech)
As 2021 draws to a close, I want to acknowledge the school leaders, teachers, students and their families across Fraser. Fraser's school communities have worked so hard to keep our young people...
- Agriculture Industry (1 speech)
I have to say, I farmed for 35 years. It's always challenging, and this year is proving absolutely no different. In my state and in my electorate after a wonderful start to the season, where, in...
- Morrison Government (4 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I congratulate you on your election as Speaker.
- Bennelong Electorate (3 speeches)
Thank you, Mr Speaker. Congratulations on obtaining this high office. I'm sure you will do this place proud.
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (4 speeches)
Mr Speaker, could I start by congratulating you on this elevation. To be a good Speaker requires intelligence and integrity, and you have both of those in spades, so I wish you all the best.
- Parsons, Mr Don (3 speeches)
Thank you very much, Mr Speaker, and congratulations on your election; a tribute to you. I know, as the former Speaker, just how diligent you were in following the procedures and processes of the...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1 speech)
If there's one thing that sums up the ABC to me, it's the Andrew Olle 'Mm.' I remember in my childhood listening to Andrew Olle doing interviews with political figures on both sides and he had an...
- Partington, Mr Jason (1 speech)
I'm glad we clarified what a conservative is. This October marks National Mental Health Month with the campaign being of particular importance during a pandemic which has placed a significant...
- International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (1 speech)
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Right across the world, one in three women will have experienced abuse in their lifetime: one in three. That figure...
- National Water Safety Day, Curtin Electorate: Trigg Island Surf Life Saving Club (1 speech)
National Water Safety Day is on 1 December. This year the day will once again be focusing on championing water safety. The highest number of drowning deaths happen in the summer. Last year 34 per...
- Morrison Government (1 speech)
Make yourself comfy, Madam Deputy Speaker, because I'd like to tell you a story. It's a story about what I'm hearing around my electorate. At only 109 square kilometres, Moreton isn't a large...
- Youthsafe (1 speech)
A few years ago I was contacted by a local charity called Youthsafe. They do good work in the community to prevent unintended injury to young people. They take a holistic and wideranging view of...
- Housing Affordability (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about the crushing crisis of housing affordability and how this government has fallen asleep at the wheel while allowing young Australians to be completely priced out of the...
- Higgins Electorate: Higgins Medal (1 speech)
Each year, the Higgins Medal award gets bigger and better and continues to showcase the amazing, talented and diverse group of students attending our local schools. It recognises the...
- Tweedale, Mr Eric, Parramatta Mission (1 speech)
I want to talk about two very important milestones in my community in 2021: a man who made it through his first century and is embarking on his second and a local organisation that's joining the...
- Abedian, Mr Soheil (1 speech)
LL () (): Born in 1949 in Persia, the Gold Coast's very own shining star is who I would like to speak about today. He came from nothing—a familiar story on the Gold Coast, where the...
- Barker Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
My electorate of Barker spans 64,000 square kilometres and sits between the Adelaide Hills and the eastern states. There are four highways that connect Adelaide to the eastern states and...
- COVID-19: South Australia (1 speech)
I rise to speak on behalf of the many South Australians who were left waiting for months and months without an answer from the state government, the Marshall government, about whether they could...
- Longman Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
Because of the pandemic, the past year has been challenging for many Australians across the country. But I'm not wavering when it comes for the people of Longman or my vision to make the...
- International Students (1 speech)
In Darwin and my electorate of Palmerston in the Northern Territory, there is an incredibly diverse community of Australians, international students and workers from the Pacific who are picking...
- Forbes: Floods (1 speech)
In the worst of times we see the best of Australians, particularly regional Australians, and we have definitely seen that in recent days in and around Forbes. That town on the Lachlan River has...
- Prime Minister (3 speeches)
I'll just say at the outset I do accept that you can't call the Prime Minister a liar. That's unparliamentary, and so I won't do that.
- Covid-19: Vaccination, Bowman Electorate: Homelessness (1 speech)
[by video link] I rise today to speak about vaccine mandates. We know how important vaccination is, and Australia is now one of the most vaccinated countries in the world. But I've always argued...
- Bendigo Electorate: Sports Funding (1 speech)
The cricket season is upon us and, as men and women across my electorate start to gather together and train, I would like to encourage all of our women's teams this year. I was proud to create...
- Gryst, Mr Neil (2 speeches)
As members of federal parliament we all have the great privilege of meeting incredible members of our local communities, great Australians who do so much for their community. The role of...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That consideration of general business order of the day No. 1, committee and delegation business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Gilmore Electorate: Renewable Energy (1 speech)
It is perfectly clear to me that the only way to achieve satisfactory action on climate change is to change the government. Moving away from the dependency upon fossil fuels requires an actual...
- Covid-19: Vaccination (1 speech)
Once again, we've seen the Queensland health minister, Queensland's Darth Vader, make an attempt from the dark side to send out into orbit the space junk that the state government has created...
- Higher Education (1 speech)
I want to speak today about higher education. I noticed that the Prime Minister made an announcement yesterday about higher education and research funding for a number of universities yet to be...
- Manufacturing (2 speeches)
I rise today to recognise our local Aussie manufacturers. Whilst out of my electorate of Bonner this month, I visited some of these homegrown manufacturers to see for myself the incredible...
- Victoria: COVID-19 (1 speech)
BROADBENT () (): Today the Prime Minister introduced the Religious Discrimination Bill. In doing so, he talked about all the good reasons why we as a nation must say no to discrimination in all...
