House debates
Thursday, 31 March 2022
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Appropriations and Administration Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee of Appropriations and Administration, I present committee report No. 23, Budget estimates 2022-23. Report made a parliamentary paper in accordance with...
- Public Works Joint Committee; Approval of Work (1 speech)
On behalf of the Minister for the Public Service, I move: That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, it is expedient to carry out the following proposed work...
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Valedictory (8 speeches)
The American poet Robert Frost was renowned for his work The Road Not Taken, which centres on a choice between two paths. 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood', it begins, with the poet noting...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Petitions Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the 36th report of the Petitions Committee for the 46th Parliament, together with 59 petitions and 95 ministerial responses to petitions previously presented. As we approach the end of...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
I present the following petitions:
- Responses (1 speech)
I present the following ministerial responses to petitions previously presented:
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, I present the committee's report entitled Report 200: International Labour Organization protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention,...
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint Committee; Report (4 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, I present the report entitled Strengthening Australia's Relationships in the Pacific. Report made a parliamentary...
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint 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.
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint Committee; Report (5 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade, I present the committee's report, incorporating a dissenting report, entitled Inquiry into PFAS remediation in and...
- Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Joint 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.
- National Disability Insurance Scheme Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme, I present the following reports: General issues: Work of the committee in the 46th Parliament and Current...
- Health, Aged Care and Sport Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport, I present the committee's report entitled Inquiry into childhood rheumatic diseases: Interim report, together with the minutes...
- 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.
- Infrastructure, Transport and Cities Committee; Report (4 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Infrastructure, Transport and Cities, I present the committee's report entitled Government procurement: A sovereign security imperative, together with the...
- Infrastructure, Transport and Cities 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.
- Employment, Education and Training Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training, I present the report of the committee entitled Inquiry into the Fair Work Commission annual...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Regional Australia (4 speeches)
by leave—I present a copy of my ministerial statement. In 1835, the settlement of Melbourne started. In 1851, it had 23,000 people. Then came a mineral inspired growth: the gold rush....
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Law Enforcement Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity, I present committee's report entitled Examination of the annual report of the Integrity...
- Employment, Education and Training Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training, I present the following report entitled Don't take it as read: Inquiry into adult literacy and its importance, together...
- Indigenous Affairs Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Indigenous Affairs, I present the committee's report entitled Interim report on better corporate engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
- Indigenous Affairs 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.
- National Capital and External Territories Joint Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital and External Territories, I present two reports: Interim report: Inquiry into availability and access to enabling communications...
- National Capital and External Territories Joint Committee; Reference to Federation Chamber (2 speeches)
As my last act, I suspect, formally as a member of this parliament—and as a matter of great moment!—I move: That the orders of the day be referred to the Federation Chamber for...
- Tax and Revenue Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Tax and Revenue, I present the committee's report, incorporating a dissenting report, entitled The Australian dream: inquiry into housing affordability and...
- Tax and Revenue 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.
- Economics Committee; Report (2 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Economics, I present the following reports: Report on the implications of common ownership and capital concentration in Australia, incorporating a...
- Economics Committee; Reference to Federation Chamber (2 speeches)
I move: That the orders of the day be referred to the Federation Chamber for debate. Question agreed to.
- Corporations and Financial Services Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services I present the committee's report entitled Oversight of ASIC, the Takeovers Panel and the Corporations...
- Communications and the Arts Committee; Report (4 speeches)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts I present the report entitled The future of regional newspapers in a digital world: inquiry into Australia's regional...
- Communications and the Arts 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.
- Human Rights Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, I present the committee's report entitled Human rights scrutiny report: report 2 of 2022. Report made a parliamentary paper in...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Budget (1 speech)
After the last budget, I remember asking how a budget could be so devoid of vision. And here we are again. This government has handed down a budget—on the eve of an election, no...
- Ovarian Cancer (1 speech)
At the cost of $140,000 per course, the women of Wide Bay could not afford the ovarian cancer drug olaparib. Two years ago, the government put this drug on the PBS, potentially giving women with...
- Budget (1 speech)
This morning the Labor leader, Anthony Albanese, launched our ninth Labor women's budget statement. If ever you needed proof of the difference that national leadership makes, you need look no...
- Greek Independence Day: 201st Anniversary (1 speech)
As I drove up to parliament on Tuesday, it was fantastic to see the Greek flag flying high all along the road in celebration of the 201st anniversary of Greek independence. Australia has been...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
Through omicron, aged care has just experienced its worst crisis in living memory. How is it even imaginable that the federal budget on Tuesday night did not address this, that this federal...
- Budget (1 speech)
The Liberal government's plan for a stronger future is working. This year's budget will provide cost-of-living relief right now for thousands of families in my electorate of Reid. Over the past...
- Morrison Government (1 speech)
On Tuesday night the Treasurer delivered a political budget that was an act of political desperation in the final hour before an election, not a plan for the future of all Australians. If you...
- Budget (1 speech)
Cost-of-living pressures are impacting many households in my electorate of Longman due to the invasion of Ukraine and ongoing global supply-chain issues from COVID. I was pleased to see practical...
- Indi Electorate: Hospitals (1 speech)
Yesterday, for the second time this month, Albury Wodonga Health announced a code yellow, and today Northeast Health Wangaratta went code yellow too. It's a crisis. Right now on the border the...
- National Water Grid Advisory Body (1 speech)
The National Water Grid Advisory Body, headed by Chris Lynch, provided authoritative, balanced and timely advice. I want to thank Mr Lynch and other expert panel members for their commitment and...
- Chifley Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
Our part of north-western Sydney is booming in residential numbers and it will continue to do so into the future. People are moving further and further out west, chasing a dream—a home they...
- Queensland Government (1 speech)
I stand today to defend the opposition leader and the shadow Treasurer, for they are not the only ones who don't know how to read a budget. It is a deficiency they share with the Queensland Labor...
- Australian Constitution (1 speech)
Almost five years ago, 230 First Nations people met at Uluru at the National Constitutional Convention. If you want to see a massive point of difference between that the side of the House and the...
- Kilah, Mr Hector David (Hec) (1 speech)
On Friday 18 March, a true gentleman died. Hector David Kilah was his name. Hec was the eldest of 11. He grew up in Gatton on the family's small crop farm. The name Kilah, of English-Scottish...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
Within days of me giving this speech, the Prime Minister will call an election, one would hope, because this fake election campaign has to end soon. In this upcoming election campaign,...
- Barker Electorate: Child Care (1 speech)
Australian families deserve access to quality child care regardless of where they live. Access to child care is good for families, good for communities and good for local economies. I was...
- New South Wales: Floods (1 speech)
Hawkesbury flood victims are asking why they are being treated as second-class Aussies. Why aren't they entitled to the same emergency payments that, rightly, are being extended to other flood...
- Budget (4 speeches)
Tuesday's budget announced an extra $4 million of funding into our region's eight local councils through the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure Program. Since 2019, over $20 million has...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Photograph of House of Representatives (1 speech)
Colleagues, there was some misunderstanding with the photographs taken yesterday, so we are going to go through it all again today. I'm going to ask all honourable members to face this way, with...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Warne, Mr Shane Keith (2 speeches)
on indulgence—I was joined by the Leader of the Opposition last night, with the rest of Australia and the world, to farewell Shane Warne at the 'G. I want to thank Premier Andrews, the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Prime Minister (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. This tired, old government has been in power for nearly a decade. The cost of living is rising, real wages are going backwards, debt and deficit are the...
- Economy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister please outline to the House how the Morrison government's economic plan has been delivering for Australians and backs the aspiration...
- New South Wales: Floods (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday flood waters overran the Lismore levy for the second time in just over a month. The community is dealing with a second round of devastation before...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer remind the House of the Morrison government's strong record of delivering tax cuts for Australian families and businesses to help relieve...
- New South Wales: Floods (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister's department has told Senate estimates that the decision to delay the national emergency declaration following recent record-breaking...
- Budget (20 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. The Morrison-Joyce government has delivered a budget which provides record infrastructure investment to turbocharge the economies of regional...
- Liberal Party of Australia (15 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to reports that the Solicitor-General, Stephen Donaghue, sought to intervene on behalf of the Attorney-General in a matter before the High Court...
- Budget (3 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer explain to the House how the Morrison government's economic plan is ensuring the largest and the fastest improvement to the budget bottom line...
- Liberal Party of Australia (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister, and I refer to the minister's previous answer. How on Earth is it appropriate for the government's most senior legal adviser, the Solicitor-General, to...
- 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's plan for a stronger future is keeping Australians safe from a range of...
- Liberal Party of Australia (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister, and I refer to the previous answer from the minister. The government has admitted to using government resources to intervene in a legal dispute within the...
- National Security (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government's plan for a stronger future is ensuring Australians are kept safe and secure? And is...
- Morrison Government (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The government has admitted using taxpayer money to fund a factional fight in the Liberal Party and used a pretence that there are constitutional issues...
- Regional Australia (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources and Water. Will the minister update the House on how the strength of the Australian resources and energy sector and how our plans for a stronger...
- Aged Care (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In a recent survey of more than 1,000 aged-care workers, 97 per cent said they were yet to receive the bonus payment the Prime Minister promised them,...
- Medical Research (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Aged Care. Will the minister please update the House on how the Morrison government's plan for a stronger future includes a medical research plan to...
- Housing Affordability (8 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that the best advice he has to offer Australians struggling to pay rents that have skyrocketed under his government is that...
- Economy (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister please inform the House of the critical importance of having a plan to create a stronger economy for a stronger future with more...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Irvine, Mr David Taylor, AO (3 speeches)
on indulgence—As I mentioned to the Leader of the Opposition, we aren't going to go to indulgence speeches on this, but, Mr Speaker, I am sure you will join me in expressing our sincere...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Budget (1 speech)
Before members leave the chamber, I want to give a short reminder about arrangements for this evening with respect to the Leader of the Opposition's budget reply speech. As I outlined on Tuesday,...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
A document is tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Full details of the document will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 21 of 2021-22 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's performance audit report No. 21 of 2021-22 entitled Operation of grants hubs: Department of Finance; Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources;...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Budget (11 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Kingston proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The government's failure...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
I move: That business intervening before order of the day No.7, government business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Valedictory (1 speech)
On Wednesday 13 February 2002, I began my first speech just after 1 pm from this very desk. Twenty years, one month, two weeks and four days later, I begin my last. A final speech is a time to...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent the following: (1) immediately following the resolution of this motion, Members to be permitted to make...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Women: Justice and Equity (1 speech)
The fight for justice and equity for women across our nation is far from over, but this is not just a fight for women; it's a fight for every family. It's a fight for our nation's future...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Dunkley Electorate: Health Care (2 speeches)
About a quarter of all GPs in the Frankston catchment area in my electorate of Dunkley have applied for exceptional circumstances to be granted distribution priority status. What does that mean?...
- President of Ukraine (0 speeches)
- Address to Parliament (4 speeches)
On behalf of this House, I welcome the President of the Senate and honourable senators as guests to this sitting of the House of Representatives. We're gathering in this manner in order to hear...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Griffith Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
I rise to once again speak about a matter of great concern to residents of my community, which is the significant traffic snarl, not to mention the significant safety risk, caused by the level...
- Brisbane Electorate: Floods, COVID-19 (1 speech)
ANS (—) (): Unlike in 2011, the recent floods in Brisbane weren't just a Brisbane River focused event. The heavy rain bomb that hung over Brisbane caused all the local catchments to...
- Dunkley Electorate (1 speech)
This speech, which could be the last speech I am privileged to give in this current term of parliament, is dedicated to every person in my community of Dunkley who I have had the absolute...
- Toowoomba (1 speech)
It's my pleasure to tell the story of Railway Parklands, a fantastic Toowoomba story that started in the nineties, a time of big ideas. At the time, Peter Eldridge was the head of the CBD traders...
- Morrison Government (1 speech)
After nine long years of failed Liberal government, Australia is in the middle of a skills crisis. There are 70,000 fewer apprentices and trainees today than when Labor left office in 2013. The...
- Western Australia: Medical Research (1 speech)
I want to talk about some initiatives that are happening in Western Australia that, in my first term, I've been proud to deliver as part of the Liberal team of WA. My electorate of Curtin is the...
- Queensland: Floods (1 speech)
Luke Greave and his wife and young children love living in Rocklea because it's an intimate, enclosed suburb, close to the city, where most people know each other. When they bought their home,...
- Budget, Chisholm Electorate: Manufacturing (1 speech)
On Tuesday night, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg handed down the federal budget for 2022-23. This is a budget for all Australians, but today I want to talk about how it will benefit local businesses...
- Budget, Northern Australia: Infrastructure (1 speech)
Northern Australia is different to the rest of the country. The construction of infrastructure is more complex and more costly. But the benefits can be transformational, not only for our national...
- Budget (3 speeches)
The coalition government has handed down a plan for a stronger future and a long-term economic plan in this year's budget. People in my electorate of Capricornia will be happy with the level of...
- Kingsford Smith Electorate: Mascot Public School, Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (1 speech)
Last Monday I was delighted to attend the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Mascot Public School. Over the century, Mascot Public has been a vital part of the fabric of our local...
- State Emergency Service (1 speech)
I rise today to pay tribute to the dedicated State Emergency Service volunteers and personnel who provided and are still providing valuable support to communities battling the unprecedented flood...
- Perth Electorate: Perth City Deal (1 speech)
Every time this government gives something, it takes something away. You only need to look at the Perth City Deal to see the absolute hypocrisy of this government. I look at the very welcome...
- Bass Electorate (1 speech)
My decision to run for parliament at the 2019 election was driven by a desire to bring the focus back to community. Like many regions across Australia, access to health services is a major...
- Budget (3 speeches)
During the pandemic, Victorians knew that they were on their own when it came to support from this federal government—that the Prime Minister, from Sydney, never met a Victorian he didn't...
- Federal Election (1 speech)
In the coming months, Australians like the good people of Goldstein will face a choice. The reality is that we are in one of the most dangerous decades in Australia's history, and, when you look...
- Budget (1 speech)
Tasmanians have every right to feel disappointed by the budget that was delivered on Tuesday night. Indeed, nothing in the budget makes up for Scott Morrison's decade of attacks on wages, the...
- Warne, Mr Shane (2 speeches)
At the memorial service for Shane Warne at 'the G' last night, many beautiful stories were told about this kind, big-hearted man. Gideon Haigh, the author of a book on Shane, said recently,...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Morrison Government, Macquarie Electorate: Mental Health (1 speech)
What a waste these three years of the Morrison government have been—and the budget highlights how visionless the Liberals are. What a wasted opportunity it's been to accept that the climate...
- Budget (1 speech)
This year's budget provides responsible and practical help for households, to ease the cost-of-living pressures they are facing now. It also focuses on creating more and better-paying jobs,...
- Morrison Government (3 speeches)
KHALIL () (): I'm standing here on probably the last sitting day before the election and I can't help but reflect on the past three years in this place. It is the job of governments to tend the...
- Casey Electorate: Volunteers (1 speech)
In the final parliamentary hours of this 46th Parliament, I want to pay tribute to some wonderful Casey volunteers. All of us in here, I suspect, have had the privilege over our time in the House...
- Australian Natural Disasters (1 speech)
These will be the last parliamentary days here of the 46th Parliament. If we've learnt anything over these past three years, it's that disasters can strike at any time. When I first came to this...
- Reid Electorate (1 speech)
The past two years have been challenging for all of us. There have been frustrations on the road to recovery. Two years ago, Australia faced an uncertain future. I can still remember, clear as...
