House debates
Monday, 5 September 2022
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (29 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) cost of living and inflationary pressures are having a significant impact on Australian households and small businesses; (b) current and predicted...
- Climate Change: Pacific Islands (11 speeches)
by leave—At the request of the member for Jagajaga, I move: That this House: (1) acknowledges Australia's important role as a member of the Pacific family; (2) recognises the renewed...
- Statement by the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Member for Cook (1 speech)
I inform the House that, more than two weeks ago and while the House was not sitting, the honourable member for Melbourne raised a matter of privilege with me under standing order 52. In his...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (8 speeches)
Before I call the honourable member for Fowler, I remind the House that this is the honourable member's first speech. I ask the House to extend to her the usual courtesies.
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Mallee Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
Doctor shortages in my electorate of Mallee are now at crisis point. On Thursday 18 August, just two weeks ago, the Tristar medical practice in Mildura was open. But by Friday morning its doors...
- Robertson Electorate: Health on The Streets (1 speech)
Health on The Streets is a mobile health clinic for people experiencing homelessness and is staffed by healthcare professionals and outreach workers. The mobile health clinic travels to several...
- Dawson Electorate: Volunteer Marine Rescue Whitsunday (1 speech)
Throughout my electorate of Dawson you are never far from the coast. For many of my constituents, their pilgrimage to the boat ramps and that secret fishing spot is the highlight of their week....
- Fraser Electorate: Arts (1 speech)
The arts community in Melbourne's west is synonymous with the diversity and vibrancy of our multicultural nation. With their strong links between creativity, social justice and inclusion, the...
- Visa Holders, Anti-Semitism (1 speech)
Australia faces a jobs and skills crisis. There are thousands of refugees and people seeking asylum who have no opportunity to work due to their visas. This includes an estimated 30 to 40 per...
- World Boccia (1 speech)
In two days time, two athletes and fierce competitors from Bean will be competing at the World Boccia championship event in Rome as part of the five-strong Australian team. Dylan Schwarz, 18, is...
- Health Care (1 speech)
Imagine that you had to choose between paying your rent or seeing your GP to examine that strange lump on your neck, or whether to put food on the table or get your child the care they need....
- Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research (1 speech)
Earlier in August I visited the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research. They are a wonderful research organisation near the electorate of Werriwa, and they have been in existence for...
- Outback Highway Development Council (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate the Outback Highway Development Council on the 25th anniversary of successfully lobbying to create the Outback Way, Australia's longest shortcut. Twenty-five years...
- Hillier, Corporal Reg (1 speech)
GOSLING () (): I rise to acknowledge Corporal Reg Hillier, the only Territorian killed in the Vietnam War. Reg grew up around Darwin, riding horses and mustering cattle, and he learnt from...
- Sport (1 speech)
Across all corners of Northern Tasmania this past weekend, coaches, parents and players from netball, soccer and AFL gathered on courts and muddy grounds to play their final games of the winter...
- BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha (1 speech)
Earlier today, I attended an event here in Parliament House organised by Australia's BAPS community celebrating the centenary birth anniversary of His Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj. Last month,...
- La Trobe Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
I rise to speak on the urgent need for the Victorian state Labor government to get on with the job and start road works on Racecourse Road and McGregor Road. To go back in history, in 2019 the...
- Medical Workforce (1 speech)
After just over 100 days in office, the Albanese Labor government is delivering a better future for my community. In 2019, the Morrison Liberal government cut our communities' access through...
- Interest Rates (1 speech)
I rise today in support of the people of my electorate of Longman who have a mortgage or pay rent, which, of course, is the vast majority. These customers are being treated with contempt by their...
- Monkeypox (1 speech)
Last week, I had the privilege of meeting with a young man from St Kilda called Blake. Until this meeting, I am told that Blake had never actually reached out to an MP, but it was Blake's concern...
- National Child Protection Week (1 speech)
Yesterday marked the start of National Child Protection Week. The overarching message for the week is that every child in every community needs a fair go. As a society, we need to keep looking at...
- Moreton Electorate: Floods (1 speech)
It was a real pleasure to attend a post-flood gathering in Chelmer with local residents and some of the services that did such a great job responding to the flood disaster in March. The gathering...
- Early Childhood Education (2 speeches)
It's been over a hundred days and this government has yet to do anything to address the rising pressures in the early childhood education sector—over 100 days and there's been no movement...
- Albanese Government: Economy (2 speeches)
Thank you, Speaker. It's extraordinary that this second sitting fortnight of this parliament has started with the opposition trying to say that all of the problems that face Australia, at the...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (14 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, prior to the last election Labor promised a $275 cut to power bills on nearly 100 occasions. Since the election you've never mentioned it....
- Jobs and Skills Summit (27 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Jobs and Skills Summit brought together 140 leaders from business, government, unions and civil society to find common ground on our economic challenges....
- Economy (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. What were the outcomes of the Albanese government's Jobs and Skills Summit, and how will they help address Australia's economic challenges?
- Housing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, there are almost two million households in mortgage stress and 2.7 million Australians in rental stress, with one million of those paying...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- King, Hon. Dame Annette, Little, Hon. Andrew, MP (1 speech)
Order! I am pleased to inform the House that present in the gallery today are Her Excellency Dame Annette King, High Commissioner for New Zealand, and the Hon. Andrew Little, Minister of Health...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Pensions and Benefits (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to help Australian pensioners deal with the cost of living?
- Cost of Living (11 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Can the Treasurer guarantee that industry-wide bargaining and industrial action will not raise the cost of living for Australians?
- Biosecurity: Foot-and-Mouth Disease (5 speeches)
My question is for the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture. How many of the one million foot-and-mouth disease vaccinations promised to Indonesia on 14 July have now been...
- Veterans (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs. How will the government's work bonus incentive for pensioners assist eligible veterans? How does it vary previous policy settings?
- Workplace Relations: Fair Work Commission (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. I refer to media reports of the minister's letter to the Fair Work Commission, welcomed by the New South Wales Rail, Tram...
- Small Business (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business. How has the Albanese Labor government ensured small businesses were an integral part of the Jobs and Skills Summit, and how will they benefit...
- Climate Change: Infrastructure (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. In order to reach and exceed the government's 43 per cent emissions reduction target all...
- Employment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Skills and Training. How is the Albanese Labor government working to promote economic growth and address the skills shortage crisis it has inherited?
- Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories has disclosed ownership of shares in eight different companies and later sought to...
- Migration (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. How is the Albanese government lifting permanent migration to bring in the critical workers our economy desperately needs?
- Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister, and I refer to his previous answer. Prime Minister, was the matter considered by the governance committee or was there any advice received from PM&C?
- Employment (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry and Science. Australia faces a shortage of workers, particularly women, with experience in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. What is...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Reports Nos 2 to 3 of 2022-23 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General audit reports Nos 2 and 3 for 2022-23. Details of the reports will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Questions without Notice: Additional Answers (0 speeches)
- Biosecurity: Foot-and-Mouth Disease (1 speech)
I add to an answer from question time. I'm informed a million doses have arrived in Indonesia as of 21 August, and three million more doses have been ordered by the Australian government. As of 2...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Smith, Sir David Iser, KCVO, AO (3 speeches)
on indulgence—I'd like to pay tribute to the life of Sir David Smith. Every student of Australian history recognises Sir David. Those iconic images of the Dismissal are part of our national...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Sessional Orders (24 speeches)
I seek leave to move: That all words in paragraph (a) of sessional order 65A be omitted and the following words substituted: "(a) During Question Time, priority shall be given to a crossbench...
- Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
- Address-in-Reply (3 speeches)
Thank you, Mr Speaker, and thank you to my children, who have come back, and for everyone's patience. I really appreciate it. I address this house with gratitude for what has been and a sense of...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Lions Australia (1 speech)
MITCHELL () (): Seventy-five years ago, on 1 July, the first Australian Lions club was formed in Lismore in New South Wales, under the guidance of William R Tresise, who was appointed by the...
- Page Electorate: Sport (1 speech)
I'd like to take the liberty tonight just to use this adjournment debate to acknowledge two very special things that are happening in my community at the moment. The first is that the East...
- Workplace Relations (1 speech)
Reflecting on my father's wisdom yesterday for Father's Day, I remember him always saying, 'Don't worry about the fog. When it clears, it'll always be a beautiful, sunny day.' That wasn't the...
- Mallee Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
The demographics and health trends in the Mallee region are disturbing. In terms of disadvantage and need, we have three times the Indigenous population of Victoria, we have an older demographic,...
- New South Wales Volunteer of the Year Awards, Mental Health, Arts and Culture (1 speech)
Ted Dickson has kept the wheels in motion at the Valley Heights Locomotive Depot Heritage Museum for nearly three decades. He not only helped establish the museum; he gives up more than 20 hours...
- Gunsser, Pastor Samuel, Cancer (1 speech)
I'd like to take the time to honour a man who was loved by all who had the privilege of knowing him. That man was Samuel Gunsser. He was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of man. He lived a life that...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Petition: Centrelink (5 speeches)
Under the cover of darkness in 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic being used as an excuse, the Centrelink office in Benalla was closed. The local community were promised consultation on future...
- Jobs and Skills Summit (3 speeches)
Last week in this parliament we saw a very strange sight indeed—shocking, even, to those who might have observed parliament or Australian politics for the last decade or more. We saw an...
- Petrie Electorate: Energy Efficient Communities Program (1 speech)
Thirsty Chiefs is a small brewery in my electorate of Petrie that has been operating for seven years. It's a one-of-a-kind establishment brewing beer, cider and ginger beer, all in house, and...
- Corangamite Electorate: Banking and Financial Services (1 speech)
There is a disturbing trend across Australia. It's the closure of many of our bank branches, particularly in regional areas. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia recently announced it is closing...
- Groom Electorate: New Acland Mine (1 speech)
I'm delighted—absolutely tickled pink—to be standing in the Chamber today talking about the future of New Acland Mine with a smile on my face. It's fantastic news. You see, one week...
- Electric Vehicles (1 speech)
When a breakthrough arrives, according to Pulitzer Prize winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee, 'technology dissolves its own past'. The adoption of electric vehicles in Australia will be akin to...
- Energy: Employment (1 speech)
On 23 August this year I hosted the Hasluck green energy jobs and skills roundtable in Perth in order to help inform the Jobs and Skills Summit and the government's white paper process. Around...
- Agricultural Shows (3 speeches)
A bull rider I ain't, and anybody who saw the end of Insiders yesterday would have noted, with some humour and mirth, the fact that I couldn't stay on one of those electronic bulls for longer...
- Migration (1 speech)
Last week the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs made an important announcement: the Albanese Labor government will invest $36.1 million into visa processing to clear...
- 2022 North Queensland and Northern Territory Restaurant & Catering Hostplus Awards for Excellence (2 speeches)
Last Monday, 29 August, my beautiful wife, Yolonde, and I had the pleasure of attending the 2022 Hostplus North Queensland and Northern Territory restaurant and caterers awards. This is the first...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Biosecurity: Foot-and-Mouth Disease (7 speeches)
Mr O'Dowd: I rise to support the member for Riverina's motion regarding foot-and-mouth disease, a disease that has been spreading throughout Indonesia, including the holiday destination of Bali....
- Wages (10 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) the Fair Work Commission has delivered a 5.2 per cent rise in the minimum wage, slightly above headline inflation; (b) its decision means an extra $40...
- Housing Affordability (7 speeches)
I move: That this House calls on the Government to: (1) act urgently to address housing affordability and availability in regional Australia; and (2) establish a dedicated fund to build critical...
- Climate Change: Pacific Islands (5 speeches)
It's with great pleasure that I speak to this motion moved in the name of my good friend and colleague the member for Jagajaga today, because on 21 May of this year Australians voted for change....
- Sri Lanka (6 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) recognises that Sri Lanka is undergoing a significant economic crisis and unrest; (2) acknowledges the anxiety and mental distress that the Sri Lankan Australian...
- Trade (9 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) under the previous Government, Australia finalised 11 trade agreements; and (b) the previous Government's ambitious trade agenda lifted the share of...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- ET Australia (1 speech)
Earlier this year I was able to visit an excellent education and training institution in my electorate of Robertson, ET Australia. ET Australia is an adult training college and an independent...
- New South Wales: Floods (1 speech)
Hawkesbury businesses that are still struggling to recover from the most recent floods have been left high and dry by the New South Wales government. A program that provides a $10,000 business...
- Mackellar Electorate: Easylink Community Transport (1 speech)
Imagine if you have a specialist appointment about your knees. They are really making it difficult to get up and down the stairs and you can no longer walk long distances. You can no longer...
- Macarthur Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
My electorate of Macarthur is now the biggest electorate in the country by population. We are way bigger than many other electorates, from Tasmania to Western Australia et cetera. Names like...
- Western Australia: Abortion (1 speech)
The harmonisation of abortion laws across Australia is overdue. As a first step, revision of Medicare numbers would enable better access and better data on terminations. Western Australian women...
- Exton, Mr Warwick, Dunkley Electorate: Sweetwater Creek Nature Reserve (1 speech)
Last week I attended the book launch of Action Sweetwater Creek. The author, Warwick Exton, turns 100 years old in November and is a bit of a living legend in my community. He has been in...
- Goode, Councillor Alison (1 speech)
I rise today to pay tribute to Councillor Alison Goode, the inaugural mayor of the City of Albany, who passed away last week. In the late 1990s the rural shire of Albany merged with the historic...
- Migration (1 speech)
Last week I attended CRC in St Albans for a chat and a grilling by some of the student leaders. I was struck by the story of one of the student leaders. He was born in Iraq, and he and his family...
- Crystal Brook Show (1 speech)
On 13 August, I was very pleased to welcome back the 143rd Crystal Brook Show, which had had a couple of years off because of COVID. The show was opened by the newly decorated Commonwealth...
- Latt, Dr Cyril (1 speech)
I could stand here and thank every GP in my electorate, because heaven knows there are not enough of them, and every one of them works really hard across my regions. But I'm on my feet today to...
- Taxation (1 speech)
So it's a crime for a member of parliament to talk about taxation policy? It's a crime for a member of parliament to talk about a policy and a platform that were put in place six years ago? All...
- Men's Shed Week (1 speech)
Today I want to acknowledge the great work of men's sheds right across McEwen, as we celebrate national Men's Shed Week, from 4 to 10 September. The 2022 campaign promotes 'A global village,...
- Rural Road Safety Month (1 speech)
September is Rural Road Safety Month, an initiative of the Australian Road Safety Foundation. It's a chance to stop and reflect on road safety and what we can do to make our rural roads safer....
- Boothby Electorate: City of Mitcham Community Renewable Energy Program (1 speech)
Today I rise to talk about a wonderful initiative in Boothby: the City of Mitcham's Community Renewable Energy Program. As part of its commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, the City...
- Cost of Living (2 speeches)
I was standing in the supermarket the other week, and a woman was next to me. We were in the butter section, and she couldn't make up her mind about which butter to buy, because of the cost of...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Energy (9 speeches)
by leave—On behalf of the member for Durack, I move: That this House: (1) notes: (a) the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's July 2022 gas inquiry interim report, which...
- Environment (10 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) the State of the Environment Report 2021 is an alarming story of environmental neglect and decline in Australia; (b) the report found that: (i) since...
- National Security (9 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) the 2020 Defence Strategic Update makes clear that Australia's strategic environment has deteriorated rapidly; (b) as a result of decisions taken by...
- International Holocaust Remembrance Day (10 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) 27 January 2022 marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 77 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, a day where we remember the atrocities...
- Climate Change (8 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) recognises that climate change is a health emergency as it will impact the core determinants of health, such as food, housing, employment, and water security; (2)...
