House debates
Wednesday, 9 August 2023
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Tariff Proposals (0 speeches)
- Customs Tariff Proposal (No. 3) 2023 (1 speech)
I move: Customs Tariff Proposal (No. 3) 2023. Customs Tariff Proposal (No. 3) 2023 proposes to amend section 18B of the Customs Tariff Act 1995 to extend for a further 12 months the concessional...
- Customs Tariff Proposal (No. 4) 2023 (1 speech)
I move: Customs Tariff Proposal (No. 4) 2023. The customs tariff proposal that I have tabled inserts new item 59 into schedule 4 of the Customs Tariff Act 1995. The new concessional item provides...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Industry Self-Classification and Other Measures) Bill 2023; Second Reading (12 speeches)
I'm pleased to rise to speak on the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Industry Self-Classification and Other Measures) Bill 2023. The system of classification of...
- Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Industry Self-Classification and Other Measures) Bill 2023; Consideration in Detail (5 speeches)
I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill and, by leave, I move government amendments (1) to (14) as circulated together: (1) Schedule 1, item 1, page 3 (line 13), after...
- Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Industry Self-Classification and Other Measures) Bill 2023; Third Reading (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
- Higher Education Support Amendment (Response to the Australian Universities Accord Interim Report) Bill 2023; Second Reading (2 speeches)
I rise to speak on the Higher Education Support Amendment (Response to the Australian Universities Accord Interim Report) Bill 2023. Principally, this bill amends the Higher Education Support Act...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- International Assistance Dog Week (1 speech)
This week is International Assistance Dog Week, so I was pleased to see that the occasion is being marked inside parliament by welcoming local veterans and their assistance dogs here. Assistance...
- Homelessness Week (1 speech)
This week we acknowledge homelessness week. The annual campaign, held nationally, is aimed at raising awareness and support those impacted by homelessness. I acknowledge a beacon of innovation...
- International Assistance Dog Week (1 speech)
This week is International Assistance Dog Week, and to mark the occasion I recognise a Wide Bay organisation, PTSD Dogs Australia, who believe that every rescue dog can save a human and every...
- Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki: 78th Anniversary (1 speech)
This week, 78 years ago, one of the most atrocious acts was committed. A second atomic bomb was dropped on Japan from a B-29 bomber from America, destroying the Urakami Valley within the port...
- Queensland: Housing (1 speech)
Do words no longer mean anything? That's how I felt while listening to Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles explain the new 20 per cent affordable housing target for homes in South-East...
- Middle East (1 speech)
Last week I met with Nell Potter and Andrew Telfer from the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Network, both of whom had been deployed to Palestine and Israel. The network predominantly consists of...
- Energy (1 speech)
Labor continues to perpetuate its false promise of cheaper power bills despite the fact that the economic modelling it relies on is fundamentally flawed. It was Labor's RepuTex modelling that...
- Andrews, Caden (1 speech)
Macquarie Hunter Athletics Club in my electorate is a breeding ground for champions. Many athletes from this club participated in the 2023 Australian Junior Championships in Queensland and took...
- Turner, Mr Bruce (1 speech)
It is my honour to rise today to recognise the president of the Rosebud RSL, Bruce Turner, who was celebrated and awarded life membership of the club in a beautiful ceremony last Friday night....
- Blair Electorate: Basketball (1 speech)
Basketball is booming in Ipswich. There has been a 50 per cent increase in participation in the last two years. My congratulations go to the Ipswich Force mighty men's team, who took out the NBL1...
- Barker Electorate: Environment (1 speech)
In August last year, Minister Bowen announced six proposed regions for offshore renewable infrastructure, including 'the Southern Ocean region off Portland in Victoria'. Until recently, I'm not...
- National Stroke Week (1 speech)
On one evening in August 2018, Shazia began to feel dizzy. She grabbed the wall while trying to keep her balance. Her husband, Sadiq, could see that something was seriously wrong and wasted no...
- Hinkler Electorate (1 speech)
The big survey numbers are coming in, and my staff are working hard to do that data entry. There have been 2½ thousand responses so far. What is the true voice of the people saying? On the...
- Homelessness Week (1 speech)
This week is Homelessness Week. In Australia there are over 122,000 people experiencing homelessness on any given night. One in seven Australians experiencing homelessness are children under 12,...
- Lindsay Electorate: Community Services (1 speech)
Australia Post has announced that it is closing its Westfield Penrith plaza post office on 29 September, and our community is very disappointed about this decision. Australia Post says the...
- Robertson Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
I rise to inform the House that six primary schools in Robertson on the Central Coast have been awarded up to $25,000 in much needed funding from the federal government to upgrade school...
- Braddon Electorate: Child Care (1 speech)
Last week the front page of our region's great local newspaper the Advocate read, 'Childcare crush: Tasmania's north-west has become a childcare desert'. A couple of weeks prior to that article...
- Stryker South Pacific Veterans Association (1 speech)
Earlier today the member for Menzies and I, as co-chairs of the Parliamentary Friends of Veterans, met with Stryker South Pacific veterans association. Stryker is a medical tech company based in...
- Variety WA Midwest 4WD Getaway (1 speech)
Last weekend I had the absolute pleasure of joining the intrepid Variety WA Midwest 4WD Getaway participants. Every two years, adults go to a lot of trouble to dress up in fancy dress and also...
- Papua New Guinea: Kiaps (2 speeches)
Many Australians will remember that Australia had responsibility to administer the Territory of Papua and New Guinea until independence, and representatives of the Australian government, or...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Israel (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister explain why his government has taken a decision to unilaterally determine where Israel's borders lie? Does the Prime Minister think it...
- National Reconstruction Fund (11 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Industry and Science. What progress is the Albanese Labor government making on establishing the National Reconstruction Fund, and why is a new approach to...
- Nuclear Waste Management: Submarines (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. In signing up to the AUKUS deal, the Labor government has agreed to establish a domestic nuclear industry and dispose of nuclear waste from nuclear...
- National Reconstruction Fund (8 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How will the Albanese Labor government's National Reconstruction Fund help address some of the challenges facing the Australian economy and drive future growth?
- Whistleblowers (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. Today the South Australian Court of Appeal is considering tax office whistleblower Richard Boyle's case. Mr Boyle faces trial and a potential prison term...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Tie, Her Excellency Ning (1 speech)
I am pleased to inform the House that present in the gallery today is Her Excellency Ms Tie Ning, the Vice Chair of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress of the People's...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- National Reconstruction Fund (4 speeches)
My question is for the Prime Minister. How will the National Reconstruction Fund build stronger foundations for the future of Australian manufacturing and what obstacles has the government had to...
- Uluru Statement from The Heart (15 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Professor Megan Davis, a key member of the Prime Minister's referendum working group, has said: The Uluru Statement from the Heart isn't just the first...
- Critical Minerals Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Resources. How will the National Reconstruction Fund create jobs in the critical minerals sector?
- Australian Constitution: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Australians. Will the minister rule out financial payments being made by the Commonwealth as part of a treaty or makarrata process?
- Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Government Services. What advice does the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme provide to governments about how they should respond to adverse decisions...
- Veterans (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs. Over a year ago, the Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal released the report recognising veterans' sacrifice. That included...
- Energy (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. How is the Albanese Labor government investing in cleaner and cheaper energy, and why is this important? How does this contrast to...
- Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. Forty-two Australian women have been killed this year, mostly by men. Three have been killed in the past five days. Most are alleged to have...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Employment (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. What impact have government policies had in improving outcomes in employment and workplace relations? How does this compare...
- Qatar Airways (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Did the minister receive advice from her department recommending that she approve...
- Commonwealth Procurement (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Government Services. What new information has been brought to the attention of the government in relation to deficient procurements identified by the Watt...
- Housing Affordability (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In National Homelessness Week, the stark truth is that housing has become a nightmare for many Australians, particularly young people. I welcome the...
- Regional Australia (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering for regional Australia and why was a...
- Australian Constitution: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Affairs. Prominent 'yes' advocate Marcus Stewart has said of treaty negotiations, 'They could take 10 to 20 years to be negotiated.' Can the minister...
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice: Education (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. How will the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice ensure better and fairer education for future generations?
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (41 speeches)
SPEAKER (): I have received a letter from the honourable member for Ryan proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The urgent need...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Member for Griffith (2 speeches)
Earlier today, during the matter of public importance at approximately 4 pm, the member for Griffith made remarks which offended members present, and they asked the Deputy Speaker to have the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Energy (1 speech)
Well, we're 16 months into the Albanese Labor government, and all we have are half-truths and flat-out obfuscation. Australians crunched by the cost of living have good reason to be bewildered by...
- Housing (1 speech)
This week is Homelessness Week. In the 2021 census there were more than 122,000 homeless people in Australia. Alarmingly, 23 per cent were children and young people. We know that over 16,000...
- MRH-90 Taipan (1 speech)
I rise to speak about the helicopter crash that occurred on 28 July. Every profession has its own language, and the profession of arms certainly does. There is a term that originates from the...
- Hawke Youth Advisory Committee, Holdsworth, Ms Lynette, Margaret, OAM (1 speech)
My electorate of Hawke is much younger than the rest of the country. The issues that are important to us are vastly different from many others across our country. We're a rapidly growing seat on...
- Homelessness Week (1 speech)
Can I start by commending the member for Menzies for his very poignant speech here in the chamber this evening and add my deepest sympathies to the families of those fallen angels in that most...
- Albanese Government: Cost of Living, Moreton Electorate: Cost of Living (3 speeches)
I know very well that too many households in Moreton are feeling the pressure of rising cost-of-living expenses. These are very tough times. That's why in this year's budget the Treasurer, my...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Fowler Electorate: Mandean Community, Fowler Electorate: Small Business (1 speech)
On 11 June I joined my Sabean Mandean community in Fowler on the first-ever Remembrance Day organised by the Mandean youth of the community, which included Jenna, Yasmine, Maia, Elan, Sam, Emile...
- Australian Constitution: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (1 speech)
We all know in this place that, if you want change, you have to work to make it happen. It's in that spirit that I want to thank all of those who I've been walking alongside in the Perth...
- Bowel Cancer (1 speech)
Strike out bowel cancer. This short, simple sentence encapsulated the mission and vision of Scott Rindfleish. As an avid softballer, it was his last pitch. Scott, sadly, passed away on 10 October...
- Burt Electorate: Volunteers (1 speech)
GH (—) (): I'd like to shine a light on the tireless work of some volunteers in my community. Coming from a large Hills family myself, I know firsthand the importance of the work of our...
- Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (1 speech)
I rise to speak about a devastating childhood cancer that causes more deaths in our precious young Australians than any other disease. Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG, is a brain tumour...
- Refugees (1 speech)
I've always argued that Australia should be ambitious in our reform of our refugee policies and programs, and since my election to this place in 2016 I have advocated for that reform and for...
- Payne, Mr Keith, VC, AM (1 speech)
I rise today to highlight an exceptionally brave individual from my electorate of Dawson: former warrant officer class 2 Keith Payne, VC, AM. A born-and-bred north Queenslander, Keith dedicated...
- Frangos, Mr James (Jimmy), Johnstone, Mr Graeme (1 speech)
I would like to pay tribute to two lions of my community that we have recently lost. Jimmy Frangos put Daylesford on the map as a food destination. The Frangos family arrived from Greece when...
- Menzies Electorate: Community Sporting Organisations (1 speech)
Sporting clubs are more than vehicles for competition; they are families that recognise when some members are vulnerable and hold them in their loving embrace. Riley Byrnes was 11 years old and a...
- Brand Electorate: Health Care, Western Australia: Rockingham By-Election (2 speeches)
I was honoured to have Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in my electorate recently for the official opening of Rockingham's first bulk-billed urgent care clinic. The new clinic is one of seven...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Gender Equality (3 speeches)
As others who have spoken to this before me have noted, in the latest World Economic Forum Global gender gap report, Australia has moved from 43rd place to 26th place. That's a pretty impressive...
- Domestic and Family Violence (9 speeches)
I rise to speak on the recent commencement of the 10 days paid family and domestic violence leave entitlement for all employees of small businesses. Firstly, it is absolutely imperative that we...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That order of the day No. 1, committee and delegation business, be postponed until a later hour this day. Question agreed to.
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Crean, Hon. Simon Findlay (1 speech)
Simon Findlay Crean's untimely death, I think, was a shock to many Australians but particularly those in the Labor Party and the broader labour movement. Certainly in my home state of Tasmania it...
