House debates

Tuesday, 22 July 2025

• Parliamentary Office Holders (0 speeches)
  • Speaker (11 speeches)
    I move: That the honourable member for Oxley do take the Chair of this House as Speaker. Clerk, there is no better member of this House to take the chair of Speaker than the member for Oxley....
  • Presentation to Governor-General (2 speeches)
    I have ascertained that it will be Her Excellency the Governor-General's pleasure to receive you, Mr Speaker, in the Members Hall immediately after the resumption of the sitting at 2.40 pm.
• Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
  • Oath or Affirmation of Allegiance (1 speech)
    Her Excellency also presented me with an authority to administer to members the oath or affirmation of allegiance. I now lay the authority on the table.
• Ministry (0 speeches)
  • Presentation (1 speech)
    Mr Speaker, I have the honour to inform the House that, following the election held on 3 May 2025, the Governor-General commissioned me to form a government. Ministers and assistant ministers...
• Shadow Ministry (0 speeches)
  • Presentation (1 speech)
    Mr Speaker, I have the honour to inform the House that the Liberal Party of Australia has elected me as its leader and the honourable member for Fairfax as deputy leader. The shadow ministry was...
• Party Office Holders (0 speeches)
  • The Nationals (1 speech)
    I have the honour to inform the House that the Nationals have elected me as leader and the honourable member for Page as deputy leader. The honourable member for Capricornia has been appointed...
• Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
  • Presentation (1 speech)
    I have to report that the House this day attended Her Excellency the Governor-General in the Senate chamber, when Her Excellency was pleased to make a speech to both houses of the parliament. I...
  • Address-in-Reply (1 speech)
    I move: That a committee, consisting of Ms France, Ms Witty and the mover, be appointed to prepare an Address in Reply to the speech delivered by Her Excellency the Governor-General to both...
• Parliamentary Office Holders (0 speeches)
  • Deputy Speaker (7 speeches)
    I'm proud to move: That Ms Claydon be elected Deputy Speaker of this House. Every one of us who was in this chamber in the last parliament knows that the member for Newcastle runs a tight ship...
  • Speaker's Panel (1 speech)
    Pursuant to standing order 17, I lay on the table my warrant nominating the honourable members for Bendigo, Macarthur, Adelaide, Canberra, Lingiari, Mayo and Clark to be members of the Speaker's...
• Business (0 speeches)
  • Days and Hours of Meeting (1 speech)
    I present a document showing the proposed parliamentary sittings for the remainder of 2025. Copies have been placed on the table. I ask leave of the House to move that the program be agreed to....
  • Leave of Absence (1 speech)
    I move: That leave of absence from the determination of this sitting until 27 November 2025 be given to the honourable Member for Holt for parental leave purposes. I wish the honourable member...
  • Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (1 speech)
    by leave—I move: That standing order 31 (automatic adjournment of the House) be suspended for this sitting. Question agreed to.
• Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
  • Parliamentary Standards (2 speeches)
    There was a joint sitting in the Senate earlier today. There was the use of a prop by a Greens senator which I think all of us found incredibly disorderly and disrespectful to Her Excellency the...
• Governor-General's Speech (0 speeches)
  • Address-in-Reply (10 speeches)
    Ms France: I move: That the Address be agreed to. I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we are gathered and pay my respects to elders past, present and...
• Adjournment (0 speeches)
  • Australian Parliament (1 speech)
    We have many days where we see the parliament at its worst or at its best. I think one of the extraordinary things is that today we finally have a parliament where anyone in Australia, no matter...