House debates
Thursday, 30 October 2025
- Statements on Significant Matters (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Joint Committee; Approval of Work (1 speech)
(): 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 which was referred to the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Durack Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
In February, Cyclone Zelia devastated road networks in the Shire of East Pilbara. For eight months, the shire has worked incredibly hard and negotiated in good faith to secure funding, with $26...
- Superannuation (1 speech)
When you get paid, your super should too, but right now employers only need to pay super every three months. That means your super isn't growing as fast as it should. The Albanese government is...
- Road Safety (1 speech)
The fun police in this country have gone too far. As taxpayers, we're now employing some 106,000 people here in Canberra to hold clipboards and red pens and stop people doing things, building...
- Young Australians (1 speech)
This week I had the privilege of meeting Hasmik and Hrug, youth advocates from the Armenian National Committee of Australia's Job Shadow Advocate Program. We spoke about the challenges facing...
- Agriculture Industry (1 speech)
Prosecco is an Australian favourite. You'd be hard-pressed to find an Australian restaurant without it on the wine list, a bottle shop without it on the shelf or a Friday fizz without a glass in...
- Great Barrier Reef (1 speech)
It supplies 77,000 jobs and contributes $100 billion annually to the economy. It creates over a billion dollars in the Far North alone in tax revenue, building hospitals, roads and critical...
- Youth Voice in Parliament (1 speech)
I rise to share Mackellar student Imogen Kee's thoughtful response to this year's Raise our Voice campaign, which asked, 'How can government build a better future for young Australians?' Imogen...
- Veterans (1 speech)
Today it was my pleasure as co-chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Veterans, along with Senator Andrew Mclachlan CSC, to welcome the Families of Veterans Guild to Parliament House, many of whom...
- Energy (1 speech)
Earlier this week the Minister for Climate Change and Energy was forced by the Senate to release the incoming ministerial brief on electricity prices—he'd tried to hide it since...
- Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (1 speech)
This morning I sat in the chamber and listened to Minister Plibersek's announcement about the inquiry into domestic, family and sexual violence related suicide. As she spoke, my lived experience...
- Rumney, Lance Corporal Tulsa (1 speech)
869639—Lance Corporal Tulsa Rumney. Tulsa tragically lost his life in a military training accident on 15 October 2025. The 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment lost a brother. His...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
How we look after each other says everything we are as a nation. This weekend marks not only the largest investment in Medicare in its history; 1 November kicks off another key milestone in our...
- Regional Australia: Aviation, Breastfeeding (1 speech)
This week, the Senate voted in favour of an inquiry into regional airport security fees. The cost of screening has made regional air travel prohibitively expensive. While travellers from capital...
- Medicare (1 speech)
Labor built Medicare, and we'll always fight to strengthen it. When you're sick, seeing a doctor shouldn't be a struggle. That's why our government is delivering the single largest investment in...
- Austin, Ben (1 speech)
This morning, my community and the cricket community across Australia woke to the devastating news that Ben Austin was taken too soon. He was 17 and doing what he loved: playing cricket. Ben was...
- Medicare (1 speech)
Two weeks ago, the Minister for Health and Ageing announced that there had been over two million visits to Medicare urgent care clinics across the country. This means that over two million...
- Child Abuse (1 speech)
Tomorrow morning, more than 8,000 schools across the nation will take part in Day for Daniel, honouring the memory of Daniel Morcombe and reminding every Australian to keep our children safe....
- Medicare (1 speech)
It's nearly the end of the week. Not only will it be great to return to our communities, but, from Saturday, what goes live is the single-largest investment in Medicare ever. We're expanding the...
- Telecommunications (1 speech)
I am sorry to say that life in the regions is even harder one year on from the disastrous 3G shutdown on Labor's watch. Let me give you some examples. I was talking on Perth radio earlier this...
- Medicare (1 speech)
On the border of Macnamara and Goldstein, unfortunately on the wrong side of the tracks, lives a fantastic medical centre called the Elsternwick Medical Centre. No thanks to the member for...
- Energy (2 speeches)
In my electorate, manufacturing businesses are being crushed by this government's irresponsible energy policy. FJP Manufacturing's electricity prices are up 76 per cent in just two years. This...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Housing (3 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. The dream of homeownership in this country has become a nightmare for millennials and gen Z, who have no hope of ever owning under Labor. The...
- International Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. How are the Prime Minister's recent engagements in the United States, Malaysia and Korea and with a range of world leaders providing economic growth...
- Housing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing. The Insurance Council of Australia have warned that Labor's reckless expansion of its Help to Buy Scheme will drive up house prices by 6.6 per cent...
- Medicare (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. How is the Albanese Labor government strengthening Medicare through record investment in bulk-billing? How is this making it easier for...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Acknowledgement (1 speech)
I'd like to inform the House that present in the gallery today are the winners of the brand new Yarning competition and their families. The competition, run by the Department of the House of...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Public Sector Governance (6 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. In February 2023, the Minister for the Public Service announced an inquiry into public sector board appointments to end the jobs-for-mates culture of...
- Health Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. How are the Albanese Labor government's historic investments in Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme helping Australians with the cost of...
- Economy (6 speeches)
My question goes to the Treasurer. We learnt yesterday that inflation has smashed right through the top of the RBA's target band. This is a direct consequence of the Treasurer's spending spree....
- Albanese Government (3 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How is the Albanese Labor government strengthening Medicare, easing the cost of living and reforming the economy? How does this compare to other approaches to...
- Energy (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. Labor promised Australians that their bills would fall by $275 in 2025. Is the minister aware that it is now 2025 and that...
- Health Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Women. How has the Albanese Labor government's investments into health care created more choice and increased affordability for women?
- Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Under Labor's administration of the CFMEU, whistleblowers are saying that organised crime figures have a 'stronger position,...
- Education (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to help Australians with a student debt and build a better and fairer education system?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Acknowledgement (1 speech)
Before I call the honourable member for Mayo, I'd like to advise the House that we've been joined by a delegation from the Kiribati government, led by the Minister for Health and Medical...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (2 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Aged Care and Seniors. Every Mayo home-care provider that I've researched is lifting its fees on Saturday, by 40 per cent to 100 per cent. One provider is...
- Parental Leave (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations: What is the Albanese Labor government doing to protect workplace entitlements of parents who suffer the devastating loss of...
- Superannuation (5 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer. Recent collapses like Shield and First Guardian have put over $1 billion of Australians' hard-earned retirement savings at risk. How many times has the...
- Housing (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing, Minister for Homelessness and Minister for Cities. How is the Albanese Labor government working to build more homes for Australians, what other...
- Deregulation (4 speeches)
My question is for the Treasurer: Many people in the business community and at the economic reform roundtable have asked for regulation that better enables growth as well as manages risk. But any...
- Energy (12 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. How are the Albanese Labor government's policies to deliver more renewable energy, backed by batteries, helping Australians? What...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Department of the House of Representatives; Presentation (1 speech)
Pursuant to section 65 of the Parliamentary Service Act 1999, I present the annual report of the Department of the House of Representatives for 2024-25.
- 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.
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Economy (57 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable Deputy Leader of the Opposition proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: How the...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (1 speech)
Today I wish to recognise two hardworking organisations in our electorate of Calare, who are at the front line day in, day out helping women and children escape domestic, family and sexual...
- Artificial Intelligence (1 speech)
This has been a significant week for Australia's creative industries, with the announcement by the Attorney-General that the government will not create a copyright exemption to allow broad-scale...
- Victoria: Australian Labor Party, Crime (1 speech)
(): As a proud Victorian, it is a mixture of sadness, anger and frustration that I feel as I stand here and state one simple fact: the state of Victoria is broken. An old saying about...
- Albanese Government: Rural and Regional Australia (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about the importance, from the perspective of the Anthony Albanese Labor government, of our investment in rural and regional communities. I stand here today, a proud regional...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
I will praise the previous speaker for being a regional member, and a tall regional member! He is a little bit taller than me, Mr Speaker, and I'm a little bit taller than you. The members...
- Bean Electorate: Community Events, World Pharmacists Day (1 speech)
I am of the firm view that I represent the best electorate in Australia, and I am pleased to rise today speak to some of the reasons why. In the middle of fete season, one of the most exciting...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Youth Voice in Parliament (1 speech)
Raise Our Voice is an organisation dedicated to ensuring that young people are heard. It has created a platform to elevate the ideas and passions of young Australians and promotes our belief in...
- Jack Edwards Reserve Pavilion, Hotham Electorate: Vietnamese Community (1 speech)
It has been such a joyful few weeks in my electorate of Hotham. I recently helped open the new pavilion at Jack Edwards Reserve. This was the delivery of a 2022 Labor election commitment, and it...
- Fowler Electorate: Vietnamese Community (1 speech)
I want to talk about something that sits in the heart of the committee in Fowler, the 50th anniversary of Vietnamese settlement in Australia. There is no place where this story is more alive than...
- Petition: Cambodia (3 speeches)
by leave—I present a petition from members of the Cambodian Australian community in my electorate of Isaacs and across Australia.
- Youth Voice in Parliament (2 speeches)
I'm delighted today to read out the speeches of two entrants in the Raise Our Voice initiative from my electorate of Flinders. Matilda, who is 14 years old, from Padua College in Tyabb, says: I...
- Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games (1 speech)
I rise to speak about an extraordinary opportunity for our region: the proposal for Rockhampton to host the rowing and canoe sprint events for Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This is...
- Paterson Electorate: Sport (1 speech)
As September came to an end, so did another incredible footy season across our region, and with that, the grand finals, the late-night training sessions, the nerves and the triumphs—and,...
- South Australia: Drought (1 speech)
I've spoken on a number of occasions in this place about the dire situation that farmers face across much of South Australia with unprecedented drought, much of which nobody could recall in...
- Solomon, Noah (1 speech)
The speech I'm about to read was written by Noah Solomon, affectionately known as the work experience kid. In September I had the privilege of hosting Noah Solomon, a year 10 work experience...
- Lyne Electorate: Telstra (1 speech)
I rise to condemn the actions of Telstra, which has announced that it will shut the doors of its Taree store on Monday 10 November—as if the Taree community hasn't already been through...
- Banks Electorate: Community Organisations (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge some of the community groups in my electorate who I've had the pleasure of meeting with over the last few weeks. The Mid-Autumn Festival is an important date in the calendar...
- McPherson Electorate: Awards and Honours (1 speech)
When I launched my inaugural McPherson Honours Awards, I did so to recognise the everyday people who make an extraordinary difference in our community—those who volunteer, lead and lend a...
- Werriwa Electorate: Community Organisations (1 speech)
It was a great pleasure to be invited to the CNA Multicultural Services New South Wales 10th anniversary event. CNA provides support for our Italian community in Werriwa. There are over 10,000...
- Rural and Regional Services (1 speech)
In regional Western Australia communities are being hollowed out one essential service at a time. Whether it is losing their last bank or struggling to keep a doctor in town, locals are being...
- Acquired Brain Injury (1 speech)
I rise to speak about acquired brain injury, also known as ABI. I recently met with a constituent, Nicola Harris, who bravely and generously shared her story with me, to advocate for better...
- Bowman Electorate: National Police Remembrance Day (1 speech)
I recently had the honour of attending the National Police Remembrance Day service hosted by the Redlands branch of the Queensland Retired Police Association. Each year on 29 September, we pause...
- Youth Voice in Parliament (4 speeches)
Every year Raise Our Voice invites young Australians to tackle the big questions shaping our future. This year's Macquarie winner is Rohan, and I'm delighted to read part of his speech, which...
- Statements on Significant Matters (0 speeches)
- Racial Discrimination Act 1975: 50th Anniversary (7 speeches)
I'm incredibly proud to be one of the 15 per cent of Australians of Chinese heritage in my local electorate on Brisbane's south side—Moreton. My family immigrated to this country from China...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Wannon Electorate: Child Care, Rural and Regional Health Services (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to talk about the need for action when it comes to child care in my electorate of Wannon. We currently have a childcare drought in the electorate of Wannon, and we need...
- Hourigan, Dr Colette (1 speech)
Today I'd like to recognise, in this parliament, an outstanding medical professional and doctor on the Central Coast: Dr Colette Hourigan. Dr Hourigan's career has included a number of unique and...
- Energy (1 speech)
Don't you just love it when the whip's office rings you up as says, ' Can you do an adjournment speech and gives you five minutes notice'? Anyway, it's called running the political ball up, and...
- Chisholm Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
On Friday 24 October, I was delighted to host my fourth Caroline Chisholm Volunteer Awards ceremony. My electorate is named for Caroline Chisholm, arguably Australia's most famous volunteer. This...
- Camden Country Women's Association: 95th Anniversary (1 speech)
I rise today to shine a light on the Camden branch of the Country Women's Association, which is proudly based in my electorate of Hume. Recently I had the pleasure of attending their...
- Mental Health, AgriFutures Rural Women's Award (1 speech)
Can I say what a leisure it is to be able to get up in this place and talk about mental health in our community, given that October is mental health month across the globe. It's really a time to...
