House debates
Thursday, 5 March 2026
- Prime Minister of Canada (0 speeches)
- Address to Parliament (4 speeches)
On behalf of the House I welcome, as guests, the President of the Senate and honourable senators to this sitting of the House of Representatives to hear an address by the Rt Hon. Mark Carney,...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
Under Labor, Australia has experienced the largest decline in living standards in the developed world. Insurance premiums are up 39 per cent, rent is up 22 per cent, health insurance is up 18 per...
- Women in Sport, Middle East (1 speech)
Tonight the Matildas play Iran at the AFC Women's Asian Cup. Whilst I will be wholeheartedly supporting the Aussies to get the win, I would like to use this time in this House to acknowledge the...
- World Heritage Areas (1 speech)
Recently I ran 37 kilometres through the forest in Takayna to experience firsthand its beauty, with massive trees spanning like sentinels of time. It made one thing very clear: some places are...
- The Big Issue (1 speech)
Most Sundays, locals in Manly in my electorate of Bonner are welcomed by the kindness and big smile of Grant, who is one of our Big Issue sellers. Grant is also known as 'Polite Grant', and has...
- South Australia: Roads, Cost of Living (1 speech)
Recent torrential rains brought devastating flooding to outback South Australia. Remote communities like Oodnadatta are cut off and roads, like Kemp Road, between some of Australia's largest and...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
Today I join Minister Mulino, Minister Plibersek and Assistant Minister Kearney to announce our commitment to ensuring that superannuation delivers financial security and dignity, not outcomes...
- Kooyong Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
Last week I met with Kooyong residents whose homes backed directly onto the Eastern Freeway. While I was standing with them, a work crew arrived unannounced to cut down trees next to their homes....
- Sassafras Wesley Vale Irrigation Scheme (1 speech)
Last Saturday I was pleased to attend the official commencement of construction of the Sassafras Wesley Vale Irrigation Scheme augmentation, a significant milestone for Braddon farming...
- Energy (1 speech)
Nowhere more than in our energy markets is the decline in living standards and the cost-of-living crisis demonstrated. This recently was driven home for me by Steve, from Caringbah South. After...
- Solomon Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
We had some major announcements in Solomon, my electorate, in Darwin and Palmerston last month. The location of the Darwin Medicare urgent care clinic was announced, as well as the successful...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
Australians are currently struggling through a cost-of-living crisis where living standards have gone backwards. We have seen the worst collapse in living standards in the developed world, with...
- Australian Defence Force: Space (1 speech)
The space domain is critical to defence operations and is recognised as an operational domain alongside air, land and maritime. The Australian Defence Force relies on access to space systems and...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
Yesterday the Prime Minister stood in this chamber and told Australians that Australia's economy is performing better than that of any other OECD nation in the world—a tone-deaf assertion,...
- Holt Electorate: Holi (1 speech)
I want to begin by wishing all Australians of Indian heritage in Holt and across Australia a very happy Holi. Holi celebrates the arrival of spring, the triumph of good over evil, and people...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
Under Labor, living standards have not only gone backwards; they are in such a poor and parlous state at the moment that ordinary, everyday Australians are wondering when they're going to make...
- Gilmore Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
Today is a fantastic day because today the doors of the brand-new Nowra Medicare urgent care clinic opened. The clinic is a huge win for my community and will take pressure off the busy emergency...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
The Prime Minister keeps telling Australians he's very positive about the economy and that his government is doing the lot on the cost of living. If doing the lot means delivering lower living...
- Ukraine (1 speech)
Recently, I was honoured to join with our local Ukrainian community at Kangaroo Point in my electorate of Griffith for a solemn vigil in remembrance and solidarity. It was an emotional evening as...
- Economy (1 speech)
At the moment in the United States, their inflation rate is 2.4 per cent. Inflation in the euro bloc is 1.9 per cent. Inflation in Australia, as we in this chamber all know, is 3.8 per cent. Why...
- Cost of Living (2 speeches)
Yesterday we heard that the shadow Treasurer tried to short Australia. He tried to short Billy Joel as well, but that's another story. He tried to bet against us and he hoped for our nation to...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Cometti, Mr Dennis John, AM (2 speeches)
on indulgence—Today Australians right across this great sport-loving nation of ours will be mourning the passing of one of our best loved commentators. Dennis Cometti was a proud son of...
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Farrer Electorate; Issue of Writ (1 speech)
I inform the House that it is my intention to issue a writ on Wednesday 1 April 2026 for the election of a member to serve for the electoral division of Farrer in the state of New South Wales to...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Economy (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that, according to yesterday's data, since 2022 the only growth in the economy has been due to immigration and Australians...
- International Relations: Australia and Canada (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister outline the significance and outcomes of Canadian prime minister Mark Carney's visit to Australia? How is the Albanese Labor...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Acknowledgement (1 speech)
I'm pleased to inform the House that, as the Prime Minister indicated, the Hon. David J McGuinty, the Canadian minister of national defence, is in the distinguished visitors gallery today. I'm...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Migration (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that, according to yesterday's data, population growth driven by immigration has grown by 1.9 million since 2022? At the same...
- Critical and Strategic Minerals Industry (2 speeches)
My question is the Minister for Resources. How is the Albanese Labor government working with international partners like Canada to strengthen the global supply chain of critical minerals and...
- Political Advertising (8 speeches)
To the Prime Minister: a far-right activist group—the organisation to which, incredibly, the husband of the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism donated—recently platformed abhorrent...
- Middle East (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister update the House on Australian government assistance and advice to Australian nationals impacted by conflict in the Middle East?
- Economy (31 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Yesterday's data confirms that, in the final quarter of 2025, public demand grew faster than private demand. At the same time, inflation started resurging. Does...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Acknowledgement (1 speech)
I'm pleased to inform the House that we've now been joined on the floor of the chamber by an important parliamentary delegation from the parliament of Ukraine, led by Dr Galyna Mykhailiuk. On...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. On Labor's cost-of-living crisis, my constituent Brett told me, 'There is no money left after our mortgage, bills and groceries are paid for,' while Russell...
- Fuel Security (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. What steps has the Albanese Labor government taken to improve Australia's fuel security and sovereign capability? Why did the...
- Cost of Living (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. In my electorate of Hinkler, demand for emergency relief is skyrocketing. The Hervey Bay Neighbourhood Centre usually serves 80 meals to those in need every...
- Housing (7 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing, the Minister for Homelessness and the Minister for Cities. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to help Australians get into their first home,...
- Gas Industry (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Corporate profiteering by big gas corporations skyrocketed after the invasion of Ukraine, causing rising power bills, and it's about to happen again, thanks...
- Schools (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. What progress is being made to boost high school completion rates and student attendance? What are the risks?
- Middle East (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Multicultural Affairs. Has the minister investigated all funding commitments, both secret and public, made by the Albanese Labor government to extremist Islamic...
- Aged Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the minister for aged care. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering for aged-care workers and the people that they care for? Why is this necessary and how does it differ...
- Gambling Advertising (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications. It's almost three years since the Murphy report unanimously recommended a phase-out of gambling advertising. When will you be tabling the...
- Veterans (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel. How is the Albanese Labor government supporting our veteran community, and how does this compare to what...
- Middle East (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Multicultural Affairs. Has the minister investigated all funding commitments made to organisations who have mourned the death of the evil Ayatollah Khomeini?
- Health Care (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Minister, how is the Albanese Labor government making medicines cheaper for all Australians after a decade of cuts and neglect, and how are...
- Elder Abuse (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. At least one in six older people report experiencing elder abuse and neglect—financial, familial, psychological and physical. There has been no...
- Workplace Relations (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. How is the Albanese Labor government improving outcomes for Australian workers, and what has been the response?
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Personal Explanation (13 speeches)
Before I get to the member for Goldstein—it's in an order of precedence, how I'm approached—we'll deal with the member for Clark, who is claiming a misrepresentation. Do you claim to...
- Parliamentary Office Holders (0 speeches)
- Speaker's Panel (1 speech)
Pursuant to standing order 17, I lay on the table my warrant revoking the nomination of the honourable member for Forrest and nominating the honourable member for Wright to be a member of the...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 23 of 2025-26 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's Performance Audit Report No. 23 of 2025-26 entitled Suicide prevention policy development and monitoring—Department of Health, Disability and Ageing....
- Documents (0 speeches)
- 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.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (18 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Goldstein proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: "The decline of...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
The government is failing families trying to balance their weekly budget. Cost-of-living pressures are hitting hard, and now, with the war in the Middle East, it's only going to get worse. The...
- McEwen Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
The Albanese Labor government is building Australia's future, and there's no better place to see that than in the myriad of road projects that are underway in our communities in McEwen. From the...
- Economy, Cost of Living (1 speech)
Another term for inflation is 'cost of living'. The cost-of-living crisis in Australia is much worse than it is in many other countries because our inflation rate is much higher than it is in...
- Social Cohesion (1 speech)
A bishop, a rabbi and an imam walked into a room. I confess that this line was actually stolen from Imam Kamran Tahir, who started his iftar speech by noting that this is in fact usually the...
- Bowman Electorate: Disaster and Emergency Management (1 speech)
It is a pleasure to have my first opportunity to speak from the dispatch box. I am pleased that I have the opportunity to be up front here because the topics I want to cover tonight are matters...
- Lingiari Electorate: Employment (1 speech)
I rise to speak about a great development and work being done in my home community on the Tiwi Islands. Last year, a community workforce plan was delivered by the Tiwi Islands Training &...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- O'Dea, Mrs Judi (1 speech)
I draw the attention of the House to the passing of Judi O'Dea, an iconic woman of Brisbane's northside who passed away very suddenly on Saturday night. She is mourned very deeply by the Brisbane...
