House debates
Monday, 25 May 2026
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Petitions Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the 10th report of the Petitions Committee for the 48th Parliament. The report read as follows— HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PETITIONS COMMITTEE REPORT No. 10 Petitions and...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
I present the following 186 petitions:
- Responses (1 speech)
I present the following nine ministerial responses to petitions presented previously:
- Statements (1 speech)
The petitions presented cover a range of topics, including menstrual leave entitlements, Iran, foreign interference, historic Defence sites, arts, education and training, and the Australian...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (9 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes the Government has repeatedly broken promises to Australians on cost of living, energy prices, and housing affordability, leaving families worse off...
- Budget (8 speeches)
I move: That this House notes that: (1) the Government is delivering a further $2 billion of investment in infrastructure to enable new housing, and that this brings the Government's total...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Mackellar Electorate: National Volunteer Week (1 speech)
Last week was Volunteer Week. In Mackellar, we gathered to recognise and thank our community's wonderful volunteers, and 44 outstanding volunteers received special recognition awards, having been...
- Budget (2 speeches)
Over the last few days, I've had many conversations with hardworking small businesses on the planned changes to capital gains tax. I want to thank all those businesses I've spoken with,...
- Menzies Electorate: Community Organisations (1 speech)
The hockey season is underway, and it was great to get to Doncaster Hockey Club for their seniors game against Waverley and the opening of their new minipitch. I even got to witness the...
- Defence Properties: Woodside Barracks (1 speech)
More than 200 people attended a Defence community information session about the Woodside Barracks, and I'm very pleased to see the assistant minister is here in the chamber. That's how important...
- Every One Cafe (1 speech)
I recently had the pleasure of visiting Every One Cafe in my electorate of Holt and spending time with the amazing team there. This is a truly special place. Every One Cafe provides hands-on...
- Budget (1 speech)
Treasurer, you're running this great country into the ground. You're punishing hard work, penalising aspiration and attacking enterprise—attributes that have made this country great. The...
- Volunteering (1 speech)
Last week was National Volunteer Week, when we recognise and celebrate the incredible volunteers that are the lifeblood of our communities. The region I'm humbled to represent has more than 300...
- Albanese Government (5 speeches)
We're four years into the Albanese government, and all we've had is a litany of broken promises. We've had higher taxes, more debt, a higher cost of living and a whole range of antibusiness...
- Budget (1 speech)
This is the most socialist budget since Whitlam. Labor's budget fails South Australia. It brings more debt, higher taxes and no real cost-of-living relief to our country towns. It cuts...
- Volunteering (1 speech)
I want to join my colleague the member for Petrie in recognising National Volunteer Week last week and celebrating some of the most inspiring people across Maribyrnong. We're very fortunate in...
- Budget (1 speech)
Labor's budget not only smashed savings, hard work, risk and endeavour; it crushed aspiration for future generations—addressing intergenerational equality, my foot! Their cynical disregard...
- International Wine Day (1 speech)
Today we celebrate International Wine Day, which for many Australians sounds less like an international occasion and more like a perfectly responsible Monday evening plan. For thousands of years,...
- Budget (1 speech)
People in Western Sydney are not living in some Canberra fantasy. They are tired of being treated like the districts in The Hunger Games, expected to do the hard labour, carry the economy on...
- Health Care (1 speech)
The Albanese government's focus on strengthening Medicare has delivered on a range of commitments to benefit all Australians. For Territorians, I'm proud to say that today the Darwin urgent care...
- Budget (1 speech)
Two weeks ago, the PM and his Treasurer delivered a budget that confirmed this Labor government is the highest taxing government in Australian history. After the backlash, they're desperately...
- Environment (1 speech)
For over 20 years, the Yarra Riverkeeper Association have campaigned for protection and sustainability for the Yarra/Birrarung river. The heart of their work is about maintaining the waterways...
- Budget (2 speeches)
The verdict is in. This is the worst budget Australia has seen since Paul Keating's in 1993. The Prime Minister gave a promise that there would be no changes to negative gearing and no changes to...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (18 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Over the past week, I've spoken to hundreds of hardworking Australians across every corner of our country that have had one question they want to ask of the...
- Housing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing, Minister for Homelessness and Minister for Cities. How are the Albanese Labor government's housing reforms helping first homebuyers trying to buy a...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Acknowledgement (1 speech)
I am pleased to welcome to the House as guests of the member for Monash a delegation from Fallen Diggers, a not-for-profit organisation dedicating their time to finding the remains of missing...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Many young Australians are angry at the government for extending CGT changes beyond investment properties. After paying for high rents or while just managing with...
- Fuel Security (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. How does the Albanese Labor government's budget strengthen Australia's fuel security? How does this compare with previous policies on...
- Budget (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Janet from Queensland has a child living with Down syndrome.
- Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. How is the Albanese Labor government working to reduce family, domestic and sexual violence?
- Budget (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Forty young Australian founders have written an open letter to the Prime Minister saying: 'Rather than back us, the Prime Minister has ambushed us with a...
- Defence Industry (2 speeches)
My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. How is the Albanese Labor government securing well-paid jobs in South Australia through historic investments in Defence? What indecision and...
- Budget (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Aaron has written in about how Labor's tax changes will affect him. He says: 'I'm 39 and am supporting a young family with two children. I've been carefully...
- Migration (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. How is the Albanese Labor government reforming our migration system? How does this compare to other approaches to migration?
- Donations to Political Parties (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Could the Prime Minister please inform the House if there were lobbyists or representatives of the gas industry at the Labor Party's budget night fundraiser?
- Small Business (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Small Business. How is the Albanese Labor government continuing to deliver for Australian small businesses in the face of global uncertainty?
- Veterans (21 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's broken promise to ration allied health services for veterans at $5,000 per year. How many veterans will be out of pocket and...
- Budget (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. How does the Albanese Labor government's budget build on the government's commitment to backing Australian workers? How does...
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Reports No. 32-33 of 2025-26 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's reports No. 32 of 2025-26 Administration of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 by Selected Entitiesand No.33 Defence's Collins Class Submarines Life of Type...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Education Committee; Membership (2 speeches)
I have received advice from the Chief Government Whip nominating a member to be a supplementary member of the Standing Committee on Education for the purpose of the committee's inquiry into the...
- Public Works Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, I present the committee's report Report 3/2026—referrals made in November 2025. Report made a parliamentary paper in...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Daniher, Mr Neale Francis, AO (3 speeches)
on indulgence—With the passing of Neale Daniher, we all grieve for a great Australian. On behalf of the government and the people of Australia, I offer our heartfelt condolences to the...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (1 speech)
It becomes more apparent every day that there are people this Labor government has forgotten. Across the country, people are more anxious, more stressed and more worried about how they're going...
- Artisan Precinct Initiative (1 speech)
Through the RPPP funding, the Albanese Labor government will deliver $9.6 million for the Artisan Precinct Initiative, a social enterprise hub in Braddon. In Wynyard on Tasmania's north-west...
- Veterans (1 speech)
I have the privilege to represent a region that is home to over 9,000 veterans and their families. That is the largest cohort in New South Wales. These are selfless men and women who have served...
- Renewable Energy (1 speech)
One of the consequences of the war in the Middle East and the international fuel crisis has been that it has demonstrated to us the importance of having secure power sources here at home....
- Indigenous Australians: Northern Territory Stolen Wages (1 speech)
I rise to highlight an injustice which is occurring among Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory, which the minister is refusing to address. The Northern Territory stolen wages class...
- Music Education, Blue Mountains: State Emergency Service (1 speech)
I want to speak about one of the most effective tools we have to improve learning outcomes, student behaviour, wellbeing and engagement. I'm talking about music education in our primary schools....
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Budget (1 speech)
There's been a lot of noise around this budget, and I'm worried we're going to lose sight of something important. This budget contains a genuine step forward to level the playing field on...
- Lalor Electorate: Pacific Island Community, Parliament in Schools, Lalor Electorate: Anzac Day (1 speech)
On 28 April, I had the pleasure of attending a Pacific community roundtable hosted by the Grange P-12 College in my electorate, alongside the Assistant Minister for Pacific Island Affairs,...
- Lindsay Electorate: Volunteering (1 speech)
Right now, in the middle of a relentless cost-of-living crisis, community spirit has never been more important. Behind the economic statistics are real Australians skipping meals, turning off...
- Hunter Wetlands Centre, Milsom, Ms Rosemarie (1 speech)
I rise today to celebrate one of Newcastle's true environmental treasures, the Hunter Wetlands Centre, and its recent feature on the ABC's iconic television program Gardening Australia. For...
- Budget (1 speech)
I rise on behalf of my electorates and indeed the south-west corner of Western Australia to express our profound disappointment at being ignored and left completely high and dry by the Labor...
- Working Women's Centre New South Wales (1 speech)
I recently visited the Working Women's Centre New South Wales, located in my electorate, with the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Amanda Rishworth. The centre is a free...
- Senior Australians (1 speech)
If you're over 65 on the Mornington Peninsula, Labor's latest budget is likely to rip hundreds of dollars out of your pocket just to keep the private health insurance you've been relying on for...
- Women's Shed Canberra, Volunteering (1 speech)
I wish to congratulate Women's Shed Canberra, based at Lake Tuggeranong, on receiving a Local Jobs, Local People grant. The women's shed will run a 15-month project to establish a hands-on...
- 2026 Fairfax Volunteer Awards, Fairfax Electorate: Homelessness (1 speech)
It is volunteers that hold our community together. Last week, I was delighted to host the 2026 Fairfax Volunteer Awards ceremony. I want to congratulate Sylvia Whiting, Myshell Hyde, Birte...
- Cybersafety (2 speeches)
We welcome work experience kids into our office very regularly. One of the tasks that we set them is to write me a speech. They are not given any oversight. It is completely their words, because...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Donations to Political Parties (8 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) despite the overwhelming support of the Australian people for gas corporations to pay their fair share for our resources, the Government has instead...
- Endometriosis (10 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) acknowledges the opening of an additional 11 endometriosis and pelvic pain clinics across Australia, with all 33 clinics now open, supporting women and girls; and (2)...
- Private Health Insurance (8 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes the Government's decision to cut the private health insurance rebate for Australians over 65, which will significantly increase health costs for older...
- Security and Defence Partnership between the Commonwealth of Australia and the European Union (11 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) acknowledges the significance of the recent signing of the Australia-European Union Security and Defence Partnership; (2) notes that this broad-ranging partnership...
- Invasive Species Management: Carp (4 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) acknowledges that the: (a) Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has reported that: (i) common or European carp (Cyprinus carpio) is an invasive...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Mayo Electorate: Australia's Biggest Morning Tea (1 speech)
It was incredibly moving to not just attend but to open one of South Australia's most successful Australia's Biggest Morning Tea fundraisers. And that was at Macclesfield in my community of Mayo...
- Canberra Electorate: Volunteering (1 speech)
Last week was National Volunteer Week, and I just want to take a second to acknowledge the incredibly important work of all the volunteers in our Canberra community, whether it's the people who...
- Wentworth Electorate: Early Childhood Education and Care (1 speech)
I want to speak today about an issue that is raised constantly by the people of Wentworth: child care—specifically cost, access and safety. Australia has some of the highest childcare costs...
- Pearce Electorate: Thriving Suburbs Program (1 speech)
The incorporated speech read as follows— It was a pleasure to attend the grand opening of the Drukpa Community Hall this month and to see this important project come to fruition after the...
- Warringah Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
The Joy of Giving Hub and Swap in the City show how community led action can make sustainability accessible, joyful and a community building exercise. I'm delighted to recognise these two...
- Daniher, Mr Neale Francis, AO, McLean, Mr Michael (Magic) (1 speech)
As I rise, I've just received a note from my staff to say that the AFL legend and motor neurone disease campaigner Neale Daniher has passed, so I wanted to pass on my and my family's condolences...
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1 speech)
CSIRO, our peak research body, with a large presence in Ryan, has just cut another 92 jobs. This is after cutting 800 jobs over the last two years. Many of these latest jobs were crucial roles in...
- Norwood Football Club, Young, Ms Ashleigh (1 speech)
On Saturday 23rd May 2026, I attended the South Australian National Football League Women's clash between the mighty Norwood Redlegs and the North Adelaide Roosters. Despite putting on a solid...
- Wide Bay Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
Agricultural shows are among the oldest and most enduring community events in Australia, showcasing the best of what the regions have to offer. They raise awareness of our regional strengths and...
- Harrison, Robert Joseph (Bob), OAM (1 speech)
I rise today to recognise Bob Harrison OAM, who passed away in April at the age of 91. Bob was born in Goulburn and moved to Port Kembla in 1953 to work for Australian Iron & Steel, which...
- Labor Government (1 speech)
Last Thursday, more than 100 locals joined me at Meridan Community Church for my 2026 federal budget and cost-of-living forum. The message from the community was loud and clear. People are...
- Hunter Electorate: Wine Industry (1 speech)
The Hunter Valley has done it again. We all know the Hunter produces the best wine in the country and, I would argue, the best wine anywhere in the world. Now we've got another award to prove it....
- Budget (2 speeches)
Regional Western Australians are hurting. Families and small businesses are all struggling to stay afloat, and workers are seeing their wages disappear with inflation. Labor's response is the...
- Walk for Truth (1 speech)
On National Sorry Day and at the beginning of National Reconciliation Week, we reflect on the truth of our shared history and the responsibility we all carry to walk forward together. Sorry Day...
- Budget (1 speech)
Labor's budget sends a very clear message to Australians who work hard, save hard and take risks: if you dare to get ahead, this government is coming after you. This budget is an assault on...
- Gilmore Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
Friday was a fantastic day in my electorate, with the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, joining me and local state MPs to cut the ribbon on the long-awaited Jervis Bay flyover. This is the...
- Budget (1 speech)
Today I rise to speak on behalf of the seniors of O'Connor, who are being unfairly targeted by the Albanese government in the budget. These are the Australians who have worked hard their entire...
- Menzies Electorate: Volunteers (1 speech)
Last Wednesday evening was a pretty special one in my community of Menzies. I was honoured to host the 2026 Menzies volunteer awards night, to acknowledge the incredible people in our community...
- Roads (1 speech)
Last Friday, the Albanese Labor government and the Allan Labor government made an announcement. They said that the Western Highway duplication between Buangor and Ararat was going to be finished....
- Banks Electorate: De La Salle College Revesby Heights (1 speech)
During the last sitting week, I had the opportunity to recognise the Speaker's Parliament in Schools program coming to a school in my electorate of Banks. This week, though, I have the...
- Veterans (1 speech)
In the past week, my offices in Bundaberg and Hervey Bay have received dozens of emails and a mountain of calls. As I've travelled across Hinkler with my mobile office to Pialba, Woodgate,...
- Grayden, Hon. William Leonard (Bill), AM (1 speech)
Today, I would like to mark the passing of the Hon. Bill Grayden AM, who died on 28 April at the extraordinary age of 105. Bill Grayden held the federal seat of Swan for the Liberal Party from...
- Daniher, Mr Neale Francis, AO, Backpacks 4 SA Kids (1 speech)
I'd like to acknowledge the passing of a great man today—Neale Daniher. He showed Australia what courage, dignity and purpose truly look like, even as he faced the cruelty of MND. He turned...
- Wellers Hill State School, Yeronga Eagles Football Club (1 speech)
There were many blue cupcakes arranged into the shape of the number 100 and surrounded by an absolutely huge crowd. It was this Sunday, and it was at Wellers Hill State School, and they...
- Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre: 50th Anniversary (1 speech)
Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of joining the 50th anniversary of the Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre. The milestone was celebrated with the unveiling of a new portrait honouring the Athenaeum...
- Macquarie Electorate: Government Funding (1 speech)
I welcome the New South Wales government's rollout of a $3.5 million support package for small businesses and councils across the Blue Mountains and Central West who were impacted by the closure...
- Victoria Point Australian Football Club: 60th Anniversary (1 speech)
I rise today to recognise and celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Victoria Point Sharks, a proud pillar of my community. I had the pleasure of attending the club's 60th anniversary dinner on...
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (1 speech)
I rise today to share the experience I had on the weekend when I met Rebecca and her little two-year-old son, Phoenix. Phoenix has spina bifida. He was born with spina bifida. He had a...
- Victoria: Energy (1 speech)
I rise with some great news. On Thursday, I met with over 200 farmers down in St Arnaud at the town hall there. Matt Canavan, the Leader of the Nationals; Darren Chester, the Deputy Leader of the...
- Njoroge-Eaton, Ms Monica (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate Monica Njoroge-Eaton on receiving the New South Wales premier's Community Languages Teacher Medal this year—a thoroughly well deserved award—in...
- Fowler Electorate: Community Events (2 speeches)
There were lots of activities in the electorate of Fowler this weekend. I was really honoured to be invited by the Melkite Catholic community of Liverpool and the beautiful celebration of the...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Cost of Living (12 speeches)
What's clear is that this budget contained many broken promises from a prime minister who said that his word was his bond and that the Australian people could trust him. Well, the Australian...
- Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (11 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that during Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month we raise awareness, support victim survivors and promote zero tolerance for violence in our country;...
- Inland Rail (14 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that Inland Rail was conceived as a nation building freight rail project connecting Melbourne and Brisbane through regional Australia; (2) recognises that...
- Energy (11 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) commends the Government's plan to build Australia's energy sovereignty, alongside growing our fuel reserves and supporting more fuels made in Australia to stay in...
