House debates
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
- Parliamentary Representation (0 speeches)
- Members Sworn (1 speech)
I have received a return of the writ which I issued on 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 fill the vacancy...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (7 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the following from occurring on Tuesday, 2 June and Wednesday, 3 June 2026: (1) standing order 33 (limit on...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (3 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent: (1) government business order of the day No. 2, Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Reform No. 1) Bill 2026 being...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Budget, Veterans (1 speech)
I rise today to voice the disappointment of the Central West veteran community following the recent budget. The budget did not deliver any direct funding for any new veterans' and families'...
- Western Australia: Storms, Bullwinkel Electorate: Communications Infrastructure (1 speech)
After that earlier earbashing, I'd like to talk about the storms that have been bashing WA. Over the weekend we had a severe, one-in-50-year weather event in Perth and in the south-west of WA. I...
- Energy (1 speech)
For years, Australians have been told the same thing: renewable energy was the cheapest form of power. We were told that net zero would deliver lower electricity prices. And we were told that, if...
- Workplace Relations, Housing (1 speech)
This Monday, 8 June, is a public holiday in New South Wales, which will mean a bit of well-earned time off for so many young workers across the state, and well-earned penalty rates for those that...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
Older Australians should not be stuck on a months-long waiting list for Support at Home care that they've already been approved to receive, but right now that's exactly what's happening. In...
- Barton Electorate: Eid al-Adha (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge and celebrate Advanced Diversity Services' Eid al-Adha celebration on Sunday 31 May. I particularly want to acknowledge Dr Mona Qasim, a Palestinian refugee and neurosurgeon...
- Taxation (1 speech)
Australians are doing it tough, and nowhere is that felt more clearly than in communities like Capricornia. Families, small businesses and workers are battling rising costs, higher interest rates...
- Budget (3 speeches)
The recent federal budget contained many measures directed at backing small business, including the hundreds that operate across my electorate of Sturt, stimulating our local economy and...
- Water (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate and thank the Crisafulli government, particularly water minister Ann Leahy, who has recently announced that she will review the water licence issued to a Chinese company to...
- Budget (9 speeches)
Budgets are ultimately about choices. This budget makes a clear choice: it chooses workers, first home buyers and a tax system that rewards work, not just asset ownership. For too long, young...
- Housing (1 speech)
Yesterday, I was delighted to welcome the Treasurer back to Stones Corner on Brisbane's south side to see firsthand how a secure home can transform a person's life. The last time the Treasurer...
- Budget (5 speeches)
This is a tricky government that says one thing and does another. It might talk about lower taxes, but the reality is this budget is delivering $77 billion in higher taxes for the Australian...
- Wages and Salaries (2 speeches)
On this side of the chamber, we stand firmly with workers and their families. We back workers on the minimum wage and the modern award and welcome the decision by the Fair Work Commission to...
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Deputy Prime Minister will be absent from question time today. The Minister for Defence Industry will answer questions on his behalf.
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Taxation (18 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Last week, the Treasury secretary defended Labor's toxic taxes by saying: … revenue needs to be raised from somewhere … Will the Prime Minister...
- Wages and Salaries (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. How has the Albanese Labor government fought for higher wages, including for minimum wage and award-reliant workers, after a...
- Budget (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister confirm that Australians will pay $77 billion more tax than they get back?
- Wages and Salaries (4 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to help workers earn more and keep more of what they earn? How does that compare to other approaches?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Acknowledgement (1 speech)
Before I call the next question, I just want to do a few acknowledgements. I'm pleased to inform the House that present in the gallery today is His Excellency Mr Vijitha Herath, the Sri Lankan...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Environment (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water. Regional communities host renewable energy projects critical to our energy transition, and they want better...
- Budget (10 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How is the Albanese Labor government making sure that Australians can earn more and keep more of what they earn? How does the recent budget help to deliver...
- Housing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing. Why are the Albanese Labor government's recent housing reforms so important for first home buyers, and there are any risks to this important work?
- Budget (6 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. Can the Treasurer confirm that Labor's toxic tax bills grant him extraordinary powers to slash the $250 tax offset to zero whenever he likes, without taking it...
- Taxation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer. How will the Albanese Labor government's new tax reforms deliver a fairer and simpler tax system that supports workers, investments and younger...
- Housing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing. The government's toxic tax bills do not define what a new build is. If someone builds a new second dwelling on an existing title, is the whole title...
- Energy (4 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. How is the Albanese Labor government's plan for cheaper and cleaner energy delivering for Australian households and businesses?
- Aged Care (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Aged Care and Seniors. Greg has motor neurone disease with an expected 12 months left to live. Greg is approved for a level 8 Support at Home package but was...
- Maritime Strategic Fleet (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. How is the Albanese Labor government's strategic fleet helping communities like mine...
- Housing (18 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing. A secret internal RBA memo says that migration policy is a 'main way that the government influences the housing market'. This government has brought in...
- Vocational Education and Training (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Skills and Training. How is the Albanese Labor government's free TAFE program backing Australians into the jobs we need? Is the future of free TAFE certain?
- Gambling (7 speeches)
My question is for the Minister for Communications. The Reverend Tim Costello today described gambling company inducements, such as bonus bets and boosted odds, as 'the most evil, predatory...
- Health Care (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering life-changing cheaper medicines after a decade of cuts and neglect?
- Auditor-General's Reports (0 speeches)
- Report No. 35 of 2025-26 (1 speech)
I present the Auditor-General's performance audit report No. 35 of 2025-26, entitled Administration of investigations in Defence: Department of Defence. Document made a parliamentary paper.
- 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)
- Aukus (19 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Wentworth proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The government's...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Fowler Future Fest (1 speech)
Like many in this House, I believe in the skills and the talent of our young generation and in their power to shape our communities and society, and I believe it is our role to give them the...
- Critical and Strategic Minerals Industry, Hughes Electorate: Sport (1 speech)
There has never been a more important time for building science capacity, and the Albanese Labor government is developing science capacity and expanding Australia's rare-earth processing...
- Taxation (1 speech)
The Albanese Labor government's negative gearing and capital gains tax changes demonstrate their inclination to tax ambition first and justify it later. Now Labor is once again reaching deeper...
- Employment (1 speech)
In the last term of government, I was honoured to sit on the Select Committee on Workforce Australia Employment Services, chaired by my friend the member for Bruce. We heard some horrible...
- Budget (1 speech)
The biggest tax hike in this year's budget isn't on billionaires. It's on ordinary Australians who have spent decades building assets and planning for their retirement so as not to be a burden on...
- Iranian Australian Community (1 speech)
It is a great honour to represent the largest Iranian community in Australia in my electorate of Menzies. They are our business owners, colleagues, artists, volunteers and friends and our...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Environment (1 speech)
The grievance I want noted today is the continual encroachment of socialism into the private assets of people on the land. It is done by caveat upon caveat and under the mask of things such as...
- Coalition, Pauline Hanson's One Nation (1 speech)
I rise in this grievance debate to address the demise of Australia's second-oldest political party, the National Party of Australia. It's indeed a sad day when the party of Tim Fischer, Doug...
- Hinkler Electorate: Aged Care, Budget (1 speech)
A hospice delivers a special kind of care: end of life care. A hospice provides an environment that feels like home with a focus on dignity, comfort and compassion. This is something everyone...
- Holt Local Business Excellence Awards, National Volunteer Week, Holt Electorate: Civics Education (1 speech)
I recently had the pleasure of hosting the very first Holt Local Business Excellence Awards. Small businesses are the heartbeat of Holt. Whether it's a cafe, a trade business, a professional...
- Small Business, Monash Electorate: Infrastructure, Sovereign Capability, Superannuation (2 speeches)
Back in April, we had a joint media release from the Treasurer and the Minister for Small Business announcing with much fanfare that small businesses under stress because of the fuel crisis would...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Capricornia Electorate: Tourism Industry (1 speech)
I recently had the pleasure of attending the Brian Dorey OAM Capricorn Coast Aquatic Centre and visiting Koorana Crocodile Farm on the Capricorn Coast. They are very different places, but both...
- Sturt Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
The On Statenborough retirement village at Leabrook in my electorate of Sturt is not your ordinary retirement village, as I found out when I visited the village to speak to the residents as part...
- South Australia's History Festival (1 speech)
South Australia's History Festival has just wrapped up a month of events celebrating people, places and stories that have shaped our state. This year's theme was 'connections', exploring links...
- Health Care (1 speech)
Health is not only the bedrock of individual wellbeing; it defines the quality of life within our families and across our communities. I know it matters enormously to the people I represent. I've...
- Roads (1 speech)
Despite being talked about for more than 40 years, plans to build a bypass on the Princes Highway around Traralgon have stalled due to a lack of action by the Labor Party at both the state and...
- Medicare, Defence (1 speech)
There are now thirty-seven 100 per cent bulk-billing clinics in the electorate of Bendigo. It is a huge achievement and something that I'm very proud that our government has delivered. To put...
- General Practitioners, Dunn, Mr James Thomas (1 speech)
Men's Health Week is later this month, with the same theme of 'see your GP', which is an important message to a group of Australians who statistically ignore their health concerns. On the whole,...
- Housing (1 speech)
The Albanese Labor government wants to help more young people realise their dream of homeownership, and I'd certainly like to see more people in my electorate—individuals, couples and young...
- Barker Electorate: Generations in Jazz, Barker Volunteer Awards (1 speech)
Earlier this year in my electorate, we recognised an important milestone. It was the 40th anniversary of Generations in Jazz. It's a festival that takes place in my electorate every year, and it...
- Franklin Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
I rise today to talk about the important investments in infrastructure that the Albanese Labor government is making in Tasmania and particularly in my electorate—over $2 billion statewide....
- Budget (1 speech)
The Australian public are now aware that they are being fleeced by their government to the tune of $77 billion in new taxes. But the moral case that the government has been making is that this is...
- Wurdi Baierr Aquatic and Recreation Centre (1 speech)
For decades, people across Torquay and the Surf Coast in my electorate of Corangamite have dreamt about an aquatic and recreation centre that would meet the needs of a growing community. Today...
- Cook Electorate: Acknowledgements (1 speech)
I'd like to acknowledge the Cronulla RSL club and the Cronulla RSL sub-branch for organising War Animal Day. It's a commemorative service that honours the animals that have served alongside...
- World Eating Disorders Action Day (1 speech)
Today marks World Eating Disorders Action Day, and this year's theme is 'Stop stigma. Start care. Together'. More than 1.1 million Australians experience an eating disorder each year, and more...
- Page Electorate: Sport, Bonalbo Country Women's Association (1 speech)
I'd like to acknowledge and congratulate two competitors from the Grafton Athletics Club and their recent success at the Australian Athletics Championships held in Sydney. William Tait, who...
- Henzell Street Quilters, Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
For longer than I can remember, the Henzell Street Quilters have been the very fabric of the Petrie community, creating intricate, colourful and creative quilts. Last Friday I got to pop into...
- Have Your Say Day (1 speech)
I recently attended Have Your Say Day. This is a fabulous youth-led initiative that gives young people across the northern beaches a platform whereby they can engage directly with their elected...
- Business Hunter, Newcastle Pride (1 speech)
I want to celebrate an extraordinary milestone: 140 years of Business Hunter. Since 1886, Business Hunter has been the driving force for industry, enterprise and economic growth across our...
- Box Rallies (1 speech)
I want to recognise two amazing local Berowra heroes in what, for parliamentary purposes, we might call the S-box rally. It involves driving a car worth less than $1,500, covering 4,000...
- OzFish, Citizenship, Modernised Multicultural Grant Program (2 speeches)
If you've ever enjoyed a fresh oyster at a Brisbane restaurant, there is a good chance that that shell ended up at OzFish, helping restore the reef in Moreton Bay in my electorate of Bonner....
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2026-2027; Consideration in Detail (10 speeches)
Before the Federation Chamber considers the first portfolio, I would like to remind all members of the purpose of the consideration in detail stage and outline the way that it is expected to...
- Defence Portfolio (29 speeches)
It has never been more important to do two things: ensure that the brave men and women of our defence force are properly equipped and ensure that Australia's strategy of denial is more than just...
