House debates
Thursday, 2 July 2026
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Standing and Sessional Orders (8 speeches)
on indulgence—When the government seeks to have a debate management motion, there's always discussion in the House as to whether or not that is reasonable. In order for us to make sure that...
- Rearrangement (1 speech)
Under standing order 45(c), I move: That notice No. 5, government business, be called on immediately. Question agreed to.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Social Policy and Legal Affairs Committee; Reference (6 speeches)
Under standing order 143, I move: That the Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026 be referred to the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs for consideration...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Gambling (1 speech)
I seek leave to move the following motion: That the House: (1) notes that this morning the Government introduced useless legislation which will do little to prevent gambling advertising and...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (2 speeches)
Under standing order 45(c), I move: That notice No. 7, government business, be called on immediately.
- 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 Parliamentary Standing...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Parliamentary Standards (1 speech)
I withdraw an unparliamentary remark that I made yesterday during the MPI. In withdrawing that remark, I would also like to apologise to you and to members of this House. I used a word that was...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Gambling Advertising (1 speech)
Labor MPs were sitting around a table with Sportsbet at the Midwinter Ball last night, and this morning they introduced gambling reform designed to appease the gambling lobby. Gambling is a...
- Scrivens, Mr Jeremy Wesley (1 speech)
As family, friends and our community gather at Hidden Valley right now, I rise to acknowledge the passing of my dear friend Jeremy Scrivens, co-founder of Love in Action in Wallan. He was a man...
- Tibet (1 speech)
I recently met with members of Australia's Tibetan community who generously shared their stories and raised the alarm about the Chinese government's escalating cultural genocide against Tibetans....
- Climate Change: Clean Energy (1 speech)
The Albanese Labor government is delivering the investment the Illawarra needs to be a true force in the advanced manufacturing and clean energy industries. Illawarra company Sicona Battery...
- Environmental Conservation (1 speech)
For the last 25 years, even though we've had national laws to protect the places we love, our environment has continued to deteriorate. Experts say that's because our key environmental law, the...
- Moreton Electorate: Rail Infrastructure (1 speech)
If you've ever sat in your car at the Coopers Plains crossing on Boundary Road, you would know that it can feel like an absolute eternity. It's been consistently named by the RACQ as one of the...
- Bangladesh: Human Rights (1 speech)
It is part of our role as decent human beings to shed light on human rights where they are being violated, even if that's not in our own nation. Today, I voiced my concerns about the case of...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
Yesterday was 1 July, a day that saw significant reform from the Albanese Labor government implemented. Starting this week, the Labor government is delivering more cost-of-living relief for...
- Housing (1 speech)
Yesterday, during question time, the Prime Minister was twice asked directly to guarantee that the housing market in Australia wouldn't tank, and twice he refused to do so. I rang a number of...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
Labor was elected with a clear promise: to back working families with real cost-of-living relief. From 1 July, we are delivering. Whether it's a young worker stacking shelves at Woolies while...
- Budget: Housing (1 speech)
It's a privilege to rise for my 100th contribution to this place. In doing so, I want to address a barbeque-stopper of a conversation topic in my electorate of Monash, and that is homeownership....
- Health Care (1 speech)
Labor stands for equality of opportunity, and at the heart of equality of opportunity is accessible, universal health care. That's why, from 1 July, we'll deliver over $25 billion in additional...
- Albanese Government (1 speech)
Australians deserve honesty. They don't deserve to be treated like mugs by their own government. But yesterday we saw the Prime Minister call those on this side of the floor 'the axis of...
- National Access to Justice Partnership 2025-30 (1 speech)
Yesterday marked one year since the Albanese government's landmark $3.9 billion National Access to Justice Partnership 2025-30, the NAJP, commenced. It represented our government's largest...
- Housing (1 speech)
Twice the Prime Minister was directly asked whether he could guarantee that house prices wouldn't tank as a result of his government's housing policies; twice he refused to answer. Australians...
- Gender Equality (1 speech)
This Saturday night, the mighty Melbourne Vixens are back in another grand final, their fifth in seven years, and we're going back to back. Five of these women also put on the green and gold for...
- Prime Minister (1 speech)
After four years of the Albanese government, Australians are worse off and our nation is heading in the wrong direction, with the standard of living in freefall. The heart of the problem, why...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
Some in this House have asked: how many cups of coffee can you buy with the Albanese Labor government's 1 July 2026 tax cuts? But I ask: how many cups of coffee can you buy with the money that...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
We all remember the budget speech of this year, which had all those toxic taxes and broken promises. Those toxic taxes and broken promises are getting bigger by the day, especially the broken...
- Albanese Government (2 speeches)
This has been a big week in parliament and a big week for delivery by the Albanese Labor government. The Solar Saver program started—three hours of power in the middle of the day. We...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Aged Care and Seniors. In February 2026, a constituent of mine, Mr Austin, aged 98, had his aged-care application reviewed by Labor's AI tool. Despite his age...
- Cybersafety (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications. How is the Albanese Labor government working to strengthen Australia's world-leading social media laws to protect young Australians from online...
- Aged Care (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Under Labor, aged care wait times have blown out to over a year. More than 200,000 Australians are waiting for care. Today, Labor was defeated in the Senate,...
- Cybersafety (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. What has been the impact of the Albanese Labor government's world-leading social media ban for under-16-year-olds, and what is standing in the way of...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Acknowledgement (1 speech)
I'm pleased to inform the House that present in the gallery today are students from Barker College who are visiting as part of a work experience trip, as guests of the member for Berowra. I'm...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Education (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. It was reported today that the Australian Tertiary Education Commission won't advise on the reasonable costs of degrees until mid-2027 at the...
- Illegal Fishing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Can the minister update the House on the operation in Weipa, and what other approaches to border security are there?
- National Security (14 speeches)
My question goes to the Prime Minister. Over recent weeks, shots have been fired at an Australian Border Force vessel from an illegal boat. We've seen the biggest seizure of cocaine in...
- Budget (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How is the Albanese Labor government helping to ease pressure on Australians and help first home buyers into housing? How does that compare with other approaches?
- Housing (15 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Twice in this parliament, the Prime Minister has been directly asked to guarantee housing prices will not tank. Twice he refused. The Prime Minister keeps...
- Pensions and Benefits (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering on its commitment to strengthen paid parental leave, and how is it supporting families? What...
- Private Health Insurance (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister: I refer to another mean-spirited act by the Prime Minister—cutting the private health insurance rebate for Australians aged over 65. The CEO of...
- Defence (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Defence Industry. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering the largest reforms to defence in over 50 years? Why is this important for protecting our...
- Gambling (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Every year, more than 400 Australians die by suicide linked to gambling. That's more than 1,000 lives lost since the Murphy report was handed down. The...
- Medicare (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering a stronger Medicare for all Australians after a decade of cuts and neglect? Are there other...
- Budget: Taxation (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Aussie legend Joseph Daoud spent $17½ thousand of his own money on billboards telling the Labor government to drop their ambition taxes. He's paid up...
- Housing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing. How is the Albanese Labor government helping more Australians build a future where their dream of homeownership can be achieved? Are there any risks to...
- Veterans (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs. The minister was quoted on Tuesday, saying that one in 10 veterans may go over the $5,000 cap for allied health services. One in 10 is circa...
- Albanese Government (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering real change? What is standing in the way?
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Minister for Defence Industry; Attempted Censure (11 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the member from Wannon from moving the following censure motion immediately: This House censures the...
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (3 speeches)
Under standing order 45(c), I move: That order of the day No. 3, government business, be called on immediately.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (9 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent: (1) a minister moving a motion granting members a leave of absence; (2) a minister moving a motion...
- Leave of Absence (1 speech)
I move: That leave of absence be given to every member of the House of Representatives from the determination of this sitting of the House to the date of its next sitting. Question agreed to.
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Government Response to Report (1 speech)
For the information of honourable members, I present a schedule of the status of government responses to committee reports as of 30 June 2026. The schedule will be incorporated in Hansard. The...
- Electoral Matters Joint Committee; Membership (1 speech)
by leave—I move: That Mr Gee be appointed a participating member of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters for the purpose of the committee's inquiry into the 2025 federal...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Matters of Public Importance (2 speeches)
Mr Speaker, I have a question for you concerning the administration of the House as it relates to today's matters of public importance. Can I begin my question by stating that I am in no way...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Cybersafety (21 speeches)
I've received letters from the honourable member for Ryan and the Deputy Speaker proposing that definite matters of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion today. As required...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Australian Parliament (1 speech)
This is the motion that Labor just tried to stop me talking about: the need for essential public services to return to public ownership. Instead, Labor replaced it with their own topic. I've...
- Albanese Government (3 speeches)
Yesterday didn't just mark the beginning of a new financial year, it marked the next step in the Albanese Labor government's crusade to ensure that cost-of-living relief is delivered to everyday...
- Member for Shortland, Social Cohesion (1 speech)
Speaker, I too acknowledge your 10 years, and each and every other member who was elected in 2016. I well remember that election campaign. It was very cold. It was a very cold winter. It was a...
- Paid Parental Leave, Discrimination (4 speeches)
It could go a bit rogue, I'm not exactly sure what's about to happen, but we're going to go through it anyway. I wanted to speak this afternoon at the end of a long sitting period before the...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Cybersafety (1 speech)
Think about what the internet could have been: a place where children learn, create and connect safely, where people in crisis find support and where algorithms surface what's true and valuable....
- Mowbray, Mr Nicholas Gerard (1 speech)
Today I rise to pay tribute to a dear friend, trusted colleague and lifelong Labor activist, Nick Mowbray. Nick's passing has come as a profound shock to so many of us who knew him, worked...
- Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (1 speech)
Last month, I met with a group of victims-survivors of family and domestic violence from my community, and I'd like to use my time today to read some of their experiences into the parliamentary...
- Wills Electorate (1 speech)
It was 10 years ago today that I had the great privilege of being elected as a member of Wills. In my first speech, I said that I was elected by the people of Wills to serve them and to make a...
- Petition: Voluntary Assisted Dying (3 speeches)
I rise to present a petition signed by more than 13,000 Australians. The petition has been considered by the Petitions Committee and found to be in order. It calls on this House to amend the...
- Corangamite Electorate: Nyaal Banyul Geelong Convention and Event Centre (1 speech)
Well, it's finally open. After years of planning, investment and construction, the Nyaal Banyul Geelong Convention and Event Centre is now welcoming visitors. While it's on Geelong's waterfront,...
- Kilmore: Roads (1 speech)
As at the last election, the AEC boundary changes meant that the town of Kilmore came into the electorate that I represent, the electorate of Nicholls, and Kilmore is one of the oldest inland...
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, Small Business (1 speech)
In my electorate of Bonner, Labor's cheaper medicines policy has delivered 2.7 million cheaper scripts, putting more than $19 million back in the pockets of locals. From 1 July, people in my...
- Wakil, Mr Isaac, AO (1 speech)
I want to acknowledge the passing of a great Australian, Isaac Wakil AO, aged 104. Isaac's story is the great Australian story of a person born overseas, fleeing persecution, making his fortune...
- Griffith Electorate: King's Birthday Honours and Awards (1 speech)
This year's King's Birthday Honours recognised 14 Griffith recipients whose service reflects the best of our community. In my short few minutes here today, I want to acknowledge a few of them....
- Michelson, Mr Tim (Loaf), Casey Electorate: Wine and Gin Industries (1 speech)
CFA volunteers give back so much to our community, and today I want to pay tribute to a good friend of mine, someone I've known for 20 years: Tim Mitchelson, better known to all of us as Loaf....
- Bendigo Electorate: Oscar 1 Emergency Response Mine Rescue Brigade, Drummond, Mr Don (1 speech)
I rise to give a special shout-out to Oscar 1 CFA. The Oscar 1 CFA is quite a unique CFA volunteer unit in Bendigo. Its focus is on mine rescue. Like many old mining regions, Bendigo is littered...
- Domestic and Family Violence, Housing (1 speech)
I rise today with a heavy heart, because the scourge of domestic and family violence is no longer just a headline in the media for our local community. This week it has been happening in our own...
- Data Centres (1 speech)
I rise today to raise the voices of community concerns in the outer west. In my community in Melbourne's western suburbs, there's been a proposal for the largest data centre ever publicly...
- Parkes Electorate: Regional Post Offices (1 speech)
These days we can let someone on the other side of the world know what we're thinking almost before we've thought it. But, sadly, it has become harder and harder to send a simple letter. Many...
- Budget (1 speech)
Yesterday was 1 July, and this was a really important day where a lot of cost-of-living help was provided by this government. Starting from 1 July, I'm really very pleased that workers that rely...
- Social Cohesion (1 speech)
Every parent wants better for their kids. That's why we turn up to work. That's why we save. That's why we drive them to piano lessons, take them to sports and put effort into their...
- Petrie Electorate: Arts and Culture, Parliament in Schools Program, Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (1 speech)
Today I want to celebrate three examples of what makes Petrie such a special place: creativity, community and confidence in the future. First, Redcliffe is fast making its case as the art capital...
- Labor Government (1 speech)
Yesterday, we heard Labor spruiking their changes that came into effect with the new financial year, and there was a lot of chest beating and oversimplified statements around the standards of...
- Morris, Ms Julia Anne (2 speeches)
I rise today to honour the life and service of Julia Morris and to extend my deepest condolences to her daughter, Mollie; her parents, Allan and Anne; her brother, James; and all of her friends,...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Scolyer, Professor Richard, AO (6 speeches)
I rise to support this motion. Professor Richard Scolyer, who died on 7 June aged 59, three years after being diagnosed with a glioblastoma, was by any measure one of the most consequential...
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Member for Mayo, Mayo Electorate: Infrastructure (1 speech)
Ten years ago today, the community of Mayo put their trust in me to represent them. I'd particularly like to acknowledge former senator Nick Xenophon. Nick Xenophon put his trust in me to...
- Workplace Relations: Maritime Industry (1 speech)
Thank you to the member for Mayo for that fine contribution to this House just now. Before I entered this place, I spent a decade working offshore in the Australian oil and gas industry. From...
- Agriculture Industry (1 speech)
As I've often said in this place, it's a great privilege to represent the electorate of Nicholls in northern Victoria, one of the great food-producing parts of Australia. Recently, I had the...
- Pensions and Benefits (1 speech)
Before I came into this place, I spent about just over five years as the CEO of the Parenthood, Australia's peak advocacy body for parents and carers. Our work focused on how we make Australia...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
The working homeless are one of our country's most worrying trends. When a working mother escapes violence only to trade fear inside her home for fear inside a parked car with her children, we...
- National Redress Scheme (1 speech)
The federal government is gravely concerned about the Christian Brothers Oceania Province's 22 June 2026 announcement that it would seek creditor and court approval for a creditors scheme of...
