House debates
Tuesday, 8 September 2026
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Public Works Joint Committee; Approval of Work (1 speech)
I move: That the resolutions of the House on Thursday, 20 August 2026 agreeing to the following proposed works be rescinded: (1) Australian Federal Police—Proposed fit-out of leased...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Education: Civics (3 speeches)
In that first week back after our last sitting block, that Monday was my birthday, and there is no better way to spend your birthday—
- Medicare (1 speech)
In July, I was proud to celebrate the Corrimal Medicare urgent care clinic's third birthday with practice manager Brad Delprado and his amazing team. They have now delivered over 45,000 free...
- Environment: HMAS Penguin (1 speech)
I have repeatedly called for transparency from the government over the proposed sale of parts of HMAS Penguin and the protection of its angophora forest and heritage. Recently, the Sydney...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
Twenty years ago, a young Canberra woman told her parents she wanted to work in aged care. They tried to talk her out of it. 'You'll never meet anyone your own age,' they said. 'Nobody ever gets...
- Veterans (1 speech)
Tomorrow will be the second anniversary of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide tabling its final report in parliament. Many Australians, me included, feel deep and unwavering...
- Cybersafety (1 speech)
I want my three kids and every kid in Australia to be safe online, and that's why I am so proud that today the Albanese Labor government has announced consultation for our world-leading digital...
- Housing (1 speech)
Labor has delivered a trifecta of failures on housing. For those opposite who need Ooshies to help them count, 'trifecta' is three: fewer homes, higher rents and confidence in the market smashed....
- Mighty Car Mods (1 speech)
Deep within the streets of Bennelong, best mates Martin Mulholland and Blair Joscelyne began modifying cars and making do-it-yourself videos in 2008. Today they have four million subscribers and...
- Housing (1 speech)
It takes a special type of incompetence from a Labor government to throw $67 billion at the housing crisis and still have a trifecta of failure: fewer homes, higher rents and confidence in the...
- Commonwealth Prac Payment (1 speech)
It was wonderful to welcome the Minister for Education, Jason Clare, to Launceston. He met with University of Tasmania pharmacy students to hear about the realities of mandatory placements. For...
- Fiscal Policy (1 speech)
Infrastructure minister Catherine King has now been crowned the queen of pork barrelling. It wasn't always like this though. In opposition, she described the Building Better Regions Fund and said...
- Papua New Guinea: Kiaps (1 speech)
For too long, Australia's kiaps have been largely forgotten from our national story. They were Australian patrol officers who served in Papua New Guinea over the course of a century, often in...
- Economy (1 speech)
There are a few people around this place who really like a punt. Some go for the win or lose. Some try to get a trifecta. There's nothing more exciting than seeing the three horses you chose come...
- Australian National Flag (1 speech)
On 3 September, we celebrated 125 years of the Australian national flag. I had the privilege of joining the Speaker of the House, the Hon. Milton Dick, along with community leaders and school...
- Housing (1 speech)
There is nothing more important to the financial security of an Australian household than what is almost universally their largest asset: their family home. It is the nest egg people spend...
- Cybersafety (1 speech)
We need to stand up against the big tech companies to protect our kids. The behaviour we tolerate online influences how we think about ourselves and others. Yet some in this parliament ignore...
- Housing (1 speech)
Well, as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I have no doubt the Minister for Housing has good intentions. The problem is the Minister for Housing is failing to deliver for...
- Australian Curriculum (1 speech)
I ask the National Party: how is Senator Canavan still your leader after the comments he made about the school curriculum, criticising teachers and saying that it is the feminism of the school...
- Housing (1 speech)
We've seen this government deliver a trifecta of failure on housing—fewer homes, higher rent and confidence in the market absolutely smashed. Of course, the big intervention in the housing...
- Superannuation (2 speeches)
Labor created Australia's superannuation system, providing a secure and dignified retirement for every single member of our community, for every single member of the public gallery and even for...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Housing (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing. Labor's toxic taxes have delivered a trifecta of housing failures: fewer homes, higher rents and confidence in the Australian housing market smashed....
- Cybersafety (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How is the Albanese Labor government taking action to make sure social media companies fulfil their social responsibility to minimise harm to Australians,...
- Housing (14 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Since Labor's budget, 421 New South Wales building companies have gone broke, including Bathla Group, risking 14,000 affordable homes and apartments. New...
- Cybersafety (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications. How will the Albanese Labor government's proposed digital duty of care protect Australian children from harmful content and features and give...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Acknowledgement (1 speech)
I'm pleased to inform the House that present in the Speaker's visitors' gallery today is a high-level delegation of senior church leaders from Papua New Guinea, who are visiting Australia to...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Medicare (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Minister, your government often boasts that Fowler has the nation's highest bulk-billing rate, but south-west Sydney has the fewest GPs per...
- Education (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to support teachers in the classroom and help kids learn? What has been the response?
- Crime: Illicit Tobacco (4 speeches)
Prime Minister: this morning, New South Wales Premier, Chris Minns, defied Labor's failed policy on illicit tobacco. He said: It's in the black market, it's being organised by criminals, it's not...
- Economy (3 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to help Australian workers earn more and keep more of what they earn, and retire with more? How does that compare to...
- Tobacco Control (21 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services This morning, the Assistant Treasurer could not answer a question about a tobacco store being firebombed in his own...
- Housing (2 speeches)
I'd like to ask a question about housing to the Minister for Housing. How is the Albanese Labor government helping more Australians achieve the security of a home of their own, and are there any...
- Tobacco Control (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. This morning, New South Wales Premier Chris Minns told the truth about Labor's failed illicit tobacco policy: … I think it's perversely...
- Superannuation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering real change to support Australians in retirement, and are there any...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Acknowledgement (1 speech)
I'm pleased to acknowledge that Margaret Fitzherbert, the former member of the Victorian parliament, is joining us today for question time. Honourable members: Hear, hear!
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (2 speeches)
My question is to the Attorney-General. Attorney-General, although the Australian Law Reform Commission released its final report on sexual violence justice reforms more than 18 months ago, many...
- Avian Influenza (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. How is the Albanese Labor government continuing to work with states and territories and industry to support Australia's...
- Veterans (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Labor are ripping $748 million out of allied health services for our veterans, but, at the same time, they're spending $150 million on an overseas climate...
- Women's Health (3 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering better health care for Australian women, and why is this such an important part of...
- Statements (0 speeches)
- Personal Explanation (9 speeches)
The Manager of Opposition Business is seeking the call for a personal explanation not restricted to matters of misrepresentation.
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
These 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)
- Tobacco Control (12 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Mayo Electorate: Acknowledgements (1 speech)
Mayo spans over 9,000 square kilometres. It covers the Adelaide Hills, the Fleurieu and, of course, Kangaroo Island. I have a very diverse electorate. We take in highly populated centres such as...
- Raise Our Voice in Parliament (1 speech)
One of the great privileges of representing Reid is hearing directly from the young people who call our community home. Through the Raise Our Voice campaign, young Australians have the...
- Fiscal Policy (1 speech)
Before refrigeration was readily available, communities often used barrels, in which they placed their pork. Barrels were salted, and the pork lasted. Of course, that is where the term pork...
- Swan Young Changemakers Conference (1 speech)
What is a change maker? That's a question that was put to 30 senior high school students in my electorate of Swan last week at the third annual Swan Young Changemakers Conference. This conference...
- Housing (1 speech)
For young Australians trying to save a deposit, the numbers are moving faster than they can. Under four years of the Albanese government, rents have surged 39 per cent, leaving Australians paying...
- Yarrawarrah Tigers Rugby League Club, Ridgeway Sunset Concert, Zonta Club of Botany Bay, Chard, Reginald James (Reg), OAM, AcroGYM Acrobatic Gymnastics Club (1 speech)
The Yarrawarrah Tigers have been in the Cronulla-Sutherland junior rugby league competition since 1978, but had never fielded a senior team until this year. Sharks premiership-winning halfback...
- Grievance Debate (0 speeches)
- Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (1 speech)
How many more women? Four years ago, one of Australia's leading human rights lawyers, Jennifer Robinson, asked that question in her book of the same name. The question hasn't yet been answered...
- Housing (1 speech)
We believe that every single Australian deserves a safe and secure home—somewhere to come home to at the end of the day, knowing that they are safe, that they will have somewhere to sleep...
- Agriculture Industry, Foreign Investment: Residential Housing, Veterans (1 speech)
I rise today to raise a serious concern for the South Australian grain industry and, frankly, to ask how on earth this regulation has been allowed to get this far. From 1 December this year, the...
- Spence Electorate: Veterans' and Families' Wellbeing Hub, Mental Health, Medicare (1 speech)
Making sure people can get the care and support they need when they need it is something at the heart of what makes a good government. That is particularly important in communities like...
- Acknowledgements (1 speech)
In my three-year walkabout from this place, between 2022 and 2025, there were people who should have been acknowledged for their life and service to our community that were not properly...
- Women's Health (2 speeches)
For most of the history of medicine, a woman in pain was treated as a woman exaggerating. She was told it was normal. She was told it was part of being a woman. She was told to go home and manage...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Climate Change, Human Rights (1 speech)
I rise to express my deepest condolences to the Tibetan and Nepalese communities following the devastating floods in Nepal and Tibet and the tragic loss of life they have caused. I know the...
- Lilley Electorate: Wavell State High School, Lilley Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
It's been a fortnight full of football victories for Wavell State High School, a Rugby League School of Excellence located in my electorate of Lilley. On 26 August, the mighty Wavell Warriors...
- Vocational Education and Training (1 speech)
TAFE and vocational education is critical for the future of regional Australia. This was again highlighted to me when I recently visited the TAFE SA campus at Mount Barker during National Skills...
- Petrie Electorate (1 speech)
I rise today to share three of the incredible things upcoming in my electorate of Petrie. Firstly, this Sunday, 13 September, I'm incredibly excited to be hosting Petrie's first ever Welcoming...
- Security Treaty between Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America: 75th Anniversary (1 speech)
I rise to reflect on the ANZUS alliance as we mark its 75th anniversary. I come to this issue as a parliamentarian but also as a proud granddaughter. My grandfather, Sir Percy Spender, was one of...
- Cunningham Electorate: Film Industry (1 speech)
In the Illawarra, we're working across all levels of government and with local industry to establish Wollongong as a film friendly city, and we recently secured another major boost towards that...
- Apprenticeships (1 speech)
Young people within our community should be able to choose the educational pathway that supports them to achieve their goals. For many, like myself, their educational pathway is through year 12...
- Electorate Offices (1 speech)
I've had the privilege of holding many roles in our great democracy. I've been an electorate officer, a local councillor, a deputy mayor and a federal backbencher. I've been in opposition, and...
- Lyne Electorate: Education (1 speech)
Just over a week ago, I attended the centenary celebrations of St Clare's Catholic College in Taree. It was an honour to speak at this event, and I want to read into Hansard a shortened version...
- Whitlam Electorate: Community Events and Volunteers (1 speech)
I rise today to recognise Roma Dix, who, 40 years ago, co-founded the National Braille Music Camp to support blind and visually impaired musicians to read, write and compose music. In 1986,...
- Agriculture Industry, Education: Civics (1 speech)
The federal Labor government continues to abandon regional Western Australia. From Kellerberrin to Kununurra, hospitality businesses, farmers and tourism operators across Durack are being left...
- Sport Safety (1 speech)
During the winter break, I had the pleasure of welcoming Jayden from Playford International College to my electorate office for work experience. During his time with us, I asked him to write a...
- Bowman Electorate: Sport (1 speech)
It is a very good time to be a cricket tragic in the Redlands. Redlands Tigers T20 Max side backed up last year's premiership by finishing as minor premiers in the Queensland Cricket 20-over...
- Meals on Wheels (1 speech)
Meals on Wheels Day was on 26 August this year. We celebrate this day on the final Wednesday of every August and recognise all that it delivers to more than 200,000 older Australians. I had the...
- McPherson Electorate: Community Events and Organisations (1 speech)
I rise today to recognise some of the fantastic people and organisations that I've had the pleasure of spending time with across the southern Gold Coast in recent weeks. At Elanora State School I...
- Bonner Electorate: Wakerley Walkers and Gumdale Goldies, National TAFE Day (1 speech)
In the heart of Bonner are two incredible groups supporting our local seniors: the Wakerley Walkers and the Gumdale Goldies. Starting after COVID lockdowns, local mum Brooke saw that many senior...
- Supermarkets: Inclusive Design (1 speech)
I rise today to bring to this House the voice of one of my constituents from Bunbury, and I think it's a voice that echoes the daily struggles of the many hundreds of thousands of Australians who...
- Macnamara Electorate: Schools (1 speech)
We have some incredible schools in Macnamara, and last week I was privileged to go and visit two of them. One of our very best public education secondary schools across the country, Albert Park...
- Wannon Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
Right across the wonderful electorate of Wannon, we've got football and netball finals taking place. Some have already taken place, and some will take place this weekend and the following...
- Barton Electorate: Community Events (2 speeches)
I would like to congratulate Hurstville Public School, which recently celebrated its 150th anniversary. As an alumna of this brilliant school, it was such a great day of community spirit and...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Technical Changes No. 2) Bill 2026; Second Reading (10 speeches)
Let me start with schedule 1, advance payments. For people across Barton in Hurstville, Kingsgrove, Rockdale, Kogarah, Bexley and Carlton, advance payments are often the difference between...
- Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Technical Changes No. 2) Bill 2026; Consideration in Detail (1 speech)
I present the supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill, and I move the government amendment as circulated: (1) Schedule 9, page 78 (after line 10), at the end of the Schedule, add: Part 3...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Himalayas: Floods (9 speeches)
I rise today to express my deep sorrow and condolences to the people of Nepal and to the Nepali community of Petrie and to the families of the deceased and missing Australians. On 26 August, we...
