House debates
Wednesday, 9 September 2026
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No, 15 of the Selection Committee, relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday 14 September 2026. The report will...
- Treaties Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, I present the committee's report 234: Jakarta treaty; Spain classified defence information; and WIPO GRATK treaty. Report made a...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Gun Control (4 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Calare moving the following motion: That this House: (1) notes that: (a) the state and...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- d'Alpuget, Ms Josephine Blanche (Blanche) (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge the passing of Blanche d'Alpuget overnight. With this loss, Australia has lost a true one-off. As a writer, she was as at home in fiction as she was in nonfiction, working...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Artificial Intelligence (1 speech)
Who is AI really for? Australia has a sorry history of letting multinational corporations extract our resources, leaving everyday people to carry the costs. The gas export boom was sold as a...
- Newcastle Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
The opening of the M1 Pacific Motorway extension is a major milestone for Newcastle and the Hunter. After years of planning and construction, the missing link between Black Hill and Raymond...
- Antarctica (1 speech)
I'm very proud of the fact that Hobart is Australia's gateway to the Antarctic. Indeed, the whole of Tasmania contributes significantly to the world's understanding of and the protection of the...
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (1 speech)
For people living with rare cancers, access to affordable treatment can bring genuine hope during a frightening and uncertain time. I first met Angela from West End when out doorknocking before...
- Bradfield Electorate: Indian Australian Community (1 speech)
A few weeks ago I had the great honour of attending an annual gala celebrating the Indian community in Sydney. This year the event was particularly special as it was celebrating 80 years of...
- Darwin Festival (1 speech)
Terima kasih. Sahul & Sunda is a Darwin based arts organisation bringing Australian and Indonesian artists together through cultural and regional exchange. As part of this year's Darwin...
- Budget (1 speech)
The date 12 May 2026 will be forever remembered as the date that the Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ended aspiration in Australia. In this year's budget, Labor had...
- Medicare (1 speech)
Labor is the party of Medicare and will always invest to ensure the system is strong, resilient and sustainable. Labor wants all Australians to have access to a free bulk-billing doctor, and our...
- Small Business (1 speech)
In 2025, almost 15,000 small businesses collapsed—the worst year on record for business insolvencies. Labor's toxic taxes are continuing to punish small and family businesses, destroying...
- Superannuation (1 speech)
Paul Keating is not only the architect of compulsory superannuation; he's also the person I first heard say that good policy is good politics. The corollary of that is that bad policy is bad...
- Fiscal Policy (1 speech)
On the same day we discovered that the Prime Minister's own electorate received a $6 million grant for his local golf club, we learnt that Labor's invite-only major local community infrastructure...
- Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (1 speech)
The Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission report shared today includes what this government and its agencies have done to address domestic, family and sexual violence in this country....
- Economy (1 speech)
Labor's toxic taxes punish Australians who work hard, save hard, take a risk and just try to get ahead. In my electorate of Fisher, Dale and Tanya built an export business from their garage. They...
- Tertiary Education and Training (1 speech)
Today, on National TAFE Day, I want to celebrate every student whose life has been forever changed because of their TAFE journey. Recently I met Charlotte, an apprentice florist from Leopold in...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
In 1949, I say for all the students here—welcome—George Orwell wrote his dystopian novel 1984, a book designed to warn people about the dangers of government overreach and control...
- Superannuation (1 speech)
While doorknocking during the last federal election campaign, I remember telling a woman that the Labor Party would pay superannuation on paid parental leave. At that moment she was like, 'Stop...
- Member for Canning, Taxation (1 speech)
I have two things today. First, I want to support the member for Canning. No-one who has lacked the courage to serve in uniform should have the audacity to call someone who has a traitor. I'm...
- National TAFE Day (1 speech)
Today is National TAFE Day. It is a day where we celebrate publicly funded TAFE. I'm really pleased to be part of a government that has made so many TAFE courses free. In fact, we've had over...
- Taxation (1 speech)
This treasurer has the opposite of the Midas touch. Everything he touches turns to the proverbial—another day, another hidden tax. This time it's a tax on babies. Birth taxes, life taxes,...
- National TAFE Day (2 speeches)
In case you missed it, today is National TAFE Day. TAFE has played a massive role in my life. It gave me the pathway into university. Later, when I decided to become an electrician, I went and...
- Ministry (0 speeches)
- Temporary Arrangements (1 speech)
I inform the House that the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government will be absent from question time today and tomorrow. The Minister for Regional...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Acknowledgement (1 speech)
I'm pleased to inform the House that joining us today on the floor of parliament is Australia's 26th former prime minister, the Hon. Dr Kevin Rudd AC. Welcome back to parliament. Honourable...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Taxation (12 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Treasurer has been forced into a series of humiliating tax backdowns on everything from small businesses to widows. Yet it's been revealed today that the...
- Cybersafety (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications. How is the Albanese Labor government strengthening Australia's world-leading social media minimum-age law to protect young Australians from...
- Fiscal Policy (13 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Seventy-three per cent of funding from Labor's $560 million secret, invite-only grant scheme went to projects in Labor electorates, including a $6 million...
- Education Standards (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. What do recent results show about the performance of Australian students in comparison to other countries? What does this show about the importance...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Acknowledgement (1 speech)
Before I call the member for Kooyong, I'll do some acknowledgements and welcomes to parliament. Today we are joined by His Excellency Ambassador Bankole Adeoye, the African Union Commissioner for...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Fiscal Policy (10 speeches)
My question is for the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, every electorate in Australia has a need for infrastructure funding for important and worthy projects, but, under your invitation-only...
- Roads (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering vital infrastructure projects that make our roads safer and more reliable, including in the Hunter and...
- Cheaper Home Batteries Program (13 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. Can the minister guarantee that all batteries installed under the government's Cheaper Home Batteries Program have been installed...
- Superannuation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. How is the Albanese Labor government's approach to universal superannuation helping to deliver a more dignified retirement for Australians? How does this compare...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Acknowledgement (1 speech)
I've got some more acknowledgements to do for the parliament today. We are now joined by the parliamentary delegation from Uganda, led by the Hon. Ofwono Opondo. I extend a very warm welcome to...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Cheaper Home Batteries Program (8 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. On what date was the minister first made aware of allegations of fraud impacting the government's Cheaper Home Batteries Program?
- Superannuation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services. How is the Albanese Labor government ensuring Australia's superannuation system continues to deliver better...
- Prime Minister (6 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, full membership of the Marrickville Golf Course costs $1,100. Given the value of his honorary membership exceeds the gift declaration...
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. How is the Albanese Labor government supporting working families? What are the threats to this support?
- Housing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Housing. Twelve thousand Australians have signed my petition for a nationally consistent definition of affordable housing. Last week,...
- Tertiary Education and Training (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Skills and Training. Minister, as we mark National TAFE Day, how is the Albanese Labor government ensuring all Australians can benefit from the opportunities...
- Tobacco Control (11 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. You have now refused on five occasions in question time to answer whether you will cut the tobacco excise. This morning on the Today show, you dodged it...
- Energy (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. How is the Albanese Labor government backing Australian families to lower their energy bills? What policies would put a stop to this?
- Pensions and Benefits (2 speeches)
This is a question for the Attorney-General. It's now been more than three years since the robodebt royal commission recommended legislated guardrails around automation in government, but...
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. How is the Albanese Labor government making medicines cheaper for all Australians? How will new medicines being listed on the PBS change the...
- Questions to the Speaker (0 speeches)
- Questions in Writing (2 speeches)
Pursuant to standing order 105, I request that you write to the Minister for Aged Care and Seniors seeking reasons for the delay in answering my question in writing No. 169 asked on 13 May 2026,...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
This document is tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Full details of the document will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (13 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable member for Clark proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The urgent need for this...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Human Rights Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, I present the committee's report entitled Human rights scrutiny report: report 10 of 2026. Report made a parliamentary paper in...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Veterans: Health Care (1 speech)
I rise tonight to recognise the important work of the Blank Cheque Movement in Rockhampton and to speak about an issue causing real concern among veterans and their families: Labor's proposed...
- Aviation Industry (1 speech)
Having the airport in close proximity to my seat—in fact, on the border—means that many people who are employed in the aviation industry live in my electorate. Just recently I had the...
- Education, Artificial Intelligence (1 speech)
Overnight, the Programme for International Student Assessment 2025 report was released from the OECD in Paris. PISA, as it is known, is the most important benchmark for global performance in...
- Tertiary Education and Training, Energy, Workplace Relations (1 speech)
One thing I've said many times in this place is that talent is spread everywhere across this great nation but opportunities are not. We are absolutely working and are determined to change that,...
- Parliamentary Standards, Renewable Energy (1 speech)
It's rather disappointing that I have to give this dissertation on my concern about today. I kind of don't know where to start. My point in this building is to deal with socialism, as I see it,...
- Blair Electorate: Infrastructure, Blair Electorate: Health Care (1 speech)
The Albanese Labor government is delivering change through funding projects on the ground in my electorate of Blair. Last month, I was delighted to help announce two major streetscape projects in...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Young Australians (2 speeches)
Twice a year I bring together senior students from schools across Warringah for Warringah Youth Voices. At our most recent forum, around 50 students joined us at Redlands to talk about democracy,...
- Ryan Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
This Saturday just past, my team and I, along with 100 Greens volunteers, put on a huge, free community festival in Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens in my electorate of Ryan. We called it Alive in...
- Education (1 speech)
In this place we hear lots of speeches, but some of the best speeches aren't delivered here in parliament. They're sometimes delivered in a school hall, and one of those was by a seven-year-old...
- Veterans (1 speech)
The Minister for Veterans' Affairs admitted that he got it wrong when he refused to meet a delegation of veterans a few weeks ago. But talk to veterans in my community about the difficulties they...
- Education (1 speech)
I rise today to acknowledge the 2026 year 12 students in my electorate of Isaacs as they work towards the completion of their secondary education. Year 12 reflects years of study, persistence and...
- Agriculture Industry: Workforce (1 speech)
Right now, Mallee's fields are green and gold. There is wheat and canola in abundance, and farmers are preparing for harvest. But Labor is playing political games, delaying farm worker visas. I...
- Himalayas: Floods (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the devastating floods along the Nepal-China border and the profound impact they've had on families in my community. Parramatta is home to one of Australia's largest...
- Don River Dash (1 speech)
I rise today to celebrate one of Dawson's great annual traditions, an event that brings the town of Bowen alive, fills the air with the unmistakeable smell of racing fuel and dust and gives local...
- Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence, National Women's Health Week (1 speech)
Last month I had the privilege of supporting the Building Bridges Forum at the historic Aborigines Advancement League in Thornbury. Hosted by Women's Health in the North and the Northern...
- Men's Shed Week (1 speech)
This week is national Men's Shed Week, and the theme this year is 'Built on purpose'. I'd like to reflect on the massive contribution men's Sheds make to supporting men's health and wellbeing,...
- Housing (1 speech)
Cowan is home to a plethora of innovative businesses across a wide a wide range of sectors, and among them is housing. A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of having the Treasurer, Jim...
- Thompson, Mr Roy Francis, OAM, Thompson, Mrs Nola (1 speech)
Roy and Nola Thompson were two of the greatest philanthropists the Sunshine Coast has ever known, and I feel enormously privileged to have known them both and to have worked alongside them for a...
- Cybersafety, Men's Shed Week (1 speech)
Earlier this year I met with a local mum in Griffith who shared a deeply distressing story about her daughter. In December 2024 her daughter, then just 12, experienced harm through an AI...
- Sport, Energy (1 speech)
Sport is the heartbeat of regional South Australia. Labor has cut the sporting grants budget from $331 million to $150 million by 2029-30. Sporting Schools, Play Well, Local Sporting Champions...
- Sturt Electorate: Glen Osmond Primary School (1 speech)
I recently attended Glen Osmond Primary School, in my electorate of Sturt, for a very informative civic session with a lively and engaged year 5 cohort. The students participated in the classic...
- The Challenge Games (1 speech)
(): I rise today to recognise one of the most uplifting events recently held in Townsville, the Challenge Games. These games are about far more than ribbons, results or crossing the...
- Dickson Electorate: Veterans (1 speech)
Veterans and their families have made enormous sacrifices for our community, and, in return, we have a duty to ensure they are heard and supported to live good lives beyond service. My electorate...
- Agriculture Industry (1 speech)
I rise today to speak on the existential threat to one of Australia's most important export industries, an industry worth between $21 billion and $27 billion. It underpins jobs, investment and...
- Housing (2 speeches)
I rise to raise an important issue that's of concern to a lot of my constituents, and that's the ability to get safe housing. Over the past few weeks, I have been out and about in my electorate...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Himalayas: Floods (20 speeches)
I rise to speak on behalf of my community from Melbourne's western suburbs regarding the recent natural disaster that we've seen in Nepal and Tibet. Last week I met with a number of community...
