House debates
Monday, 14 September 2026
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Petitions Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present the 15th report of the Petitions Committee for the 48th Parliament. The report read as follows— HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PETITIONS COMMITTEE REPORT No. 15 Petitions 14 September...
- Petitions (0 speeches)
- Presentation (1 speech)
On behalf of the Standing Committee on Petitions, and in accordance with standing order 207, I present the following 82 petitions:
- Statements (1 speech)
There are currently 35petitions open for signatures on the House e-petitions website covering a range of topics including facial recognition technology, visa processing, university fees, support...
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Women's Health (11 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) acknowledges the Government is delivering real change for women's and girls' health; (2) notes that for too long, women's health was not taken seriously however, the...
- Economy (7 speeches)
As Australians go to work today on this Monday, hopefully having had a good weekend—taking kids to sport—many families are wondering how they are going to get from Monday to their...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Albanese Government; Attempted Censure (17 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Herbert from moving the following motion immediately That this House censures the Government...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Morris, Mr Charles Henry (Mick), OAM (1 speech)
I rise to acknowledge the passing of Australian wine industry legend and local icon Charles Henry 'Mick' Morris, who passed away last month at the age of 98. A fourth-generation winemaker, Mick...
- Manunda Terrace Primary School (1 speech)
At the last election, I committed to delivering a new early learning centre for families in the suburb of Karama. Today, I'm pleased to say we're delivering it. The Australian and Northern...
- Energy (1 speech)
I want to go through some names of people who are fighting the intermittent power scourge: Sandra Bourke, Anna Young, Andrew Weiderman, Grant Piper, Katy McCallum, Lauren Lawler and Michelle...
- Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (1 speech)
Reducing the PBS co-payment to $25 is delivering real savings to people in Bean every time they visit their local pharmacy. Since the policy came into effect, residents in Bean have saved more...
- Himalayas: Floods (1 speech)
Two weeks ago, the UN confirmed what we agreed only a decade ago to avoid. We're going to overshoot the 1.5 degrees target. It's now inevitable. It came just a week after the consequences of that...
- World Suicide Prevention Day (1 speech)
Last Thursday was World Suicide Prevention Day. It's a day to remember those we've lost, support the families left behind and remind people that help is always there. Three in every four...
- Dollar for Dusty (1 speech)
Today, it will be my absolute honour in this place to welcome a young man to parliament, named Dusty. Dusty is from Warren in my electorate of Parkes, and he has walked more than 540 kilometres...
- Federal Election (1 speech)
Last year I described to the chamber how groups of Liberal volunteers linked to the Exclusive Brethren blocked me from speaking to my own voters on election booths. The Liberal Party's secret...
- Housing (1 speech)
Although the Labor government apparently only discovered a problem with our housing market after the last election, having broken faith with the Australian people in promising not to introduce...
- Federal Election (1 speech)
The electorate of Gorton, which I represent, in Melbourne's western suburbs, is one of the most diverse electorates in this parliament with one of the highest concentrations of first- and...
- Housing (1 speech)
The Albanese government's mismanagement of the economy and new taxes are certainly turning the Australian dream into a nightmare. Labor's own budget reveals that its housing taxes will result in...
- Liberal Party of Australia (1 speech)
I told the chamber last year about my concerns about the behaviour of the Plymouth Brethren Church at last year's election. They were bused into our towns of Gisborne and Wandong for prepoll,...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
I was doorknocking through Centenary Heights just behind the Nell E Robinson Park. I came across a young mum and this little baby on a rocker asleep. We stepped outside and had a quiet chat, and...
- Federal Election (1 speech)
I am proud to represent one of the largest electorates in the country, including all remote communities across the Territory. Those remote communities have fought to be heard in this place. They...
- Housing (2 speeches)
Those opposite don't hear me say this very often, but the PM has achieved something extraordinary—absolutely extraordinary. He's managed to crash housing prices yet somehow make housing...
- Federal Election (1 speech)
Last year in this place I raised concerns about the activities of the Plymouth Brethren, assaulting, harassing and abusing my constituents at prepoll and on election day, as well as campaign...
- Economy (1 speech)
I want to read out a few quotes to you that I think are quite pertinent quotes about where Australia is right now. The first quote I want to read to you is: Something is wrong with this place...
- Federal Election (1 speech)
Today's reporting makes it crystal clear: the Plymouth Brethren went to extraordinary measures to disrupt and influence the 2025 federal election. The reporting leaves no doubt about their...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
There are people in my electorate living in their cars because they can't find a home. Kids are living in caravans and tents because their parents can't find a home. This is Australia. These are...
- Mental Health (2 speeches)
Mental ill health is not a marginal issue in Australia. More than one in five adults experience a mental health challenge in any given year. This Labor government has invested $1.1 billion to...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Housing (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. New analysis by Aussie Home Loans shows 20 per cent of Australians who purchased a home in the past three years are now trapped in mortgage prison—a...
- Housing: Domestic and Family Violence (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Housing, for Homelessness and for Cities. How is the Albanese Labor government's investment in social and affordable housing changing lives for Australians who...
- Economy (7 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Labor legend Bill Kelty says the Prime Minister is not telling the truth about the state of the economy. Mr Kelty said: The PM is telling the country with...
- Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. How is the Albanese Labor government helping women and children fleeing family, domestic and sexual violence into safe housing? Why is this...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Acknowledgement (1 speech)
I'm pleased to inform the House that in the special visitors' gallery today are winners of the 2026 My First Speech competition, Roger and Jess, and their families. I'm also pleased to inform the...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Aged Care (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Aged Care and Seniors. In October 2022, SA hospitals reported 60 older patients waiting for residential aged care. That figure has now ballooned to 487 older...
- Artificial Intelligence (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering an agenda that ensures the challenge and opportunity of rapid technological development is something...
- Prime Minister (31 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister reportedly owns a multimillion-dollar investment property just 200 metres away from Marrickville Golf Club, where he holds an undisclosed...
- Online Safety (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications. How is the Albanese Labor government responding to community calls for a safer online environment for Australian children, and what stands in...
- Prime Minister (4 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Footage from 2019 has emerged depicting the Prime Minister announcing to a Marrickville golf antidevelopment rally: 'I declare an interest. I live in...
- Cybersafety (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. How are the Albanese Labor government's reforms protecting children online and helping them learn in the classroom? What has been the response?
- Prime Minister (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister sits on the Expenditure Review Committee of cabinet—that's the budget committee—and he chairs cabinet. When this funding...
- Superannuation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to strengthen universal superannuation and strengthen the budget? How does that compare to other approaches?
- Murray-Darling Basin (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. In Sydney, on 24 June, at the Rural Press Club, the CEO of the MDBA openly admitted disastrous shortcomings in his 2026 plan...
- Superannuation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. How is the Albanese Labor government improving wages for working Australians and ensuring they can access superannuation in...
- Private Health Insurance (5 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Regional Queenslander Janice is 77; her husband is 90. They've worked hard all their lives. They've paid their taxes. But Janice has said that Labor's...
- Avian Influenza (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. What has been the Albanese Labor government's response to H5 bird flu in Australia, and how is the government helping...
- Fuel (2 speeches)
(): My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, I doorknocked in Liverpool recently. Families told me they're struggling, choosing between filling the tank and filling the...
- Energy (9 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. How is the Albanese Labor government helping Australian families to embrace technology that saves them money on their power bills,...
- 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.
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Consideration of Legislation (10 speeches)
I move: That so much of standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Wannon moving the following motion immediately: That this House requires that the question on...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Monash Electorate: Community Events, Monash Electorate: Roads (1 speech)
It might be Floriade time here in Canberra, but back home in the electorate of Monash, I recently had the honour of opening one of our great celebrations of spring, being the Leongatha Daffodil...
- Federal Election (1 speech)
It's truly a gift to live in Australia—the environment, the people, the cities and the bush. Australia is the best country on earth, and the world knows it. One of the cornerstones of our...
- Tobacco Control (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about a growing law and order crisis in Australia that has become impossible to ignore: the illicit tobacco trade. This is not some abstract national problem that exists in...
- Chisholm Electorate: Volunteer Grants, Waverley Woodworkers (1 speech)
I am pleased to once again congratulate some fantastic organisations in my community who are recipients in the most recent round of volunteer grants. Volunteer grants support the work of...
- National Security (1 speech)
One of the most significant parts of being a member of parliament is the access to information and what you get told about what's happening around the country. I can tell you now that I've never...
- Superannuation (1 speech)
The leader of One Nation, the member for New England and the coalition are once again coming after compulsory superannuation. They want Australians to think taking money out of workers'...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Calare Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
Today I rise to celebrate the extraordinary community of Wellington. Last Friday Wellington was alive, and it was an immense privilege to attend two great events that highlight the very best of...
- Chisholm Electorate: Melbourne World Friendship Association of Fuqing (1 speech)
On Friday evening I was honoured to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Melbourne World Friendship Association of Fuqing's Mid-Autumn Festival gala event. This special occasion marked the...
- Kemp, Ryley, Liberal Party of Australia, Fadden Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
Today I rise to honour a very brave little boy whose life continues to inspire us and our community: Ryley Kemp. Last week, Childhood Cancer Awareness Week, I welcomed Ryley's parents, Terry and...
- Raise Our Voice in Parliament (1 speech)
Today I rise to speak about the Australian youth civic engagement initiative that invites young people to write to their members of parliament and to write a short speech with their vision for...
- Castle Hill Girl Guides: 100th Anniversary (1 speech)
Over the weekend, people from across Townsville came together to celebrate a significant milestone in our city's history: a hundred years of the Castle Hill Girl Guides. I want to recognise this...
- Scullin Electorate: Acknowledgements (1 speech)
Right across the Scullin electorate, I'm continually inspired by the organisations and individuals who work so hard to build a stronger community and to especially bring people together in a...
- Victoria State Election, Early Childhood Education and Care (1 speech)
In November this year, Victorians will have the opportunity to get rid of the worst government in the state's history. I say that because this is a government which has wasted taxpayers' money,...
- Menzies Electorate: Acknowledgements (1 speech)
It's September, and Menzies has been well and truly captured by finals fever. Time may be against me as I try to fit in the spectacular results across all the sporting codes in our community. A...
- Parliamentary Standards (1 speech)
It has been my absolute honour to come to this place and fight for my electorate. I believe that's what I've been sent here to do by the people of Groom. I come here, and I fight on policy. There...
- Operation Slipper: 25th Anniversary (2 speeches)
On 11 October this year, it marks 25 years since the establishment of Operation Slipper, the Australian Defence Force's contribution to military operations in Afghanistan. Over the next two...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Murray-Darling Basin (8 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) calls on the Government to: (a) immediately pause further purchases of water entitlements from irrigated agriculture in the Murray-Darling Basin until the 2026...
- Sovereign Capability (13 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that wars, trade disruption and supply shocks over the past decade have exposed vulnerabilities in global supply chains and reinforced the need for Australia to...
- Tobacco Control (9 speeches)
I move: That this House notes the: (1) $41.9 billion collapse in revenue from tobacco excise in this year's budget, and that downgraded forecasts now reveal the Government expects to collect just...
- Tertiary Education and Training (10 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) acknowledges that Wednesday 9 September 2026 was National TAFE Day and celebrates the contributions of TAFE teachers, staff and students; (2) thanks Australia's TAFE...
- Private Health Insurance (2 speeches)
I rise to support the motion moved by the member for Mallee, Dr Anne Webster. At the heart of this debate is a simple question: why is the Albanese government stripping back the private health...
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- EmergencyRedi Week (1 speech)
Today marks the start of EmergencyRedi Week. It aims to encourage all Australians to prepare for emergencies and disasters before they strike. It comes as weather forecasts warn that a powerful...
- Gounis, Mr Con (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate Newcastle's very own Con Gounis on being recognised at the 2026 NSW Community Sports Awards. Con is a wonderful example of the people who make Newcastle such a great...
- Defence Procurement (1 speech)
Who decides Australia's foreign policy? Voters or the defence contractors, aka weapons manufacturers? We're told we must accept second-hand American subs and pay whatever cost they ask. Who...
- World Pharmacists Day (2 speeches)
I understand the member for Pearce would like to present a copy of their speech for incorporation into Hansard in accordance with the resolution agreed on 6 November 2025.
- Petition: Middle East (1 speech)
I bring to the chamber today a petition signed by 124,665 Australians calling on the Australian government to end Australia's supply of weapons to Israel and to oppose illegal Israeli settlement....
- Gallacher, James Walter (Jamie) (1 speech)
Territory champion and Labor stalwart Jamie Gallacher has passed following a short and sudden illness, and I joined hundreds of friends and family at East Point on Saturday night to remember and...
- Rosh Hashanah (1 speech)
It was Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, on the weekend, and I wish everyone in the Bradfield Jewish community and beyond a shanah tova. The new year is traditionally all about sweetness, and I...
- Australian Defence Force Parliamentary Program (1 speech)
Recently I had the privilege of taking part in the Australian Defence Force Parliamentary Program. I was paired with Petty Officer Boatswain Troy Haydon, a fellow redhead, a proud beard wearer...
- Wannon Electorate: Road Infrastructure (1 speech)
The front page of today's Herald Sun makes for very confronting reading: killer pothole outrage. A notorious stretch of the Western Highway has, sadly, led to the death of a motorcyclist. As it...
- Superannuation (1 speech)
The leader of One Nation, the member for New England and the coalition have launched another attack on compulsory superannuation. They want Australians to think that taking money out of workers'...
- Mann, Mr George (1 speech)
Every superhero has an origin story. George Mann's began at 15 when he was bitten by a radioactive spider. Five years on, Dr Spider-Man is still on a mission, but his superpower isn't swinging...
- Tangney Electorate: Acknowledgements (1 speech)
A few months ago my first Australian neighbour, Uncle Bruce, passed away from mesothelioma. Many people took the time to share their own experiences of neighbours who were just like Uncle Bruce....
- Grey Electorate: Sport (1 speech)
(): It's been a super September of sport in Grey. On the weekend I join the Adelaide Plains league for the grand final at Long Plains, home of the mighty United Tigers. Congratulations...
- Raise Our Voice in Parliament (1 speech)
This speech was written by a young person in my electorate—also called Josh, but I didn't choose it because of that name—as part of the Raise Our Voice campaign. Josh says: At...
- World Egg Day (1 speech)
Recently, I welcomed local student Seb from Billanook College in Mooroolbark to do work experience in my office. Seb lives on a poultry farm in my community, and he wrote this speech. He says:...
- Australian Services Union, Mac Fair (1 speech)
Skilled Respected Equal—this is the grassroots campaign being run by members of the ASU. Those members are disability support workers, social workers, youth workers, financial counsellors,...
- Cost of Living (1 speech)
Australians are feeling the cost-of-living crisis every single day. They're paying more at the supermarket, more for electricity, more for insurance, more on their mortgages and more on their...
- Foster Care Week 2026 (1 speech)
'Open Doors. Open Hearts. Open Opportunities.' This year's Foster Care Week is a chance to recognise the extraordinary people who open their homes, their hearts and their lives to children who...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
I rise this afternoon to speak once again about aged care and the fact that are so many people have contacted my office. I don't use the word 'inundated'—with calls and...
- St Albans Caroline Springs Netball Association (1 speech)
The St Albans Caroline Springs Netball Association is a thriving example of grassroots sport at its very best, providing opportunities for players of all ages and abilities and supporting 157...
- Herbert Electorate: Reef HQ (1 speech)
Townsville has a lot of wonderful things to do, and one of the wonderful things we have in my electorate is Reef HQ. Reef HQ is the largest coral aquarium in the country and has been a learning...
- Domestic and Family Violence (1 speech)
Domestic and family violence remains one of the most serious challenges facing our community. Our government's National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children aims to end violence...
- Agriculture Industry: Workforce (1 speech)
I rise today to draw attention to the serious impacts of the ministerial-directed delays in the processing of working holiday-maker visas are having on farmers, growers and regional businesses in...
- Women in Sport (1 speech)
Why do we invest in sport for women and girls? We do it not only because we should, because it's the right thing to do and because it's high time we took steps to even up the monumental...
- Honours and Awards (1 speech)
I had the great honour of actually attending the top 50 next generation entrepreneurs and impact leaders awards on Saturday night. I must be honest, I was actually attending with my wife, Judy...
- World Pharmacists Day (1 speech)
World Pharmacist Day is 25 September, and I want to take this opportunity to recognise all of the amazing pharmacists in my community and the services they provide to our local community. One...
- Economy (1 speech)
I'm going to read a quote, and it goes like this: You had the treasurer say workers should be happy because their wage share is increasing, but their real wages are falling … It's just...
- St John of God Midland Private Hospital (1 speech)
I rise today to recognise a great development for the health and wellbeing in my communities across Bullwinkel in Western Australia. Recently, I was pleased to join the Minister for Health and...
- Working Holiday Maker Program (1 speech)
The pause on visa applications for working holiday makers is hitting Hinkler hard. It's hurting hospitality, it's terrible for tourism, and it's failing our farmers. We need a system which...
- Blair Electorate: Volunteering (2 speeches)
Volunteers are the backbone of our communities, and the Albanese government is backing them through our highly successful volunteer grants program. I'm glad to announce that 16 local community...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- National Child Protection Week (7 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that National Child Protection Week will be held from 6 to 12 September 2026; (2) recognises: (a) that the campaign promotes early intervention, strong...
- Agriculture Industry (9 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) acknowledges: (a) the vital and longstanding contribution of the agriculture sector to Australia's economy, food security and regional communities; and (b) the...
- Personal Information and Privacy (11 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) recognises the Attorney-General's announcement on privacy law reform aimed at strengthening Australia's privacy framework and ensuring it remains fit for purpose in...
- Energy (15 speeches)
Thank you to the member for Groom for bringing this important motion before the House. It's quite telling that we're here talking about affordability and energy reliability on the same day that...
- Housing (7 speeches)
I move: That this House: (1) notes that for too long, too many Australians have felt that the housing system is stacked against them and that home ownership has been out of reach; (2)...
- Economy (5 speeches)
I rise to support the motion moved by the member for Bowman. There's a pretty simple test Australians apply to economic policy. After working hard all week, they have to decide whether to keep...
- Albanese Government (2 speeches)
When the Albanese Labor government was elected in May 2022, we inherited a trillion dollars in debt, bigger deficits and stagnant wage growth. The government and its ministers have worked hard to...
