House debates
Wednesday, 16 September 2026
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Selection Committee; Report (1 speech)
I present report No. 16 of the Selection Committee relating to the consideration of committee and delegation business and private members' business on Monday 12 October 2026. The report will be...
- Delegation Reports (0 speeches)
- Committees (0 speeches)
- Treaties Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, I present the committee's Report 235: the NSPO agreement; and air services agreements with Cambodia, Kiribati andNaoero. Report made a...
- Public Accounts and Audit Joint Committee; Report (1 speech)
On behalf of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, I present the following reports: Report 516: Inquiry into Commonwealth financial statements 2023-24 and 2024-25 and Report 517:...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Rearrangement (5 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the following from occurring immediately: (1) the AI Kill Switch and Data Centre Control Bill 2026 being...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Statements by Members (0 speeches)
- Mayo Electorate: War Memorials (1 speech)
Last Sunday, before returning to Canberra, I had the great privilege of attending the Flight of the Guardians peacekeeper memorial unveiling at the Charleston Community Centre in Charleston in...
- Discrimination (1 speech)
The footage of a 13-year-old Muslim schoolgirl being subjected to racist abuse on a bus in Strathfield saddens me. Janna was targeted because she showed courage. She saw another young woman being...
- Disaster and Emergency Management: Cyclones (1 speech)
The cyclone and disaster assistance protocols 28 years ago were redrafted to extend the assistance to natural disasters. I put on record my thanks and appreciation for the great work by George...
- Mental Health (1 speech)
Mental health is not a marginal issue in Australia. More than one in five adults experience a mental health challenge in any given year, and that rate doubles for young people. This Labor...
- Climate Change (1 speech)
Today's events in parliament underline the biggest threat to our way of life and our safety: global warming. Communities on the front line of extreme weather are already paying the price. The...
- Narre Warren South Scout Group (1 speech)
You don't have to be the best at everything, especially Scouts; you just have to be willing to have a go. That ethos is exactly what I love about the Narre Warren South Scout Group and what was...
- Economy (1 speech)
Labor keeps spending, and Australians keep paying. This government spending is keeping pressure on inflation and interest rates and leaving households to pick up the bill. You can't put out an...
- Weston Bears Football Club (1 speech)
What a day for the Weston Bears and for the best football region in Australia: the Hunter. After 31 years, the Weston Bears are northern New South Wales NPL champions again. This win belongs to...
- Economy (1 speech)
We know that our lives are worse now than they were four years ago, when Anthony Albanese became Prime Minister. That is the message that I heard time and again across regional Western Australia....
- Democracy (1 speech)
Yesterday was International Day of Democracy, which recognised the many ways people can be involved in strengthening the democratic institutions that serve our communities. It is also a reminder...
- Labor Government (1 speech)
Regional Australians are bearing the brunt of this Labor government, and we've had enough of being told how to live our lives, as living standards slip further behind. Housing, fuel, food and...
- Federal Election (1 speech)
Australians should be able to freely exercise their vote without fear of intimidation or harassment. At the 2025 federal election, this was not the experience of many in Boothby, which was...
- Labor Government (1 speech)
Sometimes I feel like I'm in an alternative universe when I enter this chamber. At home I hear from locals within the Redlands about the pressures they're facing—higher interest rates,...
- Federal Election (1 speech)
This week we mark the International Day of Democracy. It's a right that can too easily be lost. Less than 30 per cent of the world has that right. Australians have fought in wars to maintain our...
- Economy (1 speech)
We know that the Australian Treasurer has a serious spending problem, because not only is spending at a 40-year high outside of the pandemic, not only has the RBA governor no less admitted that...
- Federal Election (1 speech)
My seat in the 2025 federal election was not spared from the exclusive Brethren muscle, except in my seat, rather than putting on blue T-shirts, they put on yellow National Party T-shirts—a...
- Albanese Government: Economy (1 speech)
Under Labor, Australians are paying more, they're working harder and they're going backwards. Those opposite have presided over the worst collapse in Australian living standards in the developed...
- Electoral System (1 speech)
Public confidence in our electoral system is essential. It depends on transparency, accountability and the ability of Australians to participate without interference, intimidation, harassment or...
- Prime Minister (1 speech)
'My word is my bond.' That's what the Prime Minister told us. But we know we have a prime minister who just can't be straight with the Australian people. Australians are still waiting for the...
- Electoral System (7 speeches)
The Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters resolved to require the attendance of Mr Bruce Hales and Mr Gareth Hales, senior leaders of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, to give...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Migration (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. New Parliamentary Budget Office analysis shows Labor's budget assumed the humanitarian immigration intake would fall from 20,000 to 13,750. But on 27 August...
- Cybersafety (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Communications. How will the Albanese Labor government's proposed digital duty of care protect Australians from predatory apps designed to create fake nude...
- Migration (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Did the Treasurer or cabinet approve the $7 billion humanitarian intake increase? Does the Prime Minister rule out any cut to the humanitarian immigration intake?
- Online Safety: Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Social Services. How will the Albanese Labor government's proposed digital duty of care help tackle gender based violence and better protect our kids?
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Acknowledgement (1 speech)
I'm very pleased to inform the House that present in the special visitors gallery today is the Hon. Dr Maina Talia, the Minister for Home Affairs, Climate Change and Environment of the Parliament...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Climate Change (4 speeches)
To the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, last year, Australia signed the Belem declaration supporting a just and orderly transition away from fossil fuels. Today, Tuvalu's climate change...
- Wages and Salaries (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. How is the Albanese Labor government taking action to protect and grow wages while backing Australian workers? Why are these reforms important, and what have...
- Economy (15 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. On the Prime Minister's watch, interest rates have risen 15 times, and economists now predict two more rate rises this year. This would see the average new...
- Early Childhood Education (4 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Education. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to support early educators while keeping costs down for parents? Are there any risks to this?
- Labor Government (13 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. There are media reports this morning of Labor backbenchers mocking the Treasurer's inflation excuses. One MP is reported as confessing 'a lot of what we have done...
- Distinguished Visitors (0 speeches)
- Acknowledgement (1 speech)
I'm pleased to inform the House that also present in the gallery today are participants of the Work Exposure in Government, WEX Canberra 2026, program. This long initiative provides Aboriginal...
- Questions without Notice (0 speeches)
- Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering for Australian workers, and what could place this at risk?
- Women's Health (3 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Last Tuesday, the Minister for Health and Ageing said: … you can't be serious about strengthening Medicare without strengthening women's health. But...
- Economy (5 speeches)
My question is to the Treasurer. What is the Albanese Labor government doing to get the budget in better shape and make the economy more resilient? Why is this so important in the face of...
- Migration (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship. Recent changes to visa processing, including the removal of regional priority for skilled visas and a go-slow on working holiday...
- Superannuation (2 speeches)
My question is to the Assistant Treasurer. How is the Albanese Labor government strengthening Australia's superannuation system and helping Australians build a more secure retirement? Are there...
- Members of Parliament: Staff (2 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday, in question time, the Prime Minister described a series of vile posts about conservative women by his close friend Rhys Muldoon as 'completely...
- Ideologically Motivated Extremism (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister representing the Special Minister of State. How is the Albanese Labor government protecting our democracy against coordinated intimidatory tactics used by...
- Private Health Insurance (2 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Parliamentary Budget Office analysis which I've commissioned shows that half of the savings from your private health insurance rebate cut to...
- Electoral System (6 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. I refer to the government's responsibility for the safety of public officials, including parliamentarians. What risks were there to these during...
- Members of Parliament: Staff (9 speeches)
My question is to the Prime Minister. Did the Prime Minister provide Rhys Muldoon with a reference for his Australia Day ambassadorial role or, indeed, for any other roles?
- Infrastructure (3 speeches)
My question is to the minister for infrastructure. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering real change through infrastructure investment across Australia?
- Aged Care (7 speeches)
My question is for the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, the Minister for Health and Ageing is looking for some budget savings to pay for aged care. Might it be better to perhaps tax oil or gas...
- Regional Australia (5 speeches)
My question is to the Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories. How is the Albanese Labor government delivering for people living and working in regional areas? How...
- Statements on Indulgence (0 speeches)
- Leigh, Ms Meredith (2 speeches)
on indulgence—I want to acknowledge Meredith Leigh, who joins us in the gallery today. On Friday, Ms Leigh retires as First Parliamentary Counsel. For more than 25 years in the Office of...
- Documents (0 speeches)
- Members of Parliament: Staff; Presentation (1 speech)
I seek leave to table a document, which is the Speaker's profile for Rhys Muldoon, which shows he was appointed by the Gillard government in 2011. Leave not granted.
- Presentation (1 speech)
This document, which is actually the election funding and disclosure report, is tabled in accordance with the list circulated to honourable members earlier today. Full details of the document...
- Matters of Public Importance (0 speeches)
- Albanese Government (25 speeches)
I have received a letter from the honourable Leader of the Opposition proposing that a definite matter of public importance be submitted to the House for discussion, namely: The need for the...
- Motions (0 speeches)
- Modern Slavery (7 speeches)
I move: That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Member for Kennedy moving the following—That the House: (1) notes: (a) Australia has agreed to a...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Business (0 speeches)
- Suspension of Standing and Sessional Orders (3 speeches)
I move: That so much of standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Wannon for moving the following motion immediately: That this House condemns the Albanese Labor...
- Bills (0 speeches)
- Adjournment (0 speeches)
- Economy (1 speech)
My adjournment speech tonight is going to focus on debt—but debt is not the problem; neglect is. Debt needs no sunshine, no water, no power and no human hand. Leave it in the dark,...
- Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre (1 speech)
I rise tonight to talk about one of Australia's most outstanding art galleries, which is in my electorate of Richmond on the New South Wales far north coast. It's the Tweed Regional Gallery and...
- Migration (3 speeches)
Tomorrow, we think the Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Immigration and Citizenship will turn up at the Press Club. He did try about five or six weeks ago and then, all of a sudden, he...
- Social Cohesion (1 speech)
I have spent my public life working with purpose and a responsibility to leave our country fairer, safer and more generous. I want Australia to be a country where people are treated with dignity,...
- Economy, Child Safety (1 speech)
Over the past couple of months, I've attended many shows across regional WA, from Kununurra to Port Hedland and Karratha, Dowerin and the Mid West. I've met thousands of regional Western...
- Environment (1 speech)
There are some electorates where environmental issues sit on the edge of politics. Melbourne is not one of them. In Melbourne, environmental issues are at the centre of politics because they are...
- Constituency Statements (0 speeches)
- Fowler Electorate: Infrastructure, Fowler Electorate: Local Government (1 speech)
On 4 September, the chair of the New South Wales Local Government Grants Commission wrote to Fairfield City Council with a number. Under the commission's proposed new methodology, Fairfield's...
- Perth Electorate: Environmental Conservation, Renewable Energy (1 speech)
I want to talk about the local, national and global action on climate change that is happening right in the centre of the electorate of Perth. The other week, I joined students from Bayswater...
- Thriving Kids Program (1 speech)
Thriving Kids is the Commonwealth's partial replacement for NDIS support for children aged eight and under with developmental delay and autism who have low to moderate support needs. Last year,...
- Burt Electorate: Volunteering (1 speech)
A few weeks ago I hosted the biggest ever Burt Volunteer Awards. Our community is so much kinder, stronger and much more connected thanks to the contribution of our volunteers. These awards are...
- Defence Properties (1 speech)
In February the government announced plans to divest dozens of Defence sites from around the country, including iconic locations such as Victoria Barracks and part of HMAS Penguin. This would be...
- National Youth Parliament (1 speech)
A couple of weeks ago, I was not the only member for Boothby present in this place. The other member for Boothby was 16-year-old Teesha Soni, who ably represented younger voices as part of the...
- Flinders Electorate: Acknowledgements, Homelessness (1 speech)
I rise to give a shout-out to the great people of Portsea, who yesterday won the best Tiny Tourism Town Award here in the Great Hall of Parliament House. The awards, which are sponsored by the...
- Smith, Mr Trevor William Edward (1 speech)
I rise to pay tribute to Trevor William Edward Smith, who died peacefully at home on 21 August, aged 94, just a few weeks short of his 95th birthday. Trevor was born in London in 1931 and grew up...
- Insurance (1 speech)
As we enter the spring and summer months, we are all looking forward to the sunshine and warmer days. However, with this beautiful weather comes greater risks, particularly for my community in...
- Racism (1 speech)
Some Chinese-Australian constituents in Tangney tell me, 'I need to work twice as hard,' or ask, 'When can I be fully accepted as an Australian?' Other people write to me, telling me to go back...
- Fairfax Electorate: Digital Connectivity, Fairfax Electorate: Community Events (1 speech)
Digital connectivity is not a luxury; it's an absolute necessity. But it doesn't matter whether or not you're travelling from Coolum to Kenilworth, from Bli Bli to Buderim, from Mons to...
- Veterans (1 speech)
There's not a day in this place across the nation that we don't thank veterans for their service. The men and women who deal with injuries—visible and invisible, physical and mental. They...
- Aged Care (1 speech)
I've previously risen in this place to speak about the Albanese Labor government's abandonment of older Australians who need support to stay independent in their own homes and who are enduring...
- Eden-Monaro Electorate: South East New South Wales Business Awards, Jones, Ms Makayla (1 speech)
I rise today to congratulate the outstanding local businesses, local business leaders and organisations from across the mighty Eden-Monaro who are recognised at the recent South East New South...
- Lyne Electorate: Wingham Memorial Swimming Pool (1 speech)
I rise today to make a very simple plea to the Prime Minister and the New South Wales Premier, Chris Minns: Please help us rebuild Wingham Memorial Swimming Pool. Please find the funds needed to...
- Himalayas: Floods, Fraser Electorate: Australian Nepalese Community (1 speech)
I rise today to speak about the devastating floods that have struck Nepal and Tibet. The past few weeks have been incredibly difficult for the Australian Nepalese community. We've watched these...
- Australia Post (1 speech)
I met recently with the licensee of the Condobolin Post Office, Susan Bennett. Susan is a hard-working regional Australian who is doing her best to provide Australia Post services in the remote...
- Cameraygal Wind Symphony (1 speech)
I rise to congratulate Aleag Kourshounian, Alexandra Johnson, Amanda Harris, Angela Sharpe, Ashley Pastars, Belinda Farquhar, Benjamin Kam, Cameron Gurry, Clare Skinner, David Dai, Dhruvik...
- Live Animal Exports, Durack Electorate: Geraldton Christian College (1 speech)
The end of live sheep export in Australia can only be described as shambolic. First, the decision to end live sheep export was a grave error, simply to appease left-leaning voters in the cities....
- Cycling Without Age (2 speeches)
There is a particular feeling of joy when you're on a bike and you have the wind in your hair. When I do school drop-off, I do it on a bike. It used to be on a cargo bike, but now my daughter,...
- Ministerial Statements (0 speeches)
- Statements on Significant Matters (0 speeches)
- Women's Health Week (5 speeches)
I rise to speak about Women's Health Week and the important progress we're making to ensure women can access the health care they need when they need it. It's an opportunity to celebrate the...
- Condolences (0 speeches)
- Gaudron, Hon. Mary Genevieve, KC (5 speeches)
I rise to mark the passing of the Hon. Justice Mary Gaudron KC, one of the most significant Australian jurists of her generation and a person whose life changed both the law and the legal...
