House debates

Tuesday, 25 August 2020

  • COVID-19: Aged Care (3 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that the Commonwealth aged-care regulator was informed of a COVID-19 outbreak at St Basil's home on 10 July but never told the...
  • COVID-19: Economy (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister outline to the House the importance of the Morrison government's plans to grow our economy while protecting Australia from the health...
  • COVID-19: Aged Care (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Is it correct the Prime Minister waited until the first death of an aged-care resident in Victoria to make masks mandatory for Victorian aged-care...
  • COVID-19: Regional Australia (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Will the Deputy Prime Minister please inform the House how the McCormack-Morrison...
  • COVID-19: Aged Care (4 speeches)
    My question is again addressed to the Prime Minister. I ask: is it true that the government undertook no audit of aged-care providers to ensure they had adequate stocks of PPE, despite more than...
  • COVID-19: Economy (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Warnings from Australia's top climate scientists today reinforce the danger of a gas-led COVID recovery, because the leaking of methane from gas production...
  • COVID-19: Victoria (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Treasurer. Will the Treasurer outline to the House the rapid and extensive support the Morrison government is providing to Victorian families and businesses after the...
  • COVID-19: Aged Care (2 speeches)
    Thank you, Mr Speaker. My question is to the Prime Minister. At the Kalyna aged care facility, six minutes down the road from where I am now, a 95-year-old woman had ants crawling from her open...
  • COVID-19: Mental Health (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government is supporting the mental health and wellbeing of Australians during the coronavirus...
  • COVID-19: Aged Care (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Epping Gardens in my electorate is the site of Australia's worst aged-care coronavirus outbreak. More than 20 residents have died. At the height of the...
  • COVID-19: Education (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Education. Would the minister please outline to the House how the Morrison government is supporting students during this difficult time, including through the...
  • COVID-19: Aged Care (2 speeches)
    My question is for the Prime Minister. More than 50 COVID-19 cases have been linked to the Doutta Galla aged-care centre in Yarraville in my electorate. Sandra, whose father Wilhelm was a...
  • Covid-19 (7 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Health. Will the minister update the House on the state of the global coronavirus pandemic and how Australia's COVID strategy compares internationally?
  • COVID-19: Aged Care (3 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Is it correct, as the aged-care royal commission heard, that Australia has 'one of the highest rates in the world of residential aged-care deaths as a...
  • COVID-19: National Coordination Mechanism (2 speeches)
    My question is for the Minister for Home Affairs. Will the minister outline to the House how the National Coordination Mechanism has been helping to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic...
  • COVID-19: Aged Care (2 speeches)
    My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. Why has the Prime Minister, yesterday and again today, continued to spin that 97 per cent of aged-care facilities don't have an outbreak of...
  • COVID-19: Agriculture (7 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management. Will the minister please outline to the House how the Morrison-McCormack government is backing Australia's...
  • Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians (5 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to his decision to remove aged-care minister Richard Colbeck from decisions to activate new aged-care emergency measures. Isn't this a declaration of...
  • COVID-19: Workplace Relations (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Attorney-General and Minister for Industrial Relations: Will the Attorney please update the House on how the Morrison government's temporary industrial relations flexibility...
  • Superannuation (7 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to Australia's ageing population. Why is the government not only neglecting older Australians of today in aged care but also neglecting older...
  • COVID-19: Great Barrier Reef (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for the Environment. Will the minister outline to the House how the Morrison government is supporting local communities located along the Great Barrier Reef as they...
  • COVID-19: Aged Care (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Is it correct that the Prime Minister waited until 25 July to announce the Victorian Aged Care Response Centre, well after high levels of community...
  • Employment (3 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure. Will the minister update the House on how the Morrison government's urban infrastructure program is boosting the...