House debates

Wednesday, 28 February 2024

  • Higher Education Contribution Scheme (7 speeches)
    Prime Minister, you are no doubt aware that working-class Australians are feeling the pain of rental costs, housing affordability and soaring costs for essentials such as food, electricity, gas,...
  • Vocational Education and Training (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Skills and Training. How is the Albanese Labor government's fee-free TAFE and cost-of-living tax cuts helping people to skill up into better paid and secure...
  • Immigration Detention (9 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs. What circumstances would cause the minister to release from immigration detention into the community an...
  • Housing Affordability (7 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness. How will Help to Buy support tens of thousands of Australians into homeownership? What is standing in the way of this support?
  • Electric Vehicles (11 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. Last year, the minister showed off Australia's first EV ute, the LDV eT60. The managing director of drive.com describes the eT60 as...
  • Gender Equality (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Women. How is the Albanese Labor government's focus on women and gender equality helping women earn more and keep more of what they...
  • Electric Vehicles (9 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. I refer to the minister's last answer. Can the minister confirm that the ute owner would need to own the vehicle for 33 years to...
  • Gender Equality (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. How will Labor's new tax cuts benefit women, and is there any opposition to the government's work to put economic opportunity for women at the very heart of...
  • Climate Change (5 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Resources. Right now, our country is burning, and fires fuelled by coal and gas are threatening lives and communities. As the climate crisis gets worse, why is...
  • Taxation (2 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Early Childhood Education. How is the Albanese Labor government helping people to earn more and keep more of what they earn in feminised industries such as...
  • Electric Vehicles (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. Last year the minister showed off Australia's first EV ute, the LDV eT60, a ute that would cost struggling tradies an extra $46,000....
  • Taxation (10 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Water. How will workers protecting our environment—
  • Middle East: Occupied Palestinian Territories (8 speeches)
    My question is to the Prime Minister. Yesterday, others from the crossbench and I were briefed by the director of UNRWA in Gaza on the dire humanitarian situation there. He confirmed that, unless...
  • Wages (4 speeches)
    My question is to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. How is the Albanese Labor government helping Australian men and women earn more and keep more of what they earn after a...